Oh, you pretty thing...

Lexicon announced the PCM96 at AES today; there isn’t a whole lot of information available, but their press release page has a couple PDFs to drool on, if you’re a glutton for punishment. Essentially, it’s a PCM91 with some extra mod shit from the ’81 thrown in, as far as I can tell, in a sexy new box. (Plus the “return of the Concert Hall algorithm” that no one missed.) It seems that they can still manage to put out high-end stuff while they’re merrily diluting their brand with USB-to-Xbox adapters or whatever the fuck they’re putting out for the low end these days.

In any event, I’ve known something was in the works for a long time; it’s nice to finally see it, and I think I can say with certainty that I’ll be purchasing one. If I don’t get a ’91 first. No price announced, but I wager it’ll be the same as the ’91, $2K or so. One sorta-nifty feature is that it seems you can use it as a plugin if you have it connected via FW. I like that sort of shit, even though I have AES connections coming out my arse.