Announcements made during the Steve Jobs conference at the MacWorld New York show:

• new iMac: 17' flat-panel (1440x900 pixels) and Nvidia Gforce4 graphic card.

• Quicktime 6 has MPEG4 support. MPEG-4 includes AAC audio, a new audio format made by... Adobe (!)

• Apple announces Jaguar as Mac OS X 10.2 with 150 new features. It will cost $129 and will be delivered in stores on August 24th


• Sherlock 3 completely rewritten

• Inkwell technology: handwriting recognition integrated into MacOS X, will work with every application.

• Rendezvous technology: automatic discovery of devices (computers, printers...) on network without configuration.

• Mail application largely improved: search in every mailbox, better handling of m ...

It seems that Digidesign has decided at last to offer us a FireWire interface combined with a dedicated Control Surface... The product should be introduced on July 18 at DigiWorld Nashville.

Where did we get the news from? Digidesign's Home Page, where, after a fourth dimension style whirlwindish effect appears a lovely teaser message announcing a new PTLE solution, topped by a FireWire icon and a picture of something that looks like what could actually be a miniature ProControl...

Good news for all Digi 001, Audiomedia III, and Mbox users: according to one of the DUC's (Digidesign User Conference) moderators, Pro Tools LE for Mac should be running 32 tracks before the end of the month. (Thanks Mr. T)

Midiman, now known as M-Audio , released some OS X drivers for their interfaces.

Available in late august 2002, Tera is a modular software synth that combines Virtual analog synthesis, FM, waveshaping, physical modeling and Spectrum synthesis (?)...

A beta demo version can be downloaded. Every knob is not yet implemented but the 800 included presets should help you to have an idea about the beast.

No save, and the sound's output mutes every 20 seconds (it's a demo).
Tip : to assign a MIDI input to the synth, check the MIX page of the synth!…