In less than 24 hours, the winter NAMM will open at the Convention Centre in Anaheim, California. The prestigious NAMM Show will gather over 1,400 exhibitors from 19-22 January, they will undoubtedly be very keen to unveil their lastest items to a public made of musicians and visitors growing more and more avid for innovations. As usual, the whole MacMusic team will take it in turns to cover this event, in real time or so this year with our team on the spot.

The major news will be available as soon as the show opens, both in the News section, and in our "special Namm report".

In this report, we will try to gather all information about audio software compatible with the new Intel based macintosh. Indeed, software need to be recompiled as Universal Binaries, to support both PPC and Intel processors.

Don't hesitate to comment or post a news article if you are aware of something we missed! ;-)

Audiofile Engineering has updated Wave Editor to version 1.1.5. which adds support for true multichannel output, native support for Core Audio Format files, choosable output device and more. Wave Editor is an audio editor featuring direct editing of AIFF, WAVE, Sound Designer, ACID , Apple Loop, and µLaw audio files , Partial support for Recycle files, Supports any sample rate or bit depth, Supports any number of channels, Supports interleaved and split channel files...

Details and download in the MacMusic software section.

Celemony announced Universal Binary versions for all Melodyne products. New version 1.5 for Melodyne Uno and Melodyne essential will be released at the end of January, and Melodyne Cre8 and studio will be updated to version 3.1 in spring 2006. These new versions will be of course compatible with new Intel Core Duo processors based Macintoshes.

These updated versions will be available for free for resistered Melodyne users

Audio Damage release Phase Two plugin, a recreation of the Mutron Bi-Phase vintage phaser unit. Phase Two features two separately controllable phasers, and like the original unit, these two phasers can be routed in series or parallel, for everything from subtle stereo washes to full-blown alien attack. Using the extra CC feature, which takes the place of the "Opti-Pedal" in the original unit, you can manually sweep the phaser frequencies with a MIDI controller, such as a mod wheel or aftertouch.

Phase Two is available as an AU/VST effect for Mac OS X and costs $49 (download version).