If you want an additional proof that Apple is the platform for musicians: The Los Angeles Times make a citation in their 11 April edition concerning a persistent rumor that Apple and Vivendi Universal are heavily and frequently discussing about the selling of Universal Music to Apple for $6 billion. Universal Music stands for a quarter of the total CD sales worldwide!

The rumor details that Apple is planning to make his offer before the meeting of the Vivendi director board on 29th of April.

Native Instruments announces that VOKATOR is available worldwide in stores today. Vokator is a revolutionary vocoder that defines a new standard for transparency, detail, and smoothness. It is not only an exceptional vocoder, but also a sophisticated synthesizer, a granular sampler, and a virtual sound-fusion laboratory. Vokator's high-resolution FFT spectral engine is a milestone in vocoder development. Previous vocoders used eight, sixteen, twenty, or thirty-two frequency bands at the most, Vokator's advanced engine uses 1024 bands.

Vokator is now available at music retailers at recommended retail of $299 and 289 Euro.

The Jaguar update for OS 10.2.5 is now available. As usually, use the software update in your preference pannel's system. This update will be on the Apple website very soon.

A translations of a french article from our member Domz, concerning Audio plug-ins on the Macintosh platform (originally from Claude Borne). Enjoy.

In addition to the 01 X (Macmusic's news on March 6th), Yamaha presents the MY8 mLan, an extension card for digital consoles.

The MY8 mLan is an E/S interface card in mLAN format (for latest version of OS X) for 01V, D24, AW4416, DME32 and PM1D.

This little wonderful gear will simply transform the 01 V to a big "Firewire" audio interface for Mac.