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Røde Announces Interview Pro Handheld Microphone, Phone Cage and Magnetic Mount at NAB 2024
by audioXpress Staff

Røde Announces Interview Pro Handheld Microphone, Phone Cage and Magnetic Mount at NAB 2024

Røde has announced three brand-new products at the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas, directly appealing to mobile content creators and reporters. The Interview PRO is a broadcast-quality wireless handheld microphone for use with Røde wireless systems. The other two new products are premium smartphone filmmaking accessories, the Phone Cage and Magnetic Mount, which join Røde’s growing range of solutions for today’s content creators.
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Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs
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Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs

Microchip Technology has acquired Neuronix AI Labs to expand its capabilities for power-efficient, AI-enabled edge solutions deployed on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Microchip’s mid-range PolarFire FPGAs and SoCs already lead the industry in terms of low power consumption, reliability and security capabilities. The acquisition of this technology will enable Microchip to develop cost-effective, large-scale edge deployments for use in applications on systems that have cost, size and power constraints and enable a multifold increase in AI/ML processing horsepower on low and mid-range FPGAs.
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New Audio Brand Consonus Debuts Tide Speaker System at AXPONA 2024
by Joao Martins

New Audio Brand Consonus Debuts Tide Speaker System at AXPONA 2024

Inspired by the possibilities to take audio fidelity to unexplored horizons, audio industry professionals Igor Levitsky and Eugene Gribov decided to combine their expertise and passion for audio to create Consonus Inc. The new Englewood, NJ-based company made its effective debut at AXPONA 2024 (April 12-14), with the premier of the Tide speaker system, a unique four-way, fully active design with outboard amplification, combining dipole MF and HF planar ribbons with an open baffle woofer and a sealed subwoofer.
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Lavoce Recruits Paul Richardson to Spearhead Americas Sales Development
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Lavoce Recruits Paul Richardson to Spearhead Americas Sales Development

Lavoce Italiana announced the recruitment of Paul Richardson, appointed to the role of Business Development Manager for the Americas. The speaker company has been consistently expanding its operations in North America since the opening of its sales and logistics center in Nashville, TN. This appointment coincides with the expansion of Lavoce’s catalog of HF and LF transducers for professional audio, also with guitar and bass speakers for the MI market.
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Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 19 Adds Major AI Tools
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Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 19 Adds Major AI Tools

Even before NAB 2024 opened in Las Vegas, Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 19, a major new update to its software suite which adds new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, over 100 feature upgrades such as IntelliTrack AI, Ultra NR noise reduction, multi source editing, new Fairlight AI audio panning to video, ducker track FX, and ambisonic surround sound, plus new features in Blackmagic Cloud for large customers.
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audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available
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audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available

In the 2024 Glass Audio Special issue there’s Menno van der Veen’s TubeSociety TS-2022-OTL hybrid amplifier, and a Low-Feedback Triode Amplifier With Zero Output Impedance (ZOI) as DIY projects, designed by Tim Mellow and Peter Farrow. More great audio electronic articles by Rudolf Moers, Christopher Paul, and Dimitri Danyuk. Read about sustainable acoustical absorption, the Pure Acourate Sound Project, and The Neurochrome Story. And Andrew C. Russell concludes his High-Performance 60-Watt Class A Amplifier project.
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Digigram Expands with Acquisition of Noise and Vibration Testing Systems Specialist OROS
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Digigram Expands with Acquisition of Noise and Vibration Testing Systems Specialist OROS

Digigram has acquired Grenoble-based OROS, also a French company specializing in noise and vibration testing systems. This acquisition by the audio over IP solutions company expands the Digigram Group's build-up strategy focused on critical audio applications. OROS high end solutions meet the requirements and expectations of automotive, aerospace, marine energy & process, manufacturing and automation industries. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.
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Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously
by Joao Martins

Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously

Teledyne LeCroy is enabling the development of the latest wireless devices and connected applications with the launch of the Frontline X500e wireless protocol analyzer with Wi-Fi 7. For any application involving Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4-based technologies (including Matter, Thread, and Zigbee), or wired interfaces such as HCI-UART, USB, SPI, and Audio I2S, the X500e delivers precise insights for network professionals.
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Sound Devices Expands Astral Wireless Products for Live Sound Markets
by Joao Martins

Sound Devices Expands Astral Wireless Products for Live Sound Markets

Sound Devices, now part of the Audiotonix group, has been a major player in field recording and location sound for 25 years. The latest products that Sound Devices launched in its wireless Astral range have features that serve not only film and television applications but propel the company into the global live sound market. Group One Limited will now carry the distribution of those live sound products in the United States.
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AudioControl Expands Manufacturing Operations Less Than a Year After Acquisition
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AudioControl Expands Manufacturing Operations Less Than a Year After Acquisition

Seattle, WA-based AudioControl reports that its operations are now delivering best products and customer support in the brand’s nearly five-decade history across all critical phases of the company thanks to a significant investment by AVPro Global since the August, 2023 acquisition. New R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and customer service teams are now able to yield just-in-time delivery of multizone entertainment and home theater products to integrators.
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