Open Labs Introduces Gen 3 Series Of NeKo Studio Production Center Products
January 20, 2007
Open Labs™, the leading designer and developer of computer-based music production solutions, today introduced its Open Labs Gen 3™ series of NeKo™ Studio ProductionCenter™ products, with powerful upgrades to its NeKo SE, NeKo LX, and Neko 76 at the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim. The upgrades to the NeKo products provide users with greater power and expanded features at a lower price point for what is a powerful built-in, design-specific, full-featured, Windows XP™- based computer system. The NeKo is the first line of keyboard workstations to incorporate a Windows PC and are now the first keyboard workstations products to use Intel Core2 Duo processors, offering processing speeds up to 70% faster than Gen 2 models.
Open Labs will demonstrate production models of the Gen 3 NeKo SE, NeKo LX, and NeKo 76 at the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, at Booth #6015 in the Anaheim Convention Center, from Thursday, January 18 to Sunday, January 21.
The NeKo SE (standard edition), streamlined for performance, is a 61-key unit that will sell for $3,999 and includes a 2.1 GHz Intel Core2 Duo processor; 2 GB RAM; 250 GB HD; 15" color LCD touchscreen; 15-inch touchscreen; Dual Video/Dual Layer DVD Burner; 24 bit/192 KHz (4ins/outs) Audio; QWERTY controller; master controller and two open controller bays, and Windows XP™ Home software bundle including Sonar LE.
The NeKo LX (luxury edition), fully-loaded for professional use, is a 61-key unit that will sell for $5,999 and includes a 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor; 4GB RAM; 250GB HD; 15" color LCD touchscreen; 2 Dual Video/Dual layer DVD Burners; 10ins/outs audio; Rotary controller; Linear controller; QWERTY controller; Alpha controller, and Windows XP Home Software bundle including Sonar LE. The NeKo LX also includes Open Labs' revolutionary Mimik™ keyboard cloning software, which allows any MIDI capable keyboard or hardware sound module to be cloned.
The NeKo 76, which will sell for $7,399, incorporates a 76-key keyboard; 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor; 4 GB RAM; 250GB hard drive and two DVD burners, along with a 15-inch touchscreen and master controller with assignable linear faders and buttons. The NeKo 76 includes a QWERTY keyboard and NeKo LX software bundle, along with Mimik keyboard cloning software.
"The Open Labs NeKo customer is our greatest development partner; we have streamlined our production processes to enable faster upgrade paths for our NeKo line, and the new NeKo SE and NeKo LX represent significant improvements for our customers," said Tom Linklater, vice president of sales for Open Labs. "The Open Labs NeKo has created a demand for power, speed, and feature-rich capabilities at competitive price points, and we are responding accordingly."
The Gen 3 products offer increased processor speeds increased RAM and memory to support today's memory-hungry applications, and an expanded software bundle, which includes landmark piano reproductions from 4Front Technologies True Piano and strings and orchestral samples from WusikStation. The Gen 3 Neko enables users to record up to 140 tracks of 24-bit audio; play up to 500-note polyphony, and support up to 300 plug-ins in a single instrument.
The NeKo SE, NeKo LX, and NeKo 76 feature Open Labs' suite of applications - Karsyn™, mFusion™, and the Open Labs Navigator™ - which are a breakthrough set of technologies that allow users to control different musical keyboard devices and software packages through a single interface. For the NeKo SE, Mimik is sold separately at $199.
The NeKo SE, NeKo LX, and NeKo 76 are available from select Open Labs distributors, and from the .
For more information, visit their web site at www.openlabs.com.
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