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Mobile Keys premium keyboard controllers provide an exceptional playing experience on your iPad®, iPhone®, Mac® and PC. Equally powerful hooked up to a CoreMIDI music app, GarageBand® or your workhorse DAW, Mobile Keys controllers give you full-sized, velocity-sensitive keys, a solid feel and a refined look that's perfect for any desk, stage and studio. Whether you're a beginning musician or a seasoned studio professional, you can now perform, record and capture inspiration with MIDI keyboard controller solutions that work with all your music-making devices.

Taking a leap into 7 string mythology, Vigier, pioneers of carbon fibre technology, present the Excalibur Special 7.

Nothing but the finest French woods are used in the Alder body/Maple top construction and to add to the sonic sorcery, it is complete with the killswitch found on the Excalibur Bfoot and Kaos guitars.

MOTU, Inc. introduced the HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt technology, a professional video interface that turns a Thunderbolt technology enabled Mac or PC into a powerful HD/SD video production workstation equipped with all the video and audio I/O needed for professional capture and monitoring.

The HDX-SDI is housed in a rugged, one rack-space cast metal enclosure with removable brackets for convenient desktop operation.
The HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt technology will ship Spring, 2012.

KOMA is an analog sequenced bass synthesizer inspired by classic synths from the 1980s with a synthesis section with 256 sound presets and 256 patterns and a step sequencer section.

The synthesis section offers the possibility to mix 4 different waveforms (saw, square, sub, noise) for infinite modulations. The SUB DESYNC mode enables to desynchronize and to detune the SUB and the main oscillator for complex sounds. The filter is a 24 dB resonant low-pass filter. The LFO has 8 waveforms (triangle, ramp up, ramp down, square, random, digital noise, staircase up, staircase down) and can modulate the VCO, VCF or PWM.

The latest version features enhancements and bug fixes for all Serato ITCH users with 2.1 offering improved stability
and increased performance.
Key Features of ITCH 2.1

- Simple Sync mode added for two deck controllers. For quick and easy matching of the tempo and beats of two tracks playing simultaneously.
- SP-6 Hardware control. Increased SP-6 Sample Player power, with the addition of hardware controls for each ITCH controller to trigger samples with controller cue point buttons.

Available in 64- and 32-bit versions, Le Masque: Delay is a Mac (OS X 10.4 and later; Audio Unit, VST, RTAS — Pro Tools 7.0 and later) and PC (Windows XP, Vista, and 7; VST, RTAS — Pro Tools 7.0 and later).

Some features:
- True stereo signal path (with independent right and left delay).
- MIDI Sync and Stereo Link (delay modes).
- Sync grid zone (with up to eight custom masks, each with independent length and level).
- One multimode filter (zero-delay, self-oscillating, feedback design with drive).
- Two independent envelopes (loop-able ADSR and AR with three trigger modes).
- One synchronisable multi-waveform LFO (with three reset options).
- Snap-to-grid function (to quantise mask locators on musical values).
- Swap masked/unmasked function (in realtime).
- Four clock modes (DAW, FIX,TAP temp, IN).
- Realtime temp analysis function (for live performance).