Mac and Music News

Corsair has released an extremely rugged line of USB 2.0 flash drives called Flash Survivor. Designed and engineered to be the industry's toughest USB drive, Flash Survivor is water-resistant, CNC-milled aluminum encased, and shock-proof to safely store user's information and files in the most demanding environments.

Flash Survivor is immediately available in two variations :

* Flash Survivor GT 8GB - $129.99 USD MSRP
* Flash Survivor 4GB - $59.99 USD MSRP

For more information, please visit the link below :

Tonium has announced Pacemaker, the worlds first pocket-size DJ system. This pretty little box is hidding some interesting features such as 120 GB storage, the SNR 103, the bend, pitch, cue, loop, EQ and sound-FX functionality, the separate line-out and headphones crossfaders, the separate line-out and headphones jacks and the two independent channels... Want more ? And so do I, but we will have to wait until october to see this beauty hit the stores.

Modartt has updated Pianoteq to v2.0.1. This update offers multi-core rendering, which vastly improves CPU performance on dual-core and hyper threaded Pentium 4, and Receptor compatibility.

Complete list of changes :

- Multi-core rendering.
- Receptor compatibility.
- Fixed parameter automation.
- Stand-alone: output channel selection for ASIO sound cards.
- Stand-alone: fixed wav export bug.
- Stand-alone: added 'clear menu' entry in the recent files menus.
- Stand-alone: metronome volume now adjustable.

For more information, please visit their web site.

Do you remember MultiInspectorFree ? This little free plug-in which was a multitrack spectral analyzer ? It was pretty cool but limited to 4 instances at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz... not enough for professional use. So today VertexDSP releases MultiInspector v1.0, the commercial version of MultiInspectorFree and guess what, it rocks !

Features :

* 31 band third octave frequency analyzer showing the spectral analysis of other plug-in instances in the same window.
* Independent editor windows for different views of the same content.
* Level bar width automatically adapts to the number of signals currently viewed.
* Adjustable attack and release time for smooth level bar display.
* Adjustable slope with a default of 3 dB per octave for flat display of pink noise.
* Peak optio ...

Thermionic Culture has released the new Earlybird 1.2 two channel valve pre-amp which was shown for the first time at the Frankfurt Music Messe. Basically it's a simplified version of the Earlybird 2.2 in that it doesn't have any EQ except for a three position low filter, nor does it have the Thermionic Culture Pullet EQ inputs.

The Earlybird 1.2 is available now at a retail price of £1825.00 ex VAT (€ 2650).

RME has announced the DMC-842 which is the first multi channel interface for digital microphones. This interface is comparable with conventional preamp/converter units such as RME's Micstasy but it also acts as a power supply and control device for digital microphones, supporting the worldwide AES 42 standard.

The DMC-842 is expected to be available during the 3rd quarter of 2007 priced at €3050,- excl. VAT.

Magma is pleased to announce the availability of ExpressBox1, the first external PCI Express expansion product for laptop computers. ExpressBox1 provides a fast and easy solution for attaching a PCI Express card to laptop computers through the ExpressCard slot appearing on MacBook Pro.

Magma ExpressBox1 (Model EB1H) supports a half-length card up to 6.60 inches long and costs $729.00 while the ExpressBox1 Pro (Model EB1F) is made for a full-length card up to 12.283 inches long and costs $749.00.