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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PQ1vcTaoI

 

 

 

ICON Sales Come to a Close

In early August, we shared news with our resellers that September 4, 2013 will be the end-of-sale date for the ICON D-Control™ ES and D-Command® ES control surfaces. We are reaching out to thank you for your support and help in making ICON the best selling large-format console of all time, and making ICON your go-to choice for post and music mixing. We want to reassure you that we will continue to support these products for at least five more years through September 4, 2018.

 

 

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That waveform display looks rather Harrison MPC4-D/Trion/Air24/7-ish...

 

http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=53

 

Nuendo "borrowed" that too in their mixer views. It's actually quite useful with a long enough window to display it. It's certainly yet another visual cue that can be great in many situations. I'm looking forward to this.

 

I'm wondering if they'll keep their Artist range. I would think so as the S3 should be substantially more expensive. I think a small S3L is around 18k list, so one would think the controller by itself would be about a third maybe (?). So at 6+k that's a reasonable step up from the Artist series with better quality faders etc, which makes me think they'll keep them for the masses.

 

It also makes me wonder roughly where they'll price the S6 in its smallest configuration. But well know soon enough.

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Press release: Avid Unveils State-of-the-Art S6 Control Surface that Redefines Sound Recording, Mixing, and Editing

 

Burlington, 2013-09-11

Company once again delivers breakthrough innovation in a future-ready control surface featuring unprecedented modularity, ergonomics and speed 

IBC (Hall 7, Booth #J20), AMSTERDAM, September 13, 2013 – Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled a major new addition to its industry leading family of control surfaces for sound recording, mixing and editing, further extending its leadership in the space. Avid S6 is designed for audio professionals in the most demanding production environments, delivering the performance needed to complete projects faster while producing the best sounding mixes. In addition, S6 provides mixing professionals with a state-of-the-art solution that easily scales to meet their current and future challenges.

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Availability and Pricing

Avid S6 will be available at Avid resellers worldwide in Q4 2013.  As a modular system, S6 is available at a variety of prices, with M10 configurations starting at $21,995 and M40 configurations starting at $43,480.

 

Rest of the press release:

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Avid-Unveils-S6

 

 

Product page for Avid S6:

http://www.avid.com/US/products/avid-s6

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Press release: Avid Unveils State-of-the-Art S6 Control Surface that Redefines Sound Recording, Mixing, and Editing

 

Burlington, 2013-09-11

Company once again delivers breakthrough innovation in a future-ready control surface featuring unprecedented modularity, ergonomics and speed 

IBC (Hall 7, Booth #J20), AMSTERDAM, September 13, 2013 – Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled a major new addition to its industry leading family of control surfaces for sound recording, mixing and editing, further extending its leadership in the space. Avid S6 is designed for audio professionals in the most demanding production environments, delivering the performance needed to complete projects faster while producing the best sounding mixes. In addition, S6 provides mixing professionals with a state-of-the-art solution that easily scales to meet their current and future challenges.

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Availability and Pricing

Avid S6 will be available at Avid resellers worldwide in Q4 2013.  As a modular system, S6 is available at a variety of prices, with M10 configurations starting at $21,995 and M40 configurations starting at $43,480.

 

Rest of the press release:

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Avid-Unveils-S6

 

 

Product page for Avid S6:

http://www.avid.com/US/products/avid-s6

 

 

Excuse me as I go wipe the drool off my mouth.

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For those who don't bother to go to the website:

 

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That is one unbelievable machine. It looks like it is going to be the best of the Euphonix System 5 and everything else that came before with the Digidesign control surfaces. I had forgotten that Avid bought both Digidesign and Euphonix.

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