Recording and Live Sound

[Geoff Grace]

As most of you know, this year's Winter NAMM Show (http://www.thenammshow.com/) will begin this Thursday and run through Sunday. As always, anticipation of cool product announcements is running high. :cool:

Please post your Winter NAMM 2007 reports here, for forum members who are not fortunate enough to go to the show.

Feel free to discuss NAMM announced gear, events, and performances in this thread.

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Below are some NAMM related links of note:

• Harmony Central will post regular NAMM gear updates here (http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM07/Index/) throughout all of the days of the show. (In fact, they've already begun posting show coverage at the above link.)

• There will be a forum dinner (http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/18/t/020683.html) during NAMM on Thursday, January 18th, at 7:30 PM.

• Craig Anderton will perform at the PreSonus booth #6330 every NAMM show day at 3:00 PM. Click here for details (http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1477758).

Best,

Geoff

[Alndln2]

I don't use PT, but these look really cool..................http://akmedia.digidesign.com/news/images/reeltape_lrg_33586.jpg

[Phil O'Keefe]

I don't use PT, but these look really cool..................http://akmedia.digidesign.com/news/images/reeltape_lrg_33586.jpg


No price listed...

They also have a new sampler plug-in that they announced.

www.digidesign.com

[Phil O'Keefe]

Again, from a Digi press release:

Digidesign Reel Tape Suite will be available soon for USD $495. Reel Tape Saturation will be available soon for USD $295.

[seclusion]

Come on Logic 8....???

[pbognar]

Come on Logic 8....???

Hey - at the low-end of the spectrum, I'm pumped about SONAR Home Studio 6 XL!!! Adding track freezing, session drummer 2, new audio engine, etc. for a puny price. :D

Poor Dad may have something to look forward to.

Pete

[jonmatifa]

Sonar's looking pretty good, making me want to get off Cubase.....

[Geoff Grace]

Here's a few links:

Six New Releases From From Eastwest/Quantum Leap Powered By Play™ The World's First 64-Bit Sample Engine (http://www.soundsonline-forums.com/showthread.php?t=6904)
Digidesign Introduces Structure — the Future of Professional Sampling (http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=48&itemid=24499&langid=100&action=news_details)
Arturia Jupiter 8V (http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/jupiter-8v/intro.html)
Arturia Origin (http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/origin/intro.html)
Muse Research Receptor PRO (http://www.plugorama.com/customer/product.php?productid=535)
SSL Launches Drumstrip Plug-In For Duende (http://www.solid-state-logic.com/news/drumstrip_news.html)

Best,

Geoff

[Alndln2]

Here's a few links:

Six New Releases From From Eastwest/Quantum Leap Powered By Play™ The World's First 64-Bit Sample Engine (http://www.soundsonline-forums.com/showthread.php?t=6904)

If anyone at Namm can report wether the new East/West/N.I. Storm Drum 2 finally support drag&drop midi clips ala Stylus and EZ drummer it would be nice, because if they left that out or don't have an alternative solution to this it would be dissapointing no matter what it sounds like. The N.I. Intakt solution has been passed by long ago and a new GUI and new samples aren't going to cut it with a lot of people. The Kompakt based stuff looks more interesting though.

[Anderton]

Here's a picture of the Alesis Master Control. I hear $799 street, it's a FireWire control surface with moving faders. One of its claims to fame is that is has a pretty beefy "control room" section.

[Anderton]

Here's an overview of the Master Control.

[Anderton]

The Fostex MR16 is a multitracker with a rock-bottom price but a reasonable amount of features, including mic and amp modeling. It's designed to be really moron-proof.

[Anderton]

I'm not the kind of guy to get excited over a portable PA system, but the JBL PRX is very light and sounds good, too.

[Anderton]

This cutaway of the speaker shows how it's constructed. JBL claims that the speaker design is much lighter.

[Anderton]

One more PRX picture: Here's a detail of the handle, which JBL says is completely redesigned for better gripping and to not leave marks on car seats when you slide it into a car.

[Anderton]

Now here's the Korg thing that got me really excited on my trip to Japan: The Zero series mixers. The main thing is that these are mixers that are designed to be played, not just set and forget -- right up my alley! The channels can be either audio channels or MIDI control channels, and light up differently to indicate which is which. The EQ is playable too, and they look fabulous :love:

Yeah, gotta get my hands on this one. After all these years, might be the twilight of my Peavey PC-1600x...

