ChordPhobia is designed to help you learn to recognize chords when you hear them. In ChordPhobia, you will see/hear most of the chords from major triads to 13th chords in their root position. More info about this Mac OS X shareware available in the MacMusic softwares section.

From MacWorld, MacMice has introduced the GuitarPlug and MicPlug USB audio converters for Apple's Logic or Garageband. Both GuitarPlug and MicPlug convert mono analog audio to 16-bit, 48KHz.

They will cost $49.99 each.

Audiofile Engineering announces that Sample Manager is updated to version 2.0.0, including AppleScript support (multple "browser" windows, now saveable as documents). Sample Manager is a full-featured batch audio processor with full support of AIFF, WAVE and Sound Designer II audio files, and partial support for ACID, Recycle, and Apple Loop files.

Sample Manager costs $69, and upgrades for registered users $19.

The Minimoog Voyager Editor-Librarian is a program that is designed to be the ultimate tool for organizing and creating presets for the minimoog Voyager. Through a MIDI connection, this program can pull single presets or the entire bank of presets from the Voyager.

Announced in July '04, the Voyager Editor is finally available on Mac OS X and costs $79

Steve Jobs unveil the new iPod, the iPod Shuffle, a flash based music player. Smaller than most packs of game. Weighs the same as 4 quarters (less than 1 ounce). Volume/Up dow. Simple LED to provide feedback. No display. Either shuffle or album-based playback. USB 2 transfer connector under connector at the bottom. 12-hour rechargeable battery.

iPod Shuffle is available today on the AppleStore for $99 (512 Mo) and $149 (1 Go).