Emagic Announces Music Production Suite for Mac OS XLogic Audio, Unitor8 MkII,AMT8 and MT4 MIDI and EMI 2|6 for Mac OS X
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July 20, 2001
Emagic is presenting an integrated suite of
its professional software and hardware products for Mac OS X.
Now in beta form, final Mac OS X versions of Logic Audio 5.0, and drivers
for the Unitor8 MkII, AMT8 and MT4 MIDI interfaces and the EMI 2|6 audio
interface will be available in September 2001.
"From the very beginning, it was important for us to support Apple's new
driver concept for MIDI and audio hardware because it's the best way to use
recording programs with Mac OS X," emphasized Dr. Gerhard Lengeling, Emagic
founder and Chief Developer. "Our new music production suite will support
many of Mac OS X's new features, such as memory protection for increased
system reliability, the new graphics engine with transparency and
flicker-free performance, real-time window sliding, and improved memory
management."
"With Mac OS X's entirely new audio feature set, including multi-channel
audio support, the Mac is sure to remain the preeminent platform for
professional music and audio production." said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice
president of Worldwide Developer Relations."This new suite of tools from
Emagic offers a full integration of Mac OS X audio technologies and raises
the bar for music and audio production and post-production on the Mac."
Logic Audio for Mac OS X
Logic Audio is one of the most widely used music and audio production
software packages in the professional creative markets. Logic Audio combines
the ultimate synthesis of digital audio recording and editing, digital
signal processing, MIDI sequencing and music notation into an incredibly
intuitive and powerful software package for music and audio production and
post-production.
Drivers Supporting Mac OS X for the Unitor8 MkII, AMT8 and MT4 MIDI
interfaces and the EMI 2|6 audio interface.
Drivers for the successful Emagic MIDI and audio interface series are
future-safe because they precisely fulfill the requirements of the new MIDI
and audio driver standards of Mac OS X. By chaining up to 8 Unitor8 MkII
and AMT8, up to 64 separate MIDI inputs and outputs, or 1024 MIDI channels,
are supported. In addition, the USB 24 bit capable EMI 2|6 has 2 analog
inputs and 6 analog outputs, as well as one S/PDIF digital input and one
output.
Requirements and Availability
Logic Audio, Unitor8 MkII, AMT8 and MT4 MIDI interfaces and the EMI 2|6
audio interface for Mac OS X products were developed and tested to form an
ideal integrated audio production solution for Mac OS X; it is perfect for
both desktop based and mobile, laptop based studios.
At the same time the system is also extremely open-ended and compatible
because the Mac OS X driver standard is used for both host (Logic Audio) and
driver (MIDI and Audio). It can therefore be combined with any other
software and hardware products that support the Mac OS X driver standard.
It is expected that Logic Audio, Unitor8 MkII, AMT8 and MT4 MIDI interfaces
and the EMI 2|6 audio interface for Mac OS X will ship in September 2001.
Logic Audio for Mac OS 9 and for Mac OS X are being developed concurrently
and will both be available in September 2001, helping to provide a smooth
transition to Mac OS X. For more information, visit their web site at www.emagic.de. | 
