ESI will exhibit their new keyboard controller K.ON at the upcoming NAMM show. K.ON is ESI's new expandable USB controller keyboard with 88 hammer action keys.

Features :

- 3 digit LED display
- 9 endles dials
- 9 faders
- modulation wheel / pitch bend
- numeric keypad
- transport control buttons
- various editing functions for programming
- power supplied via USB or optional external power supply
- expandable via 4 expansion slots on backside
- Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Mac OS X 10.3 (and higher) compatible
- bundled with Steinberg Cubase LE 4.0 for PC and Mac

K.ON is already available and costs €599.

Access Music unveils Virus TI Snow, their new table-top synthesizer based on the Virus TI series of synthesizers.
Over a thousand sounds can be accessed with a maximum of 4 button pushes. With 3 programmable hardware knobs per patch and additional ones for filter and envelope control, performers can control the core of the sound without having to dive into an edit menu.
The TI Snow is 100% compatible with all patches for the TI series and plays back a maximum of 50 voices with 4 multi-timbral parts (64 multi performances, 512 RAM and 512 ROM patches). The oscillator models include virtual analog, hypersaw, wavetable and graintable types. The filter section features a Moog cascade filter emulation with 1-4 poles and self-oscillation among others. The FX section includes simultaneous rever ...

Arturia has just updated its Prophet V to version 1.2. This new version includes :

- VST 2.4 support, allowing for Cubase 4 compatibility on Mac Intel
- RTAS 7.3 support
- Correction of different bugs such as the cracks some would experience
when using several instances of the Prophet V in their sequencer

This upgrade is free to all registered users.

Just days before the 2008 NAMM show, ESI Audiotechnik GmbH finally announces the availability of the new external recording interface ESU1808.

This USB 2.0 Hi-Speed recording interface features 18 input channels and 8 output channels which can all be used simultaneously. The 1U rack unit features 2 microphone preamps with balanced XLR inputs, 2 direct instrument inputs (Hi-Z), and not less than 12 balanced/unbalanced line level inputs. There is also a digital input in S/PDIF format. In addition, there are 8 balanced analog line level outputs and a digital S/PDIF output as well as a MIDI I/O interface. ESU1808 works under Mac OS X as well as Windows XP & Vista. The interface is bundled with Cubase LE 4.0 from Steinberg.

The ESU1808 USB 2.0 audio interface will be priced at €499.

TC Electronic has finally released their new member in the PowerCore family, the PowerCore X8. Boosted with 8 Motorola DSP processors, the new PowerCore X8 comes with 14 plug-ins and a 500$ voucher for additional plug-ins.

PowerCore X8 is available now at a retail price of €1499. For more information, please visit the link below: