During the WWDC 2006, Steve Jobs unveiled the new MacPro, replacing the G5 product line. This new mac features:
- Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors
- 4MB shared L2 cache per processor
- 1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
- 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
- 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
- 16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

MacPro is available today for $2499. As usual, BTO configurations are available from the AppleStore.

QuikQuak announced that its reverb plug-in RaySpace is now available as an Audio Unit and supports Universal Binary for AU and VST.New Features also include a new preset selector and a more efficient processing.

RaySpace is an acoustic room simulator. This unique reverb creates up to five channels of surround-sound reverb, all calculated in real-time. The characteristics of the room shape, height, positions and materials can all be adjusted while you listen, making RaySpace a very inspirational and spontaneous tool.

Digital Performer 5.1 is now available as a free update to all registered DP5 users. This maintenance update, provided as a Universal Binary application, can be installed on an Intel Mac or PowerPC Mac and provides numerous code enhancements and optimizations for both Mac platforms.

Avid Technology, announced that it has acquired Sibelius Software Ltd., for approximately $23 million. Sibelius is a leading music applications software company with products for professionals, educators, and students who want to use computers to write, teach or learn music. The deal further expands Avid's broad portfolio of digital content creation tools with software for music notation and composition, coursework, testing, playback, publishing, authoring, and e-commerce. As a business unit of Avid's audio division, Digidesign, Sibelius will continue to develop and market its own line of software, and going forward, customers can expect to see exclusive and targeted product offerings that combine a range of powerful tools, including Sibelius software, Digidesign Pro Tools Academic software, and M-Audio keyboards, microphones, and other audio peripherals.

X-spat boX is a sort of external DSP expander with 8 mono or 4 stereo inputs and a free configurable multichannel output (from stereo to 8.0 including 5.1 and 7.1). As any other outboard (delay, reverb and so on), just connect the X-spat boX output to an AUX Bus of your mixer and send the audio sources to be processed to one or more X-spat boX inputs.

The X-spat boX is based on a cluster of ADSP-21161N processors dedicated to signal routing, preprocessing of inputs to audio matrix, sends, returns and effects. The Matrix offer various 3D Positional Audio effects in real time, including IAD, ITD, Front/rear Spectral Enhance and Doppler, among the others.
XSpatBoX allows 8 input channels (ADAT or FireWire to DSP card) and up to 8 output channels (DSP to ADAT or FireWire). A flexible routing section allows total reconfiguration of all the available inputs and outputs via MIDI. Surround 5.1 or 7.1 configurations, with discrete channels, offer also external sends and stereo/mono monitoring options. An impressive MIDI implementation chart ensures full compatibility with the best audio/MIDI softwares on the market like Cubase SX, DP4, Logic Pro, ProTools etc.