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US-2000 From TASCAM

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TASCAM has announced the US-2000, a new one rackspace 16-input audio interface that’s expected to sell for under $500.

US-2000 features

    * 16-in / 4-out USB 2.0 audio interface.
    * 96kHz / 24-bit audio resolution.
    * (8) XLR microphone inputs with phantom power.
    * (6) 1/4? balanced line inputs.
    * (4) 1/4? balanced line outputs.
    * (2) 1/4? instrument inputs (chan. 7 & 8 on front panel “combi “jacks).
    * Stereo S/PDIF digital in and out.
    * 100-LED meter bridge (5 segments for each input and output).
    * Zero-latency direct monitoring with mono/stereo switch for each pair of inputs.
    * 1/4? balanced stereo monitor output with its own volume control.
    * 1/4? stereo high-powered headphone output.
    * Mac and Windows compatible.
    * Steinberg Cubase LE4 48-track recording software included.
    * High-tech, attractive aluminum case design.

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The Livid Block

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Features:

    * Portability – A compact and lightweight design lets you slip this controller into your backpack. Plug it into your computer’s USB, and you are powered to play.
    * Design – Block is completely plug and play and USB powered. This means you don’t need drivers to use it and it works with a single USB cable.
    * TalkBack – Reprogrammable buttons with LED talkback provides visual feedback by sending MIDI commands back to the controller.
    * Software – A growing collection of open source sound applications and utilities provide a wide range of uses and endless customization.
    * Home Grown – Handcrafted by artists in Austin, Texas.

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Mobius v1.4

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Free Music Software: The free audio looping application Mobius, available for Mac and PC, has been updated to version 1.4.

Changes in Mobius v1.4

    * The following features were added:
          o PACMANS ARE BACK!
          o Shuffle now supports complex patterns in scripts
    * The following bugs were fixed:
          o Threshold recording broken, could never stop recording
          o loopCount variable always returns zero
          o script lines ignored if they didn’t end with a newline
          o VST edit window not remembering the last location

Description:

Mobius is based on hardware devices such as the Echoplex Digital Pro and the Electrix Repeater, and moves beyond these in many powerful exciting ways. You can think of Mobius as 8 synchronized stereo hardware loopers with with the ability to copy loops and timing between them. Extensive MIDI and computer keyboard control is available. Audio content may be saved to and loaded from files.

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SP 404 SX From Roland

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Roland has announced the SP-404SX, an update to the Roland SP-404.

The new model offers enhanced sound quality with 16-bit linear sampling, improved DSP effects, smooth FX switching, a more versatile pattern sequencer (with a new shuffle feature), and easier data management with SD-card compatibility.

SP-404SX features

    * Sample anytime, anywhere with the built-in mic and battery power.
    * 29 DSP effects, including filter, delay, unique voice effects, subsonic, and looper.
    * 3 control knobs, 12 trigger pads, and Sub Pad for rapid repeat triggering.
    * Seamless effects switching for smooth, perfect performance.
    * Pattern sequencer with quantize mode and new shuffle feels.
    * 1GB SD card included; expand sample storage up to 32GB with SDHC.
    * Import audio files from computer, assign samples to pads with bundled software (Mac/PC).

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Glass Works from Soniccouture

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Glass-worksSoniccouture has introduced Glass Works, a set of 3 virtual instruments based on the sounds of glass.

The instruments include:

    * The Cristal Baschet – A bizarre ’sound sculpture’ designed in 1952 by Bernard and François Baschet. It consists of about 4 octaves of chromatically tuned glass rods, which are rubbed with wet ?ngers. The vibration of the glass is passed to a heavy block of metal, which itself is tuned and in fact determines the ?nal pitch. The entire mechanism is ampli?ed by a large steel plate, called the “?ame”. There are also three small ?berglass cones that amplify the higher frequencies.
    * The Glass Armonica – A musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones ). The instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin, who called his invention the “armonica” after the Italian word for harmony. He worked with London glassblower Charles James to build one, and it had its world premiere in early 1762, played by Marianne Davies.
    * Cloud Chamber Bowls – The Cloud Chamber Bowls are Soniccouture’s recreation of an instrument built in the 1960s by maverick American composer Harry Partch. It consists of hanging “bowls” which are sections of 12-gallon glass carboys. Both tops and bottoms of the carboys are used. Partch had 14 (later 13) bowls hanging from a large wooden frame he called a “tori”. The name “Cloud Chamber Bowls” arose from the fact that Partch found the original tops and bottoms at a Radiation Laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1950. The bowls were originally used for cloud chambers used in tracing paths of subatomic particles.

