Technics Officially Dead
Oct27

Technics Officially Dead

Panasonic officially announced that they are discontinuing their Technics division. We’ve heard chatter that this had already occurred within the Japanese concern in January of this year, but now it’s official. Apparently, Panasonic has sold over 3.5 million 1200s to date since its introduction in 1972, but sales have dropped off substantially. In fact, sales of 1200s today only amount to 5 percent of the total sales...

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Waldorf Announces PPG Wave 3.V Plug-In

Waldorf has announced the PPG Wave 3.V, a reincarnation of the lPPG Wave synthesizer developed by Wolfgang Palm as a VST or Audio Unit plug-in. The PPG Wave 2 was the first digital wavetable Synthsizer with analog filters. Unfortunately, the technical limitations of the time, created issues such as aliasing noise, which could not be avoided then, but now make up the character of the PPG. To recreate the sound of the original as...

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