Native instruments has just released the demo version of its virtual sampler, Kontakt .
Two versions of the demo can be downloaded:
- the first one contains the instruments banks (18,1 Mb),
- the second one is a "light" version (7,8 Mb).

It's our birthday! We are today celebrating our fifth anniversary. Who could have imagined that at the time when MacMusic was a modest mailing-list and a personal home page on a free hosting service. We are nowadays printing over 1,200,000 pages a month on a dedicated server, and it grows every day faster and faster. We would like to thanks all visitors and contributors who made the MacMusic's story possible. A big thanks to YOU!

Something is definetly brewing there… and coming soon…

The new deal:

- OS9 and OSX compatible. The audio engine works ok under X but the graphics are a bit laging behind. That is because Arturia focused on audio first under OSX, instead of interaction with graphics. A small latency occurs but that's only under X, OS9 runs fine.

- All Storm 1.5 sound libraries are here along wityh brand new quality stuff.

- General revamp of the graphics

- An audio assistant: it builds your studio by steps, guiding you all along. You begin from 5 bases (House, Dance, Hip Hop, Reggae, Jazz) and you go to a full optimised setup. The assistant double up as a complete and clear tutorial.

- Storm Hall: a window where you can connect thru the net to collect samples in a partake folder. You can give to the community, receive from it, chat with other users, exchange Storm data. A kind of Napster of Storm for Storm.

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Developed from the ground up for the Mac OS X operating system and 100% "Cocoa" native, Montage allows creators of multimedia content to organize, edit and process their media with flexibility.

An industry breakthrough, Montage makes video, pictures, audio, and text equally at home. And it does so with a streamlined design that delivers professional-level power in a tool anyone can readily pickup.

Montage should be released in start 2003