This new article, mostly intended for beginners, explains some tips to record vinyls using an iMic USB interface. Griffin's iMic is extremely versatile and is an easy way to get your tunes, voice, noise, grunts, etc, into your Mac. Discover six tips from Jeffrey Wrobel, who is a Mac consultant and a Macmusician too.

UNESCO just released a serie of tutorials for popular audio software available on the internet. These tutorials writen by Bruno Bossis & Pierre Couprie, are freely downloadable as PDF format and give good insights on the main functions of theses softwares. English translations are available, check it out !

The famous audio sequencer Nuendo from Steinberg has been updated on Mac OSX. This new 2.2b35 version includes several new features: Mackie control Extender support, new virtual instruments, improvement of Generic Remote implementation and a new VST plugin: Tonic

All details about this update are available in the Software section of MacMusic.

Videouti is a freeware that allows you to trigger videos using MIDI devices. You can mix four videos, with your keyboard or sequencer: You can trigger them from notes, velocity and pitch bend. You can also modify some parameters in real-time using MIDI controllers. But before you start mixing and playing your four videos at a time, you'll need a good (fast) computer and a DV camcorder.

The all-in-one suite of guitar software tools, "Guitar Shed" has been updated to version 2.5. This new release includes many improvements and feature additions. New features include: Major overall speed improvements., Chromatic Tuner is much more accurate and less-CPU intensive, Chromatic Tuner start errors fixed, Alternate Tunings now show correctly, Fixed a bug where corrupted Alternate Tunings would crash Guitar Shed on start, Tone Tuner now displays Alternate Tunings in correct order (6th -> 1st String), and more.