German sound card manufacturer TerraTec builds further upon its strong standing in the sound and pro- audio market, by supporting from now all EWS cards with drivers for both Macintosh's operating systems, Os-X and Os 9. Drivers will be online mid of January.

All TerraTec sound cards based on the powerful EWS Engine chipset like the EWX 24/96, EWS88 D, EWS88 MT and the EWS MIC2/8 are now also supporting both leading Apple Macintosh's operating systems, Os-X and Os 9. From the entry-level soundcard up to high-end studio solutions, TerraTec's EWS cards are now also open to users of Macintosh systems. TerraTec considers this release to be one step further on their successful way to match customers' demands and bring their innovative and highly awarded technology to another segment of the market.

Radium 49 USB MIDI controller: The unit is identical to its recently introduced 61-key sibling, Radium, except that it offers one octave fewer keys and can run on batteries. 49 keys are augmented with 8 MIDI-assignable knobs and 8 MIDI-assignable sliders, giving real-time control of 16 MIDI parameters. Five user-definable preset banks extend this control to 80 MIDI parameters of the user's choice at the touch of a button. Radium 49 also has a built-in USB MIDI interface (16 channels of MIDI data directly with the computer. Two separate MIDI Outs. Pitch wheel, modulation wheel and octave up/down keys that extend the range of the 4-octave keyboard +/-3 octaves. The unit is powered via the USB port, batteries or via a 9V power supply.

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At last more detail on the french editor Arturia's Moog Modular:

They use a new batch of algorythms created by their engineers called TAE (True Analog Emulation) that should eliminate aliasing effect. All computing is made in 64bit floating…

- 9 oscillators (921 Mg series)
- 2 LFOs
- 3 filter slots can be chosen among classic Moog 904 series (low-pass 24 dB, high-pass 24 dB, filter coupler), and an additional 20 dB multimode filter (7 modes)
- 1 noise generator (white and pink -- 923 Moog module)
- 6 ADSR auxiliary envelopes (911 Moog module)
- 2 VCAs (with their own envelopes, and 1 panoramic potentiometer for natural stereo effects)
- 16 auxiliary VCAs with modulation inputs
- 1 sequencer (3x8 steps -- 960 Moog module)
- 1 filter bank (14 bands with their own bandwidth)
- ...

Spark XL 2.7 will be here in February. At the request of users they add direct CD burning into Spark. The update will be OS X only.
Powercore comes to OS X with VST AND AudioUnits support. compatibility with MOTU will follow this spring. Among novelties are 2 new plug-ins Assimilator (An EQ processor extracting any EQing from a reference tu apply it to a target) and Sony's Oxford Inflator (increase loudness without loss of quality and damages to peak levels)

Spark (all versions) and Spark XL 1.x: $149 US
Spark XL 2.0 and 2.5: $99 US
Spark XL 2.6: FREE (download)

Mackie Designs announced the implementation of HUI Mode for the Mackie Control, allowing it to interface with the popular Pro Tools platform. Pro Tools joins a growing family of popular DAW (digital audio workstations) platforms that are currently compatible with the Mackie Control including: Cakewalk SONAR, Magix Samplitude, MOTU Digital Performer, Steinberg Cubase SX, Cubase SL and Nuendo, as well as the Mackie Broadcast Professional Soundscape 32.
Mackie will also provide a Pro Tools specific Lexan overlay. At the same time, a HUI firmware upgrade will be made available for all existing Mackie Control owners. Shipping in late Q1 2003