Lexicon today introduced its PCM96 Surround Reverb/Effects Processor. The Surround version delivers 50 new and legendary Lexicon reverbs, delays and modulation effects, while at the same time offering more presets, configuration options and additional inputs and outputs. Designed for the modern studio, the PCM96 Surround can function as a control-only insert or FireWire streaming audio plug-in inside any Mac VST or Audio Units software.
Join PreSonus VP of Sales and Marketing Rick Naqvi and other PreSonus band members as they explore and blog about the latest PreSonus products, offer technical tips, and discuss a variety of issues related to music technology.
Mindprint celebrates their 10th anniversary with a special Digital Edition of their multiply awarded Tube Recording Preamp EN-VOICE MK II. This preamp is now available as limited Digital Edition with integrated USB audio interface.
The RESTYLER is the product of the cooperation between Rodec and Sherman. They just started a Youtube channel where they show us what this baby can do!
Meet your new oscilloscope. If you own a MK3 MOTU FireWire audio interface, you also now own a powerful oscilloscope, which graphs the amplitude of an audio signal in real time. This allows you to see audio waveforms dynamically, rather than in the frozen state we usually see them as recorded audio. But how can you put an oscilloscope to good use in your day-to-day recording and music-making activity? Watch the new CueMix FX Oscilloscope movie to find out. The CueMix FX Oscilloscope movie is a brief, two-minute presentation that shows the oscilloscope in action and provides several practical examples to get your ideas flowing.
Soundcraft has taken the already successful MPM and MFX Series of mixers and given them both hardware and audio performance upgrades.
The MusikMesse show is over again, and we’ve spent some quality time in Frankfurt with all the gear lined up ready to play around with. This year’s show was different though, some major players decided not to show and you had to look a bit better to find out what was going on, but there was plenty of new and cool gear to see! Here’s an overview of what we thought was the coolest new gear around.
Lexicon introduced its new I·ONIX U22, U42S, and U82S USB Desktop Recording Interfaces. The I·ONIX Series offers the highest quality hardware and software to provide the user with exceptional recordings. Each model provides all the necessary tools to transform a computer into a professional 24-bit digital recording studio including the USB 2.0 desktop recording interface, Steinberg Cubase LE4 multi-track PC and Mac recording software, Toontrack EZdrummer Lite virtual instrument software, and the new Lexicon Pantheon II VST/AU reverb plug-in.
Talk about the next revolution…. the V is back! Based around the recently developed “Powered by VFX” hardware platform, VST and VSTi plug-ins can be loaded directly into SM Pro Audio’s new V-Rack. The V-Rack is a powerful and unique product designed to provide musicians, engineers, producers, and guitarists performance products they can rely on. The new V-Rack offers VST/VSTi plug-in compatibility in a stand-alone hardware unit without the need for a standard PC/Mac computer!
Allthough our main goal each year is to get all the scoops on new products to you as soon as possible, we do have eyes for other nice … (uhm) stuff too. At many booths on the Messe we get a very warm welcome by very nice and friendly hostesses. Here are a few of our favorits (with all the respect these ladies deserve of course!).
Gearjunkies launches the Gearjunkies Twitter channel. Follow us on our Twitter Channel and we will keep you up to date on all the latest MusikMesse 2009 News!
For the 10th time, more than 100 magazines from all over the world got together to vote the best products of 2008/2009 in more than 40 categories. The MIPA Musikmesse International Press Award is the “Grammy” of the Musical Instrument/Pro Audio industry. Below we have the most appropriate categories for Gearjunkies.com.
The Rodec Sherman Restyler at this years MusikMesse. Mixing and Filtering brought together by Rodec and Shermann.
Reintroducing a good thing: Utilizing fine analogue technology and sporting a fresh design, Tascam presents a new series of mixing consoles with 16 input channels, featuring numerous connections, a compact size and light weight, equally suitable as keyboard mixers or sub-mixers on stage, for home-recording purposes or at the heart of a small mobile or fixed PA system.
For the oldskool true Gearjunkie, there is only one place at the Messe where they can get their kicks. The Messe floor where manufacturers like Doepfer, Buchla, Synthesizers.com would show their stuff to the public. We went to Doepfer stand and took a few pictures, just to give an impression of it means to be a ‘modular patcher’.