The Virus C keyboard synthesizer establishes a new standard in analog modeling quality. A quintessential modern/vintage synthesizer, the stepped-up Virus C keyboard offers a huge array of sonic possibilities. Features include 32-note polyphony, 4 oscillators, 2 filters, 3 LFOs, 9 mod matrix destinations, 98 essential DSP effects like reverb, saturation, and 3-band EQ … the list goes on. What makes the Virus C stand out in the world of analog modeling is the detail of the sound; it more than just reproduces the sound of analog circuits, it recreates the special properties that make analog and acoustic tones sound so vibrant.
“A Korg Triton Studio for under $2000??? It’s too good to be true!!!”
In this case, it is too good to be true.
In our recent issue of SweetNotes, we listed the retail price of Korg’s Triton Studio 61 and the Korg Triton Studio 76 synthesizer workstations as $1600 and $1800. The correct retail prices are actually $3400 for the 61 and $3800 for the 76. We want to apologize for getting you all excited; we crank out a lot of info on the latest and greatest music making equipment, and sometimes things just get a little confused. Once again, we’re sorry. $1600 and $1800 are actually the retail prices of the Triton LE 61 and the Triton LE 76, Korg’s streamlined version of their monster synth. The Triton Studio models are still an excellent value at their real price. These are some of the world’s most powerful synths, packing a wealth of features, functions, capabilities and effects beneath their sleek interface. Those of you who don’t have their copy of SweetNotes open in front of them right now can take a re-fresher course of the Triton Studio at the link below. And as always, the prices we publish in SweetNotes are the retail prices. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for your special low Sweetwater price.
After last week’s news of Apple buying Emagic rumors have been flying everywhere about what this may or may not mean for users of these and other systems. Obviously PC users of Logic are going to eventually need to find some other solution, and to that end both Cakewalk and Steinberg already have very attractive crossgrade programs up on their respective websites. In fact, you can even order the Steinberg crossgrade from your Sweetwater Sales Engineer. Emagic has stepped up with a free crossgrade to the Mac version of their software as well. And if you follow the link to Emagic’s announcement of the free crossgrade you will also see, in writing, their commitment to continue to support existing Windows users.
For the most part none of the companies have had anything of much significance to say on the subject. We’ve talked to them all, and most were nearly as surprised at us at the development (including people of surprisingly high rank within Emagic). At this point everyone is speculating about what might happen, but there are very few definitive statements being made.
Digidesign bigwigs were at Sweetwater recently (stay tuned for some big NAMM related announcements from them later this week) and as far as they are concerned this doesn’t change much. They still see Pro Tools and Avid video systems continuing to proliferate on Mac and Windows machines.
We will keep you posted as things develop. The big MacWorld show starts today, and Summer NAMM starts this Friday so it’s very likely we’ll have more information soon. Don’t forget to contact your Sweetwater Sales Engineer if you’re interested in the Steinberg crossgrade program.