MOTU announced today that it will debut a pre-release version of Digital
Performer for Mac OS X at NAMM 2003 in Anaheim, CA this coming January.
Digital Performer's MIDI engine fully adopts Mac OS X's advanced MIDI services, collectively referred to as "CoreMIDI". These features allow Digital Performer to carry forward its many high-performance features for professional music applications. For example, Digital Performer takes full advantage of Mac OS X's high-resolution MIDI time-stamping services. Digital Performer also supports Mac OS X's MIDI device and patch list management features, which MOTU helped to develop, to ensure that Digital Performer users will experience a smooth transition from FreeMIDI (Digital Performer's OS-level MIDI services under OS 9) to Mac OS X.

Emagic's Audiowerk 8 and Audiowerk 2 now run in Mac OS X 10.2. This new Core Audio driver allows these two PCI-recording cards to operate at a minimum latency of 1.5 ms

Currently, BitHeadz Unity 3.0 products, Phrazer 2.0 and Phrazer LE programs have OS X support in stand-alone mode. Now that sequencing programs are making their way into OSX, the new feature will allow users to integrate with current OSX compatible sequencers, like Logic, that support audio units.

Audio units support will be one of the features in the Unity 3.1 update. Version 3.1 is expected for release in the first quarter of 2003. The update will be free for download to all current Unity Session, Unity DS-1 and Unity AS-1 3.0 users.

M-Audio has annouced the release of a new USB audio/Midi interface, the USB Audiophile. Following the Audiophile 2496, this new 24 Bit/96 kHz USB interface provides 2 x analog I/O, 1 x digital I/O (SPDIF), 1x Midi I/O, and an headphone out. Two knobs will allow the user to set headphone and output level. The price should be around 300€/$.
For more details visit Midiman/M-Audio's website.

(Please note that, at the time this news was published, no sign of that release was present on this site... Only the french version of the website was providing infos and detailed about this product).

This upgrade brings many enhancements and is now downloadable on Apple's website. For details on those enhancements, follow the link !