Manyetas software announce the Panther's upgrade of his "Ritmo" plugin with these features in the 1.1 version :

- fixed a crash during startup when QuickTime 6.4 was installed, or
when run on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
- fixed some issues related to the initialisation and cleanup cycle
- several new sample drum kits are included
- including Logic 5.5 presets

Ritmo only costs $25.

Rogue Amoeba has today released Detour 1.2, with support for OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Unsanity's Xounds 2.1 (Coming Soon!).This update to Detour also includes new French and Italian localizations.

In addition, all of Rogue Amoeba's products have been updated over the
past week for 10.3 support. Both audio recording and enhancing tools, the original Audio Hijack and Audio Hijack Pro received minor updates., and are now available for free download on the :

During the AES, Digidesign announced some news :

- All Digidesign TDM plug-ins as well as most plug-ins distributed by Digidesign have been optimised for Pro Tools|HD Accel. An update software CD of these new Pro Tools|HD Accel plug-ins will ship free with new systems.

- As a distributor of Sonic Solutions' NoNOISE, Digidesign announce
a price reduction on the noise reduction/audio restoration plug-in suite. Effective 10th October, 2003, the new suggested retail price of Sonic Solutions' NoNOISE is 1495 EUR.

Steinberg announced "Hypersonic", a virtual digital music workstation. Developed with Wizoo, this VST or AU instrument ships with 1,000 patches, 64 effect sections, 32 freely assignable individual outputs and a polyphonic power of up to 1,024 voices!

Equally impressive is its sound generating engine. Though it happily serves up sample-based synthesis, with Virtual Analog, FM, Wavetable and Sliced Loop cooking in its kitchen, this machine cooks up four more menus to satisfy every appetite for synthesis.

Hypersonic is available for both PC or Mac, with a Mac G3-500 Mhz processor, 256 Mb RAM and Mac OS 10.2 minimum. Hypersonic will soon ship for a suggested retail price of 399.00 Euros.

Zebra is a virtual synthesizer plug-in. It combines subtractive and additive synthesis with a powerful modulation engine that even smoothly integrates with the built-in effects section. The Audio Units version for MacOS X will be available to musicians with fastidious sound requirements in December 2003.

Zebra will cost only 159$ (US)! - But as a special pre-order offer, users can save almost 50% by purchasing this now. Meanwhile, there's a public beta version you can check out for free until December 2003!