SaxLab by is a highly-flexible VST/AU-format wind instrument synthesizer with several features. SaxLab uses multi-sample playback of wind-instrument samples and incorporates a specially designed four-voice crossfade system that is capable of creating highly realistic wind instrument sounds.

SaxLab will be available in Autumn 2004. There is no fee information available yet.

DrumThing is a compact and simple application designed be a software version of a drum machine for creating drum patterns, loops and grooves. DrumThing 1.0 needs Mac OS X with Quicktime installed.

This shareware is dowloadable from the MM softwares section.

Synapse Audio have released the OS X version of the Poly-850, a VSTi synthesizer plug-in for Mac OS X, which started out as an emulation of a vintage synth. The Poly-850 features 2 oscillators, one filter for all voices, 3 envelopes, a modulation generator and a chorus effect.

Poly 850 costs $79 but he OS X demo version does not yet appear to be available.

Mireth Technology Corp. announces the launch of Music Man, digital music software that rips from CD, converts between formats, burns to CD or to USB Flash Drive Memory and plays music files, CDs and directly from USB Flash. Music Man runs on Mac OS X.

Music Man for Mac OS X is available for immediate download or on CD-ROM, starting at $19.95. Educational pricing and volume discounts are available.

Filterizer is a new a new VST effect for OS X made by Analog Industries. Filterizer is a simple state-variable filter that allows the filter cut-off frequency to be controlled by MIDI note number.

Filterizer is now available as a free download from the Analog Industries website.