Apple Expo will take place from 12 to 16 September 2006 at Paris-Expo Porte de Versailles. You can ask online for visitor badges now on the Apple-Expo registration form. You will then be sent an ebadge by email which needs to be presented onsite to receive your entrance pass.

Applied Acoustics Systems has updated Ultra Analog VA-1 to version 1.0.2 in order to fix several bugs. Ultra Analog VA-1 is a virtual analog synthesizer. It offers 32 voices of polyphony and its highly adaptable signal path is driven by two super rich, alias free oscillators featuring standard waveforms, sub oscillators, hard sync, and integrated pitch envelopes. Two audacious multimode filters with distortion are then applied to shape its sonic character.

List of bugs fixed and donwload in the MacMusic software section.

TC Electronic announces version 2.0 of PowerCore for Mac OS X. This version brings 20 hours trial time (try out fully working optional plug-ins), new control panel with overview over the PowerCore(s) in your system, all-in-one installer for easy setup of all plug-ins and a mini view with "always on top" feature: keep an eye with your CPU ressources.

Cakewalk announces that a demo version of Rapture, its new wavetable synthesizer designed to produce pop, dance and electronic sounds, is now available. Rapture combines an advanced modulation system with an non-aliasing wavetable resampling engine. It features 40 Envelope Generators, LFOs, and Step Generators per patch, and comes with more than 500 programs including Basses, Leads, Pads, Arpeggios, Textures, Electronic Percussion and Sequences.

This demo version has some limitations (mute, ...) and is avalable on the Cakewalk web site.

Steinberg has updated its Nuendo to version 3.2.1. This release features : new option "process all" in the Detect Silence dialog allows processing of all selected events in a project in one go with the detect silence functionality, and on the Yamaha 02R96, the User Defined Functions (UDF) are now implemented. Nuendo is a recording, editing and automated mixing tool for film score, post production, creating a musical masterpiece or surround sound design for a new video game, television show, or even a radio play.