The Mackie SRS1500a subwoofer has finally begun to ship. It is designed to be a perfect match with their SRM450 powered speakers, which have been a huge hit and sound fantastic. The sub really rounds out the low end, providing that last octave of bass you need for a full sound. Right now demand on the sub is far outpacing supply, but we expect to be receiving them on a regular basis now and should be caught up shortly. In short, it’s time to get your order in if you want one… or two.
MIDIMan is releasing a 4 x 4 version of their popular MIDISport USB interfaces. It will include all the latest drivers as well as a copy of OMS. Retail price is slated at $199.
In other MIDIMan related news, their other division M Audio has announced support for the M Audio Delta 1010 and the M Audio DiO 2448 soundcards in 4Front’s Open Sound System for Linux. Open Sound System has been recognized as the de-facto audio architecture for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems like Linux. Users can now perform a variety of tasks, such as streaming digital audio (Real Audio, MP3 Audio, etc.) directly from studio equipment to the Internet using live encoding capabilities; professional audio editing using direct-to-disk, full duplex, multi-track editing applications such as SLAB, Broadcast 2000, SND, and MultiTrack; transferring audio to/from DAT tapes or any devices having optical S/PDIF connectors; achieving very high quality playback and recording. Linux offers a very stable and affordable platform for the streaming audio and radio broadcast market.