The Australian Smart Ltd. announced the Smart Console, a mixing control surface designed for mixing and editing large numbers of channels. The Smart Console is designed to both reduce the number of knobs on a panel and reduce the number of actions required in order to gain access to out of reach controls, and is also designed as an 'open platform' to capitalise on the strengths and experience of other leading audio manufacturers.

info on Smart web site.

Applied Acoustics Systems has announced that the demo version of Ultra Analog VA-1 si now available. Ultra Analog VA-1 is a virtual analog synthesizer with 32 voices of polyphony.

This demo version of Ultra Analog VA-1 is available at Applied Acoustics Systems'
website.

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.