Digidesign announces plans to demonstrate a new version of Pro Tools with DigiTranslator 2.0 that supports the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) for program interchange at the NAB show in Las Vegas April 7-10, 2003, in the Avid Technology, Inc. booth #SL300. After showing a working version of Pro Tools with AAF support at NAB, Digidesign plans to make it available to Pro Tools customers as part of the DigiTranslator 2.0 option, inside a Pro Tools release scheduled for this summer.

The Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is a media interchange file format that enables content creators to easily exchange sequence information, digital media and metadata across platforms, and between systems and applications. AAF simplifies project management, saves time, and preserves valuable metadata that was typically lost when transferring program material between applications in the past.

Macfixit announces that they have found the way to boot the new Macs
on OS 9 : Apple provides its technicians with a CD called "MacTest Pro for Power Mac G4 version 7.8.1 supports all iMac (flat pannel) 15 inch systems only" which allows to boot on Mac OS 9 thanks to a new version of the Mac OS ROM extension.
At this time, the tests have been only made on new iMac and the "miraculous CD" is strictly reserved to Apple detailers/technicians.

So why not for all the new Macs... one day...

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Our Moogy fellows of Arturia announced their support of AudioUnits as plug-in format. The Moog Modular V should be updated for this reason a the end of the month. Enjoy!

MacMusic will present the Moog Modular V at the MacOSX Student day in Paris the 29th of March. Prepare your patch cables!

Steinberg announces their upcoming new control surface. Named "ID Controller", it has been especially developed in tandem with their pro Audio software, Nuendo v2.

No release date has been announced yet, Steinberg is apparently taking time to finalize their products (probably due to the problems encountered with the previous control surface "Houston")