Only available for PC users until now, "Fish" products are now Mac compatible and they are... free ! That's three free (free three) VST plugs to check out.

Mr Dave Smith, creator of Sequential Circuit and Korg WS, went back to work to release a new synth-expander called the Evolver. The Evolver is now available and should cost around 500$.

MOTU announced today that it will debut a pre-release version of Digital
Performer for Mac OS X at NAMM 2003 in Anaheim, CA this coming January.
Digital Performer's MIDI engine fully adopts Mac OS X's advanced MIDI services, collectively referred to as "CoreMIDI". These features allow Digital Performer to carry forward its many high-performance features for professional music applications. For example, Digital Performer takes full advantage of Mac OS X's high-resolution MIDI time-stamping services. Digital Performer also supports Mac OS X's MIDI device and patch list management features, which MOTU helped to develop, to ensure that Digital Performer users will experience a smooth transition from FreeMIDI (Digital Performer's OS-level MIDI services under OS 9) to Mac OS X.

Emagic's Audiowerk 8 and Audiowerk 2 now run in Mac OS X 10.2. This new Core Audio driver allows these two PCI-recording cards to operate at a minimum latency of 1.5 ms

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.