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.

Presonus announces that its audio interface FireBox is now shipping. The FireBox is a compact 24-bit/96k FireWire recording interface that fits in the palm of your hand. The FireBow features two high quality PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers, 24-Bit/96k sample rate and Steinberg's Cubase LE 48-track recording software.

Presonus FireBox costs 415 euros.

Rondo midi player has been designed from the ground up to be simple, uncluttered and easy to use. Rondo has many innovative features including a vertical piano roll with live scrolling and a pull down playhead with a piano that will play along with the music.

Rondo 1.0 is available in the MacMusic softwares section.