At summer NAMM, Arturia announces the version 2.0 of its Moog Modular V. This faithful reproduction of the legendary Moog modular systems comes back with major improvements. Among the features added in the upgrade are:new ergonomics, improvements on the oscillators, new Unison mode, new Audio-In possibilities, soft-clipping emulation is now done on each mixer, new modules (ring modulator, formant Filter,...), 200 new presets and much more...

This upgrade is free to all registered users. Shipment is planned for the 2nd half of August 2004.

Roland announces a new DS range of digital monitors. The DS 8/7/5 can handle 24-bit audio (up to 192 kHz) for a truly all-digital signal path. Each monitor is equipped with digital inputs (AES/EBU, coax, and optical) and analog inputs (Neutrik 1/4"/XLR).

Details will be soon online on the Roland web site.

Since july 8th, Wave version 5 for Mac OS X is available. This version features a lot a new items : TempoSync (new functionality enables plug-ins to lock to the host application's tempo), Morphoder MIDI Control, Waves 360° Bundle is now native on Mac, the Waves 360° Bundle now supports Native processing, running as RTAS & HTDM. HTDM Support, HD Accel Support, Digi 002 and Command/8 Control Surface support and Automatic Delay Compensation support for Pro Tools.

During current NAMM, Waves announces that a 14-day demo of Waves 5 is available on download on its web site.

PG Music has just posted an update (v12b21) of its automatic music accompaniment software Band In A Box. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings in a wide variety of popular styles. This new version updates few styles, and is a general maintenance release.

Band In A Box 12b21 is a free update.

It' summer NAMM, and Yamaha Music introduces new products :

- The MG mixing consoles serie sees the introduction of the MG8/2FX and MG12/4FX consoles (8 and 12 channel respectively) with a built-in stereo SPX-type effect. These new mixing consoles are expected around November.

- A new software for 01V96 digital desk. The Studio Manager v2 includes nearly 50 new features, including Studio Manager V2, expanded DAW control, application-specific functions and the capability to run Yamaha's Add-On Effects packages. The 01V96V2 will be available in September.

- Yamaha also announces a new mLan card for its digital mixing desk. The MY16-mLan will be 24-bit/96kHz compatible. Available in December, the MY16-mLAN provides the interface hardware and connections required to link Yamahas Digital Mixers to an mLAN network