[Anderton]

Soundcraft has a live performance mixer, the VI6, that uses a lot of Studer's mixer technology where screens behind all the knobs change to indicate the function being controlled. It's $85K so I'm not getting one anytime soon (as in, never!!) but I love looking at it...it's beautiful and ergonomic.

[Anderton]

And here's the KP, the smallest and least expensive member of the KAOSS pad family.

[Anderton]

I know that was sort of a superficial trip, but I have video demos of these so this is just a taste. Also, Jon Chappell and I will be doing daily updates, I think the video is being rendered as we speak :) Hopefully it will make it up to the site tonight.

That's all for tonight, I'm waaaaaay tired....

[Phil O'Keefe]

Yamaha had two new keyboards. The less expensive one, basically an inexpensive Motif with a lot of the same sounds, is the MM6.


I saw and played this today - IIRC, it was $699 list - it sounded very impressive to me at that price point.

[Phil O'Keefe]

Now here's the Korg thing that got me really excited on my trip to Japan: The Zero series mixers. The main thing is that these are mixers that are designed to be played, not just set and forget -- right up my alley! The channels can be either audio channels or MIDI control channels, and light up differently to indicate which is which. The EQ is playable too, and they look fabulous :love:

Yeah, gotta get my hands on this one. After all these years, might be the twilight of my Peavey PC-1600x...


That looks SO cool! :thu:

Gotta go hear this puppy!

[Alndln2]

Sonar's looking pretty good, making me want to get off Cubase.....
The announced 6.2 update is making me very happy(if it all works :D ) New features, workflow innovations, and enhancements include:

Native Windows Vista support (see below for details).
MIDI Input Quantize: Time-align MIDI input as it is recorded to a track, and hear and see the effect of the quantization as soon as the track is looped or played back. Per-track quantize settings with presets makes recording MIDI parts easier.
X-Ray Windows: Use keyboard shortcuts to temporarily make plug-ins and views in SONAR transparent and immune to mouse and keyboard activity so that you can quickly access and edit the SONAR views and plug-ins below—all without minimizing, moving or closing windows.
Bit Meter VST Plug-in: See the benefits of SONAR's 64-bit audio engine in action. A valuable tool for monitoring the digital activity of your audio stream. View output word length, dynamic range, signal peaks, and more to analyze the quality of your digital signal.
Track View Time Display: Conveniently view the Now time of your project in different time formats from a large display in Track view with control over font size and color.
Field Recorder Support: Import cue markers stored in .WAV files by field recorders such as the Edirol R-4 to SONAR's time ruler.
Friendly MIDI Hardware Port Names: Rename MIDI ports to make them easier to identify.
Import/Export Color Schemes: Easily transfer color settings from one computer to another. Back up your color schemes, or share custom settings with friends. Compatible with future versions of SONAR, letting you keep your settings when you upgrade.
AudioSnap Enhancements: When quantizing audio clips without time stretching, AudioSnap can now automatically fill and crossfade empty space created when quantizing audio clips, resulting in smoother sounding audio. Auto-XFade is also available in the Quantize, Groove Quantize, and Fade Selected Clip commands. Quickly split tracks from a common reference transient. Apply Transient Markers from Pool. Quickly select all user-created markers. More..........
ACT (Active Controller Technology) Enhancements: ACT learn button now available in all plug-in windows. Share and back-up ACT mappings. Match and Jump modes for rotaries and sliders. Better support for infinite encoders. Other new ACT enhancements include improvements to the ACT plug-in parameter import function so users can safely import new ACT settings from Cakewalk without losing custom settings they have previously created; Sysx support for buttons; optional MIDI initialization message; and a Cell MIDI Properties dialog.
New ACT Presets: SONAR 6.2 adds dedicated ACT support for popular hardware controllers including Alesis Photon 25, E-MU Xboard25, Edirol PCR 300/500/800 Series (further enhanced, see below), Korg KONTROL49, M-Audio Axiom 49, Phat.Boy

New Edirol PCR Keyboard Controllers with Enhanced Support for ACT
The new Edirol PCR-300, PCR-500, and PCR-800 MIDI keyboard controllers have been optimized to work seamlessly with SONAR. At launch, SONAR communicates with these new Edirol controllers to ensure that the PCR is in the correct mode to work with SONAR. In addition, the new PCR series have dedicated "Dynamic Mapping" buttons, which enable/disable ACT in SONAR. When enabled, SONAR enables ACT and launches the Edirol PCR-300 property page. When disabled, SONAR disables ACT and closes the Edirol PCR-300 property page.

