Music software and soundware publishers, retailers, publications, and industry professionals have come together to form the International Music Software Trade Association, an advocacy organization to pursue their collective interests. The group's charter is to fight software theft through education and create awareness of the impact illegal software use has on the industry and on the advancement of technology.

You can visit www.imsta.org for more information and application for membership.


 

Lucifer VST is a repeat/scratch effect plugin for Mac OS X. This new 1.21 version features : graph/buffer length is now adjustable, loop-offset keys, animated line now shows graph position, PingPong key, Blend Knob, Hyper Knob: Hyper- a multi repeat where the loop is played at 2x speed and 4x speed. The 1x is Lowpassed, 2x is bandpassed, 4x is hipassed. The knob controls the cutoff frequency.

Lucifer and other devilish plugins are available in the MacMusic softs section.

Rootsolutions announces BandAid 1.2. BandAid is the perfect tool to track activity of bands and musicians. Keep track of gig dates and payments, view contact information, keep promo shots, and print lyrics and setlists.

A fully functional demo can be downloaded from Rootsolutions.de and single user license costs US$ 28.00.

MacAudioGuy.com releases a free 17 MB package of music loops in the Apple Loop format for use with Apple computer's GarageBand and Soundtrack music software. The package of 18 music loops was produced by award winning producer and author of "The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand" Jay Shaffer and features several musical styles. The Apple Loops file format is optimized for Apple's GarageBand and Soundtrack products, the loops will "time stretch" to the tempo and key of songs in GarageBand and Soundtrack. Users of other audio software packages can enjoy the loops, too, as Apple Loops work in any application that supports AIFF audio files.

MacAudioGuyAppleLoops Volume One is available for free download at macaudioguy web site.

Korg announces an update to version 1.1.1 for "Korg Legacy Collection" which is now compatible with Logic 7. This new release also fixes a problem with standalone performance using Digidesign audio interfaces running CoreAudio driver 6.5. and the auto-setting of audio buffer sizes has been added.

Of course you can download this update from our Softwares section.