Monday, April 20, 2009

DJing is all about the connection between you, your music and your audience. From cueing to beat-matching to scratching, the best DJ tools allow you to literally get your hands on your music.

M-Audio designed the Torq Xponent with a full array of tactile controls so you can get into the music and engage the crowd at every moment of your set.

Xponent features 64 assignable backlit buttons (including Play, Cue, Seek, Loop, Key and Sync controls), two volume sliders, eight assignable knobs for effect control and two 100mm pitch sliders. The built-in touchpad/assignable X/Y controller allows you to control your mouse or the effects in Torq, so you never have to take your hands off the unit in the middle of a performance.
Every control on Xponent boasts the same rock-solid construction and rugged feel as traditional DJ hardware. With full-size tactile controls, an integrated USB audio interface and intuitive MIDI-learn capabilities, Torq Xponent bridges the gap between traditional DJ hardware and today’s powerful performance software once and for all.

Xponent is both an advanced MIDI control surface for Torq and a four-output USB audio interface—including two stereo RCA outputs and a standard ¼” headphone output for cueing.
Torq 1.5 gives you 10 essential effects right out of the box for dynamic manipulation of your tracks. Imagine the possibilities of stacking multiple distortion, filter, repeat, chorus or bit-reduction effects while mixing between songs. You can turn any track into your own original creation—and even record it on the spot with the integrated performance recorder.

In addition to VST compatibility, Torq 1.5 software can interface with any ReWire-compatible host application. You can easily route the output of Torq to a program like Pro Tools M-Powered and explore even more performance, production and sound design possibilities. When ReWired to a host application, the tempo of Torq automatically locks to the current session tempo, so you never have to worry about syncing playback between Torq and your preferred DAW. In addition, the Xponent control surface can be MIDI-mapped to other digital audio workstation software including Ableton Live.

Engineered by M-Audio’s SynchroScience Design Group, the package includes: the Torq DJ software that’s revolutionizing digital DJing and the Xponent hardware control surface that puts all that power right at your fingertips.

M-Audio’s Torq Xponent, now available from MediaAtlantic.

M-Audio Unveils Studiophile DSM3 Active Studio Reference Monitor

New premium studio monitor enables users to create mixes that sound consistent across a broad range of listening environments
Tewksbury, Mass, April 6, 2009 — M-Audio, a part of Avid Technology, Inc. today introduced the new Studiophile DSM3 active studio reference monitor, providing superior monitoring capabilities for audio professionals. The Studiophile DSM3 monitor delivers exceptional accuracy, clarity and dynamic range via a number of unique design elements including onboard digital signal processing (DSP), carefully matched components and a dual-woofer configuration.

The Studiophile DSM3 monitor is the result of a strategic engineering collaboration between Avid’s M-Audio and Digidesign product lines and features a unique hybrid midwoofer-tweeter-midwoofer (MTM) design. This configuration delivers the sound of a larger monitor and flexibility of horizontal or vertical placement, allowing users to position the monitor a variety of different ways while maintaining consistent sound. The MTM design also maximizes the horizontal radiation pattern coherency for a wide and accurate sweet spot with minimal reflections, giving engineers the freedom to move from side to side across the mixing board, while hearing the same representation of the mix.

Additionally, a powerful onboard DSP engine controls a complex fourth order digital crossover to provide true acoustical alignment and exceptional imaging. The Studiophile DSM3 monitor’s onboard DSP also manages a host of customizable filter settings to help optimize the speaker for placement within even the most challenging acoustic settings.
The Studiophile DSM3 monitor includes several robust design components—including custom 6.5-inch anodized aluminum cone woofers and a 1-inch ferrofluid-cooled Neodymium tweeter—which provide customers with superior accuracy and response, enabling them to create mixes that sound consistent across a broad variety of listening environments.

“With the Studiophile DSM3, we were able to incorporate advanced digital technology into an unconventional MTM system configuration,” stated Richard Ngo-Tran, Marketing Manager at Avid Technology. “The result is an exceptionally well-designed high-definition monitor that delivers outstanding performance—ideal for both professional environments and project studios.”

