Royer Labs is pleased to announce the release of the company's new microphone demonstration CD. Titled Inside the Mix, the new CD, which is available free(minus shipping charges) to prospective customers, offers detailed examples of both Royer's studio and Live Series microphones used in a wide variety of musical applications.

Inside the Mix is unique in that it enables one to hear the finished, fully mastered tracks of many of today's best-known recordings and then offers a more detailed perspective on ribbon microphones by isolating the individual tracks that were recorded on Royer microphones. In doing so, prospective customers can hear with unprecedented detail the soloed track with the individual instrument as it was originally recorded.

Royer's new demonstration CD contains a broad assortment of musical examples from an equally wide range of musical styles. Inside the Mix includes performances by jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, singer/songwriter/guitarist Brian Setzer, the rock band Matchbox Twenty, and Allen Toussaint, one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B. Additionally, numerous leading engineers/producers contributed tracks to Inside the Mix, including nineteen-time Grammy Award winning recording engineer and record producer Al Schmitt, five time Grammy winning engineer Bruce Swedien, well-known Los Angeles-based film scoring engineer/mixer Alan Meyerson, and multiple Grammy Award winning music producer Ross Hogarth.

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Described by its manufacturer as "the jedi knight of microphones fighting against forces of the dark side and their poor clone warriors", the Vertigo VS47 is a "new" microphone which aims to be the king instead of the king : the classic Neumann U47.

The VS 47 is equipped with :

- Original Neumann M7 capsule
- Telefunken VF14 tube
- Original Haufe BV-8 transformer

The ultimate set is completed with :

- Replica PSU
- High quality leads
- OEM elastic suspension.

Pricing :

- VS 47 with VF14 and FET14 : €5990
- VS 47 with FET14 : €4990

Toontrack Music announces Drumtracker, a stand-alone, multi-track audio to midi converter for sound replacement.

Features :

• Host independent, Stand Alone software for converting drum audio to drum MIDI. Import Audio tracks, export MIDI mapped to your favourite drum sampler.
• Each trigging point graphically represented. Delete, add, move or change the velocity to your individual needs.
• Manual control over tracking and exporting, select which part or parts of a drum track that you want to export, down to each single hit.
• Set max/min velocity and threshold values for each instrument and articulation.
• Audition before and after filters.
• Save your own presets.
• Mac and PC

Drumtracker is expected for the end of the year at a price of $149 / €99.

Today GMedia releases its new virtual instrument : the M-Tron Pro. Building on the legacy of the original M-Tron, the M-Tron Pro software delivers hundreds of additional sounds, providing instant access to the distinctive tones popularized by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Moody Blues, Radiohead and other luminaries.

Features :

- 200+ total tape banks (sample sets), including :

. 45 brand-new tape banks not found in the original M-Tron.
. 19 tape banks from M-Tron virtual instrument, re-mastered at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios.
. Over 40 looped tape banks.
. Over 3.5GB of samples total.

- 700+ patches including many created by world-class recording artists and programmers.
- Up to 35 notes, each individually sampled.
- Dual layer and split keyboard operation.
- Programmable MIDI CC response via MIDI Learn.
- Controllable via MIDI controllers such as the M-Audio Axiom and Oxygen models.
- 29 parameters per layer including synth parameters :

. Vintage-style ensemble and delay effects.
. Low-pass, band-pass and high-pass resonant filter section.
. Tape reverse.
. Tape half speed.

- Dynamic keyboard control, including filter aftertouch.
- Supports standalone, RTAS and VST on Windows XP/SP2, Vista 32, Vista 64.
- Supports standalone, RTAS, AU and VST on OSX 10.4.x, OSX 10.5.x.

The M-Tron Pro virtual instrument will be available today with an MSRP of $199.95 / €139 / £109 (excl. VAT). Upgrades will be available for existing M-Tron users for €59 (excl. VAT) via the GForce Website.

Apogee Electronics announces that the Symphony 64 is now shipping worldwide to authorized dealers and distributors. Symphony 64 is a 64 channel, 24bit/192kHz PCI Express card made to interface Apogee's X-Series and Rosetta Series converters directly to Apple's Mac Pro creating The Symphony System.

Features Highlight :

- 64 channels of 24-bit 192kHz Digital I/O per card
- Up to 128 channels of I/O per Mac Pro
- Near zero latency performance
- Connects directly to Apogee's X-Series and Rosetta Series converters via the X-Symphony option card
- Apogee's VBus - virtual routing within a Core Audio application or between multiple applications.
- Apogee's SBus - 32 channel, 192kHz digital audio network between two Mac computers
- Apogee's Maestro Software for advanced control and rout ...