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New Products - September 17, 2012 The 2012 PAR Excellence Awards: Vote Now! » MOTU CueMix for Apple iPad » Roland R-88 Field Recorder » Solid State Logic ScreenSound ADR Solution » Waves NS1 Noise Suppressor Plug-in » Today's Product Review Instruments for Audio Production, Part 2: Scratching the Surface(s) for Apple iOS By Tony Ware "We've all done it. Sitting in a seemingly never-ending session or gig, we've poked a screen in a frustrated, accusatory manner, fantasizing, maybe even hallucinating about being able to nip, tuck and nudge a stubborn waveform into the exact alignment in our mind, but with our finger. Some of us will be doing this a lot more in the near future ... but this time with a smile on our faces. The introduction of Apple’s iPad 2, further refined in the ‘New iPad,’ has opened up a convenient, fairly affordable interface for sound designers and control freaks who crave a more tactile, highly compact portal to the realm of digital audio. Taking advantage of an ad hoc Wi-Fi connection’s relatively low latency (or a USB adapter if you don’t mind remaining tethered), iPad (or even iPhone) users can now utilize a variety of multitouch surfaces to send/receive Open Sound Control (OSC) and CoreMIDI command messages to DAWs and all manner of sound generation/manipulation tools, and through modular features they can control far more than faders and knobs." More » Today's Blog The VUE From The Road By Frank Wells "VUE Audiotechnik introduced the first of the new company's loudspeakers at this year's InfoComm conference, and is now currently on the road, crisscrossing the country and introducing its cabinets to select audiences in exclusive demos. I had the opportunity to hook up with the VUE crew at the Nashville headquarters of Morris Light and Sound (Kenny Chesney, Sugarland, Big & Rich), one of three Nashville area stops. VUE co-founder and Executive VP, Jim Sides, is hosting the roadshow in conjunction with VUE’s regional reps, with PixAural’s Bill Ford joining Sides in Nashville. With the product line arrayed in the Morris parking lot, Sides described the cabinets and used a single song choice (the George Massenburg-produced ‘Everybody Plays The Fool,’ performed by Aaron Neville). The most salient single aspect of the demo was the consistency of voicing across the entire product line. Even the smallest cabinets in the line impressed with their forward voicing, punch and clarity. When the subs were introduced, the pairing was seamless, with the various cabinets simply adding low-end extension and LF headroom." More »

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