Sagan announces a pre-release version 6.3.2.4 of Metro. This updated version now features : software no longer limits its compensation of plug-in latencies to audio packet sizes, fixes a problem with USB audio devices, fixes a crash occuring when mixing or rendering a 24 bit source audio file to 16 bits, recording multiple MIDI tracks from different sources may not have been allocating the correct amount of memory fixed, and other minor bugs fixed.

Metric Halo has released the Version 2.2 update of Mobile I/O Console and driver software for Mac OS X. This update provides increased performance across all Mobile I/O hardware models. Users of the Mobile I/O 2882, 2882+DSP, ULN-2, and ULN-2+DSP can now take advantage of the update with Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.2.

This update is freely available to all registered users of Mobile I/O hardware.

EDiMu-"Edition de Diaporamas Musicaux" -Musical Slide Shows Editing in English - is a soft that allows you to create animations from one or several images (such as scores), a cursor, graphical notes or even one or more sound files. Thus, you can easily synchronize scores scrolling on screen with sound files, add a cursor as well as some notes. Cursor mouvements and notes showing or hiding can also be synced with sound files. This software is especially aimed at music teachers or musicologists.

This is only a beta version for the moment.

Arboretum Systems announced an update to version 3.1.2 of Ray Gun Pro Audio Units. This release adds a general Bypass button in the output module of the Ray Gun window. Ray Gun Pro is an ideal tool for cleaning up scratchy vinyl, tape hiss, noisy dialog, HVAC noise, and any track with poor sonic quality.

It's a good news coming from Rod Mansell at Sony Plugins Support. He writes to a newsgroup that "The current versions of the Oxford plugins for the Powercore platform, (EQ, Dynamics, Inflator & TransMod), will run as both VST and Audio Units compatible versions, but require Powercore hardware to provide DSP resource. We will, at some time in the future, produce native 'Audio Units' versions of the Oxford range of plugins, but this won't be before the first half of 2006 at the earliest due to other workload commitments".

So it seems that Sony plugins will be available as native Audio Units version, and as native VST version too.