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.

Ableton's Live 4 best seller software is a fantastic application that radically changed the way musicians perform and/or create music... MacMusic is very proud to collaborate with our partner AudioMidi.com and offer to our visitors this very complete and exclusive review of Live 4 written by our friend Douglas Edge.

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FabFilter has released Volcano, their new filter effect plug-in for Mac OS X. It features two independent filters with low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass responses, and panning setting on both filters. The frequency, peak, and panning settings can be modulated in any way imaginable with the two LFOs and the triggered envelope generator. FabFilter Volcano works with any MIDI keyboard or controller.

Volcano filter (VST and Audio Units) costs $139.

PSP announces the release of new versions for Lexicon PSP42, PSP84 and PSPNitro. New versions of Lexicon PSP42 and PSP84 are v1.4.3 (AudioUnit, RTAS, VST) and new version of PSP Nitro is v1.0.4.(AudioUnit, RTAS, VST). They're both bugfixes versions.