Currently, BitHeadz Unity 3.0 products, Phrazer 2.0 and Phrazer LE programs have OS X support in stand-alone mode. Now that sequencing programs are making their way into OSX, the new feature will allow users to integrate with current OSX compatible sequencers, like Logic, that support audio units.

Audio units support will be one of the features in the Unity 3.1 update. Version 3.1 is expected for release in the first quarter of 2003. The update will be free for download to all current Unity Session, Unity DS-1 and Unity AS-1 3.0 users.

M-Audio has annouced the release of a new USB audio/Midi interface, the USB Audiophile. Following the Audiophile 2496, this new 24 Bit/96 kHz USB interface provides 2 x analog I/O, 1 x digital I/O (SPDIF), 1x Midi I/O, and an headphone out. Two knobs will allow the user to set headphone and output level. The price should be around 300€/$.
For more details visit Midiman/M-Audio's website.

(Please note that, at the time this news was published, no sign of that release was present on this site... Only the french version of the website was providing infos and detailed about this product).

This upgrade brings many enhancements and is now downloadable on Apple's website. For details on those enhancements, follow the link !

The plugsound family gets richer; Volumes 1 and 2 are completing it. There are keyboards (vol1) and Fretted Intruments (vol2), a new skin for the window before the next version (2.0) which should be in the pipeline if they continue to follow this rythm.

Little sister of the EMI2/6, the EMI 6/2m is a 6 Ins, 2 Outs USB audio interface with a S/PDIF In Out with a trick: it can change itself into a MIDI In Out. Looking like an ideal solution for nomads and others, it was announced for a long time now. But as Emagic clains its availibility as from now on, you can expect it to be in the shop at Christmas