Native Instruments announces that nearly all NI products are fully compatible with the new Apple Mac OS 10.4 operating system without the need to install any NI update. If you would like to upgrade to Mac OS 10.4, Native Instruments recommend choosing the installation type "Upgrade Mac OS X", which will not require new authorization of your Native Instruments products. But please read the following information carefully :

- TRAKTOR DJ Studio 2.6 and TRAKTOR FS 2 require an NI update, which is now available in NI Updates Manager.

- Finalscratch 1 and 1.5 were designed for use with Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2.8) and do not run on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.x)!

- NI KOMPLETE 2: If you intend to install NI KOMPLETE 2 on Tiger, you first need to install a small update in order to authorize NI KOMPLETE 2. The patch is not needed if you have an existing NI KOMPLETE 2 installation and choose "Upgrade Mac OS X" when upgrading to OS 10.4.

Native Instruments and Waves announce a special limited-time crossgrade offer for their respective bundle customers. Starting today, owners of NI Komplete 2 can now take advantage of a 30% discount on the native version of the Waves Renaissance Maxx bundle (Waves Renaissance for NI is $420) or Gold bundle ($910), and owners of a Waves Gold, Platinum and Diamond bundle are eligible for an over 30% discount on NI Komplete 2 (so $999).

The Waves & Native Instruments Special Crossgrade Offer is valid until June 30th 2005.

The Mazwer is a new modular MIDI controller allowing an infinite customizable combination of controls. You can cange the configuration in seconds to adapt your studio project or live situation, day afer day, just by pluging Mowzer Modules in the Backplane, assign midi controls in your favorite software, and you're ready to play.

Mazwer will be available in June 2005. Estimated prices are (excl VAT) : empty box 550 euros, one module 20 euros, 4 modules 60 euros (example for a 16 track mixer 970 euros).

About M-Audio products and Tiger compatibility, we can read on M-Audio web site : "We are currently verifying compatibility of our hardware with Apple's new Tiger operating system. No device manufacturer can predict the compatibility of their hardware with a new OS until the final version has been released. We value your time and user experience, and want to ensure that our Tiger drivers are as robust as possible before providing them for download. We thank you for your patience while we verify these drivers, and we will post them shortly."

Automat is a substrative synthesizer by Alphakanal, available as Audio Units freeware. This new release (0.1.7) features : added sine oscillator, added octave switch, added filter and drive dry/wet mix, added pitch bend range knob and fixed preset editing and saving.

More info and download in the MacMusic softwares section.