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TC Electronic At NAMM 2009
A walkthrough the TC Electronic booth at Namm 2009. Their voice synthesis technology is getting to be insane.
T.C. Electronic has introduced the Desktop Konnekt 6 FireWire audio interface, which looks like it’s well spec’d out and nicely laid out for a relatively inexpensive audio interface.
Features:
- High resolution meter
- Tracking reverb level control
- Direct monitor control with input/DAW control
- DIM switch for convenient speaker dimming
- Instant scene recall
- Separate headphone level control
- IMPACT Mic preamp with 48v phantom power
- Input configuration: mic + instr/instr+instr/stereo line
- Balanced stereo outputs
- True Hi-Z guitar inputs known from TC’s high-end guitar processors
- Headphone out with separate level control and separate source
- Studio sound reverb based on hardware technology
- Hall, Room and Plate algorithms
- Part of monitor mix and included as VST/AU compatible plug-ins
- Cubase LE4 included
- C NEAR compatible: works with all other Konnekt products
- FireWire 1394, bus powered
- DICE digital interface chip with JetPLL jitter elimination technology
- Low latency drivers for Mac and PC, WDM, ASIO and CoreAudio
- 24-bit/192 kHz sampling rate
- External power supply included
The Desktop Konnekt has a MSRP of $295.
NAMM Update: TC Electronic announced Nova System, a new floor-based all-in-one effects solution that combines analog distortion and overdrive with the advantages of digital control.
What makes Nova System interesting is an innovative drive and distortion circuit that offers true analog sound under preset and expression control. While the drive circuit is 100% analog and physically separated from the digital effects, its controls are digital. This way the drive effects can be tweaked, stored and recalled in exactly the same way as any of the digital effects, and the amount of distortion can be controlled in real time by hooking up an expression pedal.
Nova System houses six high quality effects blocks taken straight from G-System. It features compression, EQ, Noise Gate, Modulation, Pitch, Delay and Reverb, all programmable and storable in 60 user presets. The 30 factory presets take advantage of the wide range of versatile effects combinations and are designed to get the guitar player started right out of the box.
The Nova System overdrive emulates the classic overdrive originally only found in tube amps. The range goes from slightly warm and subtle overdrive to high gain for screaming leads, but retains excellent chord clarity even with complex voicing. The Nova System distortion is fat and aggressive and allows for full and massive chords and fluent compressed leads. The tonal character is raw, crunchy and very tube-like. Using just the guitar volume will allow for anything from semi-clean chords to intense leads.
Completing the feature list, the Hi-Z and balanced input plus balanced stereo outputs, and the two footswitch layouts – preset and pedal – with an option for adding a G-Switch for further control, make Nova System the obvious floor-based solution for the serious guitar player.
Nova System ships in Spring 2008 at a suggested retail price of EUR 699..
TC Electronic is revisiting its own legacy by reintroducing their Classic Pedal Series from the 1970s. The series consists of reissues of three sought-after TC Electronic effects:
- the TC XII Phaser
- the Booster+Distortion; and
- the Sustain+Parametric Equalizer
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Filed under: Recording, Software Effects & Audio ProcessorsTC Electronic has announced that UnWrap, the world’s most widely used high-resolution mastering and up-conversion algorithm for music and post production, is now shipping.
Originally developed for TC Electronic’s flagship System 6000 high definition processor, UnWrap facilitates smooth and fast stereo to 5.1 up-conversions when there is no time to do a conventional 5.1 mix or multitrack source material is non-existent. The UnWrap plug-in is available for PowerCore VST at EUR 950 retail ex. VAT and for Pro Tools|HD Accel at EUR 1250 retail ex. VAT. The Mac version of UnWrap is optimized for both PowerPC and IntelMac based systems.
UnWrap offers an array of parameters to convert stereo and LtRt sources to 5.1, while remaining faithful to the original mix’s width, timbre, spaciousness and other significant factors. Because of this approach the 5.1 output can be subsequently down- mixed to stereo again with no sonic penalties.
UnWrap includes customized up-conversion presets for film production and music mastering. The default presets include the capability to widen or narrow the image, specify envelopment, control the amount of center and LFE channels to be used, and several other aspects for dealing well with a wide variety of sources.
UnWrap uses 48 bit processing, has sample precision aligned outputs, and is capable of running at any sample rate between 44.1 and 96 kHz.
