Tomorrow IK Multimedia will publish the lucky customer's identity who purchased the 1,000,000th IK product in history. His bonus will be a lifetime IK Multimedia software deal - all the company's products will be free of charge for this gentleman forever. Rest of us, registered IK users can select a free product from their website to download - Ampeg SVX UNO, Amplitube 2 DUO, T-Racks 3 EQ or SampleTank 2.5 SE.

German electronic mastermind Klaus Schulze penetrates the fashion market with a number of well-designed T-shirts, coats, LP bags and hats. Prices are moderated so let's try them.

Stanton has a new, rfeely distributed magazine for DJs, For Life which is downloadable from the company's site as a PDF file. It is full of the products of the company of course but looks very good. Unfortunately it is organised in a double-page layout which is not too easy to read but impossible to print - we hope it is not their last format.

An online petition has started against Apple under this link to warn the company. The number of joined people is quickly rising, it is currently above 14,000 who undersigned.

Some are worrying about MacBook Pro, too, while it also has no standard FireWire 400 connector but FireWire 800, a physically and electronically different one. This means you cannot connect your usual interface hardware into it - until to this day Apogee and MOTU has guaranteed compatibility officially. The hardware units of both companies works well with the new MackBook Pros but you will need a 800-to-400 converter cable. Users of the new MacBook series have to forgot FireWire.

By remixing a downtempo Cling track, you can win an iPod Touch, a Sound Forge 9, plus some PLP downloads with entering PLP's new remix contest. Click here to join.

Create Digital Music started a serious dispute on Apple's latest laptop news: all the new models lack the FireWire connection but MacBook Pro. This means that if you own a FireWire interface and want to deal on with it, you have to buy the most expensive MacBook models to live on. This step seems very unfriendly from Apple towards the digital music community which supported enthusiastically this platform. Now, after the latest backlash around the OS X update, a new cloud shades this relation.

We can win again: PLP launched a remix contest for Cling's new ambient/downtempo single. Best contestants will get an iPod Touch, a Sound Forge 9, plus some PLP downloads. Anyone can enter without any geographical restrictions, until 16th, December. Here.

ThinkGeek sells this wonderful T-shirt, the instrument of the XXI. century. It has seven sampled drum sounds, and of course it has a built-in loudspeaker to make the noises immediately. Check its ordering page, and watch the demo video carefully!

A new art project, Telemegaphone is still in active state until 6th, September. It is a seven meters tall speaker set in the fjords of Norway, which can send your voice real-time three kilometres around if you call the phone number specified here. The unit is totally green, powered by the wind, and the volume was set carefully not to disturb the people living there but to have a real impact.

Making of a drum synth is the title of a new blog - if you follow it you can build your own analogue drum synth. Try it.

Impressive, isn't it? We don't know what we have found exactly but it's a rather cool experience: nude girls surrounded with synth legends like Fairlight CMI 3, Moog Micromoog, EMS and so on. We would have some questions about this project so if somebody has the answers please drop a comment.

Korg nice yellow toy, Kaossilator has a surprise: David Bottino blogger let us know it. With some button push and trick, without any hardware modification anyone can force the gadget to memorize four bars instead of two. If you have the machine and some time try it.

If you can't afford a real synth, buy it on a T-shirt: a web-based shop in England sells Yamaha DX7, ARP Odyssey, Roland Juno 6 and many other valuable classic instruments as a T-shirt design, for 20 GBP. Hurry up, probably stocks are limited.

Aurora is the project name for an open source movement to create cheap and fine DJ controllers. Here is their web page where you can find all the instructions to make your own piece - developers say they will provide assembled, ready-to-fly version of the gadget, too, for the lazy people.

You can buy Komplete 5 from Native Instruments 30% off if you own one of the following sequencer packages: Live, Cubase, Sonar Producer, Logic Pro, Digital Performer, Pro Tools, Noendo, Samplitude Pro. The actual price in this case is 699 euro instead of 999 euro. If you pay in USD you can make an even better deal because of the current rate: you have to pay only 779 USD in the Native shop. Check here for more, the offer is valid until 31th, July.

A free, downloadable page that consists of samples of a huge amount of drum computers: 111 pieces of classic hardware sampled fully. Akai, Boss, Casio, E-mu, Fairlight, Jomox, Korg, Linn, Oberheim, Roland, Vermona, Yamaha and many more. Check here.

Korea Times had an interesting article about a new file format which contains up to six independent audio channels - so the consumer can remix the song, or even mute the selected channels. It can bring a fresh air into the world of karaoke and the musical game market that is dominated by Guitar Hero nowadays. The file format that is called MT9 can get an international recognition on the annual MPEG forum in June, Germany as the inventors hope. Check here the original article.

Peter Vogel, creator of the legendary Fairlight digital systems has published a lot of sound memories from his archives: some interviews, demonstrations and sound samples. Check them here.

Enter FXPansion's new quiz and win a Novation ReMote SL Compact 49 keyboard if you are lucky enough. Until 16th, June, here.

A man from Germany who calls himself Eric has established a wonderful web museum for electronic musical toys. The page under miniorgan.com has more than 180 instruments listed, photographed an explained. Unfortunately there are very few sound samples but it can change since Eric has all the real gadgets at home.

David from Hobnox has arrived to us as a comment writer and announced the next version of their Flash-based on-line music platform, Audiotool. The release is out and working, check here, the TR-808 emulation is very lovely.

Garritan will give you a Steinway Virtual Concert Grand sample package if you answer an easy question in email - play the game here.

Pianoteq offers three licence of the modeled piano software if you guess the composers of some music they published correctly - check their forum for more.

Free Flash applications are pouring the web for very different purposes. Now the focus is on the music: a German team called Hobnox has released a serious solution for making music, Audiotool. It emulates a TR-909, two TB-303, a mixer and 14 effect pedals real time, you can route their signals freely, and tweak them of course. Even the sequencers are running also as we get used to in the original versions. The next version is coming soon with load and save functions, and much more instruments - for example TR-808 drum machine. Click here to start the madness.

Nokia is asking this question in their newest competition. Your task is to collect a sound sample set of your city from the sounds you find most characteristic. The most innovative, most exciting sets will be used in a special track composed by DJ Shadow, exclusively for Nokia. Prizes are not too attractive, but the story can be a good fun - check here.

Yamaha shows their newest electronic keyboard design concepts at the Milano Salone 2008, an exhibition of interieur and design. They present a series of physical keyboard that are adequate for different situations of the everyday life. If we trust them, in the near future we will choose a keyboard instrument not on the technical parameters but the physical abilities that determines the concrete usability of a piece. In this world, keyboards are much more blending into the environment - a rather practical approach to the composers' mind. A very dull flash application shows how.