TC-Helicon brings in April his Voice modeling technology to the Powercore platform. The Voicemodeler can change or improve a voice, a "thin" vocal into a "throat" one, a "male" into a "female". A complete control is possible on the parameters of the voice: morphing, crispness, breath, growl can be adjusted in real time. You can expect more voice effects in charts in the coming month after this release, from the natural to the extreme. Price $249-215eu

Yamaha revamps the 01 mixer the mLAN way. It is in fact a 01V96 in mLAN with 9 motorised faders, transport controls, DAW support for Cubase SX, Nuendo, Logic Audio, Digital Performer and softs synths.

- 28 Channels with dynamic processing and 4 band parametric EQ
- 2X 32 bit effect processors
- large LCD screen to display names on top of the faders.
- 3 VST plug-ins for enhanced vocal processing, pitch correction and mastering.
- VST channel module to show hardware and functions of the mixer on the computer screen
- mLAN input and outpout

Certainly a tough competition for Digidesign Digi002.

mLAN support is included in OSX 10.2.4
Due in Q3 2003 for $1700-1700eu

Steinberg release a bundle "Waldorf Edition" with the following VST plug-ins from Waldorf:
- Attack
- D-Pole
- PPG Wave 2.V

they run in both OS 9 and X and the bundle is expected for 249?

The fourth generation. REAKTOR 4 comes with new modules as
well as with an enhanced functionality.
REAKTOR 4 features graphical sample mapping that allows velocity splits and 32-bit sample support for maximum flexibility and sound quality.
The reworked snapshot manager. The interface has received a completely new design with redesigned graphics, a trimmed-down toolbar, and much more.
Reaktor 4 will support MacOSX and AudioUnits...

REAKTOR 4 will be released in April 2003

TC electronics will ship in May the Powercore Firewire, a version of their Powercore PCI card but in Firewire (I'm smart, yes, I know ;)

Powercore firewire is twice the power of the PCI version and retains the principle of processing audio in Powercore and not in the computer host. The DSPs used here are faster and have more available RAM than on PCI so the result is a more powerfull rack and more plug-ins available than previously. Laptop users will definetly be interested.

- AudioUnits and VST support
- 4 Motorola 56K DSP 150MHz
- 512K words SRAM by DSP
- 1 Motorola PowerPC 266 MHZ
- 8MB DRAM for the PPC
- 3 Firewire pass thru connectors
- Price TBA

Small (!) detail, support of VST AND AudioUnits ;)