The 2010 Frankfurt Musikmesse has wrapped up, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have more exciting new gear to talk about!
Focusrite has announced that the ISA One will now be offered with the previously optional-only ADC-board pre-installed, as the the ISA One Digital. With its ADC board, the ISA One Digital provides AES/EBU, S/PDIF, and SMUX ADAT digital outputs, with the preamp and DI inputs carried over separate channels of the digital connection. Sample rtes up to 192kHz are supported, with 118dB dynamic range.
Korg announced the microSTATION, a 61-mini-key synthesizer with EDS-i (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-integrated) sound engine, 480 onboard sounds, 512 programs, 256 combinations, GM2 support, onboard sequencer, loop recording, SD/SDHC card slot, USB, and much more.
Steinberg WaveLab 7 for Mac and Windows — yes, you read that correctly, WaveLab has come to the Mac — has a unique new GUI concept for fast, fluid handling of audio for editing and mastering, intelligentdocking and scaling, VST3 plug-ins, a new CD and DVD-A burning engine, a restoration tool package from Sonnox, and much more.
Focal Professional announced the CMS 40 at Musikmesse. Coming in at the lowest price and smallest size of any Focal professional active monitor, the CMS 40 is designed for home studio, broadcast, and other space-challenged environments. It uses the same aluminum/magnesium inverted dome driver as the CMS 50 and CMS 65, with response to 28kHz, and a 4″ Focal woofer for extended low-frequency response.
The Softube Valley People Dyna-mite plug-in is a virtual re-creation of the hardware Valley People Dyna-mite dynamics processor, with limiting, compression, expansion, and gating, with two sidechain modes for ducking, keying, and de-essing. The original’s proprietary VCA and Anticipatory Release Computation have been faithfully modeled. This is the first modeled plug-in that has been officially endorsed by Valley People.