Apple revamps a little the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. The MacBook turn to the Santa Rosa Intel configuration: 2 and 2.2 GHz, 800 MHz of front bus, up to 4 GB of RAM, and a GMA X3100 GPU from Intel, using 144 MB of the RAM, prices unchanged. The drives are from 80 to 250 GB. The MacBook Pro can reach now 2.6 MHz and have a 250 GB hard drive. The base prices have not changed.

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McDSP is offering this November only its ML4000 Native mastering limiter, an RTAS and AS plug-in for $295 on their webshop.

McDSP is also conducting a user survey with a free Emerald Pack Native for a lucky winner. The survey ends up the 12/15/07 and you must have an ilok account to enter the sweepstake.

VirSyn Reflect is an algorithmic reverberation plug-in which combines the flexibility of vintage algorithmic reverbs with the sonic quality of convolution based reverbs. The forthcoming 1.2 release comes with a completely revised modulation algorithm to simulate the air movement in natural rooms to greatly enhance the liveliness of the reverb tail.

What's new:
- New modulation algorithm simulating the air movement in a room for smoother reverb tails.
- Mouse wheel support for program browser and knobs.
- A few new reverb programs.

Bugfixes:
- Ableton Live/VST: crackles while tweaking EQ removed.
- Apple Logic: multiple instances GUI problem fixed.
- Dry/Wet balance improved.
- IR Import: more than one file dialog could be opened at once.
- Mac: crash with RAX host fixed.

Virsyn reflect is a VST, RTAS or AU plug-in for OS X and Windows. A fully functional/time limited demo version is available, requires a Syncrosoft key/dongle.

Digidesign will soon offer Eleven, a virtual guitar amp for Pro Tools. The guitar amps, the speakers, the microphones are all modeled after the originals, the likes of Vox, Fender, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, Soldano, plus Digidesign re-creations of others… including the distortion of the amp, the distortion induced by the fall of power in the amp, speaker resonance, ghost notes… The way microphones are disposed and their type. Eleven will be available as Eleven and Eleven LE. Eleven will be in TDM, RTAS and AudioSuite, for the Pro Tools|HD, ICON and VENUE systems. Eleven LE, in RTAS and AudioSuite, will be for Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools M-Powered and Pro Tools Academic systems.

Pre-version compatibility:
For now, Eleven can be tried for 30 days in pre-version directly on Digidesign web ...

The Login & Keychain Update 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is recommended for all Leopard installations. It addresses issues you may encounter when:

• Logging in with an account originally created in Mac OS X 10.1 or earlier that has a password of 8 or more characters.
• Connecting to some 802.11b/g wireless networks.
• Changing the password of a FileVault-protected account.

It is a 10 MB download.