M-Audio announced Pulsar, a medium-capsule professional cardioid condenser microphone designed for recording acoustic instruments, like guitars, piano, strings, brass, and woodwinds. It's also great for percussion and drum overheads. Pulsar microphone features 20Hz-20kHz frequency response, 3-pin XLR (48v phantom powered), solid brass body and capsule.

Pulsar costs 129.95$ or 119 euros (soft case, wind screen, and mic-clip mount included).

Steinberg announced the release of Nuendo 3. The new version of Steinberg's media production system offers more features for post production and also sets new standards in surround production. Nuendo 3 will be shipping in late November 2004 for 1999 euros (full version), 699 euros (update from Nuendo 1.x) and 499 euros (update from Nuendo 2.x).

More info and new features on Steinberg web site.

Bias announced the released of Sound Soap version 2, the lastest upgrade of its audio cleaning software for Mac OS X. This version features : remove Click & Crackle and Enhance features, plus plug-in compatibility with Audio Units and RTAS/AudioSuite host applications.

More info in the MacMusic Softwares section.

MusicLab has updated the Audio Unit version of RealGuitar to v1.5.3 which is now compatible with Logic 7, Digital Performer 4 and Ableton Live 4. RealGuitar is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar part performing on keyboard.

From the AES in San Fransisco, Arturia announce the release of the ARP 2600V. An emulation of one of the last famous analog synthetiser: the ARP 2600 .

This emulation of this semi-modular synth will be available as a standalone version and in AU, VST, RTAS and HTDM formats for Mac OSX.