Version 2.0 of MHC's Space Synthesizer is now available as an AudioUnit plugin for Mac OS X (plus VST on Mac OS X). The AudioUnit version of 2.0 contains the same features as the VST version: 17 new waveforms, a new GUI, and 256 presets, including the old 128 presets and 128 new ones. Space Synth 2.0 is part of the Studio Setup plugin bundle which costs $89, and a 30 day trial version is available.

IDrum by Bitshiftaudio is a rhythmic sequencer for Mac OS X. The design of this virtual drum machine is based on a single axis: the simplicity of use. Useable as fully integrated plug-in for GarageBand, Soundtrack and Logic, Idrum is also available as a stand-alone version and is delivered with several hundreds of samples.

After the decision by TC to discontinue further development of Spark , BIAS Inc. announced that Peak 4.1 would now be offered at a substantial discount to users of TC Works and TC Electronic's Spark and Spark XL audio software.

Yamaha and Steinberg have just formed a strategic alliance to bring to musical products developers some protocols in Open Source. The aim is according to Charlie Steinberg "to establish multiplatform protocols, free to all developers, be they hardware or software". mLAN is clearly on the Yamaha roadmap and already some means of communications for Yam digital mixers are available into Nuendo directly (EQ, dynamics… ), the goal is Total Recall in the end. Hints are that moving some operations from the DAW to the mixers is in the drafts, and the "maybe" from Yamaha's engineers sound a lot like "we're working on it".