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CD Spotlight
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Stephen Marley has finally come out of the shadows of his famous father and charismatic older brother Ziggy to deliver an intimate,
yet widely accessible solo effort Mind Control on the Tuff Gong imprint. Combining Dance Hall, Reggae, and his own electronic
take on hip-hop, Marley points his listeners to the future, without forgetting his past. From the instantly catcy Traffic Jam featuring his
half-brother Damian (Jr. Gong), to the delicate Lonely Avenue in which you'll need a voiceprint to differentiate him from his father's trippy best,
Stephen Marley is a force to be reckoned with. This could be the best Marley offspring album to date. Buy it now!
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Digital Spotlight
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Gabriel Ananda is set to release his full-length, Bambusbeats on March 19th. The new release has a mature sound, but falls away from his well-known melodic style to venture into new territories. To celebrate the release his label is graciously giving away one of the album's best cuts, Lamakov as a free download. This artistic minimal journey builds to a nice crescendo before melting in your mouth and then your pants...
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Vinyl Spotlight
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Paul Van Dyk's Vandit Imprint drops Lange Vs. Gareth Emery's Another You, Another Me. a Funky Trance release with a nice throbbing percussive tech house remix by Terranova & Austin Leeds.
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April 4, 2006
../ The 2007 MusikMesse Gear Report Pt. 3
Everything You Need to Know In One Place
Bias Peak 6, Alesis iMultiMix 8 USB, Virsyn Poseidon, Stanton T.90 Turntable & S.300 CD Player, Roland SonicCell
Bias Inc.
has announced Peak Pro 6. This significant upgrade contains over one-hundred new features and enhancements to the award-winning pro audio editing, processing,
mastering and delivery software for Mac OS X with Universal Binary compatibility for Intel-based Macs.
Peak 6's midnight interface
Peak Pro 5 featured a major revision to the playlist, including a new waveform cross-fade view as well as direct
100% Red Book compliant CD burning complete with CD-TEXT, PQ editing, ISRC codes, a DDP export option, and more. Peak Pro 6 adds even more functionality,
making an already robust playlist even more powerful and flexible with the addition of fully customizable real-time volume envelopes, sample level zooming
and editing, overlap/gap or centered cross-fades for either mastering or "classical"/take style workflows, new navigation and audition controls and more...
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Alesis
has premiered the iMultiMix 8 USB, a compact all-in-one tabletop mixer and recorder that features one hundred 28-bit digital effects, a built-in limiter
to avoid distorted recordings and an integrated iPod dock with control wheel transport controls for fast, easy direct-to-iPod recording.
Alesis fuses an iPod into their latest mixer
With the iMultiMix 8 USB, you can record to a computer, to the iPod, or to both, simultaneously. The iMultiMix 8 USB represents the first mixer to fuse
together professional quality mixing, 3 band per channel EQ, guitar/line inputs, built-in FX and iPod recording in a single, intuitive package...
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Virsyn
has released Poseidon, a new soft synth with their F-Domain Synthesis. At first sight Poseidon looks like a simple structured analog Oscillator-Filter
synthesizer, but the real power Virsyn claims is working under the hood: The spectral modelling sound generator of CUBE. The variable slope Filter is a
completely new design based on our unique F-domain synthesis.
Virsyn's uncluttered Poseidon interface
Spectral model oscillator allows you to select a basic sound model from over hundred options and control the temporal evolution of a complex sound
model with time stretching, manual time control and freezing. High level controls allow for changing the spectral shape, the harmonicity and balances
the level of residual noise and spectral amount of the oscillator model...
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Stanton
has released two new uninspiring products for the DJ market that
bolsters our recent story
on the troubled manufacturer. The S.300 Tabletop CD Player supports MP3 playback and comes in a completely mundane chassis, which the concern calls
"the stylish design that is pure Stanton." (We don't know what the crew at Stanton has been smoking, but the S.300 below is anything but "stylish." –Ed.)
Stanton calls the S.300 "stylish" - we call it ugly
In addition, Stanton unveiled the T.90 USB, a professional quality turntable with high-torque direct drive motor and a USB output. With Key Lock
built-in, DJs can adjust the tempo of a record without affecting pitch, while USB and S/PDIF digital outputs make the T.90 USB great for archiving vinyl...
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Roland
Looking more like a tape recorder than a sound module, Roland has debuted the SonicCell, which features a dual SRX expansion bay, built-in USB audio interface,
and ability to play SMFs and WAV/AIFF/MP3 files.
The new Roland SonicCell tape recorder sound module
Roland claims the SonicCell is "a dream for computer-based musicians and live performers who seek a compact,
integrated pro sound module and USB audio-interface solution." A dream?? Our dream wouldn't include the industrial design team at
Radio Shack creating the
chassis layout...
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