Gleetchplug Design announce the release of GleetchLAB software on June 7 2005.
This software is a complete freeware suite for sound designers and open minded musicians. Designed to create and manipulate drones, glitches and amazing digital noises with few mouse clicks. GleetchLAB software is a peculiar collection of instruments that you can patch togheter with a modular matrix. The suite features four stereo loopable wave readers/writers with different random loop point algorithms, one wavetable oscillator, a sonic reducer, 3/4/5 bands parametric EQ, an amazing sonic disgregator, a granular re-synthesis engine, a ring modulator, a 5 stereo tracks mixer, and much more.

All info on Gleetchplug web site.

Audio Ease has updated its Nautilus Bundle to version 2.1. The Nautilus Bundle consists of three Midi controllable and automatable audio Plug-ins : RiverRun, PeriScope and Deep Phase Nine. This updated version features : HTDM and RTAS are rolled into one plug-in and AudioSuite was added, AudioUnit revised for the latest AUValidation procedure, and RiverRun could save its buffer and wrap instead of clip the audio when it exceeded 0dB.

M-Audio unveiled the Studiophile BX5a, a revised version of BX5 near-field monitors. M-Audio's new BX5a employs Kevlar for low-frequency driver construction. These new monitors feature : two-way magnetically shielded studio reference monitors, 70 watts of distributed power, 5" Kevlar low-frequency drivers, 1" natural silk high-frequency drivers, XLR balanced and 1/4" balanced/unbalanced inputs.

M-Audio new BX5a is currently shipping at $399,95$.

Bias announces that all versions of its audio editing software Peak are updated to versions 4.1.4. These new versions are now compatible with Mac OS 10.4 aka Tiger. These updates are available as free download for all registered users.

Ableton has updated its sequencer Live to version 4.1.4 in order to fix a Rewire Slave functionality bug. Live would not work right as ReWire slave. The symptoms would be anything between crashes and strange behavior.