New Gear Alert: MTRX SPQ Processing Cards by Avid, CEntrance’s MixerFace R4, Sax via Splice & More

Avid Pro Tools | MTRX SPQ Speaker Processing Card is now available.

Avid’s MTRX SPQ Speaker Processing Card allows for comprehensive tuning, EQ and monitor management for the most immersive and challenging of audio applications.

The Pro Tools | MTRX SPQ Speaker Processing Card for speaker calibration is built for the Pro Tools | MTRX audio interface. The SPQ option card enables complete control of monitoring systems in stereo, surround, and immersive audio production rooms. It gives you precise control and allows you to tune rooms, manage bass, EQ monitors, and cue signals for the most challenging music and audio post-production projects.

The Pro Tools | MTRX SPQ Speaker Processing Card features 1,024 IIR filters across 128 channels per card (up to 16 filters per channel). It integrates with DADman and Pro | Mon software for MTRX, enabling you to save and recall configurations for any audio format—from stereo to immersive audio, including Dolby Atmos. In conjunction with Pro Tools | MTRX, the SPQ option card is a fully-integrated speaker processing and I/O solution that streamlines workflows and eliminates the need for additional devices in the signal chain.

Pro Tools | MTRX is fully modular with eight card slots, and it can be customized to fit any workflow. With the addition of the SPQ card, there are now 10 different option cards that you can mix and match to meet your needs.

Pro Tools | MTRX SPQ Speaker Processing Cards are available now; pricing per unit varies.

CEntrance MixerFace R4 is now shipping worldwide.

Supercharge your smartphone or tablet’s audio capabilities with CEntrance’s MixerFace R4.

MixerFace R4 is a mobile recording interface that is designed for songwriters, podcasters, video bloggers, and others to easily record professional-quality audio anywhere using a smartphone or a tablet.

The handheld, 4-channel device turns a smartphone or tablet into a DAW, making it quick and easy to capture musical ideas, remote interviews, field recordings, or live stream audio with video. The built-in high-quality mic preamps feature true 48V phantom power, so you can choose your favorite microphone for recording. An internal, long-lasting rechargeable battery sets MixerFace R4 apart from other portable audio interfaces, and makes it the ideal companion for the road to record audio from almost any location. MixerFace R4 also features balanced studio monitor outputs and can double up as a USB recording interface in a project studio.

MixerFace R4 is priced at $349.99.

Splice releases their first-ever sax artist sample pack: Mike Casey’s Sounds of Surprise.

Splice’s first saxophone artist pack, Mike Casey’s Sounds of Surprise, offers a wealth of unique samples from the emerging artist.

Splice announces the release of their first exclusive saxophone artist pack with rising star saxophonist Mike Casey, going out to over a million producers. The royalty-free sample pack includes a wide range of high-quality riffs, loops, one-shots, held notes, and rare extended technique/auxiliary sound effects.

Mike Casey is one of the most dynamic jazz artists of the millennial generation. With over a million streams to his name in just the second year of his recording career—without record label backing or a manager/team—Mike wears his heart on his sleeve and aims to tell a story above all.

Head to splice.com for subscription details.

Denise releases the New York Compressor plugin.

Denise’s second-ever release, the New York Compressor, aims to bring the authentic sound of NY-style drum-based compression to engineers everywhere.

The Denise New York Compressor is a straightforward NY-style compressor for making percussive loops, beats and drums sound more powerful. Set to its default settings, you can quickly dial in the recognizable explosive and punchy sound associated with this particular style of compression.

The New York Compressor features a continuous RMS-time control. Usually, generic compressors only give you the choice between peak and RMS set to a fixed length of 30ms. However, having a continuous RMS-time control allows you to easily fine tune the compression to create maximum impact. Together with its different timbre styles, vintage option and stereo linking, the Denise New York Compressor is a powerful tool to quickly give your mix that much sought-after explosive and punchy sound.

Check out a video of the New York Compressor in action here.

Denise’s New York Compressor is available now for €19.00.

Mixed In Key announces Captain Plugins 2.0.

Mixed In Key has all of your songwriting needs covered with the new Captain Plugins 2.0 bundle.

Available for Mac and Windows, Captain Plugins 2.0 enables you to write your own chord progressions, hooks, melodies and basslines, and export them straight to your DAW. The bundle consists of Captain Chords, Captain Melody, Captain Deep, and Captain Play.

Captain Chords allows you to write chord progressions in any key and scale. It will help you build your own chord progression from scratch, and discover the sound of different chords. You can automatically minimize the leap, choose inversions, add 7th, 9th or suspended chords. You can add passing chords, and add more complexity to each chord by adding more notes.

Captain Melody helps you explore melodies and write your own ideas. It’ll give you a million ideas, and help you break through those tough creative blocks.

Captain Deep helps you compose a bassline that fits your chords perfectly. The plugins communicate with each other, so any change you make inside Captain Chords will be reflected inside Captain Deep.

Captain Play enables you to play complex chords by simply pressing one key. In the Chords mode, Captain Play will play an entire chord when you press one button. For example, pressing the “A” key on your keyboard might play the A Minor chord. Pressing another key may play the C Major with an added 9th note. You can learn the sound of every common chord used in all of today’s music, and then make your own chord progressions.

The Mac version of Captain Plugins 2.0 comes with Captain Chords, Captain Melody, Captain Deep and Captain Play; the Windows version comes with Captain Chords, Captain Deep and Captain Play.

Captain Plugins 2.0 is available for download here, priced at $79.

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