Users of the M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface have discovered that the unit is not recognized under Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). M-Audio have not offered updated drivers, and in fact, they have not even mentioned Panther at all on their site. Hopefully a solution will appear soon.

Ed: I haven't yet verified this information, so I'm posting it to find out what users' experience is. What has your experience been with M-Audio USB and FireWire devices? Hit the comment button and let us know. Now that I don't have any gigs to worry about for a few days, I'm going to brave the waters and try installing Panther myself and report on what hardware and software I can break! -PK

Edirol Corporation released new Panther-ready drivers for all current OS X compatible products. Edirol released Panther support for 26 products including a number of earlier devices no longer in production, such as the PC-300 USB MIDI Keyboard controller & the UM-4 (aka S/MPU-64) USB MIDI interface. Updates are available on download, and the complete list of these new drivers is posted on

The Dave Smith Evolver just reached V 2.0 of its software, adding a 4th bank (512 programs in all now), new modulations, synchronous program changing with the sequencer running, tap tempo, longer envelopes, new glide and new trigger modes, new clock mode for the sequencer, and much much more… and an easter egg (bank 4, patch 16)

Yodelheehoo! Our MM friend Synthetic has conducted a nicy electronic interview with Dave Smith, programmer of the Evolver and the father of Midi.

The demo for the cs80v from Arturia is available at. The CS80V is an emulation of the famous Yamaha CS80: Wonderful but uses a lot of processor power. This virtual instrument is available as a VSTi plug-in for OS9 and OSX