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New Products - August 1, 2012 IK Multimedia ARC 2 Advanced Room Correction System » Sonodyne SM 200AK Two-Way Powered Nearfield Studio Monitors » Sonodyne SLF 210 Studio Subwoofer » Sony SpectraLayers Spectral Audio Waveform Editor » Today's Product Review AVID Pro Tools|HDX By Russ Long "Pro Tools|HD has spent a decade at the pinnacle of the recording industry where it has been the staple system against which every DAW is measured. After a long, glorious life, the platform has finally matured into an aging system in need of retirement. AVID released the amazing HD Native system two years ago and, while this platform is adequate for most users (its 32-bit floating point processing provides higher quality audio processing than HD Accel), it lacks the power and speed required by some high-end Pro Tools users. For them, there’s HDX. Pro Tools|HDX was officially launched at last October’s AES show and it represents a major step forward as well as a major change to the Pro Tools platform. It’s interesting to note that Pro Tools|Mix had only been in the marketplace for four years before HD was released, but HD has had a decade-long life without being updated. So yes, it’s time to move into the next generation of Pro Tools performance." More » Today's Blog The Eternal Quest By Frank Wells "Where are you finding new music these days? As ever more music is entering the marketplace (that ‘democratization of the music industry’ mantra again), the vehicles for promotion and distribution are equally diverse and individually less reliable for building an audience. I grew up during the dominance of radio. The FM band was once the realm of classical and ‘beautiful music’ stations (think ‘elevator’ for the later category). But in between the culturally uplifting and the mind-numbing stops on the dial were pioneering, edgy rock stations—the place you heard the long versions of tunes that often spanned the entire side of an LP." More »

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