The kind of cool folks at Kind of Loud have delivered to us Smart Code CD and Smart Code DTS. Smart Code DTS provides Pro Tools owners (Mac only) the tools needed to make DTS encode mixes of their sessions. It also includes tools needed to be able to monitor the mixes in a multi-channel format on your Pro Tools system. Smart Code CD allows you to burn those DTS mixes to a disc that can be played in any DTS equipped DVD player.
Don’t forget to get yourself signed up for our awesome Web Prizes. At the end of this month we will give away an Aphex 1100 thermionic mic preamp valued at $2495. The 1100 is a really fine mic amp. It has digital outputs, and even though it uses tubes it is one of the quietest preamps we’ve ever seen.
At the end of April we will also be giving away a Brian Moore i88.13 guitar valued at over $1200. These are really terrific guitars, but this one is even better because it includes a 13-pin output for driving MIDI and synthesizer converters. It is fully compatible with all Roland products that use the 13 pin connections.
Waves, a leading supplier of audio signal processing solutions for the professional audio and multimedia work, recently announced the release of the Y56K add-on DSP card for the Yamaha AW4416 Professional Digital Audio Workstation. The Y56K is both a hardware and software solution that extends the AW4416 capabilities to support Waves award-winning audio processors. The Y56K will be shipped with six Waves plug-ins, including the acclaimed L1-Ultramaximizer, Renaissance EQ, Renaissance Compressor, TrueVerb, SuperTap Delay, and DeEsser.