We have more info about the new Minimoog RME (Rack mount Edition). The RME is five units high and RME's rear panel delivers all of the same extensive input/output resources that are available on the Voyager via its MIDI IN, THRU, and OUT connectors, four audio input and output jacks, and two accessory port connectors. Presets from the Voyager are useable in the Rack Mount Edition, and multiple RMEs can be chained together with MIDI to achieve polyphony.

The Rack Mount Edition sells for $2,195.00 and production will begin in March.

XP Sound will unveil its new XP202 USB audio interface for Mac at NAMM. It will offer 24-bit/96kHz conversion, a built in equalizer, two adjustable microphone pre-amps, two stereo line inputs, a stereo headphone amp, and mix/balance control.

The SP202 will be available in Q2 2005 for $199.

Celemony Software is presenting its new audio editing software 'Melodyne uno' for Mac OS X at the NAMM show. This small version of the audio software Melodyne works in a similar fashion to a sample editor — except that it offers characteristic Melodyne functions and is therefore the ideal tool for pitch correction, vocal production and the editing of melodies.

Melodyne Uno for Mac OS X costs around $199 US (169 euros) and should be available from March 2005.

TL Space convolution reverb by Trillium Space Labs is updated to version 1.0.3. This update is recommended for all users and fixes several bugs : GUI issues with Avid Xpress, loss of saved wet/dry settings in some sessions, and much more.

Info and download in the MacMusic software section.

Steve Jobs doesn't lack talent, and he's got a nerve too. Indeed the introduction of the Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle on Tuesday shows that the Apple founder undoubtedly gives his company the greatest change in policy in its history. The challenge is as much nice as it is daring. And it is about winning back the customers left to Windows for too long, with two products that are both nice and cheap. The concept is both simple and brilliant, since it is about making the most of the trade's success put under the spotlight that was created by the success of the iPod, to sell a computer, the Mac mini : and Apple expects it to become, like the iPod, a leading product, an icon, a social phenomenon. What's more, when it offers a computer that is quite powerful and neatly designed, equipped with a user-friendly software suite, at an absolutely unbeatable price, Apple pulls for good the rug out from under his detractors, who thought the prices of the computers belonging to Cupertino limited its development. So, as usual, Apple innovates, produces nice and powerful machines and for the first time, the prices are within the general public's pocket.

And yet, though this challenge is nice, it is a risky one.