Ableton has updated Live to v4.1.3. This new release fixes several bugs : problem with audio effects in MIDI track, bug in MIDI editor velocity selection, and potential crash with MIDI or Audio devices.

Propellerhead today announced the immediate availability of ElectroMechanical 2.0 ReFill, an expansion set of vintage keyboard instruments for exclusive use within Reason 3.0 software. ElectroMechanical 2.0 ReFill is a full set of sound patches and files of vintage keyboard classics such as the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ and Hohner Clavinet & Pianet.

The ElectroMechanical 2.0 ReFill is a free download for all Reason 3.0 owners. It can also be ordered on a CD for $12,00.

It seems that a very serious bug occurs when using a PowerMac G5 single 1.8 Ghz with Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger". Only G5 single 1.8 Ghz, Rev B (end of 2004, product now on sale on the AppleStore), with ATI Radeon 9600 XT (or Nvidia 5200) graphic card, are affected. The bug consists on a freeze (no Kernel Panic) with softwares using full screen OpenGL (iPhoto, iTunes, Quicktime movies on Safari, and more).

Spongefork is a complete softsynth, sampler, live improvisation tool, and studio soundfile processing application. This new version 3.1.3 now supports full channel count for audio devices with more than 8 channels and fixes several bugs. The demo version increases demo period to 60 days.

Ambrosia announces that WireTap is now available as version 1.1.0 which adds Mac OS 10.4 Tiger compatibility, support for one-off timed recordings, a graphic EQ, the ability to record Microphone and Mac audio simultaneously, and more. WireTap Pro allows you to record any audio, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. Streaming Internet audio, sound snippets of a DVD movie, voice notations/narration, audio from a game, digitized audio from a line-in...

WireTap is available in the MacMusic softwares section.