Mac and Music News

For those who are experiencing troubles with PT6, some hope can be found on the DUC this week, straight from the horse's mouth:

DigiTechSupt - Administrator - Member # 7660
posted March 26, 2003 02:39 PM                     

"Hello,
We have seen some issues with Midi controllers in 6.0. These issues have been addressed in 6.01 which is due out in a week or so. We have also seen some issues with recalling patch assignments. We are currently looking into the problem".

Digidesign announces plans to demonstrate a new version of Pro Tools with DigiTranslator 2.0 that supports the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) for program interchange at the NAB show in Las Vegas April 7-10, 2003, in the Avid Technology, Inc. booth #SL300. After showing a working version of Pro Tools with AAF support at NAB, Digidesign plans to make it available to Pro Tools customers as part of the DigiTranslator 2.0 option, inside a Pro Tools release scheduled for this summer.

The Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is a media interchange file format that enables content creators to easily exchange sequence information, digital media and metadata across platforms, and between systems and applications. AAF simplifies project management, saves time, and preserves valuable metadata that was typically lost when transferring program material between applications in the past.

Macfixit announces that they have found the way to boot the new Macs
on OS 9 : Apple provides its technicians with a CD called "MacTest Pro for Power Mac G4 version 7.8.1 supports all iMac (flat pannel) 15 inch systems only" which allows to boot on Mac OS 9 thanks to a new version of the Mac OS ROM extension.
At this time, the tests have been only made on new iMac and the "miraculous CD" is strictly reserved to Apple detailers/technicians.

So why not for all the new Macs... one day...

We have completed the points accounting system which will allow the follow up of your contributions to the site. All your contributions (posting a news or a link, translating an article...), will be paid and registered in your personnal account. When you get 60 points, you may convert this amount to become a real Active Member (with no more restrictions to access)

Members contributions are essential to MacMusic. It requires a little bit of work and time. But it's very useful for the MacMusic community. And it's a way to become quickly an Active Member.
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All your 2003 contributions are registered and detailed on this new page of the "USER" section. ...

Our Moogy fellows of Arturia announced their support of AudioUnits as plug-in format. The Moog Modular V should be updated for this reason a the end of the month. Enjoy!

MacMusic will present the Moog Modular V at the MacOSX Student day in Paris the 29th of March. Prepare your patch cables!

Steinberg announces their upcoming new control surface. Named "ID Controller", it has been especially developed in tandem with their pro Audio software, Nuendo v2.

No release date has been announced yet, Steinberg is apparently taking time to finalize their products (probably due to the problems encountered with the previous control surface "Houston")

MacMusic will be present at the day organized by Epita already mentionned here

It will take place next saturday from 3 p.m to midnight. Some of the MM team members will be present :o) with some computers: Of course!

If there's volunteers outside of the team just drop me an e-mail (link in my account

Synth II (as suggest it's name) is the new version of Synth, the little analog synthethiser from MFB which mimics the MiniMoog functions.

This synth features:

- 3 VCO with 3 wawe forms (sinusoidal, square, triangle)
- 2 envelop generators (ADSR)
- 24dB low pass VCF (with resonance)
- 2 LFOs (sinusoidal, square, triangle, random)
- Audio In /Out
- Audio Mixer (between VCO and audio input )
- Sequence of 25 step/16 sequences
- Midi Input/output
- External Midi synchronisation (MIDI clock, Start/Stop MIDI commands)
- Pitch BEND and modulation wheel supported
- CV/GATE Input
- 50 presets and 49 user memories

Priced at 480 euros (!!!)