About MediaAtlantic MediaAtlantic was formed in 2002 and has been trading online ever since. As a 100% on-line UK retailer of over 25,000 IT, Audio, Video and gaming products, gadgets and accessories, MediaAtlantic hope to provide a one-stop shop for all MediaAtlantic aim to display and supply safely and securely to the UK, the latest in IT and AV Technology, available from your desktop, to your door, at very competitive prices. Technology you can use for home, work and play. For More information please contact MediaAtlantic

Tel: 0845 465 5550
Fax: 0845 465 5551
www.mediaatlantic.com/studiophile

The evolution of Digital MP4 Players from the archaic Walkmans!

Do you like storing pictures or video files? Do you like your mobile devices to have all the latest features? Then Mp4 players are the perfect gadgets to fulfill your craving. Leave the old fashioned walkman behind you and look forward to the latest Media box players. With their versatility and compactness, media boxes deserve to rule the globe!
The old walkman of 80’s had a stumpy battery life of about an hour. Moreover the cassettes would wear out, and how many times did you have to fish you favourite tape out with a pair of tweezers? The original Walkman introduced a change in music listening habits, allowing people to carry their own choice of music with them. It was followed by the portable CD players with a faintly enhanced battery life. It was so outsized and jumping tracks was a certainty with the slightest bit of movement. After a lengthy stay they were superseded by MP3players.

An MP3 player is a type of a digital audio player. Digital music files can be stored in the built-in memory and organized, as well as played in such a player. This overcame the problem of the CD’s to be kept with the CD players. The main advantage of MP3 players over CD players is their size and storage capacity. MP3 players are more compact and handy than CD players, and the size of a flash drive.

Though MP3 players were a success, they cannot be used to store or view pictures and video files. This led to the evolution of the MP4 player. It can be used to view text files, images as well as videos. MP4 players with hard drives can be bulky due to large memory and the players with flash memories have smaller screen, but MP4 players support more formats than any of its predecessors.

Ironically, most of the players do not support videos in MP4 format!! The next generation of Digital MP4 players is the Media Box. The Media Box’s are enhanced with features like PDF readers. The Media Box Max offers a built camera and eBook reader, whilst the Media Box Touch also has Touch Screen. The media box offers unrivalled specifications for a low cost. All Media Box digital mp4 players are shipped with dual memory with a 1GB Nano Flash chip. This is then accompanied by, 8GB, 16GB or 32GB of memory for storing your media. The media box is the perfect all in one multimedia device.

MediaAtlantic is a dedicated online UK retailer of over 27,000 IT, Audio, Video products and electronic gadgets including MP3 players, Media Box Player, MP4 video player and various other equipment, at very competitive prices. MediaAtlantic, for home, work, and play.
For more details visit: www.mediaatlantic.com

DIGITAL MP4 PLAYERS ON YOUR MENU? mediaatlantic.com IS HERE TO SERVE…

The A to Z for all media based products is ww.mediaatlantic.com. Just some of the products in store include 4 GB MP4 Players, plus a host of 8GB, 16GB, & 32GB alternatives, not to mention accessories, cables, and audio video gadgets.

Derby, April 8, 2009— MediaAtlantic are delighted to inform you about our recent partnership with the media giant “MCH media”, manufacturers of digital mp4 players. We are the first of only a few online retailers chosen to take onboard these exclusive, fun-filled devices. MCH Media’s MEDIA BOX range will be the first to be launched and will be available on our site in the next couple of weeks. Media Box is the latest solid state disk drive media player on the market. The media box offers unrivalled specifications for a low cost compared to other MP4 players of a similar specification

“With this partnership, we’re bringing MCH Media's exciting range of digital media MP4 players together with MediaAtlantic’s online retail and support capabilities, offering customers a unique, world-class product and support experience,” said Paul Hamilton, MD, MCH Electronics Ltd. “Introducing this partnership allows us to concentrate on our core ability, designing and manufacturing, here in the UK, new and exciting products, safe in the knowledge that the front end service is being managed by an experienced and capable business partner.”

The entry level MEDIA BOX LITE is a compact unit that offers not only all of the expected features of digital MP4 players but much more. Unlike its rivals, this product gives real staying power coupled with capacitive touch sense buttons and an animated menu. It has to be one of the hottest MP4 players in world market today!!

At the higher end of the range is the MEDIA BOX TOUCH. This range specifically offers a touch screen MP4 Video player, offering not only the usual, but much more!!! It can play video continuously for over 18 hours and much longer for audio files. It’s really attractive features, apart from the resistive touch screen buttons, include a fully animated menu and auto screen rotate functions which will undoubtedly leave people awestruck!!

