For the happy few who are or can be in Paris tomorrow, there will be the 6th anniversary of MacMusic. Warning! 200 people at the max! Not a lot of (free) tickets left!
Music is NOT optional ;)

See you there!

Happy Birthday MacMusic… Happy Birthday (etc.)

According to AFP from 17/09, Steve Jobs has announced the iTunes music service online store being available for Windows users before the end of 2003. Europe would follow next spring. Something to keep an eye on.
Apart form that, Steve Jobs has apparently given up on buying Universal Music.

An update on both Clavia and Elektron, the respectively red and silver synth makers:

The Nord Modular G2 is in Alpha testing, a few are running Europe at least to get their knobs twiddled. Still no news from the expected (by us) but not announced (by Clavia, not on the road map right now) Mac Editor. The thing is as red as ever.

Elektron has solded (with discount) in less than 24 hours the first 100 Monomachines for betatesters. The first samples are online for the happy few (all members of the Elektron friend mailing list -see Elektron site for that- have had the link) show the actual ...

Ask The DJ will next week reach version 1.4 (29$). It is an intuitive DJ software with BPM detection, smart list sorting (on bpm, rhythm and volume) and only 3 buttons and two sliders for control. It even allow you to export the result in one or multiple files in CD quality. More on it in our soft tracker

New features in 1.4 are:
- Search engine in Unicode so that even our Japanese friends for example can find their favorite tunes.
- An explorer window to manage the tracks an other way, also helping iPod users to move their files from their little white friend.
- Availability of a French version (including manual and help) along the English one.

Now our members searching a soft for DJing will have _no_ excuses.
And you know, if you hide the main window in the dock, the dancer will start moving in rhythm in the file part of the dock

Sampletank come back in its 2.0 version, and IK Multimedia has added a few but important features:
- STRETCH, an engine that pitch shift, stretch, works on timbre and harmonics. this way, as the resampling engine used before is still there you can plays the samples with very different timbres as both methods are treating harmonics in STRETCH much more elegantly.
Add to this it permit a realistic glide with portamento that is natural.
- a loop function using the STRECH engine that in one click synchronize, pitch shift, strech etc. the loops loaded in Sampletank and you can play them without even thinking about the math crunching behind. Ear the STRETCH!