FXpansion announces Guru, a new plug-in for advanced step sequencing, groove manipulation, sample editing, and beat slicing. Guru features an advanced step-sequencer (128 steps, 16 channels, 24 memories per engine, full graphical automation, MIDI remote control, independent tempo multipliers, real-time and step recording with undo), an intuitive mixer, hight stereo outputs. It can load audio loops (WAV/AIFF/REX) and MIDI loops, and works as stand-alone application, ReWire device, and VST, AudioUnit and RTAS plug-in formats.

Bitcartel announces updates to its audio recording software, RadioLover and iRecordMusic, bringing compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. RadioLover enables you to record MP3 radio streams as separate songs, with support for iTunes Radio Tuner, Shoutcast-compatible radio streams, and MP3, M3U, and EXTM3U radio stream playlists.

RadioLover (Free demo, $15) is for Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

Rogue Amoeba has updated Audio Hijack Pro to version 2.5, which now features : full OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Compatibility, new 'Radio' Input Source, supporting Griffin's RadioSHARK and D-Link's DSB-R100, new 'System Audio' Input Source, overlapping timer detection, and disk status window, showing available disk space on all volumes.

Audio Hijack Pro is available in the MacMusic softwares section.

Wave Arts announces that the PowerSuite bundle is updated to version 4.1 for Mac OS X only. This new release features : MAS latency compensation implemented, VST preset saving bug fixed, Audio Units compatible with Logic 7.1 and open user manual functionality improved.

A new beta version 0.9 of Prosoniq's own ASIO driver is available from the downloads/drivers page of Prosoniq Web site. This ASIO driver enables sonicWORX to play back audio files in OS X Classic more smoothly than with the Steinberg SoundManager ASIO driver that is selected as a standard when you install sonicWORX. This driver is only needed if you're running sonicWORX in OS X Classic