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By mixing something between the Digi001 and the MOTU 896, Roland assault the control surfaces/sound card market.
The "studio package pro" includes a SI-24 interface (control surface, 13 motorized faders), a RPC-1 R-BUS PCI card and a special logic version.

The new GrooveBox is here!

More than a few Mac Musicians were getting all het up and worried. Had Digidesign let them drop? Was the lure of the PC market blinding the creators of PT systems? Even the Mbox will soon be shipped with PTLE 5.3.3 for Windows XP.

There, there! Don't fret! All PT clients on Mac systems can now, or will soon be able to switch to OSX. How silly to think that Digidesign would forget that their old faithful clients still had money to spend. Of course, PT Free users are not clients yet, and so are not mentioned – yet!

For the biggies this concerns Pro Tools 6.0 for Digidesign-approved Pro Tools TDM systems: Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools|24 MIX, and Pro Tools|24.

It also concerns the non-negligible market of LE system users: only support for Digi 001 and ToolBox now, but support for Mbox and ...

Apogee AP8 cards (A/D et D/A) now support 96kHz with Yamaha mix console 02R96, DM2000. A new free update is available at your local dealer.

New Roland M-1000 Digital Line Mixer:10 channel, 1U rackmount, mixes up to 4 S/PDIF stereo signals and 2 analogue inputs, up to 24 bit/96kHz, automatic sample rate conversion, will mix audio from a PC through USB, Word Clock I/O, 56 bit internal processing, units can be cascaded.

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Metric Halo Mobile I/O is now available. All the nomads laptopers can rejoice. Mobile I/O is available with or without DSP. The plug in for the DSP model will be issued for AES.

The new macs biproc and DDR don't like the Digi01 at all. Digi confirmed this on their site.
If you need it, Applecare has to change the motherboard as there's a problem with the PCI ports. It affects the digi card and other ones (cinewave, lynx two C).

Musicians form the Vienna Philharmony and Vienna Symphony orchestras played for this jewel. More than 1.5 million of samples, DVD, 24/96. Just the kind of things to melt your internal ear ;)
The whole collection will be available in 2004, you can start to save for it…

MAGMA's 2- and 4-Slot CardBus-to-PCI Expansion solutions have received official approval by Digidesign for use with Pro Tools|HD.
According to Digidesign's tests, the Pro Tools|HD system running Pro Tools 5.3.1 software supports up to 48 tracks of record and playback. Track count is based on tests using 24-bit/96kHz audio. Track count will increase as bit/sample rates and edit densities decrease. Results were achieved using an Apple Titanium (550, 667, or 800 MHz) PowerBook G4 with 256MB RAM running OS 9.2.2; the MAGMA Series 2-Slot and 4-Slot CardBus chassis (Model #'s CB2, CB2S, and CB4DRQ-D1); and four DigiDrive FireWire drives.
MAGMA are exhibiting their portable Pro Tools|HD solutions at AES booth 1253.

UK Distributers ARBITER have announced a new low retail price for Steinberg's Houston Control Surface. Previously retailing at £999.99 inc. VAT, the hardware controller for Cubase VST, Cubase SL/SX and Nuendo now benefits from a new lower retail price of £699.99 inc. VAT.
Quite a drop.