Arturia is hosting an enquiry to eventually release the Moog ModularV as an hardware synth (hardware dongle anyone? A way to provide much more power thru dedicated DSPs?). If this interests you or gives you nightmares, please let them know. They really want some input and given the rather good job they did on the ModularV, they deserve a little help :)

We announced a few time ago the future availabitily of North 2, a new set of folk instruments from North India, by Swar System.

It's done: North 2 is available today, for OS X only.

One by one, Panther compatibility issues are being resolved. This just in: Steinberg's HALion has been updated to 2.0.2.2 for OS X with full compatibility for OS X 10.3 plus improved file loading times. Not familiar with HALion? Check out MacMusic's Software Pages for HALion info.

We kick off our series of interviews with Mac Maestros, outstanding Mac-based developers. musicians, and composers, with a chat with composer and developer Tom Erbe. Tom has become legendary in the Mac music community for creating SoundHack, the free spectral sound processing software. Tom has been involved with various other projects from his own music to the creation of an electronic violin and spatial audio processing for NASA. I spoke to Tom about music and technology on the Mac on the eve of the release of new realtime audio plugins inspired by SoundHack.

An update of Mark of the Unicorn's virtual sampler MachFive is avaliable for download from the company's web site. Versions of MachFive for MAS, VST, RTAS, and HTDM are all posted. An update of the UviX sample format converter and Interlok Extensions is also included.

No mention of what fixes/features/changes are included in the update.