Pacemaker

Dubbed as "The world’s first pocket-size DJ system", the Pacemaker is a high quality portable music player that allows for the playing of two tracks simultaneously and comes equipped with an extensive range of professional audio manipulation mixing software that can be used between two independent channels.

Furthermore, any mixes created on Pacemaker Device and/or Editor can be uploaded via the Editor for publishing onto the community and be listened to by any and all with an Internet connection.

As the Peacemaker team says at their website (www.pacemaker.net):

"By sharing our music taste with each other, we hope to bring us all closer to the music we love – and closer to the music we don’t yet know we can’t live without."

Peace brother, Peace ...

Specifications

SIZE AND WEIGHT
• L/W/H: 164/69.6/22.8 mm.
• Weight: 200 g (approx.)
CAPACITY
• 120 GB hard drive
INPUT AND OUTPUT
• Mini USB
• 2x3.5 mm stereo plug
POWER AND BATTERY
• Exchangeable rechargeable battery; full-charge time: 1,5 h, fast-charge time: about 1 h
• Music playback time: 18 h
• DJ operating time: 5 h
DISPLAY
• Dimensions: ø 45 mm
• Resolution: 166 dpi screen resolution (0.153 mm dot pitch)
• TFT display with 262 K colours
AUDIO
• Frequency response: 20–20.000 Hz (SNR: 103 dB)
• Audio formats supported: MP3 AAC, WMA (128–320 Kbps), WMA Lossless, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, WAV
DJ FUNCTIONALITY
• Two output channels: headphones and lineout
• Two crossfaders: headphones and lineout
• Pitch control: ± 100%
• Equalizer: for adjusting treble, mid and bass amplitudes.
• Mix saving: continuous caption to hard drive.
• User Input latency: approx. 5 ms



The Pacemaker has been presented at CES 2008 and has gained highly positive reviews, specially from many dedicated New Age music enthusiasts.

First units are expected to be shipped by February 2008.

Available from:


http://www.pacemaker.net

SignalGen

SignalGen is a free app that outputs relatively low frequency signals with the use of a PC sound card. It is an entirely suitable replacement for a hardware signal generator (electronic instrument that generates repeating electronic signals) for signals of a frequency higher than about 50 KHz.

SignalGen creates any frequency between a fraction of a Hz and an upper limit determined by your sound card's capabilities, typically about 50 KHz. It works like a hardware audio generator, creating sine, triangle, square and sawtooth waves, that can be monitored in real time.

SignalGen is CareWare.
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Linux only.