Rax by Granted Software lets you create your ideal rack of AudioUnit synthesizers and effects all of which can be controlled by a MIDI keyboard. Flexible audio and MIDI routing help you get the most out of your AudioUnits. This version 1.2.1 adds Audio Units compatibility with Rax including Crystal, Mach Five and Atmosphere that had problems with 1.2.

Rax 1.2.1 is available in MacMusic softwares section.

Apple posted a Logic Node Performance Patch which increases Logic Node performance. The Logic Node application allows distributed audio processing. You can expand the processing capacity of your Logic system by offloading calculations for software instrument and/or effect generation to other, networked Macintosh computers. This update requires that you have already installed Logic Node, which can be found in the Logic Node 7.0.0 Install disk image on your Logic Pro 7 Install disc.

This patch is available on Apple web site.

Apple members can downlowd 300 JamPack loops for GarageBand. You can find them in you iDisk under software --> members only-> GarageBand JamPacks (over 300 Mb !)

New objects for sound spatialization are available on the CICM web site. These objects are developed by Rémi Mignot and Jean-Baptiste Thiébaut. Most of them are available for Macintosh : ambipan (ambisonic techniques for a surround panning up to 16 loudspeakers), ambicube (a 3-dimensional version of ambipan), vbapan (vector based amplitude panning for a surround panning up to 16 loudspeakers) and trajectory (an intuitive abstraction for drawing trajectories.The coordinates may be send to ambipan and vbapan to localise up to 16 independent sounds).

More info and downloads on the CICM web site.

Designed for seamless integration with D-Control, Channel G delivers the big board sound with unprecedented flexibility. Channel G is comprised of four TDM plug-ins featuring separate EQ and Dynamics sections, a Console Strip, and a 5.1 Compressor.

Channel G 1.0 by MacDsp will be available in November. More info in our softwares section.