Drums On Demand's new "Upbeat & Aggressive" is a 2-CD set featuring 1,700 royalty free loops, Loop Layers and matching single hits in 25 easy-to-use Song Sets. Users simply drag and drop from an average of 45 modular verse, chorus, fill, bridge, break, intro, ending and other loops to to quickly build a drum track that feels and sounds like a live session drummer with a veteran engineer at the console.

Price for the 2-CD set is $79.95

Clavia announced today the availability of the free OSX editor for the Modular G2. New features in V1.20 are :supports Mac OSX, supports the new 5-octave model G2X, some new modules have been added (Metallic Noise Oscillator and Noise Oscillator, FM operator and DX router are great for creating sounds of the eighties), pitch Shifter and Scratch are added to the list of effects, MIDI Control Automate supports even more flexible MIDI setups. Several bug fixes, which especially improves MIDI synchronization and more...

The Modular Editor G2 is a free download on the Clavia web site.

It's new and it comes from Digidesign...Digidesign has made Web licenses available for plug-in rentals. Rental periods are flexible, allowing the user to choose between 2-day, 14-day and 31-day periods. Once the rental expires, it can be renewed using any iLok. Here some examples :

- BF Cosmonaut Voice (95 $) : 2-day : 5$ / 14-day : 15 $ / 31-day : 25 $.
- BF Fairchild Bundle (595 $) : 2-day : 90 $ / 14-day :150 $ / 31-day : 210 $.

Rentals are available now for many plug-ins on the DigiStore,

The famous Waves plugins bundle now goes to version 5, for Mac OS X only. This new version features : TempoSync (new functionality enables plug-ins to lock to the host application's tempo), Morphoder MIDI Control, Waves 360° Bundle is now native on Mac, the Waves 360° Bundle now supports Native processing, running as RTAS & HTDM. HTDM Support, HD Accel Support, Digi 002 and Command/8 Control Surface support and Automatic Delay Compensation support for Pro Tools.

Users can connect to their Waves online account to obtain a free upgrade. Any Waves 4.x product you own can be updated to Version 5.

Apple today announced that iPod mini, the smallest portable music player ever to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs, will be available internationally on July 24. iPod mini offers music lovers the ideal combination of ultra-portable design, style, song capacity, ease-of-use and audio performance. iPod mini is the world's smallest portable music player to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs, weighs just 3.6 ounces and is encased in an ultra-portable, lightweight anodized aluminum body, available in five color.

iPod mini will cost 279 euros.