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RME Fireface UFX updated with revolutionary Direct USB Recording
RME upgrades the award-winning Fireface UFX with a new and revolutionary feature: an integrated recorder for all inputs and outputs directly to USB memory devices with up to 2 TB. Live concerts, band rehearsals or spontaneous jam sessions can be directly recorded and played back from the medium – plugged into the front of the interface – even completely stand-alone without computer or software. All 60 input and output channels can be individually chosen for recording.
RME presents special Babyface edition – The Ladyface
The Ladyface is custom-tailored for female artists and the Hi-Fi market. It shines with a solid aluminum case in a stylish color combination of glossy white and pink. The Ladyface package includes a unique Ladyface carry bag and a special customized white Hi-Fi breakout cable with four gold RCA connectors.
Pictures from the Korg Monotribe leaked
Messeleaks in full effect! After the picture leak from the Roland Jupiter-80 and the Yamaha moX6 and moX8, Matrixsynth has the scoop on the Korg Monotribe pictures. We from Gearjunkies will promise you this: we will have the first Messe pics online from all the new gear! You’ll have to wait until Wednesday.
RME shows Remote Control for Fireface UFX/ADI-8 QS
RME presents a new Remote Control for Fireface UFX and ADI-8 QS on the Musikmesse Frankfurt. The optional remote has a solid metal case with one big wheel dial and two push buttons. The functions of the ADI-8 QS stay unchanged (volume, store, recall). On the Fireface UFX the remote controls the most important monitoring functions.
Toft ATB04M – Legendary Power in a Small Package
Over the years, the Trident Series 80 ® console has heard its praises time and time again for its excellent quality, pristine accuracy, and most of all, its premium vintage equalizer. This powerful combination produced an enormous amount of hit records and is still revered as one of the best analog recording consoles made to date. With so much history behind the Trident name, Toft Audio Designs is proud to announce that the Series 80 boards have been redesigned by the original designer himself, Malcolm Toft. The end result is none other than the new Toft ATB Series Consoles.
Orange Amps bring you Dark Terror Amp
Dark forces have been stirring at Orange Amps where mysterious alchemy has created the beast to be unleashed. Striding out of the shadows is the new Dark Terror, guitars amps will never be the same again! Menacingly small, easily recognisable, this aggressive little amp comes with a mind blowing sound which combines the shape control of the Thunder series with the weight and size of the monster Terror family. This Frankenstein like amp has creepy amounts of gain on tap with disturbingly pleasurable responsiveness. It is uncompromisingly brutal, doubtless unhinged, even ferocious!
Yamaha to introduce new Mobile Motifs at the MusikMesse
Yamaha will introduce a new series of ‘Mobile’ Motifs at the coming MusikMesse. The Yamaha moX 6 and moX 8 are continued development models of the current Motif series. These new moX workstations combine Motif technology with multichannel USB computer integration and bundled VSTi’s.
Synth-Project Alphatron SP Controller – The Perfect Duo
There is really no stopping this … dude! Mario Jurisch from Synth-Project has yet another hardware controller finished. It is a Alphatron SP Controller for the H.G.Fortunes VST Instrument. He has specially designed it for his 10″ Touchscreen. The case is a “rack” Version and it´s sitting on his first controller the Pure-MCone.
Pictures from the new Roland Jupiter-80 leaked
Synthtopia and Roland Clan have the scoop of the new Jupiter-80 that Roland will announce on the upcomming MusikMesse. We, from Gearjunkies, did know the name and that it will be a VA synth, but we did not find any photos, … until NOW!
RME BOB-16 break-out boxes now shipping
RME starts shipping three different BOB-16 breakout boxes – perfect rack solutions for interconnecting multichannel XLRs with the common D-sub connector format. The BOB-16 connects up to 16 XLR inputs and/or 16 XLR outputs (Neutrik connectors) with two D-sub 25-pin connectors. It works like two breakout cables D-Sub from/to XLR. The usual multicore breakout cables are replaced with a 19” rack mount unit, preventing cable chaos, errors and connection problems.
New Sounds and Samples on Sample Saturday
These are the releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
Something for the Weekend: Ziggybox – Cigarette Synthesizer
At first glance, Ziggybox looks like an everyday item for smokers, which one could easily find in a living room. However, it is a synthesizer that generates and modulates sounds by placing cigarettes in the notch of an ashtray or by opening a box of cigarettes.
New Vermona products at next weeks MusikMesse
With the VSR-3 – vintage spring reverb and the Retroverb Lancet Vermona will show two new spring reverb units at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt next week.
Apogee announces Mic
Meet Mic, the portable studio revolution continues. Mic by Apogee is the most compact studio quality USB microphone available for iPad, iPhone and Mac. About the size of an iPhone, Mic makes it easy to capture your best take with incredible quality, anywhere your music takes you. Record any sound you can imagine, from vocals to vibraphones, acoustic to lap steel guitars, pianos to percussion and everything in between, and build a track right on your iPad with GarageBand. Mic is also the perfect companion to JAM, Apogee’s studio quality guitar input. Never before has the personal studio been so portable or so powerful. Join the recording revolution with Mic, JAM and GarageBand on iPad.
Access releases new Virus OS v.4.5.
Access Music released a public beta version of OS 4.5 for the entire Virus TI series including the Virus TI Snow. TIOS 4.5 brings several new types of chorus effect to the Virus TI series, ranging from faithful models of renowned vintage chorus and tremolo effects, to the brand new Hyper Chorus. It also adds a authentic rotary speaker simulation and several new mod matrix sources have been implemented.