Mac and Music News
Through Friday January 14, 2005
| Mar 24 - 02:35 AM | Apple > Apple |
Apple sent a mail announcing Apple Expo 2004:
Dates and location:
- Tuesday August 31 to Saturday September 4, 2004
- Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Paris expo, Porte de Versailles, Hall 1
- the Keynote of our dear Steve Jobs will take place at the Palais des Congrès on August 31 at 10 a.m.
This year, to speed up the registration process, the badges will be sent by E-mail.
 www.apple-expo.com |  2 users'comments |
| Mar 24 - 12:31 AM | Virtual Instrument > Pierre Couprie |
Pierre Couprie created an emulation of the famous EMS AKS Synth for OS X and he just finished the Beta version. He would thus need testers for this version of the soft.
If you want to beta test this software, just drop him an email!
| You'll find info and contacts on Pierre Couprie's homepage | 3 users'comments |
| Mar 23 - 04:27 PM | Music Software > Native Instruments |
Native Instruments Traktor Final Scratch was updated to version 1.5.1 and it is now fully compatible with Mac OS 10.3 Panther. Aside from the new highly optimized ScratchAmp drivers, version 1.5.1 also adds the following features:
· High-quality key correction (preserves pitch when changing tempo)
· Record Lead-In graphics in wave display
· Stripe Preview in browser deck
· Customize "Needle Display Position" in wave display
· Shading of played track portion in stripe view
· Flashing stripe in track end warning zone
· Fully resizable interface
· 4 font sizes
· Larger sound stripes
This update is available via download (49 euros) or as an update CD (69 euros).
| www.finalscratch.com/fs4/start.asp |  Post a comment ? |
| Mar 23 - 03:31 PM | Plug-ins > Audio Damage |
We announced it in january on MacMusic, it is now available ! The Mayhem VST plug-in suite by Audiodamage is a collection of four different effects designed to provide new tools for aggressive contemporary musical styles. Included in this package are Filterpod (a low-pass filter with LFO), Crush (the World's Most Dangerous Compressor...), MasterDestrukto (a plug-in featuring four different distortion algorithms for massive audio manipulation), and TimeFnk (a rhythmic delay).
Mayhem pack is available for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X and costs 149 euros.
 Mayhem VST | Post a comment ? |
| Mar 23 - 03:09 PM | Virtual Instrument > Native Instruments |
Native Instruments has announced that the new Reaktor 4.1 update is now available. New features in Reaktor 4.1 include: savable screensets for managing individual window arrangements, a batch converter for analyzing audio files and converting Reaktor 3 instruments and a new Total Recall system for saving all settings with a song.
The 4.1 update for Mac is available as a free download for all registered Reaktor 4 users.
| Reaktor 4.1 | 2 users'comments |
