Aalto from Madrona Labs is a new semi-modular software synthesizer with an innovative, patchable UI, distinctive sounds, and a charming personality.

Aalto's sound engine lets you create sounds that have been difficult or impossible to make with softsynths before now. The heart of Aalto is a Buchla-inspired complex oscillator, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls that enable a wide range of expressive sounds. These sounds are uniquely malleable and alive, in part because they are made with dynamic calculation, not static wavetables.

Aalto is designed as much for sequencing patterns as for playing individual notes. Each voice has a separate, built-in sequencer with a patchable, independently controllable rate and offset that make it easy to achieve evolving, chaotic textures.

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TC Electronic is already at the forefront of loudness metering for the broadcast industry. With LM2 TC Electronic aims to "not only delivering the tools for next generation metering, it has also been instrumental in defining what those new standards should be".

By itself, LM2 is a full-featured stereo loudness and true-peak level meter for use in post and live production, broadcast ingest, linking and transmission. LM2's front panel displays the all-important numbers that reveal whether or not a certain broadcast standard is being met. It is also possible to bring up the Stats display for even more details, or LM2 can be connected to a PC or Mac via USB to get full, realtime Radar screen picture via the included Icon application.

Price: MSRP €1,500 (ex.VAT). Shipping: At IBC (10th-14th September 2010)

Ultrasone has released a new open-backed headphone in its PRO Series, the PRO 2900.

Ultrasone is releasing both a standard, single cable version and a balanced, double cable version of a pair of headphones.

While standard, single cable headphones are commonplace in most pro audio and audiophile applications, a balanced headphone coupled with a balanced amplifier is said to offer unique advantages over the former such as increased audio performance due to a doubling the slew rate and voltage swing power, while reducing distortion components & eliminating crosstalk.
PRO 2900 Features

Ultrasone's PRO 2900s has a black design, velvet covered black ear pads and a diamond-cut logo insignia on the ear cup. The PRO 2900 features a 40mm titanium-plated driver and a soft USC-Cable that is ...

Produced in conjunction with Allen Morgan, this pack of presets for Superior Drummer 2.0 picks up right where Allen's last pack left of. Giving you yet another great set of tools to spice up your Superior Drummer 2.0 mixes.

Rock, pop, country or metal - whatever the project, these audio gems will help you bring your drum mix to life. Just download, install and mix - it really couldn't be much simpler.

Available now at a price of €7.

Korg is now shipping the tube-driven ELECTRIBE-MX (EMX1SD) and ELECTRIBE-SX SD (ESX1SD), the newest models in the updated Electribe series. Now revitalized with up-to-the-minute patterns and massive SD data storage, these versatile music makers are now better than ever, according to Korg.

"As more and more musicians adopted the Electribes as part of their audio arsenal, Korg teamed up with cutting-edge creative artists from around the world to deliver fresh beats, patterns and even Electribe SX (ESX-1) samples. Ninja Tune/Big Dada artists Emika and the Anti-pop Consortium are contributors, as well as U.K. MySpace artist Shrikednb (Tom Thorpe), plus YouTube stars Denkitribe and Scribej.

The addition of convenient SD/SDHC card storage allows up to 32 GB of sound, pattern, song and samp ...