Steinberg announces Studio Case 2. This new pack includes new version of Cubase SE sequencer, and six entry-level versions of Steinberg VST instruments : Groove Agent, HALion, The Grand, Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition, D'cota and the new Virtual Bassist SE.

Studio Case II will be available for 279 euros from September 2005.

Rob Papen, famous soft synth designer (Albino synth and soundsets for Emu, Native Instruments and others) announces Blue, a new virtual synth project. Blue will be available as a VST and Audio Units plugin for Mac, and three MP3 demos are available at Rob Papen web site, but we have no more information about this new synth.

Rop Papen web site announces that Blue go on sale at the end of august

CreamWare announced in April its new Authentic Sound Box (or ASB), two new digital emulations of classic synthesizers. The first one is the Minimax ASB, a recreation of the famous Minimoog, which fully integrates with your computer via USB and offers polyphony and preset management. The second one is the Profit-5 ASB, a recreation of the classic Prophet V synth, with features similar to those of the Minimax ASB.

The first one, the Minimax ASB, is on its way to the dealers and will soon be available at 730 euros.

Digidesign announces two new Avid MediaDrive standalone SCSI hard drives (146 GB and 300 GB) and a new MediaDock Shuttle 146 GB removable SCSI drive. Digidesign is also lowering prices for the 73 GB MediaDrive and 73 GB MediaDock Shuttle. At the same time, the 80 GB FireWire drive and the 36 GB versions of the MediaDrive and MediaDock Shuttle are being discontinued.

Cycling '74 has just announced the release of version 3.5.2 of Pluggo for Mac OS X. this update adds multi-channel input support for plugin (up to 16 channels) and includes multi-threaded Javascript. Pluggo is a collection of more than seventy-four audio plug-ins that work with Mac OS sequencers and audio applications. Effects categories include delays, filters, pitch effects, distortion, granulation, spectral effects, modulators, multi-channel effects, synthesizers, audio routing, reverb and dynamics, and visual display.