Mac and Music News

To coincide with the forthcoming DigiWorld and summer NAMM show, IK Multimedia is pleased to announce that SampleTank RTAS plug-in for Digidesign Pro Tools systems will be shipping in July. You can allready download a demo version from their site.

Destroy FX developers Tom 7 and Marc strike again with the release of a new plug-in called Scrubby and new versions of the whole collection, featuring better Logic support, "midilearn" feature for assignment of one MIDI controler per button, and improved performance and sonic quality…

Plus, Tom 7 and Marc share their impressions on audio development for MacOS X and reveal their upcoming projects in an interview posted on osxaudio.com
Subjects mentionned include a mysterious "Geometer" plug-in that should reach our desktops in the coming weeks.

The essential DestroyFX plug-in collection is available for free, but you can encourage these two generous developers by making a donation; just hit the "donate" button on their site…

Zygoat Softwerks announced a new software product aimed for Mac OS X music makers: Doggiebox, a new drums and percussion sequencer.

Clavia has released a major upgrade for the Nord Electro. the V2.0 Software improves the polyphony, allows USB downloads, and brings new piano sounds and effects.

New from Harm Visser are a pair of plug-in collections for use with the Korg OASYS PCI card:
- MorphingDrums is a collection of three new percussion plug-ins. The plug-ins use physical modeling to create organic, fully controllable drum timbres.

- OAS7 is inspired but not limited by the classic DX7. The 32 OAS7 plug-ins combine phase modulation synthesis, multimode filters, and DSP-rate envelopes.

According to MOTU: Version 2.11 adds a longer list of available buffer sizes. This driver supports multiple interfaces on a single Firewire bus. This driver will not support multiple I/Os on Blue and White G3s, early "Yikes" G4s, or any PCI or PCMCIA firewire card with older PCI-Lynx firewire chips (consult to the manufacturer of your specific card).

Now available for the Mac, CDxtract is a program/sample converter that supports virtually every single sample format both ways. It can also read the samples before converting them. The following program formats are currently supported: Akai S1000 / S3000 / S5000 / S6000, MPC 2000/3000, Roland S7xx, EMU III / ESI / IV / EOS / Soundfont, Tascam GigaSampler/Studio, Emagic EXS24, Digidesign SampleCell, Creamware Pulsar STS, MESA, NI Reaktor map, Steinberg Halion, VSampler... as well as the following sample formats: Kurzweil, Wav, AIFF, SD2, MPC .snd, and Pulsar .s... Not bad ;-)