Mac and Music News

Now you can upgrade the OS of your XV 5050. The version to download is the 1.08 and brings some improvements :

- more gain on the digital output (+ 6 or 12 dB)
- a temperament has been added to each performance's patch
- bugs have been fixed (as those during the change of a SRX card)

Except that you could spend up to two and a half hours to upload all Sysex files (40) into the XV... For this task, you will need a sequencer supporting midifiles or a shareware like SysEx Librarian on Mac OS X.

An OS X driver for the miroMOTION DC30+ card is now available and it's free ! You'll find a lot of new features and options in this driver... So feel free to download it !

During the last Apple KeyNote, a demo of Amplitube OSX have been showed. This update should be released on May for 99 Euros.

Steinberg "Groove Agent" is shipping from Friday, May 2nd. The new VSTi by the development team behind "Virtual Guitarist": Groove Agent, a drummer who plays live, dynamic drums at the press of a button. Groove Agent, Steinberg's virtual drummer, can play almost all the most famous drum styles from decades of music history with a breathtaking energy and authenticity.

Wave Arts released Macintosh OS X VST and MAS support for their full line of plug-ins:
- MasterVerb OS X MAS/VST
- TrackPlug OS X MAS/VST
- WaveSurround OS X MAS/VST

The first MAS plug-ins line available for DP4. :-p

The RTAS and VST OSX version of Trilogy and Atmosphere are now alailable to download on the Spectrasonics website. For Stylus and Audio units, we will still need to wait a bit !

Edirol has released downloadable PCR Editor software for use with the Edirol PCR-30 & PCR-50 USB MIDI Keyboard Controllers. The PCR-Editor allows for extensive and convenient control of the PCR keyboards from a Mac. The PCR-Editor is designed to assist in creating control maps for the PCR and allow users to quickly & easily make assignments to any of the 27 assignable controls. This powerful software also allows the user to copy system exclusive messages for the PCR into a sequence so the controls can be mapped or changed during a sequence. In addition to offering easy implementation of different MIDI messages, the PCREditor also allows the user to specify minimum & maximum values for each control. The PCR-Editor is available as a free download from the Edirol website at www.edirol.com and supports Mac8.6-9.x & OS X.

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