Windows Vista Support
SONAR 6.2 was designed to work with Windows Vista in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. SONAR 6.2 takes advantage of Vista multimedia innovations with WaveRT driver support for enhanced CPU performance at low latency audio playback settings, MMCSS (Multimedia Class Scheduler Service) support to give important SONAR processes such as the audio engine, prioritized access to CPU resources, and more. On x64-capable PCs running Windows Vista in 64-bit mode, SONAR 6.2 users will also experience benefits which include enhanced CPU performance and access of up to 128 GB of RAM.
Improved performance and fixes to usability issues that were discovered after SONAR 6.0 was released.

[mobobog]

I saw and played this today - IIRC, it was $699 list - it sounded very impressive to me at that price point.

wow! motif sound at that price is a bargain:thu:

Could someone post prices for the korg m3 please?

[mobobog]

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=4079
:freak: :o :mad: :bor: :freak:

[Henchman]

Here's an overview of the Master Control.


Add it to usless control interfaces.
No scribble strips to shwo you what track you're on.
Waste of time and money.

[Filch]

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6863/1447/1600/800059/boomchik.jpg

Someone posted this on another forum, with no details. I can only assum it's from NAMM. Any sightings or info about a Roger Linn and Dave Smith Instruments drum machine?

I have an evolver and love it to death, so I'm very curious about this thing.

[ViLo]

I'm not the kind of guy to get excited over a portable PA system, but the JBL PRX is very light and sounds good, too.

Looks to big to be portable:confused:

[Anderton]

Add it to usless control interfaces.
No scribble strips to shwo you what track you're on.
Waste of time and money.

One feature is that you can use a "mute" button where you can rotate controls, see what value is happening in the display, etc. without sending it out. Sort of like a guitar tuner concept where you can tune while the signal is muted.

[percyexpat]

Pricing isn't official yet, but I'm hearing between $200-$300 street.

wow, that IS inexpensive :) Korg are definitely the company with the most interesting new stuff for me. With that little pocket recorder and the mysterious looking new Kaoss pad and this new cheap synth. Korg are great :c)

[UstadKhanAli]

wow, that IS inexpensive :) Korg are definitely the company with the most interesting new stuff for me. With that little pocket recorder and the mysterious looking new Kaoss pad and this new cheap synth. Korg are great :c)

The rep, Bobby, said that the list price was not quite determined yet, but he felt it (the Korg R3) would be somewhere around $799. It sounded really really good, and is far more sophisticated than the MicroKorg - so much so that it should not be compared to it even though it has a Vocoder with mic attachment. Mercifully, it also has full-sized keys.

[UstadKhanAli]

I'm back from a busy day at NAMM. I'll try to post about it tomorrow.

Craig, Dave Bryce, and a bass player (whose name I'd like to know) rocked the house.

If you're at the show tomorrow, check 'em out! :cool:


Yes. I caught Craig performing twice. Cool!! Good seeing you, Geoff!

[Gus Lozada]

Pricing isn't official yet, but I'm hearing between $200-$300 street.

I was told today it will be around $600 street -little above from what the MicroKorg was when originally released-.
Many differences with it, tough. Full size keys, better synth engine, USB port, does not run on batteries, etc.

... and the M3 will be "something between 2k and 3k" according different Korg sources.

[Bunny Knutson]

Pricing isn't official yet, but I'm hearing between $200-$300 street.
Even if the street price is $600, we'll be able to find used ones for $300 soon enough. :thu:

[MikeRivers]

This is about my 20th year going to NAMM and it seems that each year I have less and less to report. I don't see the need to report about the half dozen new tube and solid state ribbon mics, cheaper-than-last-time condenser mics, and I'm just not interested in synths and plug-ins. You can read all you want about those but you won't know if they're what you can use until you get your hands and ears on them personally (or you're willing to take a chance - usually not bad odds these days).

