Mics, IEMs and intercom share the same spectrum: here is how to coordinate your wireless links without interference, from carrier spacing to intermodulation, from venue scanning to the frequency plan.
Telos Alliance brings the Omnia XII to Europe, its new FM, HD Radio and DAB broadcast processor: reworked architecture, the Clemenza clipper and fully remote operation.
Reverb is the most-used effect in the mix, and the most abused. Reverb types (room, hall, plate, spring, chamber), algorithmic versus convolution, and the five controls that decide whether your mix breathes or suffocates.
ReStem 2 splits a stereo drum recording into seven stems — kick, snare, hi-hat, toms, ride, crash and the rest — each on its own fader. Everything runs on your machine, nothing goes to the cloud, and the result is repeatable down to the sample. A realtime mode and a drum-replacement engine round out the new version.
Doepfer overhauls its modular ribbon controller. The A-198-2 keeps the 50 cm Trautonium-style sensor but bolts on an OLED screen, nine programmable quantisation scales and an optional MIDI output — turning an expressive but unruly ribbon into an instrument you can actually play.
It is the synthesis that defined the sound of the synthesizer: start with a harmonically rich waveform, then carve the tone by taking away what you do not need. Here is how the oscillator, filter, envelope and modulation chain really works, and why it is still the best way into every other kind of synthesis.
Denon takes its four-channel standalone DJ system and seriously muscles it up: an eight-core ARM processor, multi-zone MPCe pads borrowed from the Akai world, onboard stem separation and a built-in DMX output. The Prime 4 G2 is aimed squarely at DJs who play without a laptop.
Waves launches Atlas Reverb, an all-new algorithmic engine with more than a hundred programs tuned by ear. Halls, plates, chambers, springs and imagined spaces, plus a ducker and an output EQ: a look at a reverb aimed at sitting in the mix.
Drawmer brings its dynamics know-how to the 500 Series with two new modules: the FET-based FC1 for bite, the opto OC1 for smoothness. Detented controls, BIG and AIR modes, CRUSH saturation — the British brand packs a good chunk of its rack into a single slot.
Rhodes puts the percussive bite of the 1977 Clavinet D6 ‘Transition’ back in your hands, this time in software. A close-in sampling of the pickups and EQ circuit, the in-house FX suite, and controls the original never had: here’s what Clav Pro brings to the table.