Apple today introduced the 20-inch Apple Cinema Display, a professional-quality, wide-format active-matrix LCD with 1680-by-1050 pixel resolution at a breakthrough price of $1,299 (US). Ideal for demanding color work, the all-digital 20-inch flat panel display provides more work area than Apple's previous 22-inch Cinema Display.

Apple also dramatically reduced the price of its 23-inch Cinema HD Display, with 1920-by-1200 pixel resolution -- enough to view High Definition Television (HDTV) content with room to spare -- from $3,499 (US) to an amazing $1,999 (US).

Apple also reduced the price of its 17-inch Studio Display, providing 1280-by-1024 pixels, from $999 (US) to just $699 (US).

Geethree provide a new Plug-in for Apple's Core MIDI software to enable serial MIDI devices under Mac OS X .

Those configurations have been tested :
- 1 Emagic Unitor 8
- 2 Motu MIDI Time Piece II AV
- 1 MAC Midiman
- 1 Motu MIDI Time Piece AV
- 1 J L Cooper synclink serial
- 1 Motu MidiExpress+ MT4
- 2 Motu MIDI Time Piece II
- 1 Opcode Studio 4
- 1 Opcode Studio 128
- 1 Opcode Studio 5 LX
- 1 Opcode Studio 64 + Emagic Unitor 8 MarkII (USB)
- 1 Motu MTP A/V and 1 Motu MTP II
- 1 Opcode Studio 4 + 1 Motu MTP 1 + 1 AMT 8 US

For instance, a Gport Card users may installed the Stealth Mac OS X drivers. (remove the Gport driver and set the Stealth driver and the Plug-in)

Novation's synthesis technology is now available to the desktop computer music market for the first time. The new Novation V-Station virtual analog synthesizer recreates the power and rich sound of the K-Station synth as a plug-in for Mac or PC platforms.

At the core of the V-Station is Novation's Liquid Analog synthesis engine, delivering rich, dense sounds that offer vast creative potential. The plug-in combines these with a clear and responsive front panel interface, with all the key sound shaping controls a simple mouse click away.

Any one of the 200 factory presets can be recalled, modified and saved instantly in one of 400 program locations. The patches, that are named and not numbered, cover a huge sonic range, from searing leads and passionate pads, to delicate electric piano ...

Waves software version 4.0 initially offers OS X support for TDM, AS, RTAS and VST, with other formats to follow

Version 4.0 will initially support TDM, AS, RTAS and VST, while forthcoming releases will support the full gamut of plug-in formats under Macintosh OS X. The powerful, UNIX-based multithreaded nature of the OS X operating system makes it ideal for audio, and allows the highly efficient DSP optimization coding schemes developed by Waves to be used to their fullest capability, maximizing single and dual processor availability for DSP operations, freeing up the power needed to run many more plug-ins, and in the case of host-based systems such as Nuendo 2.x, making it possible to handle significantly more tracks and simultaneous functions.

The KONTAKT 1.2 update and Direct from Disk extension are now available on NI website. KONTAKT 1.2 comes with many new functions such as a release trigger for triggering groups by releasing notes as well as a key and controller activator for group activation either by keyboard commands or via a Midi controller. The update also comes with a Round and Random Robbin function for consecutive cycling through groups upon keystrokes or for random cycling through groups for playback and much more.

The separately available Direct from Disk extension enables KONTAKT to
play samples directly from the hard drive. Sample size will no longer be
limited by the amount of physical RAM - an instrument can be as large as
available hard drive space. All KONTAKT instruments will load many times faster than RAM-based instruments.

The Direct from Disk extension requires the update to KONTAKT 1.2