An update for AudioTools Pro, bringing it to version 4.2. AudioTools Pro is a calculation utility designed for music production environments. The update features several enhancements including OS X support and network operation.

It's a full success for Apple. In a May 5th message, Apple announced that more than a million of titles have been sold on the iTunes music store (only available in US for the moment), after one week only, when the Cupertino Firm had expected to get this result after a month.

Little problem : on the 200,000 available tittles, half has already been downloaded so Apple announces that 3,200 new tittles will be on line since May 6th.

Other good news : the new version of the iTunes software has been downloaded more than a million times in less than a week and there have been more than 110 000 orders of the new iPod during its first launching week !

And in the end, our big friend "the rumour" announces that the 10.2.6 Os will be available in mid-May...

Since the present Digidesign core audio driver is incompatible with iTunes4, Digidesign has announced a new version (1.2) available this week. For the record: Digidesign engineers claim to have received iTunes 4 "like everyone else", on 28th April....

Finally a training course for LOGIC AUDIO will take place in Paris from 2nd to 28th june 2003. It will include 4 modules accessible separately.

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AKAI is lauching a 24bits/96k resolution virtual sampler, which is a software version of hardware samplers Z4 and Z8.
Available in VST and AU, it only deals (at least for the moment) with AKAI soundbanks.