Apple Expo 2005 will take place in Paris at Paris-Expo (Porte de Versailles) from 20 to 24 September. The Apple Expo 2005 Keynote presentation will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, on Tuesday, 20 September at 10:00 am. You can register now online for this event.

Arturia announces the Vintage Collection pack, which bundles four virtual reproduction of analog synth by Arturia : the Moog Modular V, the CS-80V, the ARP 2600 V and the MiniMoog V. This bundle will be available for one month only - June 2005 - for $649.

Quietly behing the Musikmesse, Soundtower updated their editor for this little box of tricks: the Dave Smith Evolver. it's now version 1.4. All right, the screencapture is from a Windows computer, but I can assure you it's for OS X ;)

Yellowtools is teasing with a new and innovative sample manager, Independance, which will include a "Flexible Modifier" (you could load sound libraries of recorded instruments into hardware and play them with a MIDI controller, tempo sync LFOs), a Mixer with unlimited number of busses, a performance tool to "humanize" your samples (with Legato mode, 53 presets), a Mapping tool, and surround support.

Independance is coming soon....

According to Washington Post, Apple payed Corey Greenberg, tech editor for NBC's "Today" show, a healthy sum of money to hype the iPod in news shows. Corey Greenberg also in a similar way hyped products from other brands, charging a fee of 15.000 apiece to talk up their products on news shows...

ps clouvel : Hey Apple, I really think iPod is very cool stuff too, and I wrote a lot a very stuning news about it..wanna some cash too !