Ableton announces Live 4. Live 4 extends Live's real-time music-making approach to the complete range of today's music-production techniques. Ableton Live is the music-production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments, as well as your digital audio recordings, together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use. In the end, Live lets you focus on what really matters: your music.

New Live 4 Features include:

Digidesign release CoreAudio 6.5 and for the pleasure of all users including

- Multi client support !
- no more needs to choose the software using Core Audio
- No more crash with for example mbox + Peak
- Improvement of the compatibility with the other software
- Quicktime Stream audio ok with 128 samples buffer

Digi Core Audio driver 6.5 is a free download for Mac OS 10.3 Panther.

Designed and built by MAGMA, the Digidesign 64-bit Expansion Chassis expands the capabilities of Pro Tools|HD Accel systems by freeing them from the PCI slot limitations typical of most host computers. With the Chassis incorporated into your Pro Tools|HD Accel system, you have access to all the DSP and video power you need for the most demanding music and post production projects.

The Digidesign 64-bit Expansion Chassis supports up to seven Digidesign PCI cards: a Pro Tools|HD Core card, and/or HD Accel cards and legacy HD Process cards for additional mixing and processing power. The Chassis makes full track counts in the Pro Tools|HD environment a reality — 192 tracks at 44.1/48 kHz, 96 at 88.2/96 kHz, and 36 at 176.4/192 kHz. A perfect complement to the modular, power-on-demand nature of Pro Tools, it also ships with an ample 400-watt power supply and extra cooling at no additional cost.

NDC plugs announces the availability of BufferSynth Alpha 1.0, a defiantly lo-fi effect. When you send it a MIDI note, it will play back the contents of it's buffer at the note's pitch. Note that this is not an alpha release (the Buffer Synth series uses a Street Fighter naming convention : i.e. Buffer Synth, Buffer Synth 2, Buffer Synth 2 Championship edition, Buffer Synth 2 Turbo, Super Buffer Synth 2, etc...).

BufferSynth Alpha 1.0 is a free software for Mac OS X (VST).

'Andy's OSX Music Software' announces the release of 'SoundFont Synth'. SoundFont Synth is an Audio Unit component plug-in designed to make the synthesis of natural instruments using Sound Fonts, available to GarageBand and other Audio Unit hosts.

SoundFont Synth is Shareware and is available for US$15 from: