We finally have some consistent information for crazy Storm-users who so far felt abandoned by Arturia which was so busy with CS80 and ModularV, its excellent virtual synths that came out this year.

The major update just announced, will finally come to life in February 2004... This means you will need to be a little bit more patient, however I can tell you a bit about it in the meantime:

- Unlimited rack (instead of four synths and samples readers or effects)
- Import of midi files
- A better sequencer
- Piano roll for pattern and sequence editing
- new general midi instrument
- and other surprises...

Storm 3 will run under Mac Os X (which will be a minimum), so bye bye OS9. This update will cost only a few euros to registered users. Nothing is set yet about the full package's price.

M-Audio (aka Midiman) has posted Panther-compatible drivers for their keyboards and Midi or audio interfaces. Products supported include: USB Midisport, Keystation, Oxygen 8 and Radium devices.

A student at the University of Cologne (Germany) is currently writing a thesis about music software. The thesis is based on an online survey for which he needs your help. Please head over to the following link and fill out the form, it will approx. take 5 min. All your information is kept anonymously and private;the survey serves only a scientific purpose

SmartScore Pro is a "scan & play" software, made by Musitek Corporation, who announces an upgrade to version 3. With SmartScore your scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form after scanning, and this new version adds news features and improvements:improved lyric and text recognition, more symbols and usefull tools (burn ENF playback to AudioCD or convert ENF to PDF files).

SmartScore Pro 3 update costs 99 euros, and a demo version is available on the Musitek web site.

AudioFinder, the playing, scanning and extracting audio software from Iced Audio is fastly becoming the Swiss Army for the digital studio. This new version add a lot of improvements including:

- Added Sysex Transmit for dumping of Sysex data to MIDI devices
- Reordered the menus moving the user defined ones to the right
- Added copy to Desktop
- Added Generate Report to the Scanner Tab (produces a spreadsheet or database compatible file)
- Added AAC (.m4a) support.
- Granted all trial users a new round of launch counts. All feature flags have been reset.
- Added the ability to set Color Labels on files. (Panther required)
- Improved the Sample Extractor so If the source folder is read-only the extracted samples are created in the Favorites folder.
- Added Bookmarks popup on th ...