Classic Organ Works has announced the availability of its second wireless MIDI product, MIDIjet Pro, first previewed at NAMM 2005. MIDIjet Pro features an external antenna and a more powerful transmitter than its predecessor, permitting wireless connections up to 500 ft apart. Up to 31 wireless MIDI connections can be made in the same environment. Using MIDIjet, musicians can connect any two pieces of MIDI gear without cumbersome cables. It is designed to replace standard MIDI cables in situations where cables restrict performer mobility, are visually unpleasant, or awkward to connect.

MIDIjet Pro is available for purchase direct from Classic Organ Works for US$395

Elemental Audio Systems today announced the release of Finalis, the latest addition to its line of audio plug-ins. Finalis is a brick wall limiter which features 3 limiting algorithms, stereo and mono, supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz and multi-processor compatible . Supporting the RTAS, VST, and Audio Unit (AU) audio plug-in formats, Finalis is compatible with a range of Mac host applications.

Finalis has a retail price of $159, but is available for an introductory price of $139 until April 14, 2005.

Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit) is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.

More info on this 0.6 version and download in MM softwares section.

The free full editor for the Elektron Machinedrum in English, French and German is now in version 1.1. If some people want to translate it to other languages, the developer is open to proposals ;) I did it (French translation), it's not difficult and it helps others. What's new then? As Andrew Garber the developer wrote it:

- added ability to import kits from sysex files
- added ability to sense MD knob tweaks
- improved MIDI core - it's rock solid now ;)
- now allows you to choose whether or not you want documents to open automatically
- fixed a bug with Set Kit Name where garbled text could appear on the MD
- French localization is now more complete (blush)

Image/ine (or ImX), developed at Steim from 1997, in close collaboration with Steina, was the first piece of software that allowed users to manipulate uncompressed video in real time. Limited, at the time, to 320x240 pixels at some 10 frames per second, it nevertheless proved a point: artistic quality and stage guts made lack of frame rate and image quality of secondary interest; real time video manipulation could be done!

A 0.9 beta OS X version is vailable in the MacMusic softwares section.