A couple great new Kurzweil options just arrived. For the PC2 controller we have the PC2S, a 3-zone, touch sensitive programmable ribbon controller. For the K2600 family there’s the RM326, a new ROM board packed with the best piano sounds ever to come out of Kurzweil. And if you’re familiar with Kurzweil’s reputation on acoustic piano sounds, you know how significant this is.
Syntrillium Software is going to formerly introduce version 2.0 of Cool Edit Pro at the Winter NAMM show next weekend. Version 2.0 of Cool Edit Pro doubles to 128 the potential track count of Version 1.2. The effects list (EQ, Delay, Chorus, Echo, Flanging, and more) is slightly enlarged to over 40 and direct CD burning and MP3 encoding is supported. Realtime effects like EQ include most things that make sense to do in realtime, and offline effects include restoration processing like hiss, click and pop removal. Limited MIDI support has been added to V2.0, and CEP can now generate MIDI time code to act as master or slave.
Minnetonka has announced A-plus, an affordable and easy to-use system for creating DVD-Audio discs. DVD-Audio discs make it possible to deliver your high resolution Surround Sound and ultra-high resolution stereo sound projects to end users. Compiling a DVD-A disc with A-plus is simple. Just drag-and-drop soundfiles from one window to another to create your playlist. Then hit the “Record” button, and the program will burn your DVDAudio disk. The program can accept 5.1 Surround recordings as 6 soundfiles or as an MLP-encoded soundfile.
