Universal Audio just released an OSX compatible beta version of their drivers for the Mackie UAD-1 Card, as a free download.

The final and complete 3.3 version will be available on December 18th 2003, with an additionnal new Fairchild plugin.

The italian company Anwida softwares announces a special price on a VST plugins pack. The Xmas Pack 2003 contains CX1V, a compressor-expender, L1V, a limiter-maximizer and GEQ15V, a 15 band graphic equalizer.
This VST plugins pack for Mac OS X costs 99 euros.

An update v1.2 for the Sonalksis SV-517 Equaliser Plug-in is now available. The SONALKSIS SV-517 Equaliser Plug-in is a 6 band tonal equaliser that employs a tone control with true 'Analogue' characteristics. The 1.2 update adds support for Apple AudioUnit. A future RTAS compatibility is announced. This update is a free download for all registered users of SV-517 EQ.

This beginning of December is the perfect time to shed a few nostalgic tears over the career of a computer that musicians have really appreciated to its true value for four years : Powermac G4. How many recording sessions, music and editings have been realised with this computer ? How many outrages did it suffer from it being inserted in a rack to it being transported in some shaggy van for some gig ?

Announced in September 1999 with a sweet code name "Yikes", powermac G4 PCI-video and AGP-video were the first two machines of a larger family to become : Gigabit ethernet and the famous Cube in July 2000, G4 Digital-audio in January 2001 and the first Quicksilver series in July of the same year, followed by the second series in january 2002.

MacMusic announced on november 13th the future availability of Terra 2.0 by VirSyn, it's now done. TERA 2.0 is a modular software synthesizer based on different synthesis modules. This new version includes : Analog synthesis, Spectrum Synthesis, Formant, FM synthesis, Physical modeling, custom waveforms for all oscillators, and 16 modular synths (with up to  64 voices).

Tera 2 is compatible with Mac OS 9/OS X standalone / VST / AudioUnit and now ReWire 2 and RTAS. The price for TERA 2.0 is 299 EUR .Note that all registered users with the original TERA CD 1.1 and 1.2 can download this upgrade for free.