Few days ago we were proud to announce the release of the iPod mini in Europe on July 24th. Unfortunately Apple announces that because of a tremendous amount of pre-orders, its portable audio player will only be available with a 4-week delay. This strange Apple business strategy is growing more and more frequent and annoying for the image of Apple Inc. Once more, Apple can't ship its new products on the scheduled timetable.

Beware Apple !! The iPod clients aren't Mac clients, they are much less faithful and lose patience much faster. What a shame, it is precisely these same new clients that Apple had to appeal to !!

Chopitch 0.8.5 is a VST plug-in for pitch shifting without delay , which features :

- dramatic pitch swoops in perfect time with the music
- make drums sound bigger without losing the attack
- intelligent gating system, and more....

More info and download on the MM software section.

Next Event: Listening Party Tuesday July 27th 2004 at 7pm
We're really excited to announce that the next Pro Tools Users event will be a listening party. The event will be co-hosted by Apogee the converter manufacturer, ADAM Audio the respected speaker manufacturer and RSPE Audio Solutions and a great opportunity to listen to products from other leading manufacturers including Apogee, Cedar, Digidesign, Mackie, Humanscale and more... If you're not already a Pro Tools users member...

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M-Audio company announces the availability of three new drivers for Mac OS X, for their FireWire audio interfaces. This 1.2.4 package contains drivers for all M-Audio FireWire products family : FireWire 410, Audiophile and FireWire 1814 .

info and downloads from the MM Soft section.

Digidesign has just announced the availability of a new "Blue Factory" bundle for Pro Tools LE systems. This bundle sounds very friendly since it is composed of a Pro Tools LE system (mBox, Digi 002 or OO2 Rack), a LE Factory plugins pack, and last but not least a Bluebird microphone, designed by Blue Microphones Inc., and shipped with its complete accessories kit (anti-pop BirdNest filter, BirdCage suspension and Blueberry cable).

These bundles are available through Digidesign dealers. We don't know yet if ProTools LE current systems owners can get this new "Blue" bundle separately.