Come join the editors of Mix as we pull into Soundcheck Nashville for two full days of panels, master classes and how-to programming. Presented by Apple, Digidesign and Meyer Sound, Mix Nashville features Nashville’s movers and shakers, including:

Tony Brown, Jeff Balding, Bob Bullock, Bill VornDick, Andrew Kautz, Chuck Ainlay, Marc Repp, Robert Scovill, Michael Wagener and many others.

Mix Panels include: Recording the Show, Plug-Ins Go Live, Keeping the Rooms Filled and Making Money, Recording Guitar, The Full-Blown Demo, Anatomy of a Hit, and many more.

Also, in conjunction with American Songwriter magazine, Mix Nashville includes two full days of songwriters on stage, complete with Demo Derby, Q&As and GarageBand demos.

The Antares Auto-Tune 5 vocal processing plug-in from is now officially supported on the Muse Research Receptor hardware plug-in player. The fifth generation of this industry standard for pitch correction/manipulation software includes automatic and graphical tune modes, making the program even easier to use, while an improved algorithm allows the pitch detection even in noisy environments. Auto-Tune 5 can run on any Receptor simply downloading and installing the program from Muse Research’s Website.

“The Receptor is a very powerful solution for musicians who want to use world-class Antares processing technology in a live environment, or use it in the studio where it is instantly available in hardware form” says Antares marketing VP Marco Albert. “We’re pleased to offer Antares software tools in this unique environment.”

Also pleased about the development was Bryan Lanser of Muse Research, particularly from the live performance aspect. “Now vocalists can benefit from the same power and convenience that Receptor has provided keyboardists, guitarist and drummers for some time, And we’re pleased to be able to expand the flexibility of such a great product from our friends at Antares by offering it in hardware form.”

Be sure to watch Mix's exclusive new product demo at http://mixonline.com/video.

To learn more about Receptor visit www.museresearch.com, or send an e-mail to info@museresearch.com, or call 650/326-5400.

For more information about Antares' range of vocal processing software technology, visit www.antarestech.com.

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Lawo’s Plug-In Server is a dedicated environment for VST-type audio processing plug-ins that integrates with the company’s mc² Series third-generation consoles while providing greater flexibility in the use and routing of processed signals—all while freeing the host recording platform from the system overhead typically associated with numerous plug-in processors.

“We mix a lot of multiple-act TV shows and recordings,” says Marc Repp (pictured), audio operations engineer for MTVN, “and if you’re setting up an outside processor on an act-to-act basis, somebody has to keep up with all those settings so they can be reset as you move from one act to another. By contrast, if the signal processing is saved as part of the console’s automation, it gets recalled as part of the snapshot and is ready to go instantaneously. In addition to dynamics processors such as compression and limiting, we can just as easily deploy reverbs, delays and other effects that previously were only available via the outboard gear.

“We have a large assortment of outboard signal processing gear on the truck,” Repp continues, “though using it isn’t necessarily as convenient as one might expect—particularly because of the time constraints involved in accessing an external processor. For this reason, there has always been a tendency to use the console’s onboard processing, but in doing so, we were limited in our choices of dynamics processing and, like any other digital console, had to closely monitor system resources. Our new plug-in server opens the door to far greater choices since it can be configured for any type of VST plug-in without taxing system resources.”

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