If you're going to Macworld in Boston July 11-14, 2005 you might be interested in some free Berklee College of Music offerings including: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Matt Jenson's Acid Reggae Xperience and Katahdin's Edge. Also, "Macworld will showcase Berklee's new Dream Studios, a simulated state-of-the-art music studio, designed and developed by Berklee faculty and students."

Jump to Macworld and Berklee Music Festival and also see Berklee.edu

Luxonix released Audio Units Mac OS X versions for sound modules Ravity(R) and Ravity(S). The first one, Ravity(R) is a Rhythm/Drum sound module featuring 68 preset kit sound, 16 assignable pads/layers, 64 polyphonic/voices per instance, 6 individual stereo outputs, and 1x3 insertion effect slots each stereo output. The second one, Ravity(S) is a a Synth sound module featuring 447 preset sound, 512 polyphonic (256 voices) per instance, 4 layers with independant arpeggiator for each layer.

Ravity(S) costs $139, and Ravity(R) costs US$79. Demo versions are available...and v(S)t versions too...

Lynx Studio Technology has announced that Aurora 16 sixteen-channel A/D D/A converter has been shipping to dealers over the last several weeks. The eight channel Aurora 8 converters have begun delivery the week of May 16. Lynx Aurora converters are now available through Lynx retailers in the US and distributors worldwide.

The eight-channel Aurora 8 has a US suggested retail price of $2195. $3295 is the US suggested retail price of the sixteen-channel Aurora 16.

Applied Acoustics Systems announces that its entire product line: Tassman 4, Lounge Lizard EP-2, Ultra Analog VA-1, and the upcoming String Studio VS-1, is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

An update for registered users is available free of charge from the AAS website.

Solasynth SE is an ensemble file for Reaktor from Native Instruments. It is made with version 4.13 of Reaktor. Solasynth SE is a modular synthesizer with a modulation matrix. It features a 2 complex multi mode filters, 4 envelopes, 2 different ringmodulators, pitchbend adjustable, modulation matrix, 3 flexible LFOs, chorus, reverb, delay, eq and more...