Apple sent Tuesday to media and industry members an invitation to a special event, which will take place at the California Theatre in San Jose on October 12 at 09:00 AM. The invitation simply reads: "One more thing...", a phrase used by iPod maker Steve Jobs to indicate a surprise product at keynote presentations. According to several sources, Apple may be preparing to introduce a new version - again - of its iPod with video capabilities, or/and more probably new PowerBook or PowerMac G5 systems.

M-Audio announces for the end of October the new Project Mix I/O, a FireWire audio interface and motorized mixing surface. This new product with a "Digi 002 face" will feature 8 powered micro/line inputs (1/4, XLR, peak led), 8 ADAT inputs and outputs, one S/PDIF in/out, one high level instrument input, 4 outputs (1/4), MIDI In/Out, 2 headphones outputs with level control, Word Clock In/Out, 8 motorized faders, 8 assignable encoders, 1 master fader, a Jog Wheel, LED screen, locators, support for Mackie Control-Logic Control-HUI protocols.

The M-Audio Project Mix I/O will be available at the end of October for 1199 euros.

Classik Studio Reverb is an upcoming suite of 4 hi-quality reverbs by IK Multimedia. CSR will offer a suite of 4 high quality reverbs, HALL, ROOM, AMBIENCE and INVERSE that are modeled after popular classic reverbs found in sought-after outboard gear.

All details on IK Multimedia web site.

IK Multimedia announces that SampleTank 2.1 will start shipping by the end of October 2005. New sound set will now come on 2 DVDs with expanded 6.5GB sound library in every instruments' category. SampleTank 2.1 offers more than 2,000 patches.

IK Multimedia unveils details of its first hardware product: AmpliTube StompIO, a new kind of USB foot controller designed to be fully integrated with the soon to be released version of AmpliTube 2, guitar and FX modeling plug-in. The combination of AmpliTube 2 software and the AmpliTube StompIO USB hardware controller represents a huge step forward in guitar amp modeling processors