Three new Virtual Instruments are going to be launched by famous swedish sample designer eLAB distributed by Big Fish Audio. All three feature an 8 track REX2 player plug-in for OSX (all formats including VST and AU) with a 3 gigabyte library on DVD and custom multitrack REX files. FOUNDATION will be devoted to old school hip-hop and R'nB, OBSESSION to R'nB, HipHop and Pop and PERFECTION to House productions.

No audio demo is available at the moment, all three instruments are due in the second quarter of 2004.

With a good dose of humor the German company Adam just release it's new line of monitor under the name of ...Apple. This active monitors (50 to 80W) are shielded and have a frequency range from 52Hz to 35KHz with balanced/unbalanced connections (XLR/1/4"and RCA). They propose a new type of tweeter based on ART technology

One pair of Apple cost 1200 euros, along the line are also some passive monitors (ANF10 for 610 euros a pair).

The Absynth Audio Unit plugin is now compatible with MOTU Digital Performer. The RTAS plug-in is included. Absynth is now more reliable on some audio hardware .The crash on launch on some dual processor configurations under Panther is now fixed as many smaller bugs.

ps clouvel : bugfix again by Native Instruments !! It peharps works. Try it.. it's free and it's not usual for N.I....