A Reaktor Workshop will take place in Brusseles on June 4th 2005. The Workshop will be held by Brian Smith (Native Instruments) and Andreas Sumerauer. Topics covered: advanced sequencing (by Brian) and physical modelling - Reaktor5 core technology (by Andreas).

Food and Drinks are included in the workshop fee which is 60,- Euros for registered Reaktor Users, 110 Euro for everyboy else.

DJ-1800 is a shareware application that emulates the Denon DN-1800F professional CD Player system used by many DJs and radio stations. This v2.0 release features improved iTunes synchronisation, support for QuickTime 7 and Tiger (Mac OS 10.4), crackle-free (and much higher quality) pitch shifting, and many other fixes and improvements.

Cycling '74 today announced a special workshop on Cycling '74 products at the San Francisco Apple Store. As part of a series Apple hosts, this workshop will feature Product Specialist Gregory Taylor at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, May 25th  at the San Francisco Apple Store located at One Stockton Street in downtown San Francisco.

The event will feature an overview of the Max/MSP/Jitter audio and video environment, and a first look at the JazzMutant Lemur programmable touchscreen controller.

Tascam announces that its full line of FireWire audio control surfaces and interfaces are now compatible with Apple's Final Cut Pro 5 and Soundtrack Pro editing software with Apple's unveiling of the Final Cut Studio production suite that includes the Final Cut Pro 5 upgrade. This major upgrade to the Apple's software means that Final Cut Pro 5 and Soundtrack Pro are now fully compatible with MCP (Mackie Control Protocol) devices, so you can use external audio control surfaces— including TASCAM's FW-1884 or FW-1082—to edit and manipulate audio more efficiently.

Ploytec GmbH (formerly known as "propagamma") just released their first non-beta version of the USB Audio driver for Mac OS X. It's completly redesigned and finally unleashes the performance the USB ASIO driver for Mac OS 9 is known for, on Mac OS X. The design ensures real 1:1 audio and already works with USB2 highspeed devices in Ploytec's lab. The driver is available as a free update for registered owners of the earlier versions and a 50% off crossgrade for users of the USB ASIO driver for Mac OS 9.