Podcasting is the new Home Studio. Over the past half dozen (or twenty, however you count it) years, home and private recording has blossomed. Products have become more plentiful, less enxpensive, and in general capable of providing sound quality that wouldn't emabarass a professional engineer or producer. But the essential ingredient for successful results has always been some musical or similar creative talent and a certain degree of technical skill.

With the podcasting explosion over the past couple of years, now you don't need any musical talent to show your stuff to the world, and the hardware is coming along to support these recordings, with (and I like this part) software that's more straightforward and hardware that makes sense to someone with a little intuition as to how a recorder should work. So we're seeing a crop of plug-and-play simple mixers - mic plus one or two line level sources (for background music, DJing, or sound effects) and real knobs and buttons.

A recording suitable for podcast can be made with something as simple as a mic with a built-in preamp and USB interface. The first generation USB mics were pretty junky but good-value companies such as Rode, Blue, and MXL have jumped on to the bandwagon and now offer decent quality microphones with a plug-and-play audio interface.

Of particualar interest, and good fallout for the field recordist, are a couple of stereo USB mics - I always thought it was a little funny (and difficult to explain to a beginner) that the first round of USB mics, being mono, only had signal on one channel of the stereo WAV format unless you told your program to record a mono file. A new stereo USB mic from MXL is built from two 604 cardioid capsules in an X-Y configuration, and that's a pretty good combination. Interestingly, the USB stereo version is less expensive than the twofer 604 package that MXL offers. Samson has a few new USB mics, one of which has a stereo element, a mini jack for a line level input, and a built-in mixer and headphone amplifier. So you can produce a voice-and-music program right through the mic. Both the Samson and MXL USB mics have that missing control, a "preamp trim" so you can set the recording level where you're supposed to set it rather than with a control in the recording program. The future is getting a little brighter. Hopefully the talent will come along.

While the subject of mics, here's a darn clever idea from Countryman. The Isomax 4RF is a podium mic with a built-in RFI filter tuned to the cellular phone band to eliminate hash and pops introduced into the sound system when someone steps up to the mic with a cell phone in his pocket. Now if they could only filter out the sound when the speaker's phone rings.

Universal Audio introduced new plug-in life support for laptop users with the UAD-Xpander, an ExpressCard (the new and incompatible PCMCIA-like format) DSP engine that supports the UAD powered plug-ins. It's about $2200 with a bundle of plug-ins.

In the quest for better quality and value in multi-channel A/D and D/A converters, you don't have to look much further than the Lynx Aurora series. Out of the box, they have AES/EBU on the digital side, but two new accessory cards add other interfacing options. The LT-HD card makes the Aurora 8 and 16 recognizable by a ProTools HD system with the standard Digidesign cabling. The LT-FW card adds a Firewire 400 interface to the Aorora interfaces. And what's better than 16 channels of I/O? 32 channels, of course. You have access to both the analog and AES-EBU digital inputs and outptuts via these cards. In other Lynx good news for those living on the bleeding edge, 64-bit drivers for the Lynx TWO, L22, and AES-16 cards will be available later this month. Also on the horizon are PCI Express versions of their I/O cards.


Nostalgia is back! Remember Encore and Master Tracks Pro from Passport Systems? They're being re-introduced under the Gvox name. Thiese programs are from the pre-DAW era but offer sold and well thought out MIDI sequencing.

Metasonicx again has the best-named product of the show, the TM-7 Nutsack. Metasonix makes really awful sounding distortion devices. Since this is a family oriented forum, you'd best check the web site to read how the controls are labeled.

There were a couple of companies exhibiting wiring upgrades for electric guitars which promise great amounts of hum and buzz suppression. I've always wondered why guitars don't buzz more than they do given the way they're wired, and it's nice to see that after 75 years someone's finally put some thought into it. The nicest setup I saw was the :Pro7 from DocHumFree.com. It consists of a flexible printed circuit with large ground planes front and back, a well shielded pickup selector switch and pots, and balanced inputs (two wires plus shield) from the pickups. There are three models, a completely passive version, one with an active filter for hum, and one that's "enhanced" (which DOES change the sound of the guitar, hopefully fo rthe better). It's available now for the Stratocaster, with other models to follow.

