Not surprisingly, Apple quietly released a slimmer unibody aluminum design this week with a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gig of ram (expandable to 8 gig with two SO-DIMMs), Firewire 800, GigaEthernet, 802.11n Wireless, Bluetooth, 320 or 500 GB hard drive,  NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with …

Today at the WWDC 2010, Apple announced the 4th generation ‘iPhone 4′. (you know, the leaked/stolen one that made the blog rounds some weeks ago)
They changed the case design, giving it a glass front and back (supposedly developed to be 30 times harder than plastic), with a slim silvery edge …

Presonus has been busy in the past few months gathering bug reports and user feature requests for Studio One, a multi-platform killer music workstation package for Mac and PC.
They released 1.1 in the past week due to some known issues burning your final master CDs…
At the MusikMesse show in Germany, …

Now that Apple has released Logic 9.1 with 64-bit plugin support, we’re starting to see announcements.  Spectrasonics released word of 1.2 versions of Omnisphere and Trillian which offer native 64-bit support as well as new 32-bit Sample File Server option which allows more memory access due to existing platform limitations.
It …

PreSonus, makers of excellent audio hardware, jumped into the digital audio workstation (DAW) market the middle of  last year.
They took  a look at the market at large, and found most products are bloated and ridiculously complex in work-flow.  So they decided to work with German developers Wolfgang Kundrus and Matthias …

After years of rumours, Apple announced today the Ipad tablet for release in 30+ days.
It is a half inch thick and a mere 1.5 pounds.  The screen is 9.7 inches (1024×768) and is a capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display.
Running on a 1ghz Apple A4 chip (remember the purchase of P.A. …

Apple released a few interesting things today:
- Security Update 2010-001 (found on System Update)
- Bootcamp 3.1 update – finally.  Native Win7 support!  My tests thus far show the trackpad to be less jerky, it seems to handle the system fans better.  I will push it with a DAW to really see …

Logic Pro 9.1 Update
This update delivers improved compatibility and numerous fixes.
Issues addressed include:
Support for 64-bit native mode
Compatibility with 64-bit Audio Unit plug-ins
File names with over 32 characters are now supported
Samples are now mapped correctly when using the “Contiguous Zones” option in the EXS editor
Updated System Requirements
32-bit mode requires Mac OS …

Psystar, makers of RebelEFI software and pre-made PCs designed to run OSX has fallen on harder times yet. Not only have they been dragged to court and told to cease sales of the PC’s at Apple’s request, they are now begging for money.
After reading numerous sources in the Hackintosh sites, …

I’ve started to delve into Apple’s Logic Studio 9 and thus far, I like what I see.  It’s got a clean interface and likely more tools than I’ll ever need, but I’m a fan of the time line style of DAWs and so I’m working through the manuals as well …