ThinkPad® T Series is the perfect balance of performance and portability. Designed for highly mobile users, these notebooks deliver outstanding functionality and long battery life in an easily portable, thin and light design. The T60p is a mobile workstation featuring lightning-fast Intel Core™2 Duo technology and the extreme graphics of the ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5200 video card.

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RME's Fireface 800 revolutionized the world of FireWire audio interfaces. Now the revolution continues: The Fireface 400 is not just the little brother of the Fireface 800 - it is a completely newly designed device. It is the only device in its class with active jitter suppression, stand-alone functionality, complete controllability from the front panel, highly flexible I/Os in professional quality, and an unsurpassed 648-channel matrix router - at sample rates up to 192 kHz.

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Max/MSP is a graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia.

In use worldwide for over fifteen years by performers, composers, artists, teachers, and students, Max/MSP is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams. Max/MSP is a true cross-platform system compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows XP.

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The Kaiser Looper Construction Kit, a MAX/MSP patch written by Keff Kaiser and with minor customization by me, includes four separate stereo looping tracks with the following features:

• Record (no overdub)
• Play
• Reset
• Reverse
• Half speed
• Double speed
• Half Speed/Reverse
• Forward
• Stop
• Variable speed (forward and backward) controlled via a knob
• Track volume (controlled by a fader)
• Track pan
• Random speed (forward and backward) change
• Random loop buffer selection/play
• Track and Global fade in / fade out (non-linear)
• Function chaining (combine a series of commands into one command)

All the above are controlled with my Behringer FCB or Tech 21 MIDI Moose, via a MIDI program change or one of my two expression pedals.

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REAKTOR 5 fuses all audio applications into a single, extremely versatile and powerful tool. Musicians, producers and sound designers are all catered to by the very broad range of instruments and sounds already included. Due to the open engine architecture, the potential for building your own highly individual instruments is endless. Whether you are using the instruments from the library or creating your own, the only limit is your imagination.

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Reaktor 5 - Blackbird Ensemble

In the tradition of early Fender amps such as the Champ®, Princeton® and Harvard, the Pro Junior is a small, pure and uncomplicated all-tube amp. Crank it up for natural tube overdrive, and vary its response with your guitar’s controls.

Although quite compact, the 15-watt, single-channel Pro Junior delivers big tone for studio and rehearsal work, and many players over the years have grabbed a pair of them for stage use. In tandem, they provide an easy way to warm up stereo multi-effects boxes, too. Two EL-84 Groove Tube output tubes and a pair of 12 AX7 preamp tubes push that one-and-only sound through a single 10” 8-ohm Fender Special Design Eminence speaker. The look is pure Fender—chrome panel with vintage pointer knobs, plus black textured vinyl covering and silver grille cloth.

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DAVID - Acoustic Amplifier

THE POWERFUL LITTLE "GIANT-KILLER" FROM SCHERTLER !

Following the tremendously positive reaction in Europe and the US from dealers and players to the UNICO, Schertler is pleased to introduce David, a more compact acoustic instrument combo amplifier. Featuring the same high attention to quality and sound, David is perfect for the artist requiring only two input channels.

From preamplifiers to loudspeakers, all components were selected for their natural and accurate response. Two power amps with an active crossover supply 50 watts to the 6” woofer and 30 watts to the 1” dome tweeter. The result is velvety, clear harmonics with a controlled, strong low end (down to 40 Hz). The technology of biamplification produces a very transparent sound as well a providing maximum efficiency by properly matching amplifiers to loudspeakers.

In addition, each power amplifier features limiter circuitry to deliver secure speaker protection. Amplifiers are built with bipolar transistors (no MOS-FET) and are powered by a robust, traditional power supply (toroidial transformer).

David’s innovative CLASS-A circuitry and built-in analog spring reverberation deliver the warm, smooth and musical sound that acoustic musicians have been seeking. Whether your instrument is guitar or violin, mandolin or cello, listen to your playing through David. You’ll be amazed!

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