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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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Nugen Audio Advances Signal Flow Modification with New Toolbox Plug-in
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Nugen Audio Advances Signal Flow Modification with New Toolbox Plug-in

Nugen Audio announced availability of SigMod — a utility toolbox plug-in that more than lives up to its Thousands of ways to enhance existing plug-ins and DAW tagline with straightforward signal flow modification via 11 single-process modules that can easily be inserted, swapped, and moved around, allowing for new options to correct, convert, or tweak audio as required. The new SigMod tool was presented during the 144th AES Convention in Milan, Italy.
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Tascam Unveils 202mkVII Dual Cassette Deck with USB Output
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Tascam Unveils 202mkVII Dual Cassette Deck with USB Output

Yes, you read that right! A dual cassette deck! Tascam’s new 202mkVII is the latest generation of the company's professional cassette recorders. For those who still remember what a cassette was (and that’s the target, because you’ll probably still have hundreds of those in drawers…), Tascam’s cassette decks were always coveted for their reliable performance, comprehensive feature set, and audio quality. With the new Tascam 202mkVII Dual Cassette Deck users actually have a way to copy cassettes and they have a USB output to digitize those contents for good.
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The AirBlade Transducer
by Joao Martins

The AirBlade Transducer

At the High End 2018 show in Munich, I learned that there was this "very exciting and promising" new driver being introduced at the show. When we decided to visit the "Newcomers" exhibits, where new companies pitch their new ideas, inventions and, sometimes, actual products, we met British manufacturer Arya Audio Labs and we were pleased to find a longtime friend of audioXpress and Voice Coil, Arthur Marker, now in charge of this new company introducing AirBlade, a revolutionary loudspeaker driver!
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Audio Precision Announces APx Audio Software v4.6 with Chirp-Based Measurements for Smart Device Testing
by Joao Martins

Audio Precision Announces APx Audio Software v4.6 with Chirp-Based Measurements for Smart Device Testing

Audio Precision announced the release of APx audio measurement software version 4.6, with a first public demonstration planned for the 144th International AES Convention in Milan. Included in this latest edition of the popular test software will be the ability to perform measurements using the log-swept sine chirp — such as acoustic response — in an open-loop configuration, an enhancement ideally suited to the test and evaluation of smart devices (e.g., smart speakers, smartphones).
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