“Being the technology hub of UK, we focus on marketing and sales of technology products which we all need in our somewhat mundane lives.” Says Robert Deans Sales & Marketing Manager at MediaAtlantic “The Media Box range ticks all the boxes of what we look for in a new product. We are really excited about working with MCH Media, and have no doubt that this and future products will soon be knocking on the doors of some of the market leaders”

The Media Box Range will be available exclusively at www.mediaatlantic.com/mediabox prices range from £54.00 for a Media Box Lite 4GB MP4 Player to £149.99 for the 32GB Media Box Touch Chrome.

About MCH Media
MCH Media, the OEM branch of MCH Electronics Ltd, has been designed to offer quality feature and function rich, affordable consumer hand held electronics that are manufactured in the UK. With over 20 years experience in the electronics industry at all levels MCH and its team are in the unique position of having both design and manufacturing expertise in house.

Contact details:
MCH Electronics Ltd
Knap Close
Letchworth
Hertfordshire
SG6 1AQ
Telephone: 01462 483671
Fax: 01462 483888
http://www.mchmedia.co.uk/

About MediaAtlantic
MediaAtlantic was formed in 2002 and has been trading online ever since. As a 100% on-line UK retailer of over 25,000 IT, Audio, Video and gaming products, gadgets and accessories, MediaAtlantic hope to provide a one-stop shop for all. MediaAtlantic aim to display and supply safely and securely to the UK, the latest in IT and AV Technology, available from your desktop, to your door, at very competitive prices. Technology for home, work and play.

Contact details:
Media Atlantic
PO Box 5050
Derby
DE23 8ZW
Telephone: 0845 465 5550
Fax: 0845 465 5551
http://www.mediaatlantic.com/

M-Audio Introduces New Studiophile CX Series Active Studio Reference Monitors

Best-in-class monitors provide an expansive soundstage as well as customizable controls for greater flexibility in any listening environment

Tewksbury, Mass, March 26, 2009 — M-Audio, a part of Avid Technology, Inc today introduced the new Studiophile® CX8 and CX5 studio monitors, which are designed to bring accurate monitoring to any mixing environment. The Studiophile CX series builds upon M-Audio’s best-selling studio monitor line, and delivers excellent off-axis response, minimal distortion and a full complement of Acoustic Space controls. Now, customers will be equipped with studio monitors that deliver accurate performance and the flexibility to adapt to any production space.

Available in 8-inch (CX8) and 5-inch (CX5) configurations, the Studiophile CX series monitors deliver well-balanced sound and superior detail in a wide range of environments. The new monitors feature a custom-designed waveguide that deliver an expansive soundstage – ultimately offering customers more flexibility in the production suite. The Studiophile CX5 monitor is tailored towards smaller mixing rooms, home studios or workstation areas where users require quality audio referencing. The Studiophile CX8 monitor is ideal for mid-to-large size mixing and referencing environments.

New features in the Studiophile CX monitor line include:
· Exceptional design integration: Provides superior headroom with exceptionally accurate and efficient frequency response, minimizing distortion and allowing for longer duration listening. Engineers will now hear a more accurate mix – ensuring consistent playback across a broad range of speaker systems;
· OptImage IV high-performance waveguide: Improves off-axis clarity, providing users a much wider soundstage than traditional waveguides. As a result, the listening area can accommodate several people – allowing for multiple individuals to hear an accurate representation of the mix during post production sessions;
· A full complement of customizable Acoustic Space controls: Enables users to customize frequency response and optimize the monitoring experience – even in the most difficult acoustic environments;
· Custom low-frequency Kevlar drivers: Provides tight bass response and long-lasting durability; and
· Efficient high-frequency drivers: Delivers an exceptional high-frequency response up to 30kHz, so that users experience smooth, transparent highs – even in the midst of challenging placement and listening conditions.

“The CX monitors extend our position as a leader in the studio monitor market and reset the performance expectations for monitors in this class,” said Richard Ngo-Tran, segment marketing manager at Avid. “By delivering superior quality and increased performance, we’ve equipped our customers with tools that enable them to make better creative decisions, which ultimately drives success in this ever-changing and increasingly competitive market.”

About M-Audio
M-Audio, a part of Avid Technology, Inc., is a leading provider of innovative tools for today's computer musicians and audio professionals. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the company was founded with the goal of democratizing music production by making powerful, easy-to-use technology accessible to a broad creative community. The company’s award-winning and comprehensive product line includes PCI-, FireWire- and USB-based audio interfaces; USB/MIDI keyboard controllers and digital pianos; microphones, preamps and reference monitors; and DJ tools. M-Audio has received numerous industry accolades, including Music Trades' "Company of the Year" and "Fastest Growing Company" distinctions.

