Easy beat by Ergonis is a music authoring program for composing, scoring, and playing songs on Mac OS X. This new release 2.2.1 adds Mac OS 10.4 Tiger compatibility and fixes a number of user-reported bugs. Easy Beat is an easy-to-use and full-fledged MIDI sequencer. This software was designed to be "used in the way that most musicians really work. It does not require following a structured process or read extensive user manuals". Easy Beat features : up to 16 song tracks plus a metronome track, multiple views of individual tracks, export to GarageBand, MIDI import and export, export to QuickTime movies and AIFF files, and more...

Make Music announces that the demo version of its music notation software Finale 2006 is available as a download for Macintosh OS X. Here are the differences between the demo and full version: No saving, and Prints only first page with a "demo" watermark.

Expert Sleepers has updated Augustus Loop Audio Units to version 1.5. This release is a major update which adds a simple but very important feature - the ability to change the delay time without 'tape delay' inertia effects. This gives you loop multiply/divide capabilities, lets you tap the loop tempo without clearing it first, makes the 'Fix Delay' feature useful (in which the delay time stays constant as the pitch is varied) etc.

Augustus Loop is an emulation of a tape-based delay effect, with some extra features to facilitate its use as a looping device

Malcolm Haylock has updated VSamp, its software sampler player, to version 3.6.1, for both VST and Audio Units formats. This release changes : improved SampleCell import, file type of samples now recognised directly by name extension (.aiff .sd2 .wav etc). VSamp is a software sample player. It comprises a program for creating and playing virtual instruments and a plugin for playing VSamp instruments from within a sequencer.

MindPrint announces that its new MindPrint Trio USB recording solution will be available worldwide in September. The new MindPrint TRIO USB offers the same channel strip with true analog EQ and Compressor, essential mixing, AUX & DAW inputs and monitoring features (talkback, MONO, DIM and MUTE functions, outputs for 3 pairs of speakers) as found on the original TRIO, but adds USB audio instead of the S/PDIF interface of the original TRIO.

The new MindPrint Trio USB comes is white, and will be available September 2005 for €449.