Carillon Audio Systems

28/04/2026

I mean, it's certainly beautiful to look at, if the sound matches then what's the saying... Take my money?

28/04/2026

Cubase is by far our customer's most popular DAW, who's gone for another path, what's your choice? Reaper is gaining traction year on year we find

260 likes, 42 comments. "Why do SO many A-list film composer use CUBASE?"

28/01/2026

Pretty big news!

Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency proceedings, according to documentation reported by Create Digital Music. According to that report, a preliminary insolvency administrator has been appointed, who will take responsibility for restructuring the company and any sale of existing assets.

The German music technology brand, known for era-defining products such as Maschine, Massive, Traktor and Kontakt, has been through numerous changes over the past decade. Between 2019 and 2020, the company experienced a rocky period involving staff layoffs, a company restructure and criticism from ex-employees.

In 2020, the company’s Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Haver and Chief Innovation Officer and President Mate Galic stepped down from their leadership roles, beginning a period of shifting leadership and structure within the brand. Since 2021, investment firm Francisco Partners has had a majority stake in NI.

That time period has also seen the company acquire two significant software brands, iZotope – known for the likes of Ozone and RX – and Plugin Alliance.

At the time of writing, it’s unclear what any of this will mean for NI's customers, products or staff. It is also unclear how brands owned by Native Instruments – iZotope, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx – will be impacted.

Both iZotope and NI produce product ranges that many producers and musicians rely on on a day-to-day basis, such as Kontakt sample libraries, RX post-production tools, Traktor’s DJ library or the Maschine ecosystem. Users will be understandably eager to learn whether these will be supported on an ongoing basis.

Just recently, NI revived its much-loved soundscape-friendly softsynth Absynth, for a new version that MusicRadar’s Andy Price described as “a spectacular, unexpected comeback that goes straight for the modern sound designer’s heart.”

We will bring you updates as soon as more is revealed about the future of the company and its products. Given the company’s storied history, much-loved music making tools and many employees, we hope to see a positive resolution for all involved.

Read more via the link in the comments 🔗

06/01/2026

This is why we say if budget allows, go RME. We also get a lot of questions on USB2 and USB3, USB3 is only required when sending way over 32 channels of audio. USB3 is not 'Faster' than USB2 for audio, it always seems to comes back to cars but here goes.... If you have 4 cars on an 8 lane motorway they can all go at their top speed, if you add a further 8 lanes you don't increase the speed they can go at. USB3 is needed for REALLY big track counts (Often Madi, the MADIface XT II can do 394 channels at 192Khz!) or if you are running DSP alongside audio I/O (such as with the UAD USB3 offerings)

Thunderbolt options aren't used for more track counts, it's used for a more direct connection to the computer (think of Thunderbolt as connecting something directly to a PCIe card) but RME USB chips/drivers are so good that they will get down to the same low latency figures.

Sound On Sound explains this month, why USB by RME is superior to other USB implementations.
Bottom line: other manufacturers use a standard unoptimized XMOS USB chip. This solution is easy to implement, much cheaper, does not require specialized engineering and works with standard drivers. Voila, here comes a $200 interface.
RME on the other hand is going the other possible way, by recreating the USB protocol in an own chip, which fully exploits the limits of the standard (RME Pro Audio XCore). Channel count, latency, clocking, sync, fixes stability issues and more.
Additionally the code can be updated at any time, as the chip is fully re-programmable (FPGA). So even 15 years old RME interfaces still get updates, to work with the latest USB hardware - fast, reliable, usable!
On top of it: To achieve record low latencies with USB, it needs a special highly optimized driver. Only RME is doing both. RME interfaces are using a fully customized USB implementation, to the utter limits of the standard with a special driver technology, which delivers the same stability and speed on Mac OS and Windows. Ever tried to close your Macbook, while playing music and open it later? The music just continues to play, without a single buffer lost.
The article explains also, why USB2 and USB3 are not different, regarding stability or audio latency (except the channel count) and why Thunderbolt is not necessarily better, faster or more stable.
Conclusion: RME USB interfaces might be more expensive, but are faster, more stable, need less time for bug fixing, get all the driver updates and features in time and thus can be used 10 years or more with a high resale value ... and of course sound great.

05/01/2026

We've extended our last 2025 special until the end of the week https://www.carillonac1.com/daw-computers/specials/christmas-tower-core-2/

What's more, the price of the special has stayed the same whilst we've had to increase the standard system prices due to component cost rises. This means it's an even better deal in 2026 than it was in 2025, now saving you £309!

Offer will end midnight 11th

Christmas cheer Christmas savings! We ve got our final special of 2025 and it s not to be missed The Tower Core 2 is always a great all-rounder but we ve increased the RAM to 32GB DDR5 increased the CPU power to the Ultra 5 245K 14 Core Intel and increased the drive space to 5TB of NVMe storage the....

05/01/2026

To answer the question on everyone's mind..... It's Monday today, the days of the week have returned and have found their meaning again.

23/12/2025

Introducing Carillon studio furniture, just like the AC-1 we've built this to last. No flat pack, chip board or wobbles in sight. Thick solid hardwood, jointed, glued and warrantied.

There are AC-1 cases that are 25 years old now, you can find them on Ebay for £150-250 for the case, not sure you would get many computer cases that old that weren't falling apart let alone going for that sort of money.

We've taken that approach to our studio furniture, quality lasts, say no to land fills, these are designed to be past through the generations.

A Carillon is not just for Christmas as they say....

and with that, Merry Xmas one and all!

https://www.carillonac1.com/daw-computers/music-pc-rack-case/10u-solid-wood-rack/

19/12/2025

Details matter

17/12/2025

An old school AC-1, original transport controls and neutrik jack connector, looking good in our BRAND NEW 10u solid hardwood rack with 5u rack drawer. Timeless design meet timeless design... Coming soon!

13/11/2025

Something for nothing? I wouldn't say no!

05/11/2025

It's that time of year again, what treats does Cubase 15 have in store?

🎉 Cubase 15 is here—bringing powerful new tools for producing, composing, and mixing music, designed to boost your creativity and keep your workflow smooth. 👇

https://www.steinberg.net/cubase/new-features/