The USB ASIO driver connects even more external soundcards with a number of audio applications and virtual instruments at latencies so low you can't feel them any longer: down to 4ms according to the company. It's main advantage is a dramatic increase in performance meaning that more of the computer's CPU power can be used for what it's meant for: Sound generation and effect processing.

Steinberg has released a new VST instrument called PLEX. Developed in conjunction with Wolfgang Palm, PLEX is a software synthesizer that supports Macintosh (9 and X) and Windows running any VST 2.0-compatible host.

The processor used in the new macintosh may not correctly take advantages of the new DDR memory used.
Bare Feats compared the new DDR 1GHz MP Power Mac versus
"Old" SDRAM version...

Apple is now selling a 'Family Pack' licence for Mac OS 10.2 (aka "Jaguar"). For $199, you can install this system on up to 5 macintosh.

BIAS Inc. releases Peak 3.1, a new version of their digital audio editing application. This upgrade adds support for QuickTime 6, encoding audio with Dolby's AAC, and several other feature enhancements. Based upon the recently released Peak 3, Peak 3.1 is native for Mac OS X and will also run under Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x. The upgrade will be available free of charge for owners of Peak 3.