Granted Software announced today the immediate availability of Rax 1.1 for Mac OS X. Rax turns your Mac into a virtual rig for live performance, slaving instruments and effects from another app or offloading DSP to a second computer. With its streamlined UI, this is the easiest way to play AudioUnit instruments and process live audio through your AudioUnit effects. This new version features : MIDI Mixer control, 24 bit recording, native sample rate recording (no longer limited to 16 bits at 44.1kHz).

Rax 1.1 is a free update for registered users.

It had been rumoured for some time now, and today it is made official : Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, won't present the ritual opening Keynote of the Apple Expo in Paris on August 31st. Steve Jobs, who suffers from pancreas cancer, has recently undergone a surgical operation and has therefore announced that he wanted to have a rest in August.

This keynote (or rather what will be left of it) will be presented by Philip Schiller (Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing).

SimpleChord is a quick, handy reference to chords for musicians. It can aid in learning new chords, building progressions, transcribing, and other tasks. Dan Grover has released a new update (v.2.2.1) which features : fixed display bug with optional black notes under red (default) appearance and interface refinements.

Info on the MacMusic softwares section.

KTGranulator 1.2 is a delay line granulator in VST and AU fomrats for Mac OS X. It works like this: incoming (mono) sound is fed into a delay line from which small pieces of various durations and at different moments in the past are selected. Each of these pieces is then amplified, transposed and enveloped to form a "grain". This new version has a new parameter "split pitch" that when enabled will make the plugin choose either the maximum or minimum value for the pitch (and nothing in between). The AU version also had a few internal changes and a little bug fix.

Info and download from the MM Softwares section.