Sonic Studio LLC is now shipping their POW-r word length reduction plug-in for the HD workstation. The new plug-in adds up to eight channels of realtime POW-r to the Sonic Studio HD professional editing and mastering environment. POW-r can also be placed inline for real-time 1x or 2x burns to CD master.

POW-r is priced at $1,495 and is available from Sonic Studio authorized resellers. Sonic Studio HD owners may try the POW-r plug-in free of charge by visiting the company's web site.

Swar Systems launches SwarPlug, an integrated way of adding tracks of Indian instruments in your compositions. It combines both 21 virtual Indian instruments in VSTi technology and a Librarian to browse and select among a collection of over 500 MIDI loops from the Indian classical and folkloric repertoire.

Refuse Software has released version 1.0.2 of their reFuse software utility for Mac OS 9. This update improves upon the stability and performance of previous versions. First released in July of 2002, Refuse is a utility application to bridge Pro Tools and Reason. It allows users to work in realtime with Reason and Pro Tools, eliminating the tedious step of bouncing Reason files to disk. Up to sixteen channels can be routed from Reason to Pro Tools, with no extra hardware needed. In addition, reFuse provides two-way transport linking between the applications.
Users of Ableton Live will be happy to hear that reFuse can link Pro Tools with Live as well.

reFuse is available only at the reFuse Software website. Cost for online delivery is $29 US, and users paying with Paypal receive their copy immediately.

On this link, some Photos of DP4 demos during the Sound Shows (february 11-13th)

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Companion to the Xserve line of server hardware, this self-contained storage solution holds up to 14 hot-swappable Apple Drive Modules (up to 2.52 terabytes) in a 3U rack-optimized storage enclosure.
Xserve RAID features a breakthrough Apple-designed architecture that combines affordable, high-capacity ATA/100 drive technology with an innovative 2Gb Fibre Channel interface for reliable and fast data access.
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