Mac and Music News

New in the Pro session series distributed by M-Audio come 7 volume by Film composer and ex MMA (Midi manufacturer association) director Jeff Rona, called Liquid Cinema. Each volume contains loop in AIFF, WAV and REX2 for 49,95$. According to Rona, these are palettes of sounds for scoring TV or film. The 7 flavors are: Cinematic impact, Cinematic ambiance, Cinematic pulse,Tabla science, Late night sessions vol 1 and 2, Junkyard sessions. Unfortunately no audio demo is provided on the site, so you'll have to check out yourself before buying. That's what the real (reel) world is about.

Ableton announces Live 4. Live 4 extends Live's real-time music-making approach to the complete range of today's music-production techniques. Ableton Live is the music-production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments, as well as your digital audio recordings, together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use. In the end, Live lets you focus on what really matters: your music.

New Live 4 Features include:

Digidesign release CoreAudio 6.5 and for the pleasure of all users including

- Multi client support !
- no more needs to choose the software using Core Audio
- No more crash with for example mbox + Peak
- Improvement of the compatibility with the other software
- Quicktime Stream audio ok with 128 samples buffer

Digi Core Audio driver 6.5 is a free download for Mac OS 10.3 Panther.