Hello everyone. With some regret, I wish to thank the readership of MacMusic for the past year and announce I will no longer be acting as Editor-in-Chief. I've enjoyed working with the talented team here at MacMusic and the unique experience of bridging cultures and languages at the only truly multi-national / multi-lingual Mac site on the Web. However, balancing my life as a composer, teacher, graduate student and technology instructor - consultant has become too much for the daily job of editing, so I will leave to devote more time to other activities. One of those activities I am very excited about -- a book on computer music -- and once I can I'll send details of that to the community here. I've missed the opportunity to write more in-depth, personal takes on the Mac music world, so I will spend more time on that. Be assured I'll stay in touch during this endeavor.

With my departure, of course, the MacMusic team is looking for a new English Editor-in-Chief. If you're interested, please contact the webmaster, Francois Dechery. I wish the entire team best of luck and will keep my MacMusic family informed!

Propellerhead Software anounces a special offer for registered users of Reason Adapted. From May 21st to June 31st they can update to the full version of Reason 2.5 for 289 euros.

This offer is available in retail stores and on the Propellerhead website.

Antares annouced that version 4 of its Autotune plugin is now available on TDM, RTAS, VST and MAS platforms for OS 9 & X. The Full TDM version costs $750 and the VST/MAS/RTAS versions cost $500.

More technical details are available on the Antares web site.

ReVibe is a powerful room-modeling TDM plug-in exclusively designed to take advantage of the supercharged processing capabilities of HD Accel PCI cards. The 96 kHz-optimized ReVibe provides nine reverb algorithms combined with hundreds of room reflection models. With its intuitive user interface and detailed controls, ReVibe handles nearly any reverberation task with ease.

ReVibe supports up to 5.x Pro Tools multi-channel formats, and includes independent reverb, early reflections, and level controls for the rear channels. Rear-channel reverb controls may also be used in mono or stereo instances, providing more presence and density to the reverb character.

Revibe works only on HD Accel systems and is not compatible with previous TDM system. Approximative price : $995

Just a few weeks after Pro Tools 6.4 LE, it's time for Pro Tools 6.4 TDM. This update is targeted at ownes of HD 1, HD 2, HD 3, HD 2 Accel, and HD 3 Accel hardware, on Power Mac G4 and G5, under Mac OS 10.3 Panther (officially only 10.3.2 is supported; 10.3.3 has not been fully tested).

This version features:
- support for ICON
- Command|8 and AVoption|V10
- automatic delay compensation
- TrackPunch and TrackInput functions,
- +12 dB gain on RecordLock faders
- Hierarchical plug-in menu
- numberings of tracks
- New Clip Meter Features
- 23.976 fps support
- improvement in the feet + frames display
- option of stopping Recording Monitoring on stop.

The update is listed at US$150 for registered Pro Tools|HD owners; the LE update is free for users of 6.x.