Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity freeware music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WMA, Audiosoft, Mjuice, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins.

The Power Mac G4 is quite simply the fastest machine ever designed to run audio applications.

Sound Forge 4.5 is professional sound editing software for Windows that includes an extensive set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Combine Sound Forge 4.5 with any Windows-compatible sound card to create, record, edit, and refine audio files. The clean interface and familiar Windows environment make editing fast and easy.

ACID PRO 2.0 is a revolutionary loop-based music production tool that offers musicians unprecedented creative flexibility. ACID PRO 2.0 allows you to preview any loop before adding it to your mix, automatically matching the tempo and key in real time. Click-and-drag to easily add or delete loops. ACID PRO 2.0 allows real-time changes to pitch and tempo to unlimited tracks. Control the volume, pan, and effect envelopes for each track to create a perfect mix between loops.

The MOTU PCI328 family of interfaces is a powerful system that allows you to build digital audio system of up to 72 inputs and outputs in virtually any conceivable configuration. Any combination of three interfaces may be used simultaneously. Supported formats include 24 bit balanced analog, ADAT optical, Tascam TDIF, AES/EBU, S/PDIF, and more.

GigaSampler™ is the only music software product to stream samples - in real-time - directly from the hard disk when played via a keyboard controller or other MIDI device. By leveraging the hard disk for instrument playback, instead of RAM (as in conventional samplers), GigaSampler™ is capable of delivering complex, ultra-dynamic replicas of world-class instruments that load in seconds, not minutes.

This full rack mount unit packs the punch of the more expensive Joemeek equipment and offers identical sounds and quality to the home recordist and musicians at a fraction of the price. The VC6Q provides a Joemeek Microphone Pre Amplifier, the Joemeek compressor, the instrument pre amp on the front panel, and one channel of the stunning Joemeek EQ "Meekqualizer".

The RØDE™ NT2 Large Diaphragm True Condenser Mic is hand-assembled in Australia. In the tradition of the great microphones, it's designed to furnish outstanding, vintage-flavored vocal or instrumentation miking at a truly untraditional, breakthrough price.

SoundBlaster Live! provides access to up to 64 voices of synthesis and sampling, 20 bit digital I/O, MIDI, and up to 64 DirectSound streams. Based on the EMU10K1 audio processor and supporting Creative's SoundFont sampling format, the low-priced SoundBlaster Live! provides very high-quality MIDI synthesis and sampling at a truly unprecedented price point.

The Mackie HR824 is a biamplified two-way loudspeaker for nearfield use. It utilizes an 8 inch polypropylene cone, 6x12 inch passive radiator, and 1 inch alloy tweeter in an internally braced enclosure.

Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 is a multitrack audio workstation with integrated MIDI sequencer. Pro Audio 9 features support for 24/96 audio, internal 32-bit mixing and effects, DirectX support, 480 PPQ MIDI sequencer, support for MIDI effects, frame-accurate video preview, and more.

The VS-1680 Digital Studio Workstation represents the new definition of recording power: a 16-track, 24-bit recording, editing, mixing and effects processing system in a compact table-top workstation.

Waves L2 significantly increases the average signal level of typical audio signals without introducing audible side effects. It's superb for mastering, mixing, and recording, but equally capable of extreme limiting, intentional pumping, and vintage dynamic processing effects.

Renaissance Compressor recreates the warm sound qualities and simple operation of classic analog hardware in the digital domain. Including support for both native and TDM/DSP Macintosh applications and any DirectX plug-ins supported PC applications, Renaissance Compressor delivers blazing guitar sounds and thumping bass and drum tracks, plus many more dynamic effects, from classical to radical!

Minnetonka Mx 5.1 is the premiere surround-enabled DAW application. Mx 5.1 features fully customizable Surround Mixers, Automatic 5.1 bussing, Fully automated Surround Panning on every channel, User-adjusted Surround Sound Panning Algorithm, Per-channel SubBass Crossover with user-defined parameters, True Center / Virtual Center Blend Control, Automatic 6-track master creation to hard disk, Breakthrough Tactile-Feedback Interface and Midi Timecode generation.

The Digital 8•Bus (d8b) is a 72-channel digital mixer with 24 faders, massive onboard DSP, a true workstation-class 32-bit Pentium-compatible CPU processor, support for SVGA monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and an open plugin architecture.

Welcome back to the ProRec Roundtable, the quarterly convention of the ProRec Collective Consciousness. This summer, we have Joel Braverman, Lionel Dumond, Pete Leoni, Bob Lichty, Ted Perlman, Rip Rowan, and Garry Simmons. OK, guys, gloves off. Here comes the topic: Currently the consumer audio market is being pulled from two directions. The pro audio manufacturers have released Digital Versatile Disc - DVD - capable of better-than-CD-quality 24 bits @ 96 KHz sampling rate. On the other hand, the Internet has given us the less-than-CD-quality MP3 compressed audio format. Over the last year we have seen an explosion in demand for MP3s - on some search engines, the term "MP3" is the single most searched-for...

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