Superb, Affordable Olympus LS-3 Discontinued In Australia - Expected To Be Replaced By LS-12 and LS-14

The Olympus LS-3 digital linear PCM voice and music recorder was discontinued this week in Australia. In a surprise move Olympus withdrew the model taking this Olympus Pro reseller quite by surprise.

We expect the LS-3 to be replaced in early 2013 by either one or both of the two new PCM music recorders launched last month in the US called the LS-12 and LS-14. 

The Olympus LS-12 (2Gb) and Olympus LS-14 (4Gb) certainly look the part with the trend in 'outing' the mics continuing with these new models. Capable of coping with upto 130 dB of noise thrown at it and packed with musician goodies like a metronome, chromatic tuner and playback speed control that alone should make these sought after. That and there very low US pricing (US$149 for the LS-12 and US$199 for the LS-14) we hope to see that emulated here in Australia. 

Expected to arrive in Australia in early 2013.

Click here for our main blog with more details on the Olympus LS-12 and LS-14 along with an intro video to these two new linear PCM music recorders.

Olympus Audio Release Sonority 1.4.1

Olympus this week rolled out an update to their underrated Sonority audio editing software taking it to version 1.4.1.

The update applies to both the Mac and the Windows versions, free and paid, and includes bug fixes, a couple of new features and Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 and Windows 8 comparability.

More info at our main blog:

http://idictate.com.au/2012/11/mac-windows-8-olympus-sonority-free-update-upgrade-v1-4-1/

Windows 8 Compatible Olympus ODMS R6.1.0 Update To Dictation & Transcription Module

Olympus are rolling out a free update to all users of their ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) taking it to release R6.1.0 (from R6.0.0). The first release to ODMS since its lauch along with the new range of digital dictaphones (DS-7000,DS-3500,DS-2500) back in April 2012.

The update contains a number of bug fixes along with some new features and compatibility with the rapidly moving virtual world supporting recent versions of VMWare Viewer and the Xen products from Citrix.

Microsofties as they are affectionatly know will be super excited about ODM R6.1.0 being Windows 8 compatible. There is a caveat to this one, not all flavours of Windows 8 are yet supported so head over to our main blog post to read the full list of changes (link below).

Click here for the full list of changes in Olympus ODMS R6.1.0

ODMS software is included in the Olympus DS-7000 & DS-3500 digital dictaphones (dictation module) and Olympus AS-7000 transcription kit (transcription module).