Ken Berger, vice-president of marketing and product development at Loud Technologies Inc said: "The significant excitement generated by the dXb concept at the AES show last October revealed a universal acceptance for the platform. Because the dXb platform is so versatile, we've been able to introduce two distinct models for two individual markets, in a very short period of time."
Both dXb.200 and dXb.400 share the same basic architecture including the unique dual touch-screen interface, 96kHz operation (optional to 192kHz), on-board automation and DSP, twenty-five 100mm Penny+Giles optical faders, fully configurable I/O card cage and a FireWire I/O card option for streaming to/from desktop or laptop computers. Both models are also compatible with select VST plug-ins and both integrate Mackie Control Universal functionality for controlling Pro Tools, Logic and other audio software applications.
The dXb.200 features a 72 x 72 channel I/O matrix at 96kHz (or a 36 x 36 matrix at 192kHz) with 64 channels of full dynamics (compressor/limiter and gate/expander) and EQ (four band parametric) processing.
The dXb.400 features a 96 x 96 channel I/O matrix at 96kHz (or a 48 x 48 channel matrix at 192kHz) with an additional eight channels of processing. It's also equipped with more advanced surround mixing and monitoring functionality that includes a 24-bus architecture, flexible panning assignment, bus/return switching to an assignable speaker matrix, as well as "fold down" monitoring. The dXb.400 also ships with a Universal Audio UAD-1 Powered Plug-ins card pre-loaded, providing instant access to popular plug-ins like the Teletronix LA-2A and 1176LN compressors.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
