Mac and Music News

If you make music, you certainly want to broadcast it.It's now possible with NiceCast 1.0 by Rogue Amoeba, an easy to use audio streaming solution for Mac OS X. This software comes with : broadcasts from iTunes library, audio effects, built-in streaming server, broadcast archiving and voice over.
NiceCast 1.0 is a 30 euros shareware.

We finally have some consistent information for crazy Storm-users who so far felt abandoned by Arturia which was so busy with CS80 and ModularV, its excellent virtual synths that came out this year.

The major update just announced, will finally come to life in February 2004... This means you will need to be a little bit more patient, however I can tell you a bit about it in the meantime:

- Unlimited rack (instead of four synths and samples readers or effects)
- Import of midi files
- A better sequencer
- Piano roll for pattern and sequence editing
- new general midi instrument
- and other surprises...

Storm 3 will run under Mac Os X (which will be a minimum), so bye bye OS9. This update will cost only a few euros to registered users. Nothing is set yet about the full package's price.

M-Audio (aka Midiman) has posted Panther-compatible drivers for their keyboards and Midi or audio interfaces. Products supported include: USB Midisport, Keystation, Oxygen 8 and Radium devices.

A student at the University of Cologne (Germany) is currently writing a thesis about music software. The thesis is based on an online survey for which he needs your help. Please head over to the following link and fill out the form, it will approx. take 5 min. All your information is kept anonymously and private;the survey serves only a scientific purpose

SmartScore Pro is a "scan & play" software, made by Musitek Corporation, who announces an upgrade to version 3. With SmartScore your scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form after scanning, and this new version adds news features and improvements:improved lyric and text recognition, more symbols and usefull tools (burn ENF playback to AudioCD or convert ENF to PDF files).

SmartScore Pro 3 update costs 99 euros, and a demo version is available on the Musitek web site.

AudioFinder, the playing, scanning and extracting audio software from Iced Audio is fastly becoming the Swiss Army for the digital studio. This new version add a lot of improvements including:

- Added Sysex Transmit for dumping of Sysex data to MIDI devices
- Reordered the menus moving the user defined ones to the right
- Added copy to Desktop
- Added Generate Report to the Scanner Tab (produces a spreadsheet or database compatible file)
- Added AAC (.m4a) support.
- Granted all trial users a new round of launch counts. All feature flags have been reset.
- Added the ability to set Color Labels on files. (Panther required)
- Improved the Sample Extractor so If the source folder is read-only the extracted samples are created in the Favorites folder.
- Added Bookmarks popup on th ...

For them a pad is "un attenuateur", a keyboard "un clavier" or a score "une partition"... They are the happy translator's team of Mac Music: A well organised and compact team facing a constant flow of "News and articles" to translate every day from one language to the other and vice versa. Acting daily in the shadow (sometimes credited with some spare candies) to assure the bilingual of MacMusic which is one of its particularity.

Directed by the firm but sweet hand of Ptilou, this team that we would like to celebrate for its precious help and its devotion is composed of:

Pesji (special mention for his job since he joined the team) - barpi75 - elebuhe - raoulb - Anonym - ben021 - krisg - Presto - Sunny Voice - BC-KDM - marklyn - Beenome - closud2003 - oune - cendrine - Edward - djkbfh

Again thanks for your help ! BTW, dont hesitate to propose your help to translate.

Sagan Technology just released a new version of its sequencer software, Metro 6.1.0.5. Metro stands alone as a complete and integrated MIDI, audio and video production system. The audio system supports up to 64 audio tracks. Each track can have its own effect chain. Eight aux busses are also supported, each with their own chain. Chains can be made up of VST effects and/or AudioUnits (OS X only). All effects can be automated. Real-time editing is encouraged. Software audio play-thru allows the original audio to be recorded regardless of what plug-ins are currently in use.

For electroacoustic music fans, the CRFMW ("Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie") organizes the "Sound Pictures 2003" Festival ("Images Sonores 2003") at Liege-Luik-Lûttich (Belgium), Church "Saint André", Square of Market called "Place du Marché" (in front of the town hall of Liège) . 5/6/7 December 2003