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! ;-)

Created as a more affordable option to Unity Session, Unity Combo includes DS-1 and AS-1 with full editing capabilities, and is being targeted towards music education.

Native Instruments has announced their intention to release what will be their first product release for Mac OS X: Traktor DJ Studio 2.0.

Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 brings professional DJ mixing to the digital domain, unifying performance, mixing, and composition. Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 integrates two playback modules for playback and mixing of MP3s, Sound Designer II and AIFF files, and AUDIO-CDs with a convenient playlist section, DJ mixer, beat matcher, digital scratcher, cue section, and high-quality filters. The innovative parametric control of the software makes it possible to record all control movements and export a mix in a dedicated file format.