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Softube Updates Console 1 Hybrid Mixing System Concept
by audioXpress Staff

Softube Updates Console 1 Hybrid Mixing System Concept

Swedish audio innovator Softube announced the biggest software update so far to its groundbreaking plug-in controller, Softube Console 1 Mixing System. With this latest release, the company adds even more responsiveness and control to the hybrid mixing system that launched its own approach and controller ecosystem by targeting direct support from other renowned audio manufacturers, instead of just worrying about DAW compatibility.
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CEVA Partners with Mimi Hearing Technologies to Offer Assistive Hearing on True Wireless Earbuds
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CEVA Partners with Mimi Hearing Technologies to Offer Assistive Hearing on True Wireless Earbuds

CEVA and Mimi Hearing Technologies have announced a partnership to enable new assistive hearing capabilities in consumer true wireless earbuds. The collaboration combines Mimi Sound Personalization technology and advanced hearing IP with CEVA's Bluebud wireless audio platform to enhance the hearing experience of every individual. With its flexible architecture, the Bluebud platform allows a high level of software customization and add-ons, supporting such advanced implementations.
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Genelec Promotes Circular Economy with Certified Pre-Owned Loudspeakers
by Joao Martins

Genelec Promotes Circular Economy with Certified Pre-Owned Loudspeakers

Owners of Genelec loudspeakers, some going back to the early days of the company founded in 1978, recognize how robust and great sounding these active speakers remain through the years. Genelec also kept servicing all its discontinued models, something that contributed highly to creating renewed confidence in the company and the brand. Starting in 2022, Genelec will start offering factory serviced, Genelec Certified Pre-Owned loudspeakers.
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McIntosh Announces New Direct Streaming RS150 and RS250 Wireless Speakers
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McIntosh Announces New Direct Streaming RS150 and RS250 Wireless Speakers

McIntosh is expanding the streaming options for modern listening with its iconic designs, now in the form of the new RS150 Wireless Loudspeaker, a more compact, vertical speaker, and the RS250 Wireless Loudspeaker System, a larger tabletop integrated system. The RS150 is intended to be a user-friendly and versatile wireless speaker, while the RS250 is introduced as McIntosh's most advanced and powerful home audio wireless speaker system to date. Both models offer the most recent technologies for wireless streaming.
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Sound Devices Announces +4 Plugin for 833 Mixer-Recorder
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Sound Devices Announces +4 Plugin for 833 Mixer-Recorder

Showing the power of FPGA-based designs, Sound Devices announced the release of the +4 Plugin, which adds four fully-featured ISO channels/record tracks to its 833 Portable Compact Mixer-Recorder. The design, originally introduced in 2019, features 6 ultra low-noise mic/line preamplifiers, and 6 buses, for 12 mixing tracks, making it a versatile field production solution. With the +4 plugin installed, the 833 becomes a 12 channel, 16 track mixer-recorder that is even able to run processing plug-ins on all channels.
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Cleer Audio Receives Two CES 2022 Innovation Awards for New Alpha ANC Wireless Headphones and Goal II Active True Wireless Earbuds
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Cleer Audio Receives Two CES 2022 Innovation Awards for New Alpha ANC Wireless Headphones and Goal II Active True Wireless Earbuds

Cleer Audio is an innovative manufacturer which always manages to surprises positively with well-designed, and innovative products. This year, Cleer returns to CES with two refined products, both CES 2022 Innovation Awards honorees: the Alpha, Intelligent Adaptive Active Noise Cancelling (A-ANC) Bluetooth Headphones, and the GOAL II, Active True Wireless Earbuds. Both models leverage the latest available technologies for personal audio.
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Covestro and TactoTek Integrate Controls, Electronics, and Displays Into Injection Molded 3D Structures
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Covestro and TactoTek Integrate Controls, Electronics, and Displays Into Injection Molded 3D Structures

Covestro returns to CES in 2022 to showcase the endless possibilities of sustainable materials and smart surfaces, including a new demonstration device jointly developed with TactoTek. The polymer materials experts at Covestro have been working with the pioneer of in-mold structural electronics (IMSE) solutions, to create the Nighthawk demonstrator with integrated display, which utilizes Makrolon resin and Makrofol films from Covestro.
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iSEMcon Introduces Li.LAC Microphone Disinfector
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iSEMcon Introduces Li.LAC Microphone Disinfector

Disinfecting microphones is increasingly important and the new Li.LAC Microphone Disinfector from iSEMcon makes microphone disinfecting fast, simple and effective. Houses of worship, conference centers, corporate and government meeting rooms, schools and universities, production studios, live entertainment venues and touring sound companies all face the same question, “How can we effectively disinfect our microphones after an event?”
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Speechly Releases Free Tool to Help Developers Scale Voice Experiences From Alexa Skills
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Speechly Releases Free Tool to Help Developers Scale Voice Experiences From Alexa Skills

Speechly, a voice technology startup from Finland, launched a new developer tool that lets users convert an Alexa skill into a Speechly application that work across the web and mobile applications. The Speechly application can be used to enable Reactive Voice User Interfaces across all major browsers and in mobile apps. The announcement was made live on stage, during the second day of the 2021 VOICE Summit in Arlington, Virginia. The tool was released as a public beta, with plans for quick iteration in partnership with users.
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Solid State Logic Launches BiG SiX Mixer and USB Interface
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Solid State Logic Launches BiG SiX Mixer and USB Interface

The ideal gift for any musician, music producer, and home or project studio owner just arrived. An SSL console and recording interface for $2,999! Solid State Logic (SSL) just launched its latest desktop mixing console, BiG SiX. It's a larger version of the SSL SiX Desktop Mixer but it's also exactly what many have wished the original design to be. A real 16-channel studio grade mixer and hybrid production tool, with comprehensive AD/DA conversion, advanced monitoring and routing, enhanced SSL EQ, and much more.
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