Creamware filled the 2nd of June an application for protection from creditors with the district council in Bonn, Germany. In clear: Creamware is in difficulties :-/

Mind that the products of creamware are still (according to some on the forums) good stuff running smoothly, that they stay in operation and maintain their 55 employees at work. The protection mesure is on point to help the company getting out of its problems and start again on firm grounds, happy and with pink cheeks.

And now a bit of legal stuff of importance:
"For you, the customer, this means: product development and support will be continued at full scale. The technological platform the Company uses will not only be maintained, but also will be refined and expanded in order to provide continued product updates and r ...

The owners of Access Virus synth will be glad to know that they can download the new version of the OS for free on the site.

OS6 contains additional arpeggiator pattern, PureTuning adaptive tuning, loads of shortcuts and a further improved timing and sync engine as well as loads of bug fixes and refinements. A new version of SoundDiver Virus which supports the new Virus parameters is also available

Apple has launched QuickTime 6.3. This new version provides the QuickTime community with immediate access to 3GPP technology. 3GPP is the new worldwide standard for the creation, delivery and playback of multimedia over new, high-speed wireless networks. Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, this standard seeks to provide uniform delivery of rich multimedia over newly evolved, broadband mobile networks (3rd generation networks) to a new breed of multimedia-enabled wireless devices. Tailored to the unique requirements of mobile devices, 3GPP takes advantage of MPEG-4, the new standard for delivery of video and audio over the Internet.

QuickTime at the Core :
When defining the MPEG-4 standard, the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) chose to base MPEG-4 on t ...

Jam X Music, Germany's leading specialists in radio and on air design and Ableton, a Berlin-based music software company, announced the upcoming release of jamXlive.
JamXlive is a music software program based on Live. JamXmatrix is a full-blown jingle package, designed for use in the sound design of a radio station studio. But that's not all: each part of every jingle and other sound elements can be recombined in any way to create new elements any time. This is a groundbreaking approach: taking the composition and creative process into the studio of radio stations. This product will be released just in time for the German Radio Day taking place in Cologne on July 5th, 2003.

Orange Vocoder 2.0 is now available for Pro Tools. Prosoniq is proud to offer their fast, flexible and transparent-sounding simulation of an analog vocoder available as a RTAS plug-in. The Orange Vocoder is an all-digital simulation of a realistic analog vocoder effect, following in the long tradition of German vocoder manufacturers. It is fully customizable and comes with an eight-voice virtual analog synthesizer unit, Breakpoint EQ, and Filterbank Reverb, all in a single plug-in. MIDI reception and automation have been improved.