Apogee Electronics Corporation has just released an update to their Symphony PCI driver to include two new features, VBus and Performance Tuning.
VBus provides unlimited routing possibilities across multiple applications in any Symphony equipped G5 or Mac Pro. With VBus, users have the ability to create virtual hardware buses, which allows for the routing of audio within an audio application or between different audio applications. For example, it is now possible in Logic Pro to record a submix of multiple audio tracks onto a new audio track, which was previously impossible without VBus.
The Performance Tuning feature makes it possible to further reduce the latency of a Symphony system. When set to High Performance, latency is reduced to previously unattainable levels.

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Pro-Sounds has announced the availability of "Unstable Oscillators" for the reFX Vanguard synthesizer. This new bank, designed by Lawrence Strand of Electronic Emergency, is made up of 128 rough, tough sounds in FXB and FXP formats. You won't find any "nice-guy" sounds here. Unstable OScillators is pure grit and grime, featuring ripping basses, blazing leads, dangerous rhythms, and more.

Unstable Oscillators is available for €17.95. Previous Pro-Sounds customers can enjoy a 20% loyalty discount via a special link sent via email.

As audioMIDI prepares for the Holiday Season, they like to offer a coupon to say thanks to their loyal customers. From now through the end of the year, take 10% off almost everything in their store, simply use coupon code YEAREND10 during checkout.

That sounded like something we should mention as audioMIDI has always been a great MacMusic supporter.

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Expert Sleepers has released a plug-in client for NINJAM which is a program to allow people to make music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows.
There are various NINJAM client applications already in existence. Generally though these are designed around the assumption that you're just using the computer to send and receive audio, and that your instruments are just fed into your computer's audio interface. If however your instrument is your computer, it's not really possible to get audio in and out of the Ninjam system in a convenient way. By having the Ninjam client in a plug-in, it makes it very easy to combi ...