Plugorