Paul Wolff, president of Tonelux: “With great excitement, I am happy to announce that Tonelux Designs, Limited has been sold to PMI Audio as of the 15th of March. As President of Tonelux, I have been designing, building and supplying the world with Tonelux products for 5 years, and I have reached a point where Tonelux and it’s family has grown beyond my capabilities to manage properly as a small business.”
Lexicon has again rocked the foundations of the audio industry with the introduction of the LXP Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle. This powerful reverb bundle is a collection of Lexicon’s four most popular reverbs that are now available as efficient, multi-platform native software plug-ins. The LXP Bundle was specifically developed for project and professional recording engineers, as well as artists that want to envelope their mix with that magical “Lexicon sound” that delivers the clarity, depth and fullness that can only be created when recording in a major studio.
Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces the V-Studio 20 recording solution for guitar players and singer songwriters who want an easy way to get start making music with incredible tones.
Roland is proud to announce the CD-2i SD/CD Recorder. From rehearsals to recitals, lectures to live-music events, the CD-2i is the fastest way to capture the moment and render it to CD or SD memory card for storage and distribution.
Steinberg is proud to present a new VST instrument product created to offer the ideal all-round composition and production workstation. HALion Sonic combines a world-class 12GB sample library produced by Steinberg and Yamaha with a fully featured synthesis engine to offer synths, hybrid and acoustic instruments for composers, producers, musicians and sound designers in almost any conceivable production setting. The much-anticipated successor to Steinberg’s Hypersonic, HALion Sonic retains its ease-of-use while offering vastly expanded sound generation possibilities. HALion Sonic will be available in Q3 2010 for PC and Mac, and will cost €249/£212*.
Steinberg is pleased to announce an upcoming free update to its award-winning Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5 Music Production Systems. The free update to version 5.5 adds new features and capabilities as well as a range of enhancements to existing instruments, functionality and workflow. The update will be available in Q2 2010 for all registered customers of Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5 at www.steinberg.net.
Arturia announces that its freshly renovated synthesizer anthology line is now available in a new reference pack: the V Collection 2.0. This ultimate bundle offers all the emulations of the most legendary and sought after synthesizers: the Moog Modular, the Minimoog, the CS-80, the Prophet 5, the Prophet VS, the ARP 2600 and the Jupiter-8. Seven legendary machines that complement each other to provide the highest quality synthesizer sounds to the most discerning musicians.
BOSS continues its top-selling tradition of portable, affordable multi-trackers with the new BR-800 — a battery-powered studio to go. The sleek new design is made possible by touch-sensor switches and SD-card recording media. Up to four tracks can be recorded simultaneously with eight tracks of simultaneous playback plus an additional stereo track dedicated to the built-in rhythm generator.
Steinberg is proud to announce a forthcoming major update to its industry-standard Audio Editing and Mastering Suite. WaveLab 7 represents a new benchmark for audio editing and mastering for Mac, while adding new capabilities to its previous Windows incarnation. Among the new features is a unique GUI concept that allows fast and fluid handling of audio material across multiple windows, montages and podcasts with an intelligent docking and scaling system as well as new VST3 plug-ins and restoration tools, a new CD and DVD-A burning engine and much more. WaveLab 7 will be available in the second half of 2010 from authorized Steinberg resellers, and will cost €599/£510*.
…And here they are, the first pictures from the Elektron Octatrack, sampler and sequencer all in one.
Soundscape V6 is a highly evolved DAW application that benefits from nearly 20 years of development. It specialises in audio only recording, editing and mixing; it does not have MIDI sequencing or offer Virtual Instruments for creative composition, instead it offers a specialised, elegant, versatile, functionally advanced user environment with the capacity to support a wide range of approaches to workflow.
Video interviews with Richard Hale and Peter Mew, two vastly experienced audio engineers who have been recording artists at Abbey Road since the mid sixties. The second video highlights the recording of Abbey Road 70s Drums with insights into the vintage equipment used. Find out more at http://www.native-instruments.com
Voxengo is happy to announce the release of Deft Compressor, an audio signal compressor plug-in for professional audio production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plugin.
JazzMutant announce Mu for Lemur – controlling Ableton Live has never been easier, faster or more intuitive for the ultimate hands-on live performance and music production experience.
SPL has just announced the Transpressor, a new dynamic processing tool that seeks to surpass the limitations of common compressors – and anybody aware of SPL products ought to know that they are not in the bluffing business.