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KLON from VirSyn

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VirSyn has introduced a new vocal designer plugin for Mac and PC, KLON.

Klon takes your voice and adds up to 16 different copies of your voice, in realtime. This lays the ground for an impressive amount of applications like:

    * Choir generator
    * Harmonizer
    * Voice doubler
    * Change voice’s gender
    * Pitch corrector
    * Extreme voice manipulation

KLON is available for purchase for the introductory offer of 99 EUR until October 31st, 2009 (regular price 169 EUR). It is free with every purchase of Take Five FX (incl. Bark, Matrix, Reflect, TDesign and VTape) before October 31st, 2009.

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Eigenharp Alpha

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The Eigenharp Alpha, right, is their professional level instrument. It allows the musician to play and improvise using a limitless range of sounds with virtuoso skill.

It has 120 playing keys, 12 percussion keys, two strip controllers and a breath pipe. It’s available in a variety of custom finishes.

What’s in the box?

    * Eigenharp Pico in robust cardboard carry case/box.
    * Product Activation card for website support and tutorial materials.
    * Breath pipe.
    * Two mouthpieces.
    * Neck strap.
    * 3M Pico to computer USB2 connecting cable.
    * Eigenlabs 8GB USB stick with latest install software (Macintosh) and getting started tutorials.

eigenharp-picoThe Eigenharp Pico is designed to be simple to use so anyone can play it.

With 18 playing keys and 4 mode keys, a strip controller and breath pipe, the smaller Pico has the majority of the playing features of the Eigenharp Alpha. It plays an unlimited range of sounds and is available in two finishes.

The Eigenharp Pico, with its ease of playing and transformational approach to learning scales and music theory, represents a new and easier way to learn to play a musical instrument. The Pico gives you freedom to express your creativity through improvisation like no other electronic instrument in existence.

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Chipsounds from Plogue

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Plogue has announced a new soft-synthesizer, Chipsounds, that turns your VST/AU/RTAS host into a classic video game console, vintage 8-bit home computer and even an 80’s arcade.

Plogue Chipsounds authentically emulates more than eight vintage 8-bit era sound chips (on top of their variants). But more interestingly, it also faithfully allows you to dynamically reproduce the accidentally discovered sounds effect tricks and abusive musical techniques that were made famous by innovative chiptune composers and classic video game sound designers, which for the good part of the last 2 decades, have pushed beyond the boundaries of the original chip designs.

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Line 6 Pod Devices

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Line 6 has announced details on its integration with Propellerhead Record, including some special features for Line 6 Pod owners.

Record ships with built-in virtual Line 6 POD and Bass POD devices. On their own, the virtual POD and Bass POD offer three guitar amp models, two bass amp models and five cabinet models, respectively.

The addition of a compatible Line 6 audio interface, though, “unlocks” that hardware’s entire collection of amps and cabs, as well any user-made presets, for use within Record.

Compatible Line 6 effect processors and audio interfaces include the POD X3 family of products, POD Studio and TonePort interfaces. (Record users with iLok USB Smart Key-compatible POD Farm and POD Farm Platinum plug-ins from Line 6 receive the same functionality.)

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Mixbus from Harrison

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Features:

    * Straightforward “knob per function” mixer layout based on Harrison’s renowned 32-series and MR-series music consoles.
    * Precision DSP algorithms for EQ, Filter, Compression, Analog Tape Saturation, and Summing based on Harrison’s world-renowned large format analog and digital mixing consoles.
    * Unlimited stereo or mono input channels (based on available CPU power) featuring High-pass Filter, EQ, Compression, and 4 Mix Bus sends on every channel.
    * 4 Stereo Mix Buses (can be used for groups or auxes) featuring Tone controls, Compression, Sidechaining, and Analog Tape Saturation.
    * Stereo Master Bus that features Tone controls, Analog Tape Saturation, K-meter, and Limiting to help you make polished mixes.
    * Plugin delay compensation to support effects such as parallel compression.
    * Comprehensive “at-a-glance” metering with peak, peak hold, and compressor gain reduction visible on every track and bus.
    * Extensive DAW features via the Ardour Digital Audio Workstation.
    * Supports AudioUnit plugins and any CoreAudio interface.

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