There's lots of interest in analog tape simulation these days. You've seen in other reports about a new ProTools plug in and Craig's even admitted to passing tracks through a real recorder occasionally. Now there's one implemented in hardware, and in a very intersting way. AnaMod is a partnership between Greg Gualiteri of Pendulum and Dave Amels of (former) Bomb Factory. The development process seems bassackwards, but apparently a tape deck is too hard to model accurately with straightforward circuitry. The development process was to measure and digitally model a tape deck, then back the digital model out to individual components and implement it in real parts. Plug-in "personality" cards will be available for different tape types and brands of recorders, with up to four being selectable from the front panel. Controls are provided for the critical alignment parameters of bias, EQ, and reference fluxivity, with input and ouptut levels adjustable so you can slam it as hard as you need. Missing (by popular demand) is flutter simulation. What it doesn't model is the randomness, both short and long term, which may contribute to what we like about tape. It will be intersting to hear what folks say about this one when it gets out into the field. It came just in the nick of time, too. On January 18, Quantegy announced that productoin of professional audio tape products would cease in April. My initial tongue-in-cheeky comment about it was that it's a good illustration of why people were happy to get away from analog tape.

In the how-cheap-and-small-can-they-get, Zoom has followed their H4 portable flash memory recorder with the H2, not much bigger than today's cell phones, with built in mics and what appears to be a more logical set of operating controls than the H4 (which seems to be the most-criticized aspect of that recorder). $199.

My vote for the most useful gizmo of the show was actually something I saw at the Summer NAMM show, but it's still at the top of my list. AudioSkin (http://www.audioskin.net) is a system for bundling cables that's quick and easy to use. It looks like spiral wrap from a distance, but it's actually a split jacket. It comes with an applicator that works a bit like a zipper. You clamp it around the cable bundle, open up the jacket just far enough to get it started around the cables, then slide the "zipper" down the bundle and you have an instant snake. Everyone with a spaghetti pile behind the desk needs some of this stuff.

Now, turning you back to your normal mics-and-plug-ins . . . .

[Lee Knight]

His name is Roland Guerin, and hey, I'd play with him any time!! Great bass player.


I caught Craig's show Sunday at 3. Very cool... and that bassist had a cool thing going on for sure. Plenty of chops, but that's not what made him something special. What a clever groove. He'd just tune into Craig's beats and mixing, all ears. Then BAM... new groove. Solid and fun. Cool set Craig.

My favorite finds.

The CAD Trion 8000 tube multi-pattern mic. What a great sounding mic. Fat but not flabby. Very tight. Cheap and good.:D

Protégé' by the folks who make Notion. It's actually a Notion Lite. Standard notation software with instant playback with samples from the London Symphony Orchestra. It looks cool. I have the demo and I'm looking forward to play pretending I'm Leonard Bernstein for 10 days. :)

The Bass Traps from Studio Panel looked like they might find a spot in my place. Corner mounted hard front panels, mounted internally to springs. 600 bucks each. I'm going to need to gather some absorption coefficients on these as the designer's claims were pretty lofty. But if he's right about only 2 of these taking care of my woes... then I want a couple.

The Redeemer from Creation Audio Labs. What stopped me from walking by was a picture of Michael Wagener with a quote saying, “The best bass tone I’ve ever put to tape.” Hmmmm. Well OK. So I tried a bass fitted with this little domino sized battery powered internally mounted mod. Wow. It works. Very clear sound and punchy. It works by unloading the pickups from the cable capacitance. Nice… and only $99. Check it out.

ADK Hamburg I, the original came back to surprise me. I A/Bed all his mics against a 67 he had setup in his booth and holy smokes… I actually liked the old first addition Hamburg the best. A lot of folks have passed this guy up because of the Vienna. Not me. The Hamburg has that real, solid midrange of a good Neumann.

The Presonus ADL 600 tube pre really is a huge Sounding.

I forget the brand name but there was a electric standup bass set up with a Fender Jazz scale with frets. This thing was a blast to play.

And finally, at the Sony booth there was a guy presenting Oxford plugins. He was French perhaps? I didn’t get his name, but in the course of showing off the very nice Oxford line he deconstructed his lastest R&B Pop mix and in the course of 45 minutes taught more than I’ve picked up in a long time. Clever EQ tricks, bass saturation, headroom management. A great presentation from that guy… anyone know his name? Very tech minded but still very creative. Funny too. Lot's of funny comments regarding his current "loudness war" with the Abelton booth next door.

