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Digidesign has announced the Mbox 2 Micro, an ultra-small USB Pro Tools LE solution which enables playback, editing, sequencing, and mixing on the go.

Digidesign Mbox 2 Micro

About the size of a typical USB flash drive, Mbox 2 Micro offers high-quality sound, a 1/8-inch stereo output for headphone or speaker monitoring (no audio inputs), and a convenient volume wheel for quick adjustments. While it doesn’t offer any audio inputs, Mbox 2 Micro does come with award-winning Pro Tools LE software, Bomb Factory® and DigiRack™ plug-ins, and Digidesign’s Xpand!™ sample-playback/synthesis workstation, enabling you to work with Pro Tools sessions and compose wherever inspiration takes you.

Digidesign Mbox 2 Micro will be available within the first two weeks of November, and it will cost $ 279.00 USD.

Visit Digidesign for more information and demo videos.

Arturia has announced the Analog Factory Experience, a dedicated controller-keyboard for use with the Analog Factory 2.0 software.

Analog Factory Experience features

• Hybrid Synthesizer
  • New Analog Factory 2.0 in the box
  • 32-key CME Universal MIDI keyboard
  • Plug and play instant recognition between hardware and software
• Analog Factory 2.0 Software
  • 3,500 synthesizer sounds
  • Presets selected from Arturia Classic Synthes (Minimoog V, Prophet V, ARP 2600V, etc)
  • Smart preset manager allows for fast filtering
  • Straightforward editing
  • Full compatibility with all major hosts on Mac OS X and Windows XP or Vista
• Analog Factory Keyboard
  • Developed by CME and based on their U-key technology
  • Ultra-thin aluminum and wooden case
  • Semi-weighted keys with velocity response
  • Every parameter in software can be controlled by the keyboard
  • Works as a universal MIDI keyboard

The Analog Factory Experience will cost $349 USD/ 299 EUR, and should be available in November.

Visit Arturia for more information.

Synesthesia has announced Mandala 2.0, a new version of the popular high-def drum and synthtesizer, co-developed with professional drummer Danny Carey of the progressive rock band Tool.

The Mandala 2.0 is the only electronic drum that truly emulates an acoustic drum. It offers drummers and musical explorers the only drum pad that knows exactly where it’s hit and how hard, across seven assignable zones—with an immediate trigger delivering the fastest-traveling sound possible.

A new kind of synthesizer, the Mandala 2.0 packages a musical range so wide it simultaneously offers players the top of the line, most accurate model of a physical drum (via 3,000 professionally created, proprietary samples of the Black Beauty Snare Drum)—along with a library of sounds derived from more than 100 other instruments.

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Suck UK has announced a new product, the Mix Tape USB Drive.

Suck UK Mix Tape USB

From the product page:

Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s? If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette tapes. If you miss making mix tapes this product will inspire you again! Home taping never killed music!

The Mix Tape USB is due end of September. No idea what it will cost yet.

Link via Gizmodo

Brando has a cool Chromatic USB Hub for sale. It looks like a Jacob’s Ladder toy.

Chromatic USB Hub (square)

From the product page:
Chromatic USB Hub (Square) allows you to connect 4 different USB devices at the same time. And this colourful hub can help to decorate your desk.

Another hub model has circles instead of squares, but it doesn’t seem to be flexible like the square one.

Check the Brando site for more information and images.

OOOMS is selling wooden USB memory sticks.

From the product page:

The sticks are picked from the woods and are manually selected on their natural beauty, professionally handmade into unique and personal USB memory sticks.

OOOMS wooden USB memory sticks – don’t they look lovely?

They would go well with these wooden computers.

You can order them (PayPal, worldwide delivery @ 7 EUR) starting at 45 EUR for 256 MB, up to 80 EUR for a 2 GB model.

It’s funny how the product description has the dimensions at approx. 2 x 2 x 10 cm. I guess it depends on which piece of wood you get!

Link via Gizmodo