Mac and Music News

Opcode's resucitation. After the dramatic sell to Gibson and the disappearance of Opcode for years, Opcode is back. The company announced a full ranged of midi and audio interfaces (USB, PCI, 24/96 and 24/192)
In the specs : MacOS Core Audio driver support… smells OS X! Available Q4 this year.

In the Luxo family, I'd want the mother…800MHz, 2630 € tax inc. a real joy for everyone. Want to know MORE?

MobilOhm is a 4 oscillators phaser with LFOs and preset morphing.
2 kinds of interfaces : a classic one and a (real) funky one.
Like others ohmForce products, quality is here and some presets are really amazing.
The standard license costs only $ 9.95 but is limited by a 16 bits output. The expert license is $ 79 for full quality output (32 bits) and Midi remote abilility. A time-limited demo version is available on the site.

Edirol Corporation also announced the release of their latest audio capture device, the UA-700. The UA-700, aka "The Everything Box", demonstrates a breakthrough in USB audio by coupling 24bit/96 kHz processing with high-end Mic/Guitar-Amp modeling, all in the same device. It is a complete input/output solution for both Audio and MIDI via USB. It is ideal for home recording musicians who do not wish to compromise quality. At the same time it can be used as a standalone A/D converter or as an effects box for the performer. The UA-700 has a suggested retail price of $595.

The main features of the UA-700 include:
• Guitar amp modeling/Mic modeling (Roland's COSM technology)/System effects including Amp modeling, Delay, Tremolo, Flanger, Phaser, Compressor, Mic modeling, Preset type c ...

Happy you owners of the 828, MOTU has released the driver version X in public beta so you can use it NOW! Go retrieve it! Be careful anyway, it's BETA!

For the Logic wanabees, an interesting bundle available until 08/29/02.
The BIG Box bundle
include Logic 5/48 tracks, the ES1 (virtual synth), the EXP24 (virtual -again- Fender Rhodes and the EXP24 (virtual -still-sampler)
Great for us and unexpensive too! But be patient, I'm waiting mine for 2 weeks… boohoo…

There was a time when it was available only in TDM/RTAS or MAS. It's over now, you can have it in VST too. Sacrified to the simple mortals in some way…. Channelstrip will make your day for less than 300$.
Compressor, EQ, Noise Gate, Phase Inverter… a "real" channel strip - hmm something under that ;) - now poors can afford it ...

Need Logic 5 and its magic dongle to mix projects with way too many faders? No more!
Mackie and its Mackie Control will make users of programs like Nuendo, cubase SX or DP happier. A modified version of the HUI without the monitoring section, the 2 pres among a few things. It can be extended by blocks of 8 faders.

Edirol Corporation announced that their new UM-550 5x5 USB MIDI Interface is now shipping.
The newest in a long line of Edirol MIDI interfaces, this 3/4 rack unit provides a 5 input – 5 output MIDI switching interface. The UM-550 is the little brother of the UM-880 and contains many of the same features – ideally suited for the MIDI studio with fewer devices. The suggested list price is $240.

BIAS, Inc. announced that its multi-effects control environment, Vbox 1.1, with support both Mac OS X and Windows operating systems, as well as Mac OS 9, is now shipping. BIAS Vbox 1.1 for Windows marks the company's first product release for the Windows platform; Vbox 1.1 for Mac OS X is among the first audio products for Apple's newest operating system. Following the release of BIAS Peak 3 and BIAS Deck 3.5 for OS X, the release of Vbox 1.1 brings the entire BIAS product line to Mac OS X.

Akai comes to software and now ships 5 VST plug-ins for mac: -DC VOCODER- a high quality 50-band vocoder, -ROTATOR- a rotating speaker, -QUADCOMP- a multi-band compressor/expander, -PITCHRIGHT- a real-time pitch corrector with "virtually" zero latency, -DECABUDDY- a multi-channel harmony generator.