Vinyl 1.7 creates a vinyl simulation to an audio file as if the audio were a record being played on a record player. This software is a plug-in for Mac OS X and woks in Pro Tools, VST, MAS, and Audio Unit formats.

Vinyl 1.7 is available as free download from iZotope web site.

The twice in a year auction of Peter Forrest will be held between the 1st and the 13th of November. It will offer as usual all kinds of synths and studio equipment. The list of items on auction will appear in the next weeks as usual. The site seems to run way better too (on mac).

Monkey Tools announces an update to version 2.0 of their audio file conversion utility, Sound Grinder. This new release features the new Rapid Convert utility which provides direct audio file conversion, new file formats (OGG Vorbis, AMR Narrowband, Apple Lossless, support for MP3 LAME codec), folder hierarchy recreation, and 31 character naming compatibility.

Sound Grinder 2.0 costs $39. A free upgrade is available for users who purchased versions of Sound Grinder between March 1, 2004 and October 4, 2004.

SignalScope by Benjamin Fabeis a 2-channel signal analyzer designed to work with Mac OS X compatible audio hardware. It provides signal analysis in the form of an FFT magnitude, spectrogram, oscilloscope, or X/Y plot. This new version 1.6 features : support for multi-channel audio devices, enhanced audio device input format controls, optional grid over Spectrogram display, bugfixes and more...

Info on the MacMusic Softwares section.

Chopitch 0.8.6 is a VST plug-in for pitch shifting without delay , which features dramatic pitch swoops in perfect time with the music, make drums sound bigger without losing the attack and intelligent gating system. In this new version, the feedback effect now has soft clipping, which means that extreme feedback settings are now possible even when there's a very small pitch shift.

Info on Chopitch web site.