I crammed a lot in a day.

[Lee Knight]

A couple I forgot...

The API A2D. While I didn't hear it, I know what API's sound like. It was the converter I was interested in. I also knew I wouldn't be able to check this on the floor and really wanted to just speak with a rep. I got a very good feeling from his confidence in the converters quality, in words, "On par with the best. At least an Apogee and some feel better." I'm buying soon.

The Frontier AlphaTrack single fader controller. This thing is great. Very responsive to fader rides and surprisingly easy to get to any track very quickly. The three touch sensitive knobs were cool. Touch sensitive as in, when you touch a knob for band gain in an eq for instance, as soon as it senses your touch (immediate) it shows you the current value. Then you can twist away. Very cool little piece. There's a dedicated eq button to quickly get at those parameters, but any plug-in is just a couple of clicks away. I thought it would be a hassle to navigate. It's not.

[Lee Knight]

And one more...

The HearTechnologies Hear Back Headphone System. I'd seen it many times in ads but never had a chance to actually mess with it. I did yesterday and I've got to say, it's great. Very simple implementation. The base unit, a 19" 1 space takes analog or ADAT input. Then you provide a stereo mix and 6 more things you can mix more off into each individual station. Each station include an independent limiter as well.

The street for 4 stations and the base unit is $1100 and it sounds great.

[spokenward]

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The Frontier AlphaTrack single fader controller. This thing is great. Very responsive to fader rides and surprisingly easy to get to any track very quickly. The three touch sensitive knobs were cool. Touch sensitive as in, when you touch a knob for band gain in an eq for instance, as soon as it senses your touch (immediate) it shows you the current value. Then you can twist away. Very cool little piece. There's a dedicated eq button to quickly get at those parameters, but any plug-in is just a couple of clicks away. I thought it would be a hassle to navigate. It's not.

Thank you! I was hoping that someone would post a "hands on". It's the ribbon that I think that I need the most for my work, but I'm glad that overall it seemed responsive.

[Lee Knight]

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Thank you! I was hoping that someone would post a "hands on". It's the ribbon that I think that I need the most for my work, but I'm glad that overall it seemed responsive.

The ribbon scrub is nice. One finger and it scrubs. Two fingers and you control how fast. Tap it left or right and it sequences through any markers you've set in your session.

[Anderton]

There's a video on the Alphatrack in the AES 2006 section of the HC Theater (http://aes.harmony-central.com/121AES/videos.html).

[Anderton]

Audio-Technica had what they called "QuietPoint" headphones. They're like the Bose or other noise-canceling headphones, but I can think of no more convincing demo than to be able to block out the noise on the NAMM floor (which it did quite well).

[Anderton]

More Audio-Technica: The 2010 cardioid condenser microphone. I thought you'd enjoy seeing the inner guts as well as the normal mic case.

[Anderton]

And for our final jaunt into A-T land, they also showed a professional studio headphone set called the ATH-M50. IIRC the price is under $200.

[Anderton]

ART had an 8-channel mic pre with FireWire interfacing and word clock. These pictures show a long view of the front panel, a close up of one stage, and the rear panel with the FireWire connectors and such.

[Anderton]

CME showed three USB interfaces (L to R, below): One with a microphone, one for MIDI, and one for audio. They fall under the "cheap and cheerful" category.

[Anderton]

Did anyone notice what Mitch Gallagher pointed out to me? There was...

No new version of Live
No new version of Digital Performer
No new version of Pro Tools
No new version of Logic
No new version of Wavelab
No new version of Sound Forge
No new version of Peak
No new version of Samplitude
No new version of Sequoia
No new version of Acid Pro
No new version of Vegas
No new version of Cubase
No new version of Nuendo
No new version of Sonar (although they did announce 6.2, which does more than just maintenance update)
No new version of Audition
No new version of Reason

My take? AES is now the new place where major software introductions are made.

[HKSblade1]

Anyone try the ATHm50 phones??

[ViLo]

ART had an 8-channel mic pre with FireWire interfacing and word clock. These pictures show a long view of the front panel, a close up of one stage, and the rear panel with the FireWire connectors and such.

What uses will the firewire ports have in a mic pre?