FracturedSoftware announced the release of Rondo v0.85, a new Midi player for MacOS X. Rondo has been designed from the ground up to be simple, uncluttered and easy to use. Rondo has many innovative features including a vertical piano roll with live scrolling and a pull down playhead with a piano that will play along with the music. This version includes new column types, a preferences panel, proper cursors, application icon, and keyboard zooming controls. Rondo can also be started up and files opened by dragging on the Rondo icon in the finder.

Rondo is alpha software and requires MacOS X 10.3 (it may work on earlier versions).

Apple is bringing the world's most exciting retail experience to Europe for the first time, with a brand new store in the heart of London's West End. The Grand Opening of the Apple Store, Regent Street, will take place on Saturday November 20th at 10.00 am.

Free T-shirts will be given to the first 2,500 people through the doors, and 300 Lucky Bags worth over £700 will be available for just £249.

The famous Dave Smith Instruments Evolver synth (4 oscillator, 4 LFO, 3 Envelope, VCF, and VCA) will go into virtual world with the help of Psicraft Audio Designs. The forthcoming editor for the DSI Evolver will be the first in a series of "hardware virtualizers" by Psicraft.

The editor for the DSI Evolver is still in pre-beta and will be available in December, 2004.

Camel Audio have released the second in their series of add on sound banks for Cameleon 5000 additive synth. The add on sound bank is called Biomechaniks, and was programmed by designer Kolin Biomechanoid. It comprises of a collection of 128 futuristic sounds. The bank includes textures, effects, basses, pads and atmospherics.

Biomechaniks costs $24.95 or 19.95 euros. You also can download free demo presets or listen to an MP3 at the Camel Audio website.

It's new, it's fun ! Apple today unveils iPod socks. Now you can dress your iPod up in any one of six vibrant color socks (green, purple, grey, blue, orange, and pink). This set of knit socks provides a stylish, fun, and practical way to protect your iPod.

They cost $29.