French composer Luc Ferrari is dead, monday August 22d, in Arezzo Italy. Luc Ferrari was born in 1929 in Paris. He studied with Arthur Honegger et Olivier Messiaen and at Darmstadt in Germany. As director of the Groupe de Recherche Musicale from 1959 to 1960, he worked closely with Pierre Schaeffer, who coined the term "musique concrète. Luc Ferrari also founded in 1981 "la muse en circuit" creation center.

Digidesign today announced the acquisition of Wizoo Sound Design, in Bremen, Germany. Wizoo is a developer of virtual instruments, sample libraries, and real-time effects such as Wizooverb, Latigo, and Darbuka. Currently released Wizoo-branded products will continue to be distributed worldwide through Digidesign's M-Audio business unit. All future products will be branded and distributed by Digidesign.

Amazing Slow Downer has been updated to version 2.7.8. This release willl save "real" aac/m4a files when running Tiger, adds support for CoreAudio files and miscellaneous Settings dialog with severall switches. Amazing Slow Downer is a time-stretching & real-time pitching application.

The new Rode NT6 is a compact condenser microphone, and is specifically designed for difficult mounting applications or discret placement. The capsule of the mic is connected to the main part of the mic by a 3-metre Kevlar fibre reinforced cable. The NT6 runs off standard 48V phantom power. The mic has a fixed cardioid pattern, a frequency range of 40Hz - 20kHz and a maximum SPL figure of 135dB. The NT6 is designed and manufactured by Rode in Sydney, Australia.

New Rode NT6 will be available in September at £229 ($414).

Digidesign has posted an update for Pro Tools LE to version 6.9.2 cs3 and version 6.9cs3. These updates both feature : fixed the key command sequence for fine-tuning automation breakpoints had changed (Item # 65387). The "fine-tune breakpoint" Command key functionality has now been restored to the pre-Pro Tools 6.9 behavior. The key command for "Write Level Constrained to Next Breakpoint" (new to 6.9) has been changed from "Command-click" to "Option-Shift-click." The key command for "Write Level Constrained to Previous Breakpoint" remains "Command-Option-click".

Thes updates are both available in MacMusic software section.