The holiday season is here and Ableton would like to thank their customers by offering all registered users an exciting collection of samples. In conjunction with M-Audio, Ableton have selected 100 of the best samples from their ProSessions Sound and Loop Library collection. From now until 30-12-2003, these can be downloaded free of charge by registered Live users (full retail versions of Live only).

Native Instruments announces a new update of KOMPAKT for OS X.
The Native's sampler now fully supports the modern technologies and interfaces of OS X, including AudioUnits, RTAS, VST and standalone operation with CoreMIDI and CoreAudio.

The KOMPAKT update is immediately available to all registered users as a
free download. The full version costs 199 euros.

Voice of the GoatCactus is an application that lets you create original "music" with "the click of a button", even if you have no musical training. You can use the demo version to create studios and bands, listen to their music and make modifications. If you pay the license fee, you can save the music you've created, as entire studios or individual bands, or export the music as MIDI files. All music is royalty-free.

You can download a demo version of Voice of the GoatCactus or buy the 30 euros licence.

Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, will deliver the opening keynote address for Macworld Conference & Expo, at San Francisco 2004 on Tuesday,January 6, 2004 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center Jan 5-9. Just wait...

TX7 Editor is a complete freeware editor for the Yamaha TX7 expander. It allows to edit all the voice and performance parameters of the TX7, and to load and save banks in System Exclusive format.
TX7 Editor is Panther compatible and is available on free download.