After no less than 20 beta versions, Cycling '74 announced the release of OSX versions of the interactive graphical programming environment Max, and MSP, the collection of audio signal processing objects.

Christian Texier, a French graphic conceptor and musician created fonts especially used for modern music notation.
The fonts Acoustica, Concreta, Controla, Electronica, Tempera and Sonora work pretty well with most of the music notation softwares (Finale...) and they are totally free ! You can download them on the MidiDesign website.

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.