Yellow Tools has released Logic 7 compatible public beta Audio Units versions of Culture and Majestic plugins. Culture is a modular virtual percussion instrument and Majestic is a virtual instrument which contains more than 16GB sounds of various basses.

Info and download on Yellow Tools web site.

Expert sleepers has released Latency Fixer, a free AU plug-in that reports to the host application that it has a latency (controlled by the plug-in parameters) but does not actually apply any processing to the audio signal. This causes the host to use its own latency compensation to advance the audio fed into the plug-in by the requested amount.

More info in MM softs section.

Native Instruments has released a hotfix for the Audio Unit version of Kontakt, making it compatible with Logic 7. It passes Logic 7 Audio Units Validation.

Info and download on NI web site.

In Sonasphere 1.2b, functional units, such as sound samples, effects and mixers, are represented as small spherical 'Objects' floating within 3D Space. Users can easily make connections between these objects via simple mouse interaction and establish signal stream networks.

Sonasphere 1.2b is available in our softwares section.

At the 117th AES Convention in San Fransisco CA, Tascam introduced two new FireWire audio interfaces.

1-The FW-1804 can be rack mounted and is a kind of FW-1884 without control surface.

2-The FW-1082 is a kind of mini FW-1884 with a control surface which features 8 balanced inputs (included 4 phantom powered inputs), 2 Midi inputs/outputs and costs less than $1000.

Unfortunately there's no LCD screen on those two interfaces and there is no native integration in Cubase.