Vanguard has been updated to version 1.5.1 in order to improve the "resize" function of the Audio Units version, to improve filter-shapers and to fix several bugs. Vanguard is a virtual synth equipped with 31 different types of oscillators, including rarely found digital oscillators with new modulation options, It also includes 13 filter types with different slopes and includes a new kind of combined dual-filter variations.

The demo version has also been updated.

Freeverse and Felt Tip Software have announced the imminent release of Sound Studio 3. This easy-to-use recording tool for Mac features 24-bit / 96 kHz sampling, in stereo or mono, low latency monitoring, using Core Audio, markers with text labels, Applescript and Automator support, Audio Units support, and serveral effects (compressor, expander, chorus, flanger, echo, and more).

Sound Studio 3 costs $79.95 and will ship before the end of this month.

 

During its "One More Thing" Keynote Address , Steve Jobs may has just introduced a new iPod including a larger screen and video features.

Apple has also released a flat iMac featuring a built-in iSight webcam and a new 6 button-multimedia remote control, looking like an iPod shuffle.

iTunes 6 has also been presented and will allow to directly buy music clips and some TV programs....

Very exciting! :-/

ps Clouvel : Bad news for some of us, the only affordable and complete Mac, the eMac, has disappeared from the Apple range

It's the end now for the 2005 AES Show in New-York. The whole MacMusic team and myself were on the alert to keep you up-to-date. You can read bellow all news items we published about the AES in the daily news section.

Native Instruments announces at AES its new Essentials bundle, a new instrument collection including the full versions of Absynth 3, the semi-modular synthesizer; Battery 2, the percussion sampler; PRO-53, an emulation of the legendary Prophet 5 analog synthesizer; Kompakt, the multi-format sampler that includes a comprehensive instrument library; and one amp emulation of choice from the Guitar Combos series that includes the Plexi Combo, Twang Combo and AC-Box Combo, all derived from NI's Guitar Rig amp emulation system.

NI Essentials is available immediately for of $499. A special limited-time upgrade offer also allows all owners of at least one product from the NI Essentials to upgrade to the full bundle for $339. This upgrade offer expires on December 31st 2005.