Wave Arts announces Version 4 of Power Couple, a pair of music production plug-ins : TrackPlug (a 64-bit 10-band EQ + compressor, expander-gate) and MasterVerb (a reverb). This version 4 offers a new user interface, a cross platform Preset Manager, an Undo feature and A/B Buffers for easier editing, and is AudioUnit, VST and MAS on Mac OS X Panther (10.3) compatible

Power Couple 4 is available for $249.95. Registered users can upgrade from Power Couple 3 for $50 or upgrade from MasterVerb or TrackPlug for $100. A demo version is also available on Wave Arts web site.

SoundHack announces SoundHack Spectral Shapers, a group of four VST and AudioUnits plugins based on the SoundHack program, the underground sound design tool widely used in music and film.

Spectral Shapers, the first release in a series of three groups of plugins, will expand on the filters in SoundHack, and explore new spectral techniques as well. Spectral Shapers bring timbral morphing and reshaping into the realtime interactive mainstream.

The four plugins in the Spectral Shapers group are all filters which emphasize the reshaping of the timbre of sound: +morphfilter, +spectralgate, +spectralcompand and +binaural. Each plugin works as a group of 513 coordinated filters, performing with both macro- and microsonic focus.
Spectral Shapers can be automated by MIDI controller message ...

Intuem, the Midi and audio sequencing software is now available as version 2.1 for mac OS 10.3 Panther. This new version for Panther adds audio capabilities with AudioUnit instruments, AudioUnit effects and a full audio and MIDI mixer.

The update is free for version 2 users, and a 70 euros upgrade is available on the Intuem web shop. We also noticed that a new education section is now open on the Intuem web site.

Universal Audio just released an OSX compatible beta version of their drivers for the Mackie UAD-1 Card, as a free download.

The final and complete 3.3 version will be available on December 18th 2003, with an additionnal new Fairchild plugin.

The italian company Anwida softwares announces a special price on a VST plugins pack. The Xmas Pack 2003 contains CX1V, a compressor-expender, L1V, a limiter-maximizer and GEQ15V, a 15 band graphic equalizer.
This VST plugins pack for Mac OS X costs 99 euros.