PreSonus is pleased to announced the Monitor Station Remote (MSR) for their FireStudio 26x26 firewire recording system. The MSR is a completely integrated surround sound/stereo speaker manager, input switcher and communication system delivering fast and efficient workflow for music creation.

Features :

- Connect to FireStudio via rj45 ethernet connector
- Main speaker volume control (surround and stereo)
- Dual headphone amplifiers
- Track Mode: enables 9 stereo mixes for headphones during tracking
- Mix Mode: allows user to switch between three sets of stereo monitors
- Surround Mode: enables 5.1 surround volume control or mixing in surround sound
- Switch between surround and stereo with the push of a button
- Talkback
- Dim, mute, mono and more

The MSR is available now at a retail price of $229.95.

Corsair has released an extremely rugged line of USB 2.0 flash drives called Flash Survivor. Designed and engineered to be the industry's toughest USB drive, Flash Survivor is water-resistant, CNC-milled aluminum encased, and shock-proof to safely store user's information and files in the most demanding environments.

Flash Survivor is immediately available in two variations :

* Flash Survivor GT 8GB - $129.99 USD MSRP
* Flash Survivor 4GB - $59.99 USD MSRP

For more information, please visit the link below :

Tonium has announced Pacemaker, the worlds first pocket-size DJ system. This pretty little box is hidding some interesting features such as 120 GB storage, the SNR 103, the bend, pitch, cue, loop, EQ and sound-FX functionality, the separate line-out and headphones crossfaders, the separate line-out and headphones jacks and the two independent channels... Want more ? And so do I, but we will have to wait until october to see this beauty hit the stores.

Modartt has updated Pianoteq to v2.0.1. This update offers multi-core rendering, which vastly improves CPU performance on dual-core and hyper threaded Pentium 4, and Receptor compatibility.

Complete list of changes :

- Multi-core rendering.
- Receptor compatibility.
- Fixed parameter automation.
- Stand-alone: output channel selection for ASIO sound cards.
- Stand-alone: fixed wav export bug.
- Stand-alone: added 'clear menu' entry in the recent files menus.
- Stand-alone: metronome volume now adjustable.

For more information, please visit their web site.

Do you remember MultiInspectorFree ? This little free plug-in which was a multitrack spectral analyzer ? It was pretty cool but limited to 4 instances at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz... not enough for professional use. So today VertexDSP releases MultiInspector v1.0, the commercial version of MultiInspectorFree and guess what, it rocks !

Features :

* 31 band third octave frequency analyzer showing the spectral analysis of other plug-in instances in the same window.
* Independent editor windows for different views of the same content.
* Level bar width automatically adapts to the number of signals currently viewed.
* Adjustable attack and release time for smooth level bar display.
* Adjustable slope with a default of 3 dB per octave for flat display of pink noise.
* Peak optio ...