New Gear Alert: SuperRack by Waves, Positive Grid’s Smart Guitar Amp, Stylophone Touch Synth from Dubreq & More

Waves announces SuperRack is now available.

Built for the SoundGrid format, Waves’ SuperGrid provides live engineers with unprecedented levels of power and flexibility for their plugins.

SuperRack is the next generation of plugin processing software for live sound and broadcast engineers. This cutting-edge plugin rack lets you run up to 128 audio channels through multiple instances of Waves plugins with near-zero latency and offers endless customization options that make it easy for you to tailor the application to your very own mixing workflow.

SuperRack operates in a SoundGrid Audio-over-Ethernet network, processing audio on a dedicated SoundGrid DSP server, which moves plugin processing from the host computer to an external DSP server in order to significantly increase plugin count, minimize latency, and enable the host and I/O devices to be far apart from each other while accommodating the most complex setups.

SuperRack is a natural extension of your mixing console, designed from the ground up for quick setup time, flexible touch-friendly workspace and unlimited workflow customization. FOH, monitor, broadcast, and AV engineers can now run plugins in real time, customize their workspace with floating windows, set extended-scope snapshots, and run any live show with more speed and confidence than ever before.

Check out an introductory video to SuperRack here.

SuperRack is available now, priced at $599.

Positive Grid unveils Spark: the smart guitar amplifier and app.

Fun and educational, Positive Grid’s Spark smart guitar amplifier and app combo offers realtime chord analysis, digital accompaniment, and more.

Spark is a smart guitar amp and accompanying app (iOS/Android) driven by intelligent technology to offer real-time Smart Jam accompaniment, Auto Chord detection and intuitive practice features for players of all levels. Spark also functions as a full-range, 40-Watt combo amp and features a variety of tone-shaping options plus amp and effects modeling built upon the company’s award-winning BIAS engine.

Guitarists can play and practice using the Spark’s Auto Chord feature to access millions of songs on popular streaming platforms like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music. The Spark app automatically analyzes and displays chords for millions of songs in real time, and its easy-to-use controls let you slow down the song’s tempo or loop a difficult section to practice.

Jamming is easy and fun with Spark’s Smart Jam feature. The Spark amp and app work together to learn the player’s style and feel, and then automatically generate bass and drum accompaniments that act like a virtual band—anytime, anywhere. As a guitar amp, Spark features a deep, loud and immersive speaker design with two custom-designed speakers and a tuned bass-reflex port that are engineered to provide deep, full-sounding basses and crystal-clear highs for every style of music.

Spark can be used as a USB audio interface for easily recording on a computer. It even comes with PreSonus Studio One Prime recording software for free, allowing you to get started right out of the box.

Check out an introductory video to Spark here.

Spark is available for pre-order now. For further information, including details on early-bird pricing, click here.

Dubreq announces the Stylophone Gen R-8 touch analog synthesizer.

Dubreq’s Stylophone Gen R-8 sports a sleek 3-octave touch-sensitive keyboard and a full analog signal path.

The Stylophone Gen R-8 analog aynthesizer is packed with features you’d expect in larger, more expensive instruments, including a full analog signal path, dual VCOs with saw, square and PWM, 8 waveform LFOs, plus sub-oscillators for room shaking bass. It comes with a 16-step sequencer, a sensitive 3-octave touch keyboard, a 12dB VCF with low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and wide notch, plus glide and modulation for more expressive performance control—all within a hefty steel enclosure.

Featuring 19 CV/Gate patch points for advanced modular patching, the Gen R-8 is the ultimate Stylophone instrument, aimed at serious musicians and synth fans alike.

Dubreq are limiting the first production run to 500 units, priced at $349/each.

Celestion introduces the Seventy 80 impulse responses.

Celestion brings the sound of the classic G12P-80 loudspeaker to their expansive line of impulse responses with the Seventy 80 collection.

The Seventy 80 Collection of impulse responses is the digital recreation of Celestion’s popular Seventy 80 guitar loudspeaker. It was conceived in the late 1990s as the G12P-80, and has gone on to become one of the most popular and widespread guitar speakers that the company has ever produced, having found its way into a huge number of amps and cabs around the world. Delivering a modern, gutsy British sound, the Seventy 80 packs a serious punch, taking the sound of a ceramic magnet guitar speaker to new levels.

With a detailed and crisply defined tone, the Seventy 80 has a tightly controlled, hefty low-end with a punchy, aggressive and dynamic upper mid-range. Its top-end response is clear and glassy for enhanced treble and a full-range feel without compromising its undeniable Celestion character. This collection is available in five classic cabinet configurations, including: 1×12 open back, 1×12 closed back, 2×12 open back, 2×12 closed back, and 4×12 closed back.

The Seventy 80 Collection is available for audition and download at CelestionPlus; click here for further information and pricing.

UJAM announces Virtual Guitarist CARBON.

UJAM offers unprecedented levels of grit and grime with the newest addition to their Virtual Guitarist line: CARBON.

CARBON serves a wide range of ultra-modern guitar sounds. Playing a custom-built, 8-string, low-range/drop-tune guitar through a large custom setup of newly invented amp and cabinet models as well as stomp-box effects, CARBON churns out distorted guitar styles from bass riffs to power chords to melodic riffs and even simple melodies.

Also useful for sound designers, CARBON is an otherworldly guitar resource for game soundtracks and film scores—and can also give electronic and pop music that extra kick. It’s a wild and heavily distorted sound, yet that rawness is somehow precise, controlled and sometimes even synth-like.

CARBON is available now in VST, AU, AAX plugin formats for Mac OS X and Windows, priced at €/$129.

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