Presonus is releasing TubePre, a new little tube driven mono channel pre-amp for microphone. it's a rackable version and has the classic gain and drive controls as well as a level indicator.

It features a 48v power supply allowing to use electret microphones, a 20dB attenuattor and a on/off 80Hz high range cut filter.

Roland prepares for its VariOS platform as seen on Sonicstate, virtual versions of their classic TB-303 and Jupiter 8. I think I've already seen something like that a few days ago ;) Korg maybe… Well, next time we'll see Yamaha with a virtual CS80 maybe (much less heavy and temperamental).

Apple is on the way to enter in the music online download scene with the help of the five Majors: Universal, Bertelsmann, Warner and EMI who would open their whole catalogs.

Steve Jobbs himself presented a revolutionnary platform which will make buying and dowloading of music as easy as buying a book on Amazon, thanks to a new technologic standard named Audio Advanced Codec.

Further on this tool would also include an anti-piracy system which would limit the numeric copies.

Digidesign announced the compatibility of their Pro Tools 6 with the last update of mac OS X, the 10.2.4 version

Korg will release Q3 in VST and Audiounits formats (so under OS X yeah!) virtual versions of their classic vintage synths:
- MS 20
- Polysix
- Wavestation

The synths will be based on CMT (component modeling technology, which is a form in fact of physical modeling). Other classics are to follow.
So after Waldorf, another hardware synth goes pure software. (just tell me why they use such bad trance/Eurodance as a soundtrack, their classic synths desserve better no?) :-/

For the MS20, will we need still patchcords?