Sound Keys, the French monthly magazine, mentions MacMusic in its July/August issue, under the "on the net" column: "...60 Euros... and to be sure it's not a lot, as MacMusic is surely one of the best web sites on computer assisted music.

Sound Keys is onto its 8th. This summer issue has, among others, an excellent review of virtual instruments (the commercial and freeware ones).

TC Electronic revolutionizes audio restoration with the new Restoration Suite for the PowerCore Platform. The Suite includes a very powerful DeScratcher, which is based on brand new research by Noveltech in Finland. The Restoration Suite offers three real-time Plug-ins for the most critical applications in audio restoration: Denoising, Declicking and Descratching.

BIAS Inc. announced that Peak 4, a major new version of the leading stereo waveform editing application for Macintosh, is now available. Peak 4 offers a wealth of new features and enhancements, including support for Audio Unit plug-ins, an innovative sample-based reverb technology called ImpulseVerb , Multi-processor support, Redbook CD burning from directly within the Peak application, a host of new DSP tools, a mastering-quality compressor/limiter called Sqweez , and many other enhancements. In addition, Peak 4's graphic user interface has been streamlined, and sports a new elegant brushed metal look that Macintosh enthusiasts will surely feel at home with. Finally, Peak 4 is now a Mac OS X-only application, enabling it to take full advantage of the OS X-only services within the OS (For ...

Microsoft has stolen a march on rival Apple by signing a deal with a digital music company backed by singer Peter Gabriel to launch the first internet download service in Europe to sell individual tracks.

The new venture will be accessed through Microsoft's Windows Media Player software and will allow users to download songs from a choice of more than 200,000 by major artists.

Users of Waves' version 4 plug-ins can now download a free update allowing them to be used with Digital Performer 4.1 and Audio Unit host applications running under Mac OS X.

The updates comes in the form of two new downloadable Wave Shell installers. The MAS Wave Shell is supported for use with Digital Performer 4.1 running under OS X 10.2. The Audio Unit version is officially certified and supported for use with Logic Audio 6.1 (a stability issue is corrected in version 6.2), Peak 4.0, and Spark 2.8. The Waves Audio Unit plug-ins will be visible to any compatible host application, but the company notes some cases where applications can fail to load with the Wave Shell installed.

The Wave Shells are available now for free from the Waves web site, and requires Mac OS X 10.2 with V4 plug-ins installed.