GPT Releases first product: Triplicator; Appliance for making simultaneous data sets.

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IBC Show, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept 9th 2010 – Glyph Technologies, long known for its professional quality storage devices, is refining its image, refreshing its products and refocusing its strengths. The new inclusion of “Production” in the Company name and logo, gives recognition to the much broader appeal of Glyph Production Technologies’ or GPT’s products.


Director of Marketing for GPT, Peter Glanville explains, “GPT is more than a new logo and a new branding effort. That’s the easy part. Our commitment to innovate and enhance the latest technology is where the real changes are taking place at GPT. We’re retargeting our strengths in live tech support, innovative product designs, comprehensive unit testing by US technicians, and the best warranty in the industry toward any and every market that supports the production of professional images and sounds directly to data.”


Glyph’s 17-year history of creating mission critical storage systems for professional use provides the critical edge needed for Glyph to support its products in Photo, Video, Music, and Live Event recording workflows.


Triplicator is GPT’s first new innovation, an appliance, designed to make multiple, simultaneous copies of a data set. Designed to be an easy-to-use, time saving tool, Triplicator allows for easily connecting two or three target hard drives via eSATA device ports and then connecting to a host computer via FireWire 800, USB or eSATA. Power on the drives and the Triplicator and an LED tells you how many drives are attached. Copy the data to the multiple target drives which Triplicator presents as one drive. When the copy is finished, identical data will be present on the target drives, without the user having to do separate copies. The drives are ready to be used as individual originals for editing, backup and archiving.


“That’s it”, says Glanville. “Triplicator makes the job of data backup and protection copies much more streamlined and time efficient”.


In September 2010, an initial limited run of Triplicators will be offered at a special discounted price to the first round of customers who are qualified and interested in this groundbreaking technology. To learn more about the Triplicator contact Glyph Production Technologies:


triplicator@glyphtech.com
800-335-0345
www.glyphtech.com/triplicator


Media enquiries: Peter Glanville, Director of Marketing
607-275-0345 x310

Glyph GT 062E drive performs with maximum reliability in tests with BLACKBOX RECORDER

Cambridge, UK, and Ithaca (NY), USA, 25th May 2010 – Following the recent addition of a formatting utility in the BLACKBOX RECORDER, UK manufacturer JoeCo has carried out a series of tests on selected disk drives to evaluate their effectiveness in live performance situations. With reliability high on the agenda for the 24-channel live multi-track recorder manufacturer, Glyph Technologies’ new GT 062E drive has gained top marks, accompanying the BBR to both NAMM 2010 and the Frankfurt Musikmesse.

Glyph’s GT 062E is a professional-grade storage solution designed for audio and video editing, content creation and live recording. It has two hard drives inside, and can be configured in several different drive modes, selectable using the Glyph Manager software utility. When configured in RAID 1 mode, data is copied redundantly to both drives. Should a drive failure happen, data is still available on the remaining drive. Peter Glanville, Director of Marketing at Glyph Technologies explains why the GT 062E is valuable for BLACKBOX RECORDER users:

“The BLACKBOX RECORDER packs huge recording power into a small package, and requires fast, reliable storage. Our 062E is a perfect fit for this application - it’s built with a steel enclosure designed for the use and abuse of the road, it’s rack-mountable, and ships with a hardshell carrying case. We’re really pleased to find that the 062E has performed so successfully with the BLACKBOX RECORDER.”

As the BLACKBOX RECORDER commences a busy summer of international festivals and tours, JoeCo Managing Director Joe Bull has been keen to monitor the stand-alone capability of the unit, which records 24 channels of 24 bit / 96kHz multi-channel audio (in Broadcast WAV format) directly onto a FAT32 formatted drive, without the need to have a computer at the performance.

“After a brief familiarization period, I successfully re-formatted the GT 062E drive to FAT32 configured as RAID 1, directly from the BLACKBOX RECORDER” he said. “The BBR’s new formatting facility doesn’t restrict you to maximum partitions of 32GB under FAT32 (unlike Windows) and the RAID technology means that even in the unlikely event of a disk failure, there’s still a backup in the same unit to ensure that the live recording continues uninterrupted. For a busy FOH engineer, knowing that your live recording process is 100% secure is a major consideration. The GT 062E has performed flawlessly and we are pleased to become one of Glyph’s compatible hardware partners.”

www.CapturingPerformance.com
www.glyphtech.com

Notes for editors

JoeCo was established in 2007 by Joe Bull, former owner and Managing Director of SADiE. Based near the beautiful university city of Cambridge in the UK, the company’s research and development activity has focussed on its innovative BLACKBOX RECORDER for capturing live multi-track performance. JoeCo is currently represented in over 30 countries via a network of international distributors.

JoeCo Ltd. 135 Histon Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8UQ, UK.
www.joeco.co.uk

Technical enquiries: International media enquiries:
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 911 000 Stephanie Sobey-Jones
Email: info@joeco.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 7967 556027
Email: steph@stephaniesobey-jones.com

Glyph Technologies was founded in 1993 to be a bridge between the A/V production industry and the computer storage industry. Glyph has grown consistently over the years to become the dominant provider of data storage solutions to the U.S. and European digital audio recording and postproduction industries. Headquartered in Ithaca, NY, Glyph established a European operation (Glyph Europe) in 2006, based in Brüggen, Germany.

Glyph USA, 3736 Kellogg Rd,
Cortland, NY 13045, USA.
Tel: +1 607-275-0345
www.glyphtech.com

International media enquiries:
Peter Glanville, Director of Marketing
Tel: +1 607-275-0345 x1603
Email: pglanville@glyphtech.com

New York, NY— Digital storage manufacturer Glyph Technologies and virtual instrument/sound effect design company Sample Logic have partnered to deliver Morphestra on a portable hard drive. Morphestra is a new cinematic virtual instrument designed by Sample Logic’s award-winning team, presenting a powerful collection of creatively new and inventive organic instruments. Morphestra is derived entirely from orchestral recordings and psycho-acoustic sound design. In association with Kirk Hunter Studios and powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player 3, Morphestra is an epic collection of over 27 GB and 1200+ instruments and multis delivered pre-installed on a pocket-sized Glyph PortaGig hard drive.

Aimed at a wide range of applications including film, TV, video games and ambient music, Morphestra makes creating an entire production possible without the assistance of any additional third-party instruments and effects. Rather than reinventing the traditional orchestra, Sample Logic has created a modern-day virtual instrument using effectual techniques. Morphestra includes: cinematic atmospheres, innovative melodic and rhythmic instruments, thunderous percussive impacts, transition trailer effects, and dynamic rhythmic loops, and lush evocative pads, just to name a few.

“Offering Morphestra exclusively on a Glyph drive was an important decision for us,” said Joe Trupiano, CEO of Sample Logic. “Saving our customers time by not needing to load content from DVDs means they are up and running right away. And we are guaranteed that it will work because the entire solution has been tested and qualified by Glyph and Sample Logic.”

Morphestra ships October 1st, and is available directly from Sample Logic’s online store, and from a network of worldwide distributors and resellers. It comes pre-installed on a 80GB Glyph PortaGig 800, which has FireWire 800 & USB 2.0 ports, and includes a FireWire 800 cable, USB 2.0 cable, Portable carrying case, and External power supply. It’s covered by Glyph’s industry standard 3-Year warranty, with 2-Year free basic data recovery, and 1-Year advanced replacement policy.

Glyph Technologies (www.glyphtech.com) was founded in 1993 to be a bridge between the A/V production industry and the computer storage industry. Glyph has grown consistently over the years to become the dominant provider of data storage solutions to the U.S. and European digital audio recording and post production industries.

New York, NY – Producer/audio engineer Lisa Chamblee-Hampton will play tracks and talk about working on the “Herstory Sessions” in Glyph’s AES booth (246). “Making Music Herstory” is a compilation album and music documentary made entirely by women. The goal is record music fueled by female energy, capture it on film, and present to the world positive images of women in entertainment. All-female talent is used to write, perform and produce the music; as well as direct, edit and produce the film.

A long-time Glyph user, Lisa will be playing “Herstory” tracks on a Glyph PortaGig SSD drive, and showing video from the upcoming DVD. “I wouldn’t trust my music and video assets on any other drive”, Lisa explains.

Lisa’s husband, industry veteran Dave Hampton, will also be at the Glyph booth demonstrating and discussing their use of Glyph products. Dave Hampton is globally recognized for his work in Audio Recording, Production, and Studio Design. For over 20 years, he has contributed to the success of many top artists like Babyface, Herbie Hancock, Prince, and Marcus Miller. On any project, Hampton’s reputation is one of providing solutions, and getting the job done. Dave will be signing copies of his book, The Business of Audio Engineering, in the Glyph booth throughout the show.

Lisa Chamblee-Hampton has worked on several Grammy award nominated projects, and her credits include Prince, Justin Timberlake, George Duke, Ledisi, Teena Marie and many more. She is the CEO of Black Fox Entertainment Company, whose goal it is to produce high-quality entertainment content and support women in the music business.

Glyph Technologies is based in Ithaca, New York and was founded in 1993. Glyph provides high performance storage solutions for audio and video production. For more information, Glyph can be reached at 607-275-0345 or visit www.glyphtech.com

New York, NY — At the AES 2009 convention, Glyph will be announcing and demonstrating two new products, the GT 062E and ForteRAID. Both are RAID protected storage solutions, and share an updated storage user interface, Glyph Manager 4.

GT 062E is the next generation of the very successful GT 062, a dual-drive tabletop RAID storage solution. The GT 062E improves on the original design by adding an eSATA port which provides for speeds over 230MB/s in RAID 0 mode. Using the industry-proven Oxford 936 chip, the GT 062E provides FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports, in addition to eSATA. With the new chip, higher capacity drives are now supported, allowing RAID 0 and Spanning capacities up to 4TB in a tabletop enclosure. Additionally, the front panel LED blinks red if there is a potential problem with the internal drives, regardless of the drive mode used, alerting the user to open the Glyph Manager software for more diagnostic information. The GT 062E is configurable in three drive modes: RAID 0, RAID 1, and Spanning, and can be rack mounted by itself or with a second GT Series tabletop.

ForteRAID is a four-drive tower with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. Also employing the Oxford 936 controller, the ForteRAID can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and Spanning modes. Removable drives makes it a breeze to swap if one should fail, and Glyph Manager provides a GUI to monitor the health of the chassis and drives. ForteRAID can be configured as RAID 0 with up to 8TB for video production environments, and has been tested with the leading video production software packages. Audio production users may choose to setup the unit in RAID 5 or RAID 10 mode, both of which are fault-tolerant modes, and can survive a disk failure without loosing valuable data.

The GT 062E will be the first of Glyph’s new products to ship with Glyph Manager 4 software, which has greatly expanded in functionality since the last version. A software utility for setting the drive mode, Glyph Manager 4 also displays health status of the Glyph case and drives inside, and functions over USB, FireWire, and eSATA. The new version reports case temperature, fan speed, individual drives’ health status and temperature, as well as any drive errors or rebuild failures. Glyph Manager constantly monitors drive health as a background task using S.M.A.R.T. commands, and if a problem is detected, it alerts the user by blinking the front LED red, and bouncing an icon in the Mac OS X dock or displaying an error balloon from the Windows System Tray. By predicting drive failure, you have a chance to backup your data before any is lost.

For more information, visit us in AES booth 246, or www.glyphtech.com

New York, NY — Glyph Technologies is now shipping the PortaGig SSD, and will be demonstrating it’s performance at the 2009 AES Show (booth 246). PortaGig SSD is an external Solid State Drive small enough to fit into your pocket, and is available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 192GB capacities. Designed for the highest speed possible in a portable drive footprint, PortaGig SSD delivers high reliability, low power consumption and anti-shock features.

PortaGig SSD has no moving parts, subsequently eliminating the possibility of mechanical failure resulting from vibration, shock, and heat. It generates absolutely no noise during operation, and less power is needed as well, which means less heat is generated. The fanless, aluminum enclosure makes the PortaGig SSD extremely lightweight, however this 8-ounce mini-drive is deceivingly robust, able to work in the hottest, roughest conditions.

It may be small, but it’s powerful enough to support the requirements of high-end audio production, and portable video editing. Glyph’s audio testing shows that it can play back more than 128 tracks of 48 KHz/24-bit audio, with 2 edits/sec on every track.

The PortaGig SSD features a black, anodized aluminum case, measures approximately 3 inches wide by 5 inches long, and a little under an inch thick. Incorporating Oxford’s 934 chip, it can transfer data at 85MB/sec using the FireWire 800 port. The back panel offers a power switch, two FireWire 800 ports, and a USB 2.0 port, guaranteeing compatibility with Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.
The new PortaGig SSD comes in four capacities: 32GB ($399 list), 64GB ($579 list), 128GB ($1,019 list), and the largest capacity, 192GB ($1,429 list).

Backed by Glyph’s legendary service and technical support, it comes standard with a three-year warranty, two-year free First Level Data Recovery, with first-year overnight replacement. Glyph products are available through authorized dealers. Please check Glyph’s website for details.

Glyph Technologies is based in Ithaca, New York and was founded in 1993. Glyph provides high performance storage solutions for audio and video production. For more information, Glyph can be reached at 607-275-0345 or visit www.glyphtech.com