Vocal Lab by Laidman & Katsura is updated to version 2.1. Vocal Lab helps you train to sing on key. It listens while you sing and displays the pitch of your voice on a graph, in real time. This new version adds "Sound Back" feature, "Scroll" feature, resizable window feature, and open/save/print feature.

Info and download in the MacMusic softwares section.

Rogue Amoeba Software is pleased to announce Slipstream, a brand new application coming in early 2005. Certain to be a huge hit with anyone who owns Apple's new AirPort Express device, Slipstream allows any audio from any application to be hear through remote speakers. AirTunes isn't just for iTunes anymore - now users longing to listen to audio from RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, and any other application over their remote speakers will be able to do so, with Slipstream.

Slipstream will be available in early 2005 for an introductory price of just $20 ($5 off the $25 regular price).

No doubt, it is Christmas today ! Edirol has announced the availibility of a driver for its digital interface FireWire FA 101. I hear you think there's nothing really exciting or festive in that, now if I tell you it is a driver for..Mac OS 9, I imagine scenes of joy and debauchery! In a nutshell : ASIO 2.0, OMS, and Free MIDI for our Macs under OS 9 that deserve their little Christmas too!

Edirol is crazy !

No doubt, in the top right hand corner, the menu bar proudly displays a magic date : December 25th ! A day that has been firing the imaginations of old and young for centuries and that - despite its increaingly commercial nature - is still a special day to you, dear macmusicians. Whether Father Christmas (yes, he does exist !) has brought you the toy you hoped for or not, I wish you, on behalf of the entire Macmusic team, a very magic, very happy and very Merry Christmas !!!

Korg has updated the Korg Legacy Collection to version 1.1.2. This new release fixes the following bug : host application might crash when the Wavestation plug-in was removed from an instrument track, or when a project file which included the Wavestation plugin was opened. The KORG Legacy Collection is a virtual instrument pack, consisting of software versions of the MS-20 and Polysix analog synthesizers, and the Wavestation advanced vector synthesizer, together with a dedicated MS-20 Controller that faithfully replicates the original MS-20 at 84% of the original size.

More info and download for registered users on Korg web site.