Researchers of the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a mechanical guitar playing robot,"Crazy J". This robot is composed of two mechanical systems that interact to play a range of 29 musical notes. A plucking mechanism with six independently controlled picks is mounted over the body of the guitar and a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted over the first four frets of the fingerboard.

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Propellerheads has updated Reason to version 3.03. This new release adds support for wireless Frontier Design Group TranzPort controller, support for M-Audio Ozonic, track mute and solo for selected track now controllable from Remote, and several bug fixes.

Details and download in the MacMusic software section.

MuseResearch announces version 1.3 of its software for Receptor. This new version features several new features, improvements and fixes : support for Plugins with Multiple Outputs, lock and unlock Patch Banks, 29 new key commands, MIDI CC Display for Plugins, and more.

The (good) rumor says that Moog Music are building two Analog Delays both slightly more expensive and both with more delay time than the original, MF-104. The MF-104SD will be a very limited edition of 250 pieces (SD = 'Super Delay'). The original MF-104 had a delay time of 800 msec. The SD will have a delay time of 1400 msec or 1.4 seconds. MoogMusic will broadly announce the availability of the MF-104Z (it will be introduced publicly at Summer NAMM – July 22).  The Z will be a 1000 msec delay. One Full Second of delay time will make the MF-104Z the longest standalone analog delay module on the market.

Dealers should sell these for $749.

Boom Recorder is a simple to use professional multi channel audio recorder. It can record up to 32 channels at high resolution and is specifically designed for on-stage recording. This new version adds : turning of recording when the processor is overloaded, tail of the ring buffer now more smoothly follows the head, fixed shift of channels in CAF file bug and add help button in registration panel so people can buy a license.