Focusrite’s ( Compounder brings the company’s well-known Class A circuit designs into a stereo compressor/limiter/gate priced at a tempting $899. Speaking of mics, AKG’s ( new C4000B is a 3-pattern, large-diaphragm condenser mic priced at $848, with windscreen and shockmount.ĪNALOG LIVES!Analog signal processing is alive and well.
This could do to mics what the SansAmp did to guitar amps! Ships this summer. Plug any reasonably full-range mic into its preamp input and select your choice of classic and vintage mics at the touch of a button. Now the company shows the AMM-1 Microphone Modeler, which uses spectral modeling to simulate different mic sounds. Price: an awesomely low $599.Īntares ( Auto-Tune-see last month’s Mix-has eliminated the need for vocalists to sing on key.
Tom Oberheim’s new company SeaSound ( showed what was clearly the DAW bargain of the show: “Solo,” is a complete 2-channel DAW (sans PC or Mac) that includes PCI card, software (or use your own), cables and a two-rackspace box with line, hi-z instrument and mic inputs with phantom power, line/mic input mixing with pans, channel inserts, LED metering, MIDI interface, monitor mixing, headphone amp, control room volume pot, S/PDIF I/O and 24/96 converters. Quantum also features the Type IV 24/96 converters used in dbx’s acclaimed Blue Series, with a choice of dither options and TSE(tm) Tape Saturation Emulation. Quantum, from dbx ( is a digital mastering processor with multiband compressor, limiter, expander, gate, parametric EQ, de-esser, normalizer and 24/96 capability-all from a one $1,999 box. Besides UltraShifter(tm) formant-correct vocal processing, Orville offers reverbs (mono/stereo/4-channel), dynamics, EQ, multi-effects, 87 seconds of delay and up to 174 seconds of sampling with time compression.
TC also showed a 24/96 upgrade I/O card for its flagship M5000.Īrguably the most powerful standalone pro audio signal processor ever made, Eventide’s ( Orville supports up to four analog and four digital inputs and outputs simultaneously, with “anything-to-anything” routing and 24-bit/96kHz capability. Keep an eye on Peavey for similar advanced products (and alliances) in the future, in both pro and MI markets.Ĭoming soon to near-fields and hanging clusters everywhere: Having conquered the consumer subwoofer market, Velodyne Silicon Systems ( has its sights on the pro OEM market with a lightweight digital Class D amp available in mono 100/250/600/1,250-watt modules having an astonishing 97% efficiency! Could your next speakers sport a “Velodyne Inside” sticker?Ģ4/96 AND ALL THAT…If there was a buzzword du NAMM, it had to be “24/96.” TC Electronic ( is shipping the $2,995 Finalizer 96k, the newest generation in its Finalizer mastering processor line, offering 24-bit/96kHz resolution and a hardware upgrade path (Bravo, TC!) for owners of earlier units. This “studio in a box” package retails at $899. The console includes MMC transport keys, jog/shuttle wheel, four user-definable softkeys and tactile control of volume, pan, sends, returns, track arming, mute, solo, chorus/reverb, etc. Peavey ( and Cakewalk ( unveiled StudioMix(tm), a moving fader hardware control surface that integrates with Cakewalk 8-track digital audio recording/MIDI editing software. Here are some slick debuts that caught our attention. Outside of Roland’s entry into the digital console market (see sidebar), the big “gotta-see-it” hits were few however, this show had no shortage of cool technologies. ( Synplant has however been updated with other bug and compatibility fixes.From January 28 through 31, 1999, more than 61,000 music industry pros packed the cavernous Los Angeles Convention Center for the winter expo of the National Association of Music Merchants ( where 1,200 exhibitors showed the latest in audio and music gear. First and foremost, all plugins (except Synplant) now features high resolution graphics and re-scalable user interfaces.
While most changes in these updates are under the hood there are some very visible additions too. Some of our products have not been updated in over five years, so there has been a lot to work on. With these updates we have taken the opportunity to refactor and clean out obsolete technologies in order to move forwards into the 2020's. We are pleased to announce that updates to our entire line of products are available today. Luckily there is nothing safer than staying indoors and making music on a computer, or developing music software for that matter. But these are undoubtedly tough times for us all. Fredrik and I have been working remotely together for over 20 years. Working from home is not much of a change for us, of course. I hope you are all doing well in these difficult times.