Minnetonka Audio Software has announced shipment of its first software application for the Macinstosh OS X platform: Surcode Dolby Pro Logic II. Like the, SurCode PL II for OS X allows broadcasters, game developers, video producers, and audio professionals everywhere to easily encode surround sound into stereo delivery formats for television, games, cable programming, music applications, and many other media.

Pro Logic II is priced at $495USD.

Studio ease 5.0 helps minimize the time spent on management and administration chores of your studio(s). The system consists of a number of related modules that are accessed from a central main menu : contacts, archives, audio tools, budget, contacts, cue sheet, invocing and more...

StudioEase 5.0 costs $60.

MidiSwing shows the content of a midi file as a piano roll which you can edit. You can edit any existing midi file, or compose your own music from scratch. MidiSwing has been written in Java and is supposed to run on any Java 2 platform (Linux, Windows, Mac...). MidiSwing has been specially developed with the Mac OS X user in mind. Source code will be available in the final versions.

MidiSwing download is available in MacMusic softwares section.

Roxio has posted an update 6.07 of its Toast Titanium. This update now features new Double-Layer (DL) support for data, audio, video and copy formats. These features require a double-layer capable DVD recorder and double-layer media. This updates any prior version of Toast 6 Titanium to version 6.0.7 and will not update any version of Toast 5 Titanium, Toast 6 Lite or Toast 5 Lite.

Download from the Roxio web site.

Steinberg have released a pre-release "Public Beta" version of HALion v3.0.1.489 for registered owners of HALion 3. This public beta features : added 2 new User-Categories "Favourites" (3 before, total now 5), user-Categories "Favourites 1-5" can now be renamed by keeping Ctrl pressed when selecting added "Save Bank..."in Global Archive menu and fixes several bugs.

Info on Steinberg web site.