Steve Jobs started the show, talking about the latest products allready launched before: the latest G4, iPod Jaguar, Quicktime 6, Sherlock 3, RendezVous, Mail, AddressBook, iChat, iCal (free download from today) and iSync.
Steve also confirmed that starting from january 2003, all new macintosh will ONLY (!!!) boot on OSX (!!!).

Wave Arts announces an upgrade release to MasterVerb, its reverb plug-in.
On the heels of their cross-platform release of TrackPlug, Wave Arts is following with an upgrade to MasterVerb, serving up several significant improvements to its reverb plug-in, the most anticipated of which is a Mac VST release.

From 10 to 14 september, Apple makes its show in Paris: Apple Expo. This year, MacMusic won't have a booth, but the team will do its best to report all new products and software introduced during the show. From tuesday 10, often refresh the MacMusic news page, and you should get live news and photos. ;-)
For the MacMusicians present during the Apple Expo, we suggest to meet each other at 6 PM, each evening, in a place that we'll publish here later.

The first version of Logic Platinum for OS X is coming out. It will allow the users to use a single software package combining digital audio recording and editing, digital signal processing, software instruments, MIDI sequencing and music notation, on a next generation operating system.

OS X also contains the foundation for a new generation of potent music and audio applications. Many technologies necessary for such applications are already built-in, such as the "CoreMIDI", "CoreAudio", "Audio Units" standards, as well as support for high-resolution audio including 32 Bit floating-point data.

As a result, applications, 3rd party plug-ins and dedicated hardware can be simply and freely combined between different manufacturers to work together in a standardized way. From the very begi ...

We are happy to launch an unique service used to track the newest mac music softwares releases.
Each software record includes a small description, a direct download link, as well as a link to the editor and its product page.Theses daily updated pages are sorted by date but can also be browsed by software categories.
It is surprising to see how many musicians tools are released each month...
Take a look at:
The MacMusic Tracker (sorted by release date)
The softwares directory (sorted by category)
We will soon add a search function as well as a software submit form.
Enjoy the downloads! ;-)