New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: The new Xproject hard drives from Glyph are here. Xproject drives are a good, low cost solution for users of host based systems that need a professional drive. The Ultra Wide drives sell for $499 and will handle 24 tracks of audio with any of the popular host based recording systems.
Steinberg has announced that they will cease further development of Cubase Audio TDM in order to more fully concentrate on supporting their native processing systems. We’ve heard no comment from Digidesign about this, but MOTU and EMAGIC seem as committed to TDM as they ever have.
Spin Audio has a free offering of a lite version of VST – DirectX wrapper. The utility allows VST plug-ins to be used in a DirectX environment.