PG Music announced an update to v12b22 for Band In a Box. This update is a general maintenance release. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings in a wide variety of popular styles.

More info in the MM softwares section.

RME posted an update for its driver for Hammerfall DSP System which supports PCI card, CardBus, Digiface, Multiface, HDSP 9652 and HDSP 9632. This update fixes bugs in Hammerfall DSP Settings, fixes MIDI error for HDSP9632/52 (repeated MIDI note at the MIDI output).

MP3 Trimmer is a mp3 files editor which lets you cut off portions of MP3 files, fast and easy, without re-encoding. You can then save them as new MP3's, always leaving your original files intact. New in this version : improved & more flexible file import, user-controlled Update Checking, customizable VU/EQ-displays, new preferences window, new function "Move In-point -> Out-point", improved ID3 tags parser, save inverse Trim selection and some bugs fixed.

Dropsound is a sound-playing app, made for digital music-makers (and co-developed by one). It is an attempt to fill the void left by SoundApp, which did not move on to Mac OS X along with everyone who used it. This 2.80 release features : a problem that prevented continuous playing and "quit when done" is solved. Dropping a folder works again. Several code simplifications. And note that OS 9 support is gone.

Audio Ease has updated its convolution reverb plug-in Altiverb to version 4.1.9. This update features : All formats had a problem with some IRs loading extremely slow, AudioUnit now uses latency compensation to accommodate more flexible audio driver settings. Note that the high latency mode is not compensated, but in low latency mode you can now set your 'process buffer range' to large to save CPU bandwidth, AudioUnit publishes its parameters to the host, so Logic's 'Control' view can be used, AudioUnit can do mono-mono again, MAS has full blown latency compensation support. When switching from low to high latency or from high to low Digital Performer's transport must be stopped for the new latency to be correctly compensated, MAS bypass automation fixed, RTAS redraw glitch when recording automation fixed.