ReflexAudio announces Sonia, a compact size MIDI control surface. Sonia features 12 soft-touch assignable knobs and 5 buttons that can be set up to send transport controls or other MIDI controller message. This very small unit also includes 22 programmable memory banks and 25 preset memory banks.

Sonia is now available and costs $109.

Plogue announces an update to version 0.86 for its Bidule. This new release adds OSC Client implementation, new modules (HDSR Envelope, Basic AHDSR Envelope, Graphical Envelope, Graphical Envelope (Synced), MIDI File Recorder, MIDI Map and others) and fixes several bugs. Bidule is a realtime modular creation studio aimed mainly at artists seeking a new creative environment to experiment with. With Bidule, you create your own live music creation environment, inserting audio and midi devices, ReWire Devices, Au and VST instruments and plugins.

Wwaym announces that NWRCFil lowpass filter VST effect is now available for OS X. NWRCFil is an easy to use classic lowpass filter VST effect from WWAYM. NWRCFil is based on classic hardware filters where simplicity and the warm sound is most important. The effect uses selectable 2-pole and 4-pole filter algorithms developed by WWAYM. The characteristics of the filter can be adjusted by 10 RC parameters.

MacMusic is proud to publish in its articles section a review of Melodyne Uno. The brand new small version of the audio software Melodyne works in a similar fashion to a sample editor — except that it offers the characteristic Melodyne functions, making it the ideal tool for pitch correction, vocal production and the editing of melodies. Melodyne Uno is now worldwide shipping and costs 169 euros.

Metric Halo has officially released Version 2.1 of the Mobile I/O operating system with updates to the firmware, driver, and MIO Console. This new version has been in general release for just over a month, and we are pleased to report that there are no general incompatibilities, and Version 2 is qualified for use with Mac OS X 10.2.6 onward, including support for Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger