Our friend June Bug (Editor of MM Softwares section) puts an amazing new additive synthesis software instrument in its section. Harmonical 1.0 VST is a crazy instrument which uses spherical harmonics to modulate the vertices of a sphere. These vertices are then used to generate waveforms for a simplistic additive synthesis engine. Pretty high cpu usage due to the need to re-calculate 1024 vertices 100 times a second though.

Enjoy it in the MacMusic softwares section...

Ableton would like to announce that the latest version of Live (4.1.2) is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 alias Tiger. Based on Ableton internal tests, they found everything working ok so far. But as an audio application Live also depends on the functionality of third party hard and software like audio & midi interfaces or effect instrument plug-ins.

Therefore Ableton would ask you to give them feedback about possible problems related to Mac OS X 10.4.

Heizenbox "the Granulizor" has been updated to version 2.2, which now features: Filter, Length, Modulator and Pitch synchronization, support for FXpansion VST to AU adapter (v.1.50) and default MIDI learn maps for Oxygen M-Audio keyboard.

IK Multimedia and Digidesign are teaming up once again to equip musicians with SampleTank. Registered Digidesign SampleTank 1 SE users can now update to SampleTank 2 SE for Free. SampleTank 2 SE is a major upgrade to the version of SampleTank that was included in Digidesign systems at purchase. SampleTank 2 SE has many of the functionalities of the full version of SampleTank 2 with the following limitations: plays only the included sounds and cannot import samples.

Apple has updated iTunes to version 4.8. This new version includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod (requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer)