Jade by Electroclap is an environment for composition and performance wich comes with over 70 ready-made modules for analyzing, generating, and processing audio and video. Jade is also infinitely extensible. If you cannot find a module for a given purpose, a new one can easily be created in Cycling'74's Max/MSP/Jitter authoring environment.

Jade needs to be examined by anyone doing serious MaxMSP work, and cost $175.

The SonicReef virtual synthesizer Tsunami features up to 64 voices, 3 oscillators + noise generator , LFO, 2 envelope generators, amp and filter velocity, ring modulation and delay. This new 1.6 version is now compatible with Mac OS X.

Update info is available from the MM Softwares section.

SaxLab by is a highly-flexible VST/AU-format wind instrument synthesizer with several features. SaxLab uses multi-sample playback of wind-instrument samples and incorporates a specially designed four-voice crossfade system that is capable of creating highly realistic wind instrument sounds.

SaxLab will be available in Autumn 2004. There is no fee information available yet.

DrumThing is a compact and simple application designed be a software version of a drum machine for creating drum patterns, loops and grooves. DrumThing 1.0 needs Mac OS X with Quicktime installed.

This shareware is dowloadable from the MM softwares section.

Synapse Audio have released the OS X version of the Poly-850, a VSTi synthesizer plug-in for Mac OS X, which started out as an emulation of a vintage synth. The Poly-850 features 2 oscillators, one filter for all voices, 3 envelopes, a modulation generator and a chorus effect.

Poly 850 costs $79 but he OS X demo version does not yet appear to be available.