DREAM THEATER have checked in with the following update:

"Dream Theater is excited to announce a unique treat for our fans! During the December leg of our current world tour, spectacular acoustic finger style guitarist Andy McKee will be our special guest for the San Diego and Anaheim shows in California, the Mesa show (Arizona), and three shows in Mexico: Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. We're sure everyone at these shows will appreciate his instrumental mastery as much as we do."

Click here for the band's complete tour schedule.

As previously reported, Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess will be performing a solo concert at The Iridium in New York City, NY on November 12th.

Jordan says: "I'm very excited about my upcoming solo show in NYC at The Iridium on November 12th - a night of grand piano, synthesizer and iPad madness."

You can find further details at this location.

Jordan Rudess proudly presents the new Wizdom Music website here. As the band's webmaster put it, "a really cool resource for info on all of his apps."

One such app is the recently unveiled Geo Synthesizer, a musical instrument and MIDI controller. A collaboration of Wizdom Music's Rudess and Kevin Chartier (MorphWiz, SampleWiz) and Rob Fielding (Mugician), Geo Synthesizer is an incredibly expressive musical instrument specifically created for a multitouch surface. Rudess has issued a two part video showcase of the new app below.

Rudess says: "Since touching a preliminary piano keyboard on an iPhone screen and realizing the amazing potential for musical expression on a multitouch device, I have been inspired to create next-generation musical instruments for iOS. Geo Synthesizer is a dream come true in many ways. It is the fastest truly playable iOS instrument that I have put my hands on to date. I can fly through the range of an instrument while expanding on the kind of advanced pitch control we introduced in MorphWiz. As someone who grew up with synthesizers, I can tell you that pitch bending has never been this good!

"Geo features many of my custom sounds and in addition, Geo is also a MIDI controller, so you can use it with any external midi instrument or virtual MIDI. Virtual MIDI allows you to control an app running in the background on the same device! A great feature of Geo is that internally and externally we send independent voices on each note played, so as an example, you can pitch bend one note and not the other, or add unique expression on every note! I can't wait to see the YouTube videos of all of you guys rocking out with Geo Synthesizer!!!"

Read more here.