TL Audio announces the launch of its newly designed IEEE-1394 Firewire interface (The DO-F) at the 125th AES convention in San Francisco 2nd – 5th October 2008.

The new interface will be compatible with the new M1-F 8 and 12 channel consoles and also TL Audio's Fat Track Tube Production Suite. The DO-F is designed to offer an easy and high quality solution for interfacing TL Audio's products with your Mac or PC based DAW.

For Mac users, it's just a case of Plug and Play. PC users will need drivers... The DO-F provides 24-bit operation at 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96kHz sample rates, with high quality AD/DA conversion and allows you to access all inputs and outputs of the analogue hardware via just one Firewire cable, making it a tidy, portable and reliable system. This also means that the Fat Track is now also able to be a unique interface for your DAW.

The DO-F is estimated to start shipping just in time for Christmas and the New Year and can be ordered to be pre-fitted to the Fat Track or new M1-F consoles.

QuikQuak has just released Fusion Field v2.0. Fusion Field is an easy to use diffusion reverb created in response to requests for a RaySpace 'light' and a version of Glass Viper's own diffusion reverb.

Changes :

- Higher quality.
- Initial transients smoothed, improving percussion and short diffusions.
- New distance parameter with realistic attack phase.
- Better stereo balancing.
- Enhancements resulting from hundreds of hours in constant revision.

Fusion Field v2.0 is available now for Windows and Mac OS X in AU and VST formats at a price of £35.

Sugar Bytes has just announced that their Crazy Studiopic Competition has just started : people shall create crazy pics of themselves in the studio and the 10 best posts will win !

Send them your craziest studio pic and win some phantastic prizes from the Sugar Bytes product line. And that's not all : Each post will win a 20% discount code for the Sugar Bytes shop. Do it on your own, with your band or your posse, just let it flow ! But you have to do something special since boring pics and double posts will definately be ignored.

For more information, please visit the link below :

Goldbaby has released Tape Drum Machines Vol 2 for Battery, Guru and Sample Pack. This new volume contains: 10 Drum Machines and 3 Tape Machines for a total of 1838 x 24 Bit drum samples, plus a bonus set of 36 x CR-78 Rex file loops...

Also released is a FREE samples pack: The Tape TR-66 and a set of CR-78 Rex files not included in TDMVol2.

For more information, please visit their website.

"MOTU is a company that has an uncanny ability to jam pack every single audio-visual in/out you can think of into a neat little portable Swiss-army-type black box. They're also known for their excellent digital converters and flagship sequencer, Digital Performer. Electric Keys is a sample-based vintage keyboard player, adding to their growing line up of software instruments, such as the MX4 synthesizer, Ethno Instrument, Mach Five, and Symphonic Instrument. Adding a vintage keyboard emulator to the list seems like a practical next step to help round out things."