No doubt, in the top right hand corner, the menu bar proudly displays a magic date : December 25th ! A day that has been firing the imaginations of old and young for centuries and that - despite its increaingly commercial nature - is still a special day to you, dear macmusicians. Whether Father Christmas (yes, he does exist !) has brought you the toy you hoped for or not, I wish you, on behalf of the entire Macmusic team, a very magic, very happy and very Merry Christmas !!!

Korg has updated the Korg Legacy Collection to version 1.1.2. This new release fixes the following bug : host application might crash when the Wavestation plug-in was removed from an instrument track, or when a project file which included the Wavestation plugin was opened. The KORG Legacy Collection is a virtual instrument pack, consisting of software versions of the MS-20 and Polysix analog synthesizers, and the Wavestation advanced vector synthesizer, together with a dedicated MS-20 Controller that faithfully replicates the original MS-20 at 84% of the original size.

More info and download for registered users on Korg web site.

ApulSoft has updated their audio sample trigger Audio Units plug-in, apTrigga to version 2.2, which now features : better AU implementation, support for wave extensible format, support for AIFF-C format, support for SD2 format, support for 32 bit and 64 bit samples, low and high cut filters improved, and more.

ApTrigga 2.2 costs 35 euros.

Expert sleepers has updated its sample playback synth Crossfade Loop Synth to version 2.1. This new release features : added "equal power" crossfade option, fixed issues with detuned playback of large samples and CPU efficiency improvements.

Info and download on Expert sleepers web site.

Version 1.0.3 of the Autoconnnector application for OSX is now available. mLAN device support has been enhanced in Mac OS X, version 10.3.7 to support the newest devices from the mLAN alliance. This will necessitate a firmware update for the following current mLAN devices: PreSonus Firestation, Kurzweil KSP8 with KMLN8 option card and Apogee Trak2 and AD-8000 with option cards.