Winter NAMM Show Update: PreSonus announced the AudioBox USB 2×2 USB recording system. The AudioBox USB is a USB bus-powered interface with 2 mic/instrument preamps with 48V phantom power, 2 balanced TRS outputs, MIDI in/out, and a playback mixer knob on the front panel allowing you to adjust the volume level between your recording and… Read More PreSonus AudioBox 2×2 USB Recording System
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, PreSonus announced the FireStudio Tube – a 24-bit/96k 16 input, 10 output Firewire recording system for Windows and Macintosh computers that features two tube-based analog “super channels”. The FireStudio Tube has sixteen analog inputs – two tube-based super channels on the front panel, eight XMAX preamps on the rear… Read More PreSonus FireStudio Tube Firewire Recording System
Winter NAMM Show: Peavey introduced ReValver Mk III, a 64-bit amplifier modeling app that Peavey ReValver Mk III models 15 of the world’s most popular guitar amplifiers, including several Peavey amps, through an exclusive algorithm that analyzes the interactions of the components on the circuit level, based on the amps’ original schematics. Because it models… Read More New Software Lets You Wire Up Custom Amps
Winter NAMM Show Update: MOTU debuted Electric Keys, a $295 cross-platform virtual instrument that delivers the sounds of 50 classic keyboard instruments from the last 40 years. The 40GB sound library includes over 20,000 24-bit 96 kHz multi-samples of electric pianos, electric organs, clavinets, Wurlitzers, tape samplers, string machines, keyboard basses and other rare and… Read More MOTU Announces Electric Keys At NAMM 2008
Here’s a sneak preview of MOTU‘s Digital Performer 6, a major upgrade to MOTU’s audio sequencer software. New features include: a complete user interface redesign XML file interchange with Final Cut Pro film scoring enhancements track comping support for interleaved broadcast WAVE audio files enhanced support for operation as a software front end for Pro… Read More MOTU Digital Performer 6 Sneak Preview
Winter NAMM Update: IK Multimedia announced that a special edition of IK Multimedia’s SampleTank, with sounds from over $3500 worth of IK’s award-winning virtual instrument products, such as Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog, Sonik Synth 2, SampleTron, Studiophonik and SampleTank, will come bundled inside the Yamaha X-Factor DVD, which ships with all Yamaha music production products, including… Read More IK Multimedia Announces SampleTank YE Bundled With All Yamaha MIDI Controllers/Workstations
Winter NAMM Show Update: Garritan’s new Virtual Pipe Organs collection is designed to capture the grandeur of a variety of different historic and contemporary pipe organs: a Small (Early) Baroque Organ (circa 1740); a Late Baroque organ (“Bach”— circa 1748); a Gothic organ; a Renaissance organ (one of Europe’s oldest circa 1587); a Romantic organ… Read More Garritan Introduces Virtual Pipe Organs Collection At Winter 2008 NAMM
NAMM Show: EastWest has released the Fab Four Virtual Instrument – and unauthorized collection of virtual instruments based on the same kind of instruments and recording equipment used by the Beatles to create their music. I was able to check Fab Four out on the show floor, and it sounds like they’ve done a great… Read More The Fab Four Get Virtualized
Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest announced Ethno World 4 Professional, a collection of more than 200 ethnic instruments and 14,000 samples developed by German composer Marcel Barsotti. “Ethno World 4 gives users access to unique and often rare instruments that would be almost impossible to incorporate into a project without a collections such as this,”… Read More New Ethnic Virtual Instrument Library
Winter NAMM Show: Big Fish Audio announced several new sample libraries, including: Latin Jazz by Emmy-nominated musical director and producer Peter Michael Escovedo; Plush, a collection of smooth and sexy construction kits, Straight Outta NYC, a set of hits straight from the birthplace of hip hop Hip Hop Mood Swings, a moody collection of hip… Read More Big Fish Announces New Sample Libraries
