Presonus Announces Next Generation of High-Speed USB-C Audio Interfaces

PreSonus, now a Fender brand, launched a new line of audio interfaces, available in four models: Quantum ES 2, Quantum ES 4, Quantum HD 2, and Quantum HD 8. These four models are designed to empower creators with newly-redesigned MAX-HD preamps, class-leading converters, front-facing instrument inputs, and more high-performance specifications suitable for musicians, home studios and professionals.

IK Multimedia announced a new approach to modeling technology available to musicians. After IK Multimedia and many other companies have spent years modeling virtually any combination of guitar amplifiers, cabinets and effects, they now decided it was time to allow users to do it for themselves. The Italian company announced AI Machine Modeling, making its modeling technology available online, for users to create virtual versions of any guitar rig.

IK Multimedia continues to show a unique ability to design and quickly bring to market innovative solutions. And that's not easy to do in a crowded category such as USB audio recording interfaces. With the AXE I/O SOLO, IK Multimedia expanded its range of AXE I/O high-end guitar interfaces with advanced tone-shaping features, while offering a more budget-friendly, mobile format. The little unit also offers IK's proprietary Z-Tone impedance-adapting circuit and powerful guitar recording tools.

In 2014, audioXpress invited Scott Dorsey to update his popular reamping project that modeled the source impedances of a couple typical guitar pickups. He wrote the original article more than a decade ago for Recording magazine. In “Reamplification Revisited,” Scott brought us an updated version of his Kludge reamplifier box with added detail. This article was published in audioXpress, January 2015.

Antelope Audio was among the studio equipment companies with more interesting introductions at Musikmesse 2016. Among the new products is the most powerful, impressive sounding, and versatile audio interface: the Goliath. This new 2U interface delivers 64 channels of simultaneous I/O, leveraging Thunderbolt, MADI, USB connectivity options and exclusive FX modeling and custom effects.

The new Orion Studio audio interface was introduced by Antelope Audio at the 139th AES convention in New York, together with the Orion32+. Both interfaces are based on Thunderbolt and offer speed, I/O flexibility, and quality AD/DA conversion in a 1U rackspace. The Orion Studio features also 12 Class A microphone Preamps which will certainly appeal to many project studios.

Radial Engineering is now shipping its new Decoder, a versatile and self contained MS (mid-side) interface, allowing experimenting with this type of techniques in any situation in a simple but complete portable device. It can be used with 3 microphones and connected to line-level to process pre-recorded tracks.