SoundField has announced the new Surround Zone plug-in for Digidesign's Pro Tools software. The Surround Zone brings all the control of SoundField's surround and stereo processing to the digital domain. It combines the hardware features of both the SP451 surround processor and the MKV System.

Surround Zone for Pro Tools costs $1,062.50.

IDrum by Bitshift Audio is a drum machine for Mac OS X. This update adds support in Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. It also fixes bugs.

Info and download from the MM softs section.

Obsession by E-Lab is a RNB & Hip-hop Loop Player. It now comes to version 1.1 and features 3000 Loops, 5000 drumsamples with possibility to import external Rex2 files and 8 tracks of simultaneous loop playback with millions of loop combinations.

Obession is now available on RTAS, VST and AudioUnit formats.

MOTU has just posted on its support page 2 updates for Reverse and Phase plugins for Digital Perfomer on Mac OS X. These versions of the Reverse and Invert Phase are v.1.0.1 and works on DP 4.12.

More info on MOTU web site.

Five Line Skink 1.2a3 by Toronto Celtic Music Page is an abc music editor, score display and player. The abc notation is a compact, human and machine readable notation that can be used to produce scores, and has more than 20K tunes available. Five Line Skink is a Java application that runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows and can be used to edit, play and display abc file.

Info on this freeware available from the MM Softs section.