Arturia has announced today the availability of the demo version of its Moog Modular V v2. This faithful reproduction of the legendary Moog modular systems comes back with major improvements. The demo version is available on both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on download from the Arturia web site.

Audio Ease has announced that BarbaBatch is now available for Mac OS X. BarbaBatch is a batch sound file conversion program, which supports and converts more than 50 sound file formats. The v4 CD also includes the 3.9 version for Mac OS 9.

BarbaBatch 4 costs $395 and the update from previous versions costs $169.

At summer NAMM, Arturia announced the version 2.0 of its Moog Modular V. It's done and the soft is now available. This faithful reproduction of the legendary Moog modular systems comes back with major improvements. Among the features added in the upgrade are : new ergonomics, improvements on the oscillators, new Unison mode, new Audio-In possibilities, soft-clipping emulation is now done on each mixer, new modules (ring modulator, formant Filter,...), 200 new presets and much more...

This upgrade is free to all registered users.

Spongefork is a complete softsynth, sampler, live improvisation instrument, and soundfile processing application. SF's oscillators and interface are controllable via a unique XY based modulation controller, your computer keyboard, by external pitch tracking, or by MIDI input. Spongefork 3.1 fixes a conflict with Macs without sound input devices.

Spongefork 3 costs $59 and a 30-day trial version is available.

Digidesign hast posted the last update 6.4.1 for Pro Tools Mix systems only. Pro Tools TDM 6.4.1 is the final Pro Tools software release to officially support the Pro Tools|24 MIX product line on Power Mac G4 with OS X 10.3.4 software. This update features +12 dB Fader Gain, support for the new Command|8 control surface, hierarchical Plug-in Menus, support for 23.976 fps and more.

This update is free. Another update for previous TDM Mix systems will be available soon and will cost $35.