The drum sampler Battery by Native Instruments is updated to version 2.0, wich features : New Sample Engine, Customizable Matrix, Graphical Mapping Editor, Filter and Equalizer, Compressor, Modulation, Loop section, New sample library (3.5 GB), Multiformat Import, Many details in the user interface have been improved, Customizable Interface, Resampling effect, Improved file management with a drum kit selection dialogue box, Export of individual cells, Improved voice group and choke group management and Learn Function for key mapping.

More info and download from the MacMusic softs section.

On the Tascam US website you can find a new software revision for the Tascam DM-24. This upgrade is designed for the Firewire Card Option, so we can hope about the avalaibility of this card for soon.....

Emagic Apple have updated Logic Pro 6 for both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X to version 6.4.3. This new version features : fixes problems with control surfaces on Dual CPU Macs, fixes a rare problem with the "Recent Files" menu and now opens Songs that were saved with Logic 7.

Info on Emagic web site.

Guitar Shed is a software toolbox for guitarists, bassists, and other types of musicians. Includes 2 tuners (chromatic and tonal), chord library, tablature organizer, gig manager, web manager, metronome, jam machine, and song jam. This new 2.8 version features : contextual menus added for many of the most-used sections (Right-click or control-click), better compatibility with some external USB microphones for the chromatic tuner, and other small maintenance improvements and updates.

This update is free and available from our softwares section.

IK Multimedia has updated SampleTank to v2.0.8. It now features : SampleTank 2 (AU) is now fully compatible with Apple's Logic Pro 7, Simpler authorization process thanks to a new step by step Wizard, Lower CPU load when using PsTs and Effects are now correctly saved when saving Module Presets.

Info ond IK Multimedia web site.