Five Line Skink 1.2a3 by Toronto Celtic Music Page is an abc music editor, score display and player. The abc notation is a compact, human and machine readable notation that can be used to produce scores, and has more than 20K tunes available. Five Line Skink is a Java application that runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows and can be used to edit, play and display abc file.

Info on this freeware available from the MM Softs section.

Bitcartel announces an update to RadioLover, the MP3 radio song recorder, bringing it to version 1.3, build 63. The update brings improved iTunes integration, options for re-connection, improved multi-threading in the application and many bug fixes.

Registered users can upgrade for free.

Kreativ Sounds releases Analog BASStard Refill for Reason 2.5. Analog BASStard is a complete collection of dirty, fat, warm and vintage analog basses. Analog BASStard features: 51 analog bass multisamples recorded from Minimoog, Juno 106, TB303, Pro One and Prophet 5, 128 NNXT Advanced Sampler Patches, 150 NN19 Sampler Patches, 158 Analog Bass Loops and 5 ReDrum analog kits.

The full version of Analog BASStard has 142 Mb. It's available to purchase online via the website for the introductory price 23.5 EU / 29.50$.

The AudioUnit versions of MHC's Studio Setup plugins have been updated to version 2.0.3. The plugins reported falsely that they had two output busses. They have one stereo output and not two. The Studio Setup contains the Space Synth, Fatsondo, Voxynth, Vox FX, Space Effect and Flex FX plugins.

Info and download from the MHC website.

NEO Sounds announces Active MultiMedia, which is is a new SFX Library that contains 500 sound effects and musical effects for use in different multimedia projects (Flash and Web projects, computer games, Video, Radio and more). Sound files on the CD are in different categories: clicks, hard, electronic signals, High Tech, noise FXs, musical effects and more.

The CD version ot Active Multimedia is priced at $69 and the downloadable version is $65.