New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: Tascam’s CDA700 combines a professional CD player with a high quality cassette deck in a three rack space design. The unit includes XLR and unbalanced RCA I/O for both units as well as XLR and RCA outputs dedicated to the CD player. Retail price $629.
Christian Roth has posted the latest version of Coaster, a nifty little Mac desktop recording interface. This thing is way cool and the price is right: FREE.
We recently reported that Event Electronics is no longer the distributor of Echo products (Gina, Darla, Layla). Echo has pledged continued support and development for the full line. They have posted new 5.0 drivers at their Web site, which provide ASIO 2/0 support, Direct Sound Support, and more. They are still proceeding with plans to unveil two new products at this fall’s AES show.