I would like to welcome Peter Kirn, founder of the young but already great MusicOnMac.com website. We decided to combines our forces to dramatically boost the english side of MacMusic.

Peter, will be in charge of the english news (which layout should improve soon) as well as Articles, Review, interview and so on.. As a NYC resident, his english should be far better than mine ;) and far better than our translators team.

We expect Peter to continue the wonderfull job that he started with MOM, now at MacMusic with a larger audience, structure and a team to help him. He will shortly tell you more...

Welcome Peter! :)

Update can be downloaded at the Steinberg Website. Original Installer CD is required to install the 17 MB file. The Update also includes a new bank with 64 sounds ! (Platform: Mac OS 9 and OS X)

Modularing, MilProd's virtual synthesizer, is almost available in an OSX version. They are still looking for beta-testers.

Pinknoise Studio's Soundbank has unveiled a new Reason Refill for the NN-XT sampler featuring sampled analog modular synths. I was skeptical of this approach at first, fearing sampled Moog's or something horrendous like that. Instead, the bright folks at Pinknoise have created a Refill with basic analog components (sine waves and the like) so you can take advantage of the advanced modular features of the NN-XT to replicate the creative synthesis possibilities of a full-featured analog synth. Demos are available, and the full version is just US$19 for a download. With Reason's excellent pattern sequencers, this could be a lot of fun -- stay tuned for a review.

IRCAM, the famous french institute for musical research and Eowave associated last year to develop the eobody. Eobody is a CV to MIDI interface we already talked about in the MM news. It is on demo on AE2003 with its MAX/msp developed editor and the available sensors (light, pressure, piezo pads, ground captors, distance, acceleration etc.) and under developement sensors (ribbon and capacitive keyboards) to trigger sounds (I develop everywhere ;), notes or video events in real time. (see the pics)

Now you can really play your tunes by scratching your head or square dancing!