Mac and Music News

Ready for recording, data exchange, and backup, the MediaDock line of storage systems let you swap hard drives on the fly without any need to reboot.

Due by the end of the month, TC Works' Native Bundle includes new reverb and filtering plug-ins, with all seven plug-ins running on Mac OS X, Classic, and Windows.

Digidesign is now shipping the SCSI|128 for Mac and Windows systems, designed to deliver 128 tracks of playback and record with Pro Tools|HD.

Apple released the first update to 'Jaguar' (MacOS 10.2), bringing it to version 10.2.1. This new version enhance the following components: Mail, Image Capture, Help Viewer, graphics, printing, networking, Rendezvous, Kerberos, USB, FireWire, SCSI device compatibility and includes additional digital device support.
It can be downloaded via the Software Update Control Panel in Mac OS X.

Digital Performer 3.1b (for OS9) was showed. New features include:
- unlimited Undo with history
- tracks groups
- Rex1, Rex2 and ACID files support
- mute tool
- cisor tool
- fade's handle (like Nuendo)
- Direct DV stream output for video quicktimes
- multi-channel sounbytes editing
- tap tempo
- Protools HD support
- OMF1+2 import/export
- editing functions enhancement
- auto timestreching during audio import

Performer 3.1 should be released in November

LinPlug has released a Mac version of their VST synthesizer created specifically for percussion programming.

Synthetic Drums is a collection 32 electronic drum kits created with more than 1800 samples for use with NI's Battery and Kontakt.