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New Products - October 24, 2012 The 2012 PAR Excellence Awards: Vote Now! » Eventide H3000 Factory Plug-in » Grace Design m905 Stereo Reference Monitor Controller » Neumann Card Game App for iOS » Texas Instruments OPA1662 and OPA1664 Audio Op Amps » Today's Product Review Roland R-Mix Audio Processing Software By Lynn Fuston "If you haven't heard about Roland's R-Mix software, that is understandable. Found on Roland's site under Music Education>Practice and Recording Tools, it's hardly something you'd stumble across. But you should know about it. I'll make two initial observations after spending some time with it. 1) Having this much power at such a low entry cost is shocking. 2) If you're an audio purist, read no further. If however, you make a living working with audio and are expected to do things that should not reasonably be done, then you may need a tool like this. When I first heard about R-Mix, I was told it could isolate individual tracks within a stereo mix and allow the operator to solo instruments, add reverb to individual instruments, change panning within the stereo field, change pitch and tempo or even delete instruments from a recording. Is all that true? Well, based on my experience, the answer is an absolute “That depends.” Is it a magic bullet that will allow you to remix from within a stereo mix with no sonic compromise? Definitely not. Is it a surprisingly powerful tool that works wonders at an acceptable sonic cost? The answer is a conditional “Yes.” So how does it work and what exactly does it do?" More » Today's Blog Epic Frequency Turns Sound Into Art By Kelleigh Welch "At first glance, the metallic yellow waveform displayed on a 48” x 18” gallery wrapped canvas hanging above your friend’s couch gives little evidence towards what the waveform produces. It could be a piece of a song, or a soundbite from a famous speech, but until you ask about the artwork, you wouldn’t know that it displays Neil Armstrong’s famous “One Small Step for Man” quote. When looking at the visual display of their home-produced podcasts in 2008, Nashville residents Bill Seaver and Nathan Moore realized waveforms could easily be transformed into wall art by simply copying their visuals into a design program and playing with the colors. We talked about the waveform design, which led us to talking about how famous sayings and speeches might be iconic enough to put on a wall,” Seaver explained." More »

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