According to Washington Post, Apple payed Corey Greenberg, tech editor for NBC's "Today" show, a healthy sum of money to hype the iPod in news shows. Corey Greenberg also in a similar way hyped products from other brands, charging a fee of 15.000 apiece to talk up their products on news shows...

ps clouvel : Hey Apple, I really think iPod is very cool stuff too, and I wrote a lot a very stuning news about it..wanna some cash too !

Digidesign announces two new plugin bundles, the Producer Factory and the Producer Factory Pro. These two bundles are available for both Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered systems and feature :

Producer Factory Bundle (retail price of $99)

- moogerfooger Analog Delay
- JOEMEEK Meequalizer VC-5
- JOEMEEK SC-2 Photo Optical Compressor
- Cosmonaut Voice
- Digidesign Maxim

Producer Factory Bundle Pro (retail price of $399)

- moogerfooger Analog Delay
- JOEMEEK Meequalizer VC-5
- JOEMEEK SC-2 Photo Optical Compressor
- Cosmonaut Voice
- Digidesign Maxim
- Bomb Factory BF-3A Classic Compressor
- Digidesign D-Fi
- Tel-Ray Variable Delay
- SansAmp PSA-1
- moogerfooger Ring Modulator
- Voce Spin
- Voce Chorus/Vibrato

SonicBirth is now available as Preview version 5, which adds : resonant lowpass and highpass, gui bug fix for the XY pad element, new low cpu usage sine generator, now uses the first MIDI device by default, horizontal and vertical sliders, bug fix regarding input/output types, new and smaller element icons, and more...

SonicBirth is a plugins designing application which allows you to build your own AudioUnit plug-in.

Digidesign announces SoundFuel SOLID, a synthesizer plug-in for Pro Tools|HD systems, developed by SoundFuel in collaboration with Digidesign. This plug-in recreates the warm and analog sounds of '70s and '80s synthesizers while also offering modern patches that are perfect for dance or electronica. Solid is currently supported by Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools|HD Accel systems running Pro Tools 6.7.

SoundFuel Solid costs $495.

Nomad Factory (with Tascam) has released Essential Studio Suite plugin bundle, which features processing using a double floating point, with up to 192kHz sample rates supported. The bundle includes Multiband Compressor, Essential Channel, Essential Graphic EQ, Essential Compressor, Essential Noise Gate, Multiband Loudness Maximizer, Loudness Maximizer, Tube/Tape Warmer, and Retro-Vox.

Essential Studio Suite (Audio Units, VST, RTAS, HTDM) costs $399.