At the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2003, Steinberg unveiled the new 2.0 version of their HALion VST sampler. Deliveries of HALion 2.0 began on 16th April, and began arriving at specialist music dealers a few days later.

Among the new features are brand new filters by the synthesizer specialists at Waldorf and the new 5.1 surround functionality.

The MacMusicians Pro Directory will soon be on line. Sorted by jobs and countries, this directory is already very helpfull with over 2500 registered members.

So in order to be listed correctly and to find contacts or jobs, thanks to check out the informations in your user's profile : especially your activity, registration type, self-description, name and geographical location.

The Vienna symphonic library is now available on exs24 mk2 for the Logic 5.5/6 users, on Mac or PC. You'll find the same features as with Gigastudio.

Tfpro, home of ted Fletcher, the "infamous" mind behind the green things marketed as Joemeek until recently, and after a small batch of red painting, is coming back with an Edward. Edward the Compressor precisely. P8 for the ones in the know.

Edward the Compressor is a multitalented "classic" comp. The method used is as you can imagine optical but the guts of the red thing hide in fact not a multipurpose comp, but 4 types of different circuits of compression. You select the one you need.

The Digidesign engineer Ted Barram announces the Beta 2 version of the Core audio driver very soon on line. This version will support Reason 2.5 and above all will be more stable than the Beta 1 (according to Digidesign's tests).