TC Applied Technologies launch a chipset for Firewire with audio in mind. In fact it covers all standard pro audio formats and Firewire. This will bring us cool interfaces soon.
Some of the main features of the Dice II include:

• A total of 96 FireWire audio channels at 96kHz Sample Rate.
• Two Sample Rate domains each featuring an on-chip PLL.
• AES receiver/transmitter handling 8 channels in each direction.
• ADAT receiver/transmitter with S-MUX support for 96kHz.
• Glueless connection of AD/DA converters (more than 16 channels in each direction).
• Glueless connection of a high number of commodity DSP processors.
• ARM 32 bit RISC processor.
• IEEE 1394 Link Layer Controller.

Wave Arts has expanded its line of pro audio plug-ins to MOTU?s MAS platform, adding support for musicians and engineers who use Digital Performer and AudioDesk.

The newest batch of MAS plug-ins include: the powerful yet CPU-efficient MasterVerb reverb; the all-in-one TrackPlug channel strip plug-in with a compressor, gate and a 64-bit 10-band EQ; and the WaveSurround Pro spatial enhancer/wide reverb plug-in.

In addition to MAS support, Wave Arts has also made significant improvements to its Mac-based graphics engine ? its Mac VST and MAS plug-ins now offer smooth and fast graphics controls, with vastly improved GUI refresh rates.

Free 30-day demo downloads of MasterVerb, TrackPlug and WaveSurround Pro for MAS, as well as VST , are available in the section software of MacMusic.

A Mac editor suitable for the Kenton Control Freak Studio Edition, Control Freak Live and Spin Doctor is now available for free download. The editor has a full range of features, and allows the dumping of Control Freak profiles. At present it's OS9 only, but an OSX version will be released as soon as the MAX environment full release is available for OSX. A separate editor will be made available for the 8 slider Control Freak Original shortly.

You can download the Control Freak Mac editor from the news section of the Kenton website.

Well, I just had an e-mail from the company telling me that they were about to upload OS X versions of their well-respected Delay Pack and Vintage Warmer plug-ins to their server.

I don't see them on the website yet, but their positive reply to my question about OS X updates at least means they're coming very, very soon (unlike, say, Digital Performer, arf!)

OS X updates for the remaining PSP plug-ins to follow.

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Plug-in Authorization for Mac OS X!

You want to Upgrade to Pro Tools 6.0? Make sure to have an iLok USB Smart Key around to handle your plug-in authorizations. As Mac OS X does not support floppy drives, all plug-in authorizations for Pro Tools compatible plug-ins and software options are now done through Pace's iLok USB Smart Key.
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To learn more about the iLok Smart Key and why it is required to run plug-ins with Pro Tools 6.0, click :

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iLok Smart Key cost $40.00