Tascam announces The FW-1884, a professional control surface and audio/MIDI interface that uses FireWire !

Features :
- 24 bit/96 kHz
- 8 motorized 100 mm touch-sensitive channel faders
- 8 balanced XLR analog mic/line with high quality mic preamps, inserts on every channel and phantom power
- Controls for pan, solo, mute, 4 bands of parametric EQ
- Stereo S/PDIF inputs and outputs
- 8 analog outputs, (L/R and 5.1 )
- 4 MIDI inputs and outputs
- Word Clock in and out
- Compatible with DP, Cubasis, Nuendo, Cakewalk...

Also available: FE-8 (eight-channel sidecar) expands FW-1884 with eight additional channel control strips. Price : 1599 $ Available in May / June

Italian sound engineer a.k.a. Tobor Experiment develops freeware Mac plug-ins (Pluggo based) for VST/MAS/RTAS applications running on OS 9. A bundle of 3 plugs is now available for download, more plugs will follow.

Tobor is also looking for CG/photo artists to design backgrounds for future plugs.

If you are the owner of a power Mac from august 2002, don't hesitate to order the exchange kit from Apple including a new power supply and a 12 cm fan. You should install it yourself which takes roughly 45 mn (as I experience it). It's not really complicated, just take your time.

The difference in terms of noise is striking, no more high frequencies noise but instead, a normal low background noise. It costs approximately $24 $ which is quite reasonable for the service.

So just go for it, and remember that thoses are the lastest machines able to boot under OS 9: with a new power supply their value for future selling will only increase!

Need a way to send keys commands to Logic (or another software), try an XKeys, there's even a jog shuttle if you want…

The bug that disabled macmusic visitors to go to external links in one click, has been fixed!

Safari Public Beta 2 features tabbed browsing, autofill forms & passwords, privacy 'reset', import of Netscape and Mozilla bookmarks, increased standards compatibility, improved AppleScript support, and localized language support for English, Japanese, French and German.