Ultimate Sound Bank announced that X-treme FX is now shipping. X-treme FX is a virtual instrument plug-in for Mac OS X (VST/AU/RTAS) made for sound effects and atmospheric sounds. It comes with 5000 sound effects on over 8 Gb of disc space.

X-treme FX is available now for $399.

M-Audio introduced the FireWire Solo, an audio FW interface for recording guitar tracks, which features a 1/4" guitar input and a microphone input with phantom power (both featuring gain control and clipping LEDs), 2 line inputs, and coaxial S/PDIF digital I/O.

FireWire Solo can be powered via the FireWire bus or optional power supply, and is shipping at $249.95.

URS announced Audio Units support for the Classic Console EQ Bundle (A and N series only). The URS A equalizer is digital emulation of a vintage Neve EQ, and the URS N is a digital emulation of a vintage API equalizer.

The Audio Units versions are a free upgrade for both TDM and Native Classic Console EQ Bundle owners.

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.