In a CDR-info article, Michael Golacinski, Memorex' CEO, says that supply shortages, rising costs from overseas disc manufacturers and stringent enforcement of patent royalties will increase CD-R and CD-RW media prices 10 to 15 percent beginning january 2004.

Note that costs have increased 35 percent this year ...So, as you have done for the cigarettes, just stock.

Our Active Member Celmo had a little talk with the guys up at Geethree and they are working on a serial port adapter again on the modem port. they couldn't tell the release date but watch out!

Manyetas software announce the Panther's upgrade of his "Ritmo" plugin with these features in the 1.1 version :

- fixed a crash during startup when QuickTime 6.4 was installed, or
when run on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
- fixed some issues related to the initialisation and cleanup cycle
- several new sample drum kits are included
- including Logic 5.5 presets

Ritmo only costs $25.

Rogue Amoeba has today released Detour 1.2, with support for OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Unsanity's Xounds 2.1 (Coming Soon!).This update to Detour also includes new French and Italian localizations.

In addition, all of Rogue Amoeba's products have been updated over the
past week for 10.3 support. Both audio recording and enhancing tools, the original Audio Hijack and Audio Hijack Pro received minor updates., and are now available for free download on the :

During the AES, Digidesign announced some news :

- All Digidesign TDM plug-ins as well as most plug-ins distributed by Digidesign have been optimised for Pro Tools|HD Accel. An update software CD of these new Pro Tools|HD Accel plug-ins will ship free with new systems.

- As a distributor of Sonic Solutions' NoNOISE, Digidesign announce
a price reduction on the noise reduction/audio restoration plug-in suite. Effective 10th October, 2003, the new suggested retail price of Sonic Solutions' NoNOISE is 1495 EUR.