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Aravind Yarlagadda Named QSC Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development
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Aravind Yarlagadda Named QSC Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development

QSC announced the appointment of Aravind Yarlagadda as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Product Development. In this newly created role, Aravind will oversee all aspects of product development for the Costa Mesa, CA, company. Aravind Yarlagadda brings a rich career of multi-functional leadership in the high tech industry, with over 25 years of product development experience.
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Unique Academic Recording Project Highlights the Effects of Microphone Placement with DPA Microphones
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Unique Academic Recording Project Highlights the Effects of Microphone Placement with DPA Microphones

It is common knowledge among sound engineers that every musical instrument has a specific sound radiation pattern and that its recorded sound depends on where the microphone is placed in relation to that instrument. Investigating this fact has led to a fascinating collaboration between Kazuya Nagae, a sound recording Associate Professor from Soundmedia Composition Course, Nagoya University of the Arts, and Thorsten Weigelt, a Tonmeister and professor from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
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BeatRig Grimm Audio LevelNorm 2 Audio Normalization Available in Any Host Plug-in Format
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BeatRig Grimm Audio LevelNorm 2 Audio Normalization Available in Any Host Plug-in Format

For years, BeatRig Grimm Audio’s LevelNorm has been a standard software tool of choice for one click audio loudness normalization in Avid Pro Tools and Media Composer. Many broadcasters around the globe rely on LevelNorm for program normalization by their editors and journalists. With the release of version 2, compliance to EBU R128, ATSC A/85 and CALM act requirements extends to every DAW, with both realtime (AU/VST/AAX) and offline (AAX).
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Korg and Propellerhead Partner to Offer Reason Lite for Free
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Korg and Propellerhead Partner to Offer Reason Lite for Free

Korg and Propellerhead Software have announced a new partnership to offer Reason Lite music production software for free with the purchase of select Korg hardware controllers. Users will receive Reason Lite and the new Drum Sequencer free with select products, offering a powerful and intuitive music creation experience, which can be upgraded to the full version of Reason 10 at a reduced price.
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elysia Designs skulpter 500 Class-A Sound Shaping Recording Preamp
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elysia Designs skulpter 500 Class-A Sound Shaping Recording Preamp

High-end studio processor manufacturer elysia announced availability of its new skulpter 500 sound shaping preamp — pushing its range of 500 Series recording hardware into another area of processing. According to the German company, the skulpter 500 is high quality recording preamp based on single resistors controlling a fully discrete Class-A amplifier capable of complementing any microphone or high-impedance instrumental source and adding two variable saturation/filter stages and an intelligent onboard compressor.
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Bragi Joins STMicroelectronics Partner Program with Bragi Intelligent Edge
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Bragi Joins STMicroelectronics Partner Program with Bragi Intelligent Edge

Bragi announced its inclusion in ST Microelectronics Partner Program to create software solutions that address the current needs for modern IoT development, granting shorter development time as well as reducing the time and cost to market. Bragi offers state-of-the-art configurable, scalable, and power-efficient software building blocks of its Intelligent Edge computing platform, combined with products, technologies, and solutions from ST.
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Belkin Expands Digital Audio Portfolio with 3.5 mm Jack to Lightning Cable
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Belkin Expands Digital Audio Portfolio with 3.5 mm Jack to Lightning Cable

Mobile accessories brand Belkin announced a new 3.5 mm Audio Cable with Lightning Connector which allows iPhone users to connect directly to the car stereo or home speakers with a single cable. The new cable converts digital signals to analog and is able to output high resolution audio. It is available in 3 ft / 6 ft lengths for listening to music in different environments, at home or in the car.
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Microchip Announces New Software Library to Easily Implement Low-power Touch Pads with Surface Gestures
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Microchip Announces New Software Library to Easily Implement Low-power Touch Pads with Surface Gestures

Microchip Technology announced a new 2D Touch Surface library that enables designers to easily implement touch pads using the company’s 8-bit PIC and AVR microcontrollers (MCUs) and 32-bit SAM MCUs. Available free of charge with the purchase of any compatible MCU, the library provides a simplified, low-cost solution for embedded applications, making possible to add taps, swipes, pinch and zoom to headphones and other consumer electronics devices at no additional cost.
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Maxim Improves Compact Synchronous Buck Converters for Automotive Applications
by Cristina Costa

Maxim Improves Compact Synchronous Buck Converters for Automotive Applications

Automotive designers can now significantly lower EMI and increase efficiency with the pin-compatible MAX20073 and MAX20074 buck converters from Maxim Integrated Products. The new MAX20073/74 compact converters have unique spread-spectrum and Sync In features, and offer the industry's superior EMI performance with ultra-low quiescent current, ideal for automotive infotainment and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) applications.
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Sound Particles Expands Creative Tools with the Release of Doppler and Air Plugins
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Sound Particles Expands Creative Tools with the Release of Doppler and Air Plugins

Sound Particles is an audio software company focused on native 3D sound applications for Audio Post Production. Their approach to sound design starts with a physical representation of actual tridimensional spaces, in this case using particles and virtual microphones, generating sound animations which can be rendered anytime to any intended output format, from Ambisonics to Dolby Atmos. Anyone who has seen any of the recent Hollywood blockbusters has already enjoyed the results. Now, the company expanded its set of creative tools with the release of two very useful sound design plug-ins.
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