Rumors are flying that Microsoft is readying a consumer version of their Surface multi-touch screen PC, which would be music to the audio industry’s ears. According to reports, CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the megacorp’s plans at a meeting with financial analysts. Microsoft premiered the Surface PC last year targeting the hotel and restaurant...

Virsyn has updated Reflect, their reverb plug-in for Mac and PC, to version 1.3. Reflect is an algorithmic reverberation plug-in, which combines the flexibility of vintage algorithmic reverbs with the sonic quality of convolution based reverbs. The new version 1.3 is a true surround reverb modelling multichannel early reflections and decorrelated reverb tails...

Ecler has officially announced the EVO4, their new 4 channel mixer that we’ve been telling you about for the past few weeks. The EVO 4 will make its premier at Musikmesse in Frankfurt, and then at the Winter Music Conference in Miami. The four-channel EVO4 incorporates the latest digital audio technology with 24 bit stereo A/D and D/A converters and 96...

Zen has conceptualized a special computer interface that they originally developed for the visually impaired. However, after feedback from analysts, it appears that the Zen Sandbox PC may have other applications, especially for the music industry. The monochrome incorporates a “z-axis” electronic surface to dynamically create tactile 3D features that...

Sony kind of freaked us out with this new product announcement: the PFR-V1 personal field speakers. These steampunk’d headphones are what Sony is calling the “marriage between headphones and speakers…the PFR-V1 personal field speakers are designed to create a listening field around your ears.” In today’s world with some truly sweet...