Two multi effects engines for Allen amp Heaths XoneDB2
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Allen & Heath has released the latest model in its Xone:DB digital mixer range: the Xone:DB2.
A fully digital DJ mixer, the DB2 boasts the incorporation of two multi effects engines, as well as retaining all of the essential elements of the manufacturer’s Xone:DB4.
Each of the DB2’s effects engines feature delays, reverbs, modulators, resonators and damage, plus each effect type has its own patch library of different effect variations that can be assigned to the relevant control. There is also a filter on the output of each effects bank, and each has a dedicated expression control and a rotary pot to set the wet/dry level, whilst further effect tweaking can be performed using the encoders beneath the mixer’s Oled screen.
The DB2 itself features four input channels, four USB, or two digital sources, and incorporates the DB4-style ‘Trimadol EQ’, which can be configured as a standard asymmetric EQ (+6/-25dB), total kill (+6dB/OFF with a 24dB/octave slope), or a high-pass/low-pass filter system with adjustable resonance. Each channel has a single routing switch that sends to the main mix, or to the effects sections, and this control also assigns the crossfader.
The DB2 features a single microphone channel and a built-in multi-channel USB2 soundcard. Like the DB4, the DB2 also has an X:Link socket to allow easy integration of the new Xone:K2 software controller.
Meanwhile, the manufacturer is also excited to announce the release of its new Waves SoundGrid option module for the iLive digital mixing series: the M-Waves module. Providing a low latency 64-channel bi-directional interface, the new M-Waves module makes it possible to use Waves’ SoundGrid plug-in processing and multi-track playback and recording.
An integrated Ethernet switch with two ethercon and one RJ45 SoundGrid port is provided on the M-Waves module, allowing for direct connection of the SoundGrid server and a PC. The manufacturer reports that M-Waves will be incorporated into its range of audio networking cards, which will allow iLive to interface with a variety of common audio networking standards.
The cards fit in the expansion slot of iLive MixRacks, comprising the modular iDR0 and iDR10, and fixed format iDR-16, iDR-32, iDR-48, iDR-64 and xDR-16 expander.
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