SoundFont Synth by Andy Drabble is updated to v1.2.4, and now handles bank changes correctly. SoundFont Synth is an Audio Unit component plug-in designed to make the synthesis of natural instruments using Sound Fonts, available to GarageBand and other Audio Unit hosts.

Info and download on MM Softs section.

Precisionsound announced Nordic Upright Piano for HALion & Kontakt. The goal behind this sample library is to capture the ring and dynamics of a good essential Swedish piano (the Futura II, made by Nordiska Pianofabriken at Vetlanda, Sweden, in 1974).

The complete CD-ROM contains 713 individual 24 bit Mono WAV samples and costs 77$. The donwload version costs 67$.

SEQ451 by Robert W. Rosees is a MIDI pattern sequencer for OS X. The program is extremely flexible, all it requires is that you have an external MIDI device generating a clock and it will output notes in time to a pattern sequence you specify.

Seq541 is now freeware and available in our softs section.

The Public Beta 1 of Renoise v1.5 has been released for Mac OS X. Renoise is the next generation of music tracker software, combining studio quality sound and virtually infinite expandability with a "clear and concise interface putting every parameter and option literally at your fingertips".

Info and download on renoise web site.

The Audio-MIDI Sequencer Intuem is updated to vRW 3.0 and now features : full support for ReWire, added the option to change the playback speed of a composition from 1/4x to 3 times normal speed, two new appearance styles, controller tracks for AudioUnit instruments can be viewed and edited like the Tempo track, audio play-through now lets you hear what you're recording before you record it to check levels, and while recording to know you're getting it down, and much more !

Info and download on MM softwares section.