Mac and Music News
Through Friday June 13, 2003
| Mar 7 - 10:56 AM | Industry > Audio Engineering Society (AES) |
The Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee (AESSC) calls for comment on reaffirmation and revision of AES10-1991 (Recommended Practice for Digital Audio Engineering - Serial Multichannel Audio Digital Interface -MADI-). They try to simplify connexions between digital audio and multi channels devices. The AES Site |  Post a comment ? |
| Mar 7 - 09:23 AM | Music Software > BIAS |
BIAS announced they are udapting:
- Peak goes 3.2.1: free update for 3.2 users, new for $499, available now. New features include a better opening of AIFC files without types and creators, a bug fix on the registration asked again after a network configuration change, and overall performance.
- Deck goes 3.52: free update for 3.5 users form and of March. $399 for new users. The update is fixing among a few things a bug about modem dial-up on launch and Peak being grayed out when selecting Launch External Editor (a bit annoying that ;).
- Vbox goes 1.2: this new version in now fully native OS X, and also compatible with Soundsoap (Hey, for a BIAS product, you can expect that :) Vbox is available now for $99. The upgrade is free to 1.0 users.
All three apps are Jaguar 10.2.3 fully compliant
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| Mar 7 - 04:07 AM | Virtual Instrument > Native Instruments |
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS presents the first major update of their award winning, semi modular software synthesizer.
ABSYNTH 2.0 is now a synthesizer and a sampler!!! The list of the new features is so gorgeous that you really have to go on their site to believe what you will read.
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| Mar 7 - 01:43 AM | Music Hardware > Hartmann |
The MODELmaker software is available free to all Neuron purchaser (see previous news) in OS 9 version, PC and OSX to follow this spring. A new soundset of 150 items is available too.| Post a comment ? |
| Mar 7 - 12:01 AM | Computer Hardware > Tascam |
Tascam in collaboration with Frontier Design Group developed the US-122, a USB MIDI/audio interface featuring:
- 16 midi channels I/O
- 2 XLR phantom powered mic inputs with analog inserts or
- 2 line inputs on balanced TRS 1/4" jacks, guitar level switchable
- dedicated headphone outpout.
- Zero latency monitoring, level control, can be switched to mono
- 2 line outputs unbalanced with level control
- 24 bit 44,1 and 48KHz
- USB powered
- OS 8.6 to 9 and OS X
- ASIO, Sound Manager, Core Audio, OMS, FreeMIDI
- free cubasis VST
- $269
| En savoir plus sur le US-122 |  2 users'comments |
