Prosonus has released an update for the AudioUnit version of The Orchestral Collection which improves Apple's Logic 7 compatibility. This update is available as a free download.

Full version of Orchestral Collection costs $249.

It looks like a Mickey who would have lost its 2 ears on windy day. This head has 8 microphones which allow you to record a multicanal signal. As usual, you have classical right canal, left, center, right and left surround, LFE, but also center rear and top (for IMAX for example).

One canal for $750, so go and get your roaring boat !

SFX Machine RT is a real-time version of the company's award-winning SFX Machine audio effects plug-in, and is now updated to v1.0.4 in both Audio Units and VST formats. This new version features mono to mono processing, parameter values in the Audio Unit version are now expressed with meaningful values in "generic" views, and several presets are more stable.

More details and download in the MM softs section.

Clavia announces that a demo version of its Nord Modular G2 software is now available for mac OS X. In this demo version, polyphony is limited to one voice while the hardware has a maximum of 32 voices per sound, the demo can only play one sound at the time while the hardware is 4 part multitimbral, a couple of modules are disabled and the demo does not support audio in and MIDI out.

Amadeus II is a sound editor which support the Mp3 and Ogg Vorbis formats, support of VST Audio plugins. This new version features cmpletely redesigned sound window, support for the FLAC file format, new parametric equalizer specially designed for restoring old vinyl recordings, addition of an "Open recent" menu item, automatic version checking and full Unicode support.

Amadeus is available in the MacMusic softs section.