USA-based Lauten Audio will make its European debut at Musikmesse Frankfurt at Hall 5.1, Walkway D, Stand 50. On display will be the company's studio microphone line including their flagship Horizon tube microphone and three new models.

Lauten Audio's studio microphone line includes :

Horizon (List: $799.00)
The Horizon tube microphone is Lauten Audio's first commercially available product. Designed as a work-horse, the microphone features a solid build quality, NOS military grade tube, custom wound output transformer and premium high-resolution electronics. This microphone has found its home on everything from vocals and voice-overs to drums, electric guitar amplifiers, acoustic guitar, piano and fiddle. It is also known to be used for live sound micing.

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TC Electronic announces the release of the long awaited G-System Editor for Mac and PC, which allows for intuitive and real-time control of all functions in G-System, creation of new presets, and sharing presets with other G-System users. The Editor is compatible with Windows XP as well as OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard).

G-System Software 3.0 enables use of the Editor and includes modulated delay, a new feature resulting from numerous customer requests. Users will also experience faster reacting expression pedals, faster attack at the compressor, the ability to assign a specific preset to a switch, improved MIDI clock and faster level shift between right and left channel.

The Editor and Software 3.0 are relevant for all G-System users, and are downloadable free of charge at :

Zplane.development unveils version 2 of the time stretching and pitch shifting engines Elastique Pro and Elastique efficient. Elastique stretching can be found as an integral part of numerous digital audio workstations and DJ applications such as Ableton Live or überschall Elastik loop player.

The new version offers many audio quality enhancements, including better transient preservation, increased bass resolution and improved high tonal frequency processing. Many optimizations and new interface functionality improve the performance, integration and handling of Elastique significantly.

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Oli Larkin has just released pMix (short for preset mixer), a really cool free software for Mac.

pMix is a new composition and performance tool that facilitates the control of multiple plugin parameters using an intuitive graphical interface. pMix hosts four VST plugins and lets you interpolate between presets by navigating a 2D visual environment. Presets are represented by coloured balls that are positioned on a plane. The size of each ball and its proximity to the cursor affects the weight of the associated preset in the interpolation. pMix is easy to use and has some fun features such as automation, real time visual feedback and randomisation.

pMix is a donationware and it is available now for Mac OS X. For more explanation I suggest you to watch the video on its web site.

With this version the simple-to-use, powerful drum machine from iZotope is now Windows XP and Vista ready. iDrum adds a full-featured beat box to your Windows- or Mac-based studio. Start with hundreds of professional drum samples, or load your own WAV or AIFF files to build your own kits.

Already own iDrum for Mac OS X? Just download the update to get the PC version at no charge. iDrum 1.61 also adds numerous improvements including OS X Leopard support.