Over the past months Prosoniq have been silently working on converting their existing MacOS 9/Carbon code to the new MacOS X Cocoa platform. This important transition has become necessary to provide new versions of their products for the 32bit and 64bit Universal Binary flavors of Apple's Mac OS X in 2008. Aside from several new and unique products that are currently being worked on the release schedule for the second quarter 2008 includes a new version of Orange Vocoder and the Prosoniq morph plugins for the Intel Macs.

More details on supported plugin formats, features and pricing will be announced at Musikmesse (March 12th-15th, 2008, Frankfurt, Germany).

Justin Bua, famed urban artist, and audioMIDI.com enter into a reseller agreement for his art. Russ Jones founder of audioMIDI.com has long been a fan of Bua's art depicting musicians. "We decorated our Chatsworth office with framed Bua posters when we moved in, back in 2001. I've been a fan ever since" says Jones.

As part of this launch audioMIDI.com, Native Instruments, and Line 6 have agreed to offer a free Bua poster to customers purchasing online select products from these vendors. Further, audiomidi.com will be selling all Bua posters that have a music theme. This will include four posters that sell for $30.00 and five limited edition giclee's on canvas ranging in price from $500.00 to $750.00. "We felt this would be a great addition to the Studio Furnishings section on our site" says Jones. Bua's work adds a nice touch to your home studio or any studio for that matter...

Version 3.0 of DJ-1800, a complete, self-contained professional DJ system for the Mac, has been released.

Improvements :

- Pitch Lock (Master Tempo)
- Automatic BPM Calculation
- Universal Binary for native Intel support
- Your iTunes library within the DJ-1800 Rack
- Integrated support for multiple iPods
- New Setup Assistant
- Support for new controllers, including the PCDJ DAC-3
- Many other improvements and fixes

DJ-1800 v3.0 requires Mac OS 10.4.9 or later and QuickTime 7.2 or later.

Audiowish has released Note Gate 2, a real-time pitch-based Audio Unit volume filter effect for Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Combining innovative features like scale independent volume patterns, a robust pitch tracker and independent attack and release times, this effect helps you to instantly create volume swells, backing swells and complex multi-layered effects.

Key features :

- Key independent volume patterns.
- Separate attack time and release time parameters.
- Integrated gate and pitch monitor.
- Real-time, low latency processing for both live and studio work.
- Extensive user manual.

Note Gate 2 costs $19,99 and a demo version is available.

Nady Systems recently announced the introduction of their new condenser microphone, the USB-1C. Using the supplied USB cable, the mic connects directly to any computer with a USB 2.0 (or higher) input port for easy plug-and-play operation.

Features :

- large pressure-gradient condenser gold-sputtered diaphragm and FET preamplifiers
- full frequency response
- minimal self-noise, increased dynamic range, and maximum SPL capacity
- rugged compact construction with protective mesh grill and internal shock absorption
- basemount mic holder fits any standard mic stand
- 10' USB cable included