MacMusic is seven years old! The oldest members (Celmo, Sophia...) remember it as if it was just yesterday: on Sept 29th 1997, a discussion mailing list called MacMusic appeared on the internet! One year later, a web page was redirecting this list, and during 1999, MacMusic was making its first steps as a website. No bugs were seen in early 2000, but the mailing list disappeared, and classified ads together with the links directory were born.  2001 was a great year, as it witnessed the birth of the forum and, at the end of the same year, MacMusic became fully bilingual, looking quite the same as the site you know today.

Let's pay tribute to its founder, Soif, and to the various section staff: June Bug (Software), Miss Kiki (Articles), Babaille (Classifieds), LePetitMartien and the moder ...

Digidesign have posted an update 1.0.2. for its plugin Smack because Smack and Smack LE version 1.0 for Mac OS X were inadvertently set to expire on October 9th, 2004. Smack is a new professional compressor/limiter plug-in designed specifically for music applications. Smack features three compression modes, unique compression ratios, and harmonic distortion ideally suited for achieving a wide range of sonic variations and colorations. Additionally, the plug-in supports side-chain processing, multi-channel track types, and the full range of ProTools sample rates and plug-in formats.

Version 1.0.2 has no expiration date for the fully licensed version

Cycling '74 announced an update to version 4.5.2 of Max-MSP, its graphical programming environment. This update features : minor changes and many bugs fixed.

Info on Cycling '74 web site.

MicroTonic or "µTonic" by Sonic Charge is a VST plug-in featuring a unique drum and percussion synthesizer combined with a pattern based drum-machine engine. it now comes for Mac OS X (10.2 or later) and needs a Mac 500MHz G3. It costs $69.

Because registration is cross-platform, you do not need to purchase an additional registration for the Mac version if you own the µTonic for Windows

Edirol announced the R-1, a portable 24-bit Wave and mp3 recorder and player. The R-1 features two electret mics, external line and mic inputs, a 24-bit internal effects processor (noise reducer, 10-band EQ, reverb and more). it also features a metronome, a tuner, half-speed playback, and A-B repeat to loop one section of an audio file. The R-1 stores files to Compact Flash (up to 2Gb) and comes with a 64MB card which allows a maximum record time of 130 minutes (mp3, 64 kbps mode). it also features an USB port and a phones/optical output.

The R-1 will cost $550 and will be available in late November.