Edirol announces that the R-1 portable wave/mp3 recorder is now shipping. Since its announcement, the R-1 has been refined to version 1.03 offering compatibility with 4 Gb Flash Cards.  The R-1 is a mobile recording device offering direct storage to Compact Flash (CF) memory, 24-bit effect processing, and operation from 2 AA batteries. The R-1 is equipped with two hi-grade electret mics, external line and mic inputs.

Edirol R-1 is now shipping and costs $550.


 

You know of course that Cassini-Huygens spacecraft (Titan-IVB/Centaur) will reach its destination, Saturnus' moon Titan, on Friday January 14th 2005, it has traveled through Space seven years, 4 billion kilometres long way. A music about the mission history, composed by french composers Julien Civange and Louis Haeri, is available on the iTunes Music Store. But an other music, "Charm of Sound", by finish electroacoustic music composer Petri Kuljuntausta, has traveled inside the Huygens probe on a cd-rom.

Huygens will be collecting 500 MB of data from Titan, including images and sounds.

Motu has updated Digital Performer to version 4.52, in order to offer numerous feature and performance enhancements, including Dynamic CPU Management, Multi Bounce and more. This maintenance update is available in the softwares section.

Apple announces an update to version 4.7.1 for iTunes, which now supports the new iPod Shuffle and includes other performance improvements. iTunes 4.7.1 is available via the softwares update utility in Mac OS X, or in the Mac Music sofwares section.

Apple has introduced Jam Pack 4 "Symphony Orchestra". Symphony Orchestra provides you with more than 30 of the most important orchestral software instruments to play, including: strings, brass & wind, percussion and keyboards.

Jam Pack 4 is available on the AppleStore for 99$.