The third Circuit Bending Festival will be held in New York, USA from the 19th to the 23rd of April. This is a unique occasion to ear live performances, participate to workshops on how to bend both for adults and kids (some are to pre-register to attend), and envision installations.

Performances $5, $7, $10 or free…Worshops from free and up to $60 (cost of materials). Bent is held 15 Nassau Street 10005 New York.

M-Audio brings support for Apple's new Intel-based Mac computers to the company's complete line of FireWire- and USB-compatible peripherals. M-Audio has posted official drivers for Fast Track USB, Fast Track Pro, MobilePre USB, JamLab, Transit USB, Audiophile USB, FireWire Solo, FireWire Audiophile, FireWire 410, FireWire 1814, ProjectMix I/O, Ozonic, M-Audio Ozone, Oxygen 8, MIDISPORT 2x2, MIDISPORT 1x1, MIDISPORT 4x4, MIDISPORT 2x4 and MIDISPORT 8x8/s.

Alphakanal updates its Automat to version 0.4 in order to adds a new chorus code, phasor and allpass filter. Automat is a substrative synthesizer faturing subtractive synthesis, 3 antialiased oscilators, filters and amplifier, 2 ADSR's for filter and amplifier and 6 modulators with tempo sync.

Automat is a freeware available in the MacMusic software section.

Digidesign announces version 2.0 of the Massenburg DesignWorks Hi-Res Parametric EQ, developed by the creator of the parametric EQ, George Massenburg. This new version of the MDW Hi-Res Parametric EQ plug-in for Digidesign Pro Tools|HD systems delivers the same reference standard sound as the original while offering a new user interface, five- and three-band versions, improved DSP efficiency, and significant workflow enhancements.

Owners of MDW Hi-Res Parametric EQ version 1.x can upgrade to 2.0 for $125.

JackOSX is now available as version 0.73, the first Unversal Binary release for both Intel-based and PowerPC Macs. This version also features :r emoved NetJack component until bugs fixed, also removed legacy Port Audio driver, and updated to latest Jack server version. Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit) is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.