Mac and Music News

A new audio and midi interface on the M-Audio/Midiman catalog.
The M-Audio Firewire 410 with single cable, phantom alimentation via the firewire bus (pretty useful for powerbooks), two ear phone input with sens, low latency and direct monitoring and two firewire connexions (useful to link an external hard disk...). And more... for less than 500 $

Every day we receive lot of rumors about Apple and its new products. Here is a rumor digest from many sources (two of whom was deep throat...and adam'apple)

- New and definitive version of Panther (OS 10.3 or X3) should be introduced during the forthcoming keyNote in Paris AppleExpo (sept 16 th)

- Coming August, new powerbooks (15' in aluminium), higher frenquencies for 12' and 17' and new look wired for the screen monitor...

- Update of the Imac line to offset sales difficulties

- Soon withdrawal of G3 processors

- New generation for G5 (already !) should be announced next december with higher frequencies, fixed bugs and improvments on the PCI-X

- G5 processor for laptops ready... next february...

- Soon Xserve G5 available

We said...only rumors !!!!!!!

MakeMusic, the famous soft editor of Finale, announce a new version for Mac OS X that will be available on october 20th 2003. Finale will get new functionalities : CoreMidi support, and ability to save scores in PDF format.