About MediaAtlantic
MediaAtlantic was formed in 2002 and has been trading online ever since. As a 100% on-line UK retailer of over 25,000 IT, Audio, Video and gaming products, gadgets and accessories, MediaAtlantic hope to provide a one-stop shop for all MediaAtlantic aim to display and supply safely and securely to the UK, the latest in IT and AV Technology, available from your desktop, to your door, at very competitive prices. Technology you can use for home, work and play. For More information please contact MediaAtlantic

Tel: 0845 465 5550
Fax: 0845 465 5551

M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 & M-Audio Axiom Pro 61 Arrives In The UK

MediaAtlantic are delighted to announce the arrival of the much awaited M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 & M-Audio Axiom Pro 61. The M-Audio Axiom Pro range, the latest edition to M-Audio’s impressive product range is now in stock at MediaAtlantic, and you can be one of the first in the UK to get your hands on one.

The new M Audio Axiom Pro range is the first MIDI Controller range to include the revolutionary HyperControl Technology. The HyperControl makes the M-Audio Axiom Pro work in synergy with your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), ensuring that your hardware and software function together as one to form a single work environment.” “HyperControl essentially gives you complete control of your ProTools environment” Says Gerry Leonard of M-Audio.

For more information contact MediaAtlantic
PO Box 5050
Derby
DE23 8ZW
Telephone: 0845 465 5550
Fax: 0845 465 5551
http://www.mediaatlantic.com/

CREATING MUSIC HAS NEVER BEEN SO EASY- THANKS TO M AUDIO MUSIC HARDWARE!

“Creating music and capturing it on your computer has never been so easy. Our company, MediaAtlantic, brings to you a variety of music hardware and creative tools that make the use of software to edit music easier than ever, which is definitely a benefit to computer-centric musicians and audio professionals” says Richard Johnson, music expert at MediaAtlantic.

M Audio, a pioneer in the manufacturing of music hardware, provides some of the leading audio equipment available in the industry today. M-Audio, is a specialist in the manufacturing of keyboard controllers and audio interfaces, enabling every person in the music and audio industry to customise a studio setup. Known for its cutting edge technology, advanced engineering, and value-conscious pricing, M-Audio has also helped to bring the joy of creating high-quality music and digital capture to virtually anyone with the desire.

“The path breaking mix of M-Audio hardware and Pro Tools M-Powered software creates more opportunities by giving more choices for your production tools. Together they deliver the smooth flow of moving sessions between any places, from studios to the road. One of the highlights of our products is that they make use of software to edit music which will really attract the people in the music industry. There are many artists who use M-Audio products, some of these including DJ Sasha, Mark Isham, Black Eyed Peas, Brian Transeau, and Jimmy Chamberlin.” says one of the engineers of the company with much pride.

The M Audio music hardware, offers a variety of quality audio products including USB MIDI Controllers, a type of MIDI Controller or MIDI Controller keyboards. “The keyboards have several knobs which are user-definable and slide controls which can control the aspects of a synthesizer’s sound in real-time!” explains an audio engineer when asked about them. One of the benefits is that they are lightweight and portable. Take for instance, the ‘Axiom 25 Key Controller keyboard’. It is light in weight and compact in size but do not let this fool you. They offer a physically small interface to run Pro Tools and carry the most advanced features available.

The latest range of products is the Axiom Pro series which uses the latest technology available. The most advanced in this range is the M-Audio Axiom Pro 61 keyboard controller. It has a premium TruTouch action, proprietary HyperControl MIDI mapping technology and other cutting-edge enhancements. “These ranges of music related gadgets are some of the best our company, MediaAtlantic, offers. You can automatically map the commonly used parameters of popular software instruments and digital audio workstations including Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic and Reason systems, thanks to revolutionary M-Audio HyperControl technology. One may argue that even other controllers offer mapping, but only the M-Audio Axiom Pro range consists of HyperControl technology. HyperControl makes the Axiom Pro work in synergy with your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), ensuring that your hardware and software function together as one to form a single work environment.” says an elated expert at MediaAtlantic. For more info log onto http://www.mediaatlantic.com/m-audio