JOE WALLACE: I’m Joe Wallace for Gearwire.Com. We’re at the Lexicon Booth, and we are talking today about the Lexicon MX500. Tell me a little bit about this unit, what it’s compatible with in a home studio, and just whatever details you got go us.

KIMBERLY BRITTON: Well, the MX500 is basically going to be the top of the line of our MX series, and it’s basically about taking, you know, the history of Lexicon and the quality of the reverb that we’re able to offer and putting it in a box that anybody in a home studio environment can use and integrate into their DAW and into their digital studio.

So, it has 16 different reverbs and effects in them, so there’s a nice good choice in terms of the parameters and level of depth you’re able to go in. We’ve got presets if you’re the kind of person that just likes to get into it, get in and out, we’ve got a bunch of presets that you can use. If you’re the kind of person that really likes to go in deep and really customize and tweak the algorithm to your personal taste, the level of editing that you can do on the 500 is really nice.

The other really nice thing about the 500 is that we’ve given a lot of thought to the rule of hardware processors and how they’re going to work in the home studio environment where everybody is using probably some sort of DAW to do their main recording and mixing. And so, with the 500 what we’ve done is we’ve created this kind of a -- we like to call it a hardware plugin, and basically through the FireWire, we stream audio back and forth through the box, and so the 500 will actually pop up as an insert inside your DAW. And so, in your DAW you can control and set your parameters, it will be fully automated, and then the audio streams back and forth, and where that’s really helpful for the home studio user is that reverb is just it’s a hog. You know, the complexity of the algorithms, and particularly the Lexicon algorithms, a lot of times when people go to use one of our hardware processors, we end up actually crashing their computer because it’s draining so much CPU in only to process the reverb. So, what’s nice about the FireWire feature is that all of the processing is going to be done by the box, and so the box handles the processing of the reverb and that frees up your CPU for the other things that you’re trying to do.

So, we think that when it comes out in about two months, we think that, you know, people are really going to like it.

JOE WALLACE: Okay.

KIMBERLY BRITTON: Mmm hmm.

JOE WALLACE: I’m Joe Wallace for Gearwire.Com. We’ve been talking about the Lexicon MX500.