Just brought Nathan Eames back from the Sony booth, where the big news from the Oxford plug-in world is the fact that the first three of the range of seven have now gone native. Seems to be an emerging theme at this show. Nathan, I understand that there’s a lot happening in Oxford Town?

It’s certainly been a busy time for us Tom. In the last month, we’ve released Universal Binary versions of all our Pro Tools plugs, launched the Oxford Limiter for the Powercore platform and most exciting I think for the

NAMM show is the launch of our Native range. People have been talking to us for a while now about - when are you guys gonna be compatible with Logic and Digital Performer etc? And the truth is, they have been, but

you needed a Powercore card for them to run. Now though with Apple’s Intel based machines running at lightning speeds - we think its a good time to bring them out for Logic etc. So the first three plugs that are AU

compatible are the Oxford EQ, Oxford Dynamics and Oxford Limiter. The remaining four (Inflator, TransMod, Reverb and Restoration Tools bundle) will come early in 2007.

We’re all really excited at Oxford about opening up to a whole new world of users, and hope that Logic users will appreciate having us on the platform. Just to give a very quick background on where we came from - we made a really expensive digital console, the Oxford OXF-R3 (cost around $1m !) in the nineties, and now that Sony Oxford has stopped manufacturing consoles, we took the same technology , algorithms etc and applied them to plugins. So unlike a lot of emulation software, you’re actually getting the exact same EQ and Dynamics sections from OXF-R3, right inside your computer.. its the same code. If you want to check out

our plugs, or see some video demos from last year’s NAMM show, come visit us at www.sonyplugins.com.