Lexicon Doubles Down

Looking for signal processing in all the wrong places? Lexicon’s MPX 100 is a stereo dual channel processor designed to give you your money’s worth. It has 24-bit internal processing and SPDIF digital output. Lexicon’s Lexichip gives you 240 presets with stereo reverb programs like Ambiance, Plate, Chamber, and Inverse along with Tremolo, Rotary, Chorus, Flange, Pitch, Detune, Delay and Echo. Its dual channel processing gives you complete control over effects on the right and left channels. The MPX 100 features a front-panel adjust knob that lets you control the effect level or the balance of dual effect combinations. A Learn mode lets you patch MIDI effects Level, Adjust, Bypass, Tap and Mix controls. Tempo-controlled delays lock to Tap or MIDI Clock and Tap tempos can be controlled by audio input, the front panel Tap button, dual footswitch, external MIDI controller or MIDI Program Change. Other features include dual, two-stage headroom indicators, a headphone output, a software selectable MIDI Out/Thru port, pushbutton or footswitch selection of dry or muted audio output and a 20Hz-20kHz +\-1dB frequency response.
Lexicon
3 Oak Park
Bedford, MA 07130-1441
(781) 280-0300
www.lexicon.com

High Octane Peavey

Peavey adds to its pro audio line with the SP X series. The series includes a 1000 W program power handling, 2000 W peak BWX Black Widow woofers with field-replaceable baskets, flat wound 4-inch voice coils and cast frame baskets. An RX 22 compression driver is also part of the series, featuring ferrofluid cooling and a two-inch titanium diaphragm. Included in the series’ units is a SP X voicing switch and Sound Guard HF protection circuit. The Series also includes sound reinforcement enclosures SP 1X through SP 7X, an SP 118X four and eight Ohm subwoofer, SP subcompact 18X, SP 218X subwoofer and the SP 112MX and SP 115MX floor monitors.
Peavey Electronics
711 A Street
Meridian, MS
(601) 483-5365
www.peavey.com

TASCAM's CD-302 Freshens Up

Version 4.0 of TASCAM’s CD-302 software adds +\-100-percent tempo adjustment to augment the CD 302’s +\-32-percent tempo/pitch adjustment feature, sample fader start/stop and a one-touch reverse sample playback mode. The new package also includes Sonic Foundry’s ACID DJ software, a CD collection of loops and grooves from EastWest and DJ Davey Dave giving you some tips and tricks on an included video. The CD-302 is a two piece unit with separate player and controller modules connected through two eight-pin cables. The player module houses the CD transports in a 2U, 19-inch rackmount enclosure and can play back standard CD disks, three-inch CD disks and CD-RW disks. The two CD players act independently, like turntables, with one player cueing up music while the other’s playing. The control module includes enough RAM (in Play or Cue mode) for you to loop until you can’t see straight along with 10 seconds of sampling. A built-in RAM buffer gives you a 10-second shock buffer and instant start. A JOG wheel lets you scratch, analog-style. The controller module, housed in a 5U, 19-inch rackmount enclosure, also gives you auto cue, sleep function, tap tempo button, pitch slider and bend.
TASCAM
7733 Telegraph Road
Montebello, CA 90640
(323) 726-0303
www.tascam.com

Denon's Definitive DN-X800

Denon’s DN-X800 combines the mixing capabilities of its DN-1800F, DN-2100F and DN-2600F CD players, which means that you get Hot Start, Fader Start, Brake and Sampler functions all in one unit. The DN-X800 also gives you input gain controls and hi, mid and low tone controls (-26 dB ~+10 dB) so you can tweak your analog and digital signals all you like. Denon gives you four digital SPDIF inputs, eight line and three phono connections along with two microphone inputs (balanced and unbalanced with Post on/off switch). A balanced Send/Return effects loop is designed to give you even more flexibility when the mixer’s connected to outboard effects. The mixer’s eight outputs include two digital SPDIF outs, balanced master and zone outputs and unbalanced master, booth and tape outputs. A separate subwoofer output and a crossover frequency control also come with the unit. Other features include 44-mm slide faders, crossfader assignment selector and contour levels controls, Cue and Program pan controls, and a split cue H/P monitor and display with a Zone meter adjustment.
Denon Electronics
19 Chapin Road
Pine Brook NJ 07058-9777
(973) 396-0810
www.del.denon.com

Community Gets Louder

Community’s XLT500 Series just got bigger. Five new arrivals to the line include the XLT502 and XLT505, a pair of stage monitors; the XLT509, a dual-15 subwoofer; model XLT530, a three-way, bass reflex trapezoidal enclosure designed with portability in mind. The last of the additions is model XLT525, a trapezoidal three-way speaker, designed also with portability in mind. The full-range loudspeakers include Community’s IntelliSense protective circuitry, which operates hand in hand with its Power- Meter LED indicators so that the speakers can give it their best without damaging system components in the process. It works like this: PowerMeter LEDs, on the front and back panels of each unit flash green to let you know the signal’s there, yellow when the loudspeaker is going into the first stages of protection. Full protection is indicated by a red light. Within this protection mode, the IntelliSense automatically attenuates speaker levels to a safe range. Once the gain has been reduced, the circuit resets itself and the speaker gets back to full power and operation. Excluding the subwoofer, a UC-1 one-inch compression driver is included in all of the models. A bullet-type phase plug is designed to enhance high-end performance by eliminating phase anomalies and erratic phase response. The XLT500 features glass epoxy circuit boards and uses 250-volt mylar capacitators along with a pro-grade interlocking connector and ¼-inch jacks. Sandwich core plywood makes up the speaker’s enclosures. Corner protectors, recessed handles, a black carpet finish and stand sockets finish up the package.
Community Professional Loudspeakers
333 East Fifth Street
Chester, PA 19013
(610) 876-3400
www.loudspeakers.net

Akai Candy
Akai’s latest, The MPC2000XL-SE1 is a MIDI production center that includes an integrated drum machine, a 16-bit sampler and a MIDI sequencer. This unit has 16-bit, 44.1kHz stereo sampling engine and a re-sampling function that lets you resample at lower frequencies and rates for that lo-fi, grainy sound. The MPC2000XL-SE1 comes standard with 2MB (or 21.9 seconds) of memory, which can be expanded to 32 MB (or 378.6 seconds). After you’ve recorded your samples, you can play them all back at once using a 32-voice polyphony. You can also mess around with each of your voice feature filters by using a dynamic resonant lowpass filter, and time-stretch to shorten or lengthen your samples. Pitch shift makes sure they’re in tune. A note variation slider gives you control over the attack, decay or filtering of any sound either during recording or in a separate pass.
AKAI Musical Instrument Corp.
4710 Mercantile Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76137
(817) 831-9203
www.akaipro.com

Leviton Uninterrupts Your Power

Tired of your power crapping out on you? Leviton comes to the rescue with its new line of Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS), designed to act as battery backups for your lighting systems or other loads. Made up of single phase, 115VAC line-interactive and off-line models, the line’s smaller models give you a simulated sinewave output while the larger models give you a pure sinewave option. Strip, traditional, tower-style and low-profile models are also available. All models feature microprocessor control, battery management, overload and short-circuit protection, 50/60Hz auto-sensing, cold start (DC power-up) a sleep mode designed to save you some energy and surge protection for both the AC and tel/fax/modem ports. And so you don’t fall asleep on the job, a bunch of alarms and indicators come with the setup.
Leviton Manufacturing, Inc.
59-25 Little Neck Parkway
Little Neck, NY 11362-2591
(800) 323-8920
www.leviton.com

Korg Gets Kaotic
Combining its second generation KAOSS Pad with a DJ mixer, Korg has come up with the KM-2 Kaoss Mixer. The KM-2 is designed to give you professional mixing capabilities, real-time effects processing and a new level of control over sampling. The KM-2’s mixer section gives you two channels, each with line and phono inputs. Channel one features a mic input that can be routed through the KAOSS Pad so you can treat it for effects or sampling, or the mic input can be used as a talkback source without running it through the channel input. Each channel features three-band EQ, input gain faders and peak indicators. The mixer includes Master and Booth outputs, a headphone/booth monitoring switch (so you can cue your stuff) and a 12-step LED display for output signal monitoring. The crossfader has three crossfader curves, designed for traditional signal mixing and scratch-based stuff. The KM-2 also includes Korg’s Ultra Boost technology, which adds low end to the signal so that it won’t distort the speaker system. The KM-2 also has an auto BPM function so you can lock in the tempo of an incoming signal, as well as a standard Tap Tempo input with three-digit BPM LED. Each channel can remember its tempo so you can switch between sources. Sampling on the KM-2 has been spruced up with 23 seconds of sampling time at 44.1 kHz/16-bit sampling rate. You can take samples from the mic/phono or line inputs and you can sample through the KAOSS Pad’s effects, including any real-time movements. Four dedicated sampling buttons let you trigger samples independently from the pad’s effects.
Korg USA
316 South Service Road
Melville, NY 11747
(516) 333-9100
www.korg.com

Behringer's Ultrawave B300

Behringer’s Ultrawave B300 is a two-way 300-watt speaker system that has internal EQ processing and a built-in mic preamp. It gives you a 230-watt 15-inch woofer and a 70-watt, 1 1/4-inch compression driver with a titanium dome. Behringer says it’s designed the speaker to be lightweight and compact, a practical solution for DJs. The system gives you two-band equalizer with 80 Hz 12 kHz center frequencies. It has an active phase accurate frequency crossover at kHz with 24 dB/octave Linkwitz-Riley filters and extensive phase and time correction, designed to relieve you of the need for external processing and amplification so your storage, transportation and set-up is a little easier. The speaker boasts complete protection against power-up noise, overloading and overheating. Both drivers are overload protected with limiters for distortion-free reproduction. The polypropylene cabinet cools the speaker with automatic convection cooling.
Behringer USA
144 Railroad Avenue
Suite 210
Edmonds, WA 98020
(425) 672-0816
www.behringer.com

Say Wah?

Fans of Ritchie Hawtin, pay attention. The FF-X Funky Box from Godlyke Effects is a tube-driven, envelope-controlled filter that gives you an array of automatic wah and swept filter effects. The effect has relaxed tracking and a warm tube tone. In Godlyke’s own words, “It’s a squawking, burping, bleeping, farting filter fiasco.” Enough said.
Godlyke Distributing, Inc.
P.O. Box 4677
Wayne, NJ 07474-4677
(973) 835-2100
www.godlyke.com