McDSP has discontinued sales of individual LE products. For existing LE customers, McDSP is for the first time ever, offering the chance to upgrade individual LE plug-ins to Native for $195. Individual Native products have never been offered before, so take this opportunity and upgrade your LE plugs to Native.

Native products are full version plugs that are RTAS /AS compatible. Only individual LE sales have been discontinued, the Project Studio Bundle is still available, containing all LE products for $495.

Apogee Electronics Corporation released an update to their X-HD option card to provide better integration with Pro Tools HD.

The X-HD v.2 option allows for direct connectivity between Pro Tools HD systems and Apogee's AD-16X, DA-16X, and Rosetta 800 and 200 series converters, providing superior quality conversion to Pro Tools HD users without the need for an additional interface.

The X-HD v.2 release changes Apogee hardware emulation in Pro Tools to better support I/O setup and auto delay compensation without compromising channel counts or converter configurations.

Realizing the strong, loyal and professional Digital Performer user base in both the music and post-production fields, audioMIDI.com has created DP Corner.

audioMIDI.com's DP Corner is a new tutorial series that addresses the needs of DP users looking to enhance their workflow and simplify their DP experience. The series is penned by long-time DP expert and review writer -Tim Rumbaugh.

If you use DP, or are just looking for informative insight into this great Mac-based DAW software, make sure you sign up for audioMIDI.com's DP Corner.

Apple just release via the software update panel the new Leopard beta version, quite a huge one, 500 Mo and lots of optimisation and stability gains. The last update was released in july so the rythmn seems to accelerate ! There's also a new update of Tiger Mac OS X 10.4.11.

Ableton is proud to announce the release of Live 6 LE, a new member of the Ableton product line that makes Live's unique, inspiring workflow available to beginning and hobbyist musicians. Built on the same fundamental concepts as Live 6, the LE version gives musicians hassle-free access to tools that will help shape their musical ideas into creative works.

Features :

- Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
- Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project
- More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
- Two software instruments-Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
- Support for VST and AU effects and instruments*
- Real-time tim ...