Actioncorp, a group of four Indiana friends who all share a passion for technology, re-examined Steve Job’s iPhone presentation during MacWorld frame-by-frame. Their investigation revealed several hidden features that Jobs’ didn’t showcase during his short unveiling. Actioncorp discovered a Ringtones tab in the iPhone’s iTunes...

FXpansion has released Audio Units and RTAS versions of Orca, their free experimental monosynth based on detailed and accurate models of analogue synthesizer circuits and components. FXpansion claims Orca excels at deep, squelchy basses and thick unison leads. Orca has a simple subtractive synthesis structure, being comprised of an oscillator, filter, fixed amp...

Sinevibes has released SP-404 Recharger, a sound library for the Roland SP-404 sampler. It features drums, percussion and effects which were created from the ground up just for the 404 – kicks, snares, toms, claps, congas, hats, as well as scratches, spectral, vocoder sounds and more. Covering styles from hip hop, neo soul and R’n'B to break beats,...

Apogee Electronics Corporation has announced the release of a new version of the FireWire Audio Driver for Ensemble, their multi-channel, digital audio interface designed specifically for Apple Macintosh computers. This Firewire Audio driver supports a single Ensemble used with any G4, G5 or Intel-based Macintosh in conjunction with OS X 10.4.8 or later,...

Acoustic analysis commissioned by Gramophone Magazine has revealed that recordings of the renowned classical pianist Joyce Hatto on her husband’s Concert Artists Recordings label were actually the poorly constructed recordings of other performers. Concert Artists Recordings has issued over 100 Hatto CDs. Joyce, who died last year and hadn’t performed...