FireWire 800 drives with the Oxford 912 interface have been officially qualified by Digidesign for record and playback with the following systems on Mac OS 10.4: Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools|HD Accel Systems (with Pro Tools 6.9.2 or higher), Pro Tools LE Systems (with Pro Tools 6.9.2 or higher) with Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger" only (not tested on Mac OS 10.3 and earlier). Please Note: Hard drives using the Oxford 912 interface have USB 2.0, FW400 and FW800 ports on them. Only the use of the FW800 port is supported on these drives with Pro Tools.

Xylio unveils FutureDecks Lite, a new DJ mixing software, featuring : a classic DJ setup with 2 decks, mixer and playlist, automatic mixing, one-click beat matching, seamless looping, automatic BPM counter, lots of effects, eqs, filters, vinyl simulation including scratch, pitch, reverse play, separate headphones output and song pre-listening and record your mixes.

A demo version is available in the MacMusic software section.

PreSonus announces a pretty nice rebate : Presonus is offering a free FireBox ($499.95 value) FireWire Recording System with purchase of an M80 - eight channel microphone preamplifier or DigiMax96k - eight channel microphone preamplifier w/ ADAT and digital output.

PreSonus is offering this rebate from August 1, 2005 through October 31, 2005.

Wwaym announces NWMaxx, a new one-knob easy-to-use transparrent maximizer that works as bass booster, too. It features: Power knob, Common bass boost, 30 Hz cut, Input and Output gain control, Input and Output VU meters with peak display.

NWMaxx costs 25 euros.

X-Spat Controller has been updated to version 1.6. This release adds Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger compatibility, new user interface design, new virtual MIDI port, new keyboard shortcuts, stereo groups option for all the parameters and more. X-Spat Controller is a freeware that provides full control via MIDI over the 202 real time parameters of any A&G X-Spat DSP Expansion product.