Griffin has announced that the PodPod is now shipping. The soft foam Griffin PodPod slips into any auto cup holder and provides a safe secure ride for any iPod or iPod mini. It also places the iPod in comfortable reach for easy adjustment and perfect placement for the iPod or iPod mini with an iTrip on top.

This new indispensable and amazing product costs $9.99.

Digital Theater Systems announced the availability of two DTS pro audio software encoders. The Pro Series 6.1 Surround Encoder is a stand-alone software which provide only 96kHz multi-channel audio solution for video content on DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs. The second one is DTS Pro Series Network Encoder, which is a networked solution for large post-production facilities based on the Apple's Xserve RAID storage system.

More information on the DTS web site.

Ueberschall announces BPM120 Drum & Percussion module. This pack is a 2.4 GB Drum & Percussion Loop Library with different styles (rock, metal, funk, world, acoustic and electronic sounds).These loops were recorded at 120 BPM with the use of Prosoniq's MPEX2 timestretching to allow adjustments from 60 to 240 BPM.

BPM120 Drum & Percussion module is available for Mac OS X (VST 2.0, Audio Units, RTAS), Mac OS 9 (VST) and costs $199.95.

Audiorealism has updated Bass Line to v1.5.0.4. in order to fix a minor bugfix for 48kHz. BassLine is the recreation of the Bass Line Synthesizer. Analog modeling techniques have been employed to create a DSP-algorithm that accurately emulates every aspect of the original Bass Line.

A demo version for Mac OS X is also available.

ApTrigga by Apulsoft is a Mac OS X VST Effect plugin that generates a trigger signal from an audio source. This signal is used to trigger mono Samples (AIFF & WAV), which can be dropped directly onto the plugin interface. ApTrigga goes to v2.1 and features : three new multi-modes (Stack - Dynastack - Manual) , passes Apple AUValidation and works in Logic7, AU graphics have been optimized, AU automation was improved, some interferences between the demo and the full AU version have been fixed, more contrast in the GUI, corrections to the manual and more...

The full version costs $39 and a demo version is available.