Limited Time “Auditory Stimulus” for New Purchases

Chicago, IL - August 6, 2008 - CEntrance, Inc., for years a leading pro audio design consultancy, and manufacturer of the USB mic preamp, MicPort(r) Pro and upcoming AxePort(r) Pro USB Direct Box, today announced a $15 mail-in rebate on all units of MicPort Pro purchased in the U.S. between August 6 and September 15, 2008. more

Steinberg Ships Sequel 2 and add-on content

Buena Park, CA (July 22, 2008) – Steinberg North America today announced the shipping of Sequel 2, a new version of Steinberg’s successful music creation and live performance software. Sequel 2 introduces new features, including a hardware Controller Learn mode, Track Freeze, a virtual keyboard, Track Icons and many more. more

11,300 Sounds on a 250 GB Hard Drive, Optimized for Search

Detroit, MI - June 2, 2008: Blastwave FX (www.blastwavefx.com), developer of next-generation HD sound effects libraries, today announced the release of TITLEWAVE, The Production Elements Drive. TITLEWAVE is a compilation of Blastwave FX’s six imaging elements libraries, including 10,000 stereo and 1,000 5.1 surround production elements. TITLEWAVE gives professionals everything they need to accent, drive, and punch up their productions. more

Sound Devices is improving the workflow from field production to post production with the introduction of its revised Wave Agent utility software. Compatible with both Mac and PC platforms, it provides comprehensive metadata editing tools and file playback for sound files recorded with the company’s popular 7-Series Digital Recorders — the 702, 702T, 722 and 744T models as well as the newest recorder in the series – the 788T. The revised Wave Agent software made its debut at NAB 2008. more

Portable Recording Interface Adds USB Connectivity to Any Microphone

CEntrance, Inc., for years a leading design consultancy for today’s top pro audio manufacturers, announced that MicPort Pro has begun shipping to authorized CEntrance resellers. MicPort Pro is the first model in a new line of portable USB products from CEntrance, the MicPort(tm) Series. List price for MicPort Pro is $149.95 in the U.S. with a MAP of $124.95. more

The following is a Q&A with the Pre-NAB Roundtable participants on the Final Road to NAB podcast. To listen to the podcast click here: Pre-NAB 2008 Roundtable with Bogen Imaging. (music provided by Dead Girls Ruin Everything, Reignition Recordings)

Featured in the podcast and in this Q&A are Will Holowka, product manager of Manfrotto and Avenger, Doug Feldman, product manager of Kata, and Wayne Schulman, video sales manager at Bogen Imaging. more

Avid Chief Marketing Officer Greg Estes discusses the announcement that the company would not be going to NAB and the “New Thinking” marketing strategy for the company going forward—including simplifying the editing product line, reducing the price of the software version of Media Composer, and improving focus on the education marketplace. Digital Content Producer’s Jan Ozer was there to capture audio from the announcement as it was made. To listen to the announcement, click here.

Company Demonstrates Deployable Stereoscopic System for Firearms Training at I/ITSEC 2007

I/ITSEC/Orlando, FL – (November 26, 2007) – Christie, a global leader in visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, is showcasing a sophisticated and true-to-life dismounted infantry trainer concept at this year’s Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC), in Orlando, Florida. Visitors to Christie’s booth, #3339, will have the opportunity to experience tactical infantry training using high quality head tracking to interact in real-time with stereoscopic warfare content. The life-size, immersive ‘first person shooter’ simulator is a joint collaboration of the world’s most advanced virtual reality technology providers including Christie, EON Reality, Inc., InterSense Inc. (I/ITSEC booth #2747), and VirTra Systems, Inc. more

Podcaster and Webtones first in new Sound Effects product line

Detroit, MI – October 31, 2007: Blastwave FX announces a new product line called Micro-Waves - downloadable sound effects libraries specifically created for new media, web and user-generated multimedia content. The first two libraries being released under the Micro-Waves banner are Webtones and Podcaster. These are the perfect sound effects collections for anyone who is interested in taking their podcasts, websites, multi-media productions, or online videos to the next level. more

Editopia, (www.editopia.com) an open source technology company for the online video market, today announces the release of NCode, a server-side video encoding solution that enables web developers to easily add video to flash encoding to their websites. NCode will encode virtually any video format to FLV. Its open source and free to use licensed under the GPL. An enterprise edition will soon be available offering support, indemnification and rights for fee based codecs.

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