Da Fact (Digital Access Factory) is introducing its ground breaking controller. this strange beast is definitely not any-like others. It doesn't play notes even! You play over the MIDI itself: each "key" is pression sensitive and can be freely controller assigned. The DaFact can also turn on itself, another control. And guess what it does when you move it around in space? (up, down, left, right…) it sends controls too! How does it communicate? it receives and sends MIDI other USB or HF and it runs on batteries filled when needed by the USB connection.

Price and availability TBA

FXpansion announces Universal Binary versions for BFD and Guru at Frankfurt Musikmesse. These new Intel-based Mac compatible versions will be released second Quarter 2006. These updates will be free updates for registered users. Guru is a beatbox, it's architecture is perfect for anything from straight-up breaks and stomping floor-fillers to complex polyrhythmic, multi-layered grooves.

K Multimedia has just announced the upcoming support of the Intel-based Apple computer with Intel Core Duo processors. New versions for the MacIntel platform will be available for all IK Multimedia products. IK Multimedia will start shipping these MacIntel compatible versions during the 2nd quarter of 2006,

Presonus is enlarging its DigiMax range with the FS, a brand new 8 class A mic preamp in a 1U rack. It feeds 8 channels in ADAT (i/o) at 24bit/96 kHz in dual SMUX with balanced direct outputs and inserts on each channel.

Price and availability TBA.

Soundcape announced a bunch of MADI 1U racks to come this year:
- iBox MADI-HD2, a converter 2 x 32 MADI ports/Digidesign Pro Tools|HD card, in both direction, with word/wordclock, latency compensation, USB control/update… Available in June 06 for EUR 2395.
- iBox 32|64 MADI-S a converter 32 channels of AES/EBU In (16x AES) and 64 Channels of AES/EBU Out (32x AES) to an optical MADI port. Price EUR 2895.
- iBox 64|32 MADI-S a converter 64 Channels of AES/EBU In (32x AES) and 32 Channels of AES/EBU Out (16x AES) to an optical MADI port. Price EUR 2895.
- Pak 64|64 MADI-S, a bundle of the 2 converters above. Price EUR 5995.
iBox 32|64 MADI-S, iBox 64|32 MADI-S and the pak will be available third quarter 06.