URS announced Audio Units support for the Classic Console EQ Bundle (A and N series only). The URS A equalizer is digital emulation of a vintage Neve EQ, and the URS N is a digital emulation of a vintage API equalizer.

The Audio Units versions are a free upgrade for both TDM and Native Classic Console EQ Bundle owners.

Yellow Tools has released Logic 7 compatible public beta Audio Units versions of Culture and Majestic plugins. Culture is a modular virtual percussion instrument and Majestic is a virtual instrument which contains more than 16GB sounds of various basses.

Info and download on Yellow Tools web site.

Expert sleepers has released Latency Fixer, a free AU plug-in that reports to the host application that it has a latency (controlled by the plug-in parameters) but does not actually apply any processing to the audio signal. This causes the host to use its own latency compensation to advance the audio fed into the plug-in by the requested amount.

More info in MM softs section.

Native Instruments has released a hotfix for the Audio Unit version of Kontakt, making it compatible with Logic 7. It passes Logic 7 Audio Units Validation.

Info and download on NI web site.

In Sonasphere 1.2b, functional units, such as sound samples, effects and mixers, are represented as small spherical 'Objects' floating within 3D Space. Users can easily make connections between these objects via simple mouse interaction and establish signal stream networks.

Sonasphere 1.2b is available in our softwares section.