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Future Audio Workshop has released Circle, a new virtual synth for Mac & PC that’s designed to be easy to use.
Features:

Visually Design Sounds - Simply move colour coded circles around the interface to start creating your own unique sounds. Preview the connections by just hovering the circle beneath a knob. Explore sound in an intuitive [...]

Algomusic has released MaxScore, a Max object which accepts messages that can create a score, add notes to it, transform them, perform it, save and load the score, as well as export the score to popular formats for professional publishable results.
Description:
MaxScore is more than a notation tool. It is an interactive performance object. MaxScore [...]

Sugar Bytes released Effectrix, a new effects plug-in it describes as an “Effect Instrument”.
It’s designed to let you break your beats, create pulsing atmospheres, psychedelic sound mutations, and crush, stretch, loop and reorganize any kind of audio material in real-time.
Effectrix is available for Mac OS X and Windows, in VST and AU plug-in formats. It [...]

Apple France has a look at Jean-Michel Jarre and his use of Macs and Logic Pro.
Here’s a short excerpt, through Google automatic translation:
Jean-Michel Jarre says his passion for the Mac
You are using Apple products for a long time. De quels matériels disposez-vous ? What materials do you have?
I am a big fan of Apple [...]

M-Audio has released a new FireWire driver for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2.
This driver update is available immediately for the following devices :

FireWire 1814
FireWire 410
FireWire Audiophile
FireWire Solo
NRV10
Ozonic

This driver does not support ProjectMix I/O or ProFire Lightbridge.

OT: This music video, for the song Again and Again by Bird & the Bee, makes really clever use of various features of Mac OS X, creating a constantly changing visual interpretation of the music, despite limited resources. Very cool!

MachineCodex Software has announced the release of AudioCodex v1.0, a Mac media player on steroids:
AudioCodex is made for musicians, DJs, audiophiles and casual listeners alike. AudioCodex tightly integrates your media, iTunes Library, Quartz Compositions and CoreAudio Audio Units effects.
AudioCodex allows users to easily create loops and apply real-time Audio Units effects to tracks from [...]

Toontrack Music has released EZplayer Pro, the follow-up to their percussive MIDI engine EZplayer Free.
EZplayer pro is a VST, AU and RTAS plug in for Mac and PC with extended Map Wrapping capabilities between major drum sampler formats in the market. (FXpansion’s BFD 1&2, Digidesign’s Strike, NIs Battery, EZdrummer and Superior Drummer in addition to [...]