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Alta Moda Audio releases the AM-30
Fully discrete microphone preamplifier in 500 series format

Hilo Hawaii – February 10 2014 – Professional audio equipment manufacturer Alta Moda Audio today debuted the AM-30, its first ever microphone preamplifier and the latest product in Alta Moda's expanding range of popular 500-series rack products.

The Alta Moda AM-30 is a fully discrete, class A transformer-less design unlike any other preamp on the market. Clean at lower settings, the AM-30 can be pushed and smoothly over-driven where other preamps would harshly clip. The AM-30's high headroom and DI input make it ideal to warm up previously recorded tracks or loops. Made in the USA, the AM-30 has a MSRP of $499 USD.

Alta Moda makes the highly acclaimed Unicomp all-discrete stereo compressor/limiter as well as a line of quality, high-performance modules for 500-series compatible rack enclosures.

Sample Logic announces HAVOC – Pre-order & Save!

HAVOC is the ultimate cinematic percussive suite of over 850 instruments and multis that will transform the tools of your trade. The HAVOC sample collection has been derived from hundreds of industrial machines, farm tools, and everyday auto body parts and gears, all recorded in a massive multi-car garage. Each sample was recorded, processed, manipulated, morphed and then programmed creatively utilizing Sample Logic's award-winning user interface controls. Geared for film, TV, game composers, and sound designers, HAVOC takes cinematic percussion to an entirely new level.

Recorded in a massive multi-car garage!

Wood, plastic, metal, and glass are among the many organic materials used, twisted, and morphed into HAVOC. From saws and chains, to buckets and drills, anything and everything one would find inside a garage was recorded. Why not bring these tools to the recording studio? Instead, HAVOC brings the recording studio to the garage. Everything was recorded in their natural habitat (a massive 24-car garage), the result of which was amazing acoustics and natural reverbs culminating in bigger and more cinematic sounds!

Advanced User Interface

HAVOCS' progressive user interface has been designed with the composer and sound designer in mind, providing effortless control for complete real-time customization. HAVOC is centered on user experience by providing the freedom to infinitely transform samples into evolving instruments with endless possibilities.

Features include:

"Multi-core Effect Sequencers" for real-time effect automation
"Triggers" – 48 unique effect chains
"Arpeggigater" – sequencer based gate effect
"LFO" section to make things wobble
"Wave" – additive synthesis engine
"Pitch" sequencer for quick and easy pattern based transpositions on the fly
"Multi Script Macros" (knobs & buttons) for real-time sequencing of instrument parameter controls
Instrument Categories

- Arpeggiated (50)
- Bonus (54)
- Hit Ensembles (45)
- Impacts (200)
- Loops (325)
- Transitions (110)
- Multis Categories

- Construction Beds (18)
- Instrument Stacks (16)
- One Note Glory (45)


Tech Specs
- Over 850 Instruments and Multis delivered at 44.1k/24-bit.
- Just over 5GB of sample content resulting in a 2.4 GB sample library using Kontakt's lossless sample storage compression
- Native 64-bit support
System Requirements

Requires Kontakt 5.3 Player (free from Native Instruments)
Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8 (latest update), Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM (4GB recommended)
Windows 7 or 8 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2 GB RAM (4GB recommended)
2.4 GB free disk space for HAVOC sample content
1 GB free disk space for Kontakt 5 Player
Kontkat is continuously being updated. For the latest system compatibilities visit the Native Instruments website.
MSRP: $299.99

Manley Labs today announced the CORE, an analog channel strip. The Manley CORE is an innovative and affordable mic preamplifier, compressor, equalizer, and limiter combo-unit that combines the greatest hits of the Manley product line.

- 48V Phantom power switch
- 120Hz High Pass Filter switch
- Phase Invert switch
- Input Attenuator (Variable Pad)
- Mic Pre Selectable Gain 40 dB or 60 dB (Total Gain >70 dB)
- Line Amp Selectable Gain 20 dB or 40 dB
etc.

Focusrite announces a revolution in iPad recording with the introduction of iTrack Dock - the complete music recording solution for the iPad.

iTrack Dock is a comprehensive studio-quality Lightning iPad recording interface, featuring dual legendary Focusrite microphone preamps plus two line inputs and an instrument DI, independent stereo monitor and headphone outputs, and a USB port for class-compliant MIDI instruments and controllers. iTrack Dock provides everything required to record, monitor and control music on the iPad – with precision Focusrite digital conversion at up to 24-bit, 96kHz sampling. It even charges and powers the iPad at the same time.

With the unique and fully redesigned Espressivo 2.0 feature, Sibelius 7.5 gives you complete control over and customization of the rhythmic feel of any individual part to produce more expressive and realistic musical phrasings.
And because the software can now better interpret such notation distinctions as tempo markings, metric emphasis, grace notes, mordents, caesuras, and breath marks on playback, you can hear every nuance of your score—the way you intended it to be heard.

With the new Timeline window, you get a quick view of the entire structure of your score—no matter how large or complex—enabling you to navigate to any part fast for editing or playback. Simply click on any bar, in the timecode ruler, or on any landmark—the important objects that make up your score, including rehearsal marks, repeat structures, comments, key signatures, tempo, and more—to jump immediately to that section.

Get all of the score sharing and social media features of Sibelius First in Sibelius 7.5, enabling you to collaborate more easily with others and distribute your compositions for the world to hear. Share scores through email, upload and publish them as sheet music on ScoreExchange.com, and even share your composition as a video or audio file on YouTube, Facebook, and SoundCloud.

It's not a scoop but, anyway, just to remember:

Designed by BT (the producer behind Stutter Edit) and developed by iZotope, BreakTweaker is not just a drum machine: it´s a futuristic drum sculpting and beat sequencing machine that blurs the line between rhythm and melody.
Powered by three distinct modules, the Sequencer, the Generator, and the MicroEdit Engine, BreakTweaker is a wildly creative rhythmic instrument that allows you to manipulate audio at the finest resolution on the market today.

Give your beats an evolving depth that gets better the longer they play. Use rhythmic slicing to drive everything from pitched melodic lines to sweeping rhythmic concoctions. Top it all off with the best drum sample library in existence, curated by BT, iZotope, and top producers today.

KEY FEATURES
Reinvent any beat by controlling pitch, rhythm, and texture at the finest resolution on the market.
Explore a full range of presets, drum samples, and wavetables designed by today´s top musicians and DJs, including BT.
Create complex polyrhythmic lines with unique isorhythm and playback speed settings.
Blend drum samples with robust synthesizer features to create sounds that are the best of both worlds.
Easily trigger and sequence complex patterns and samples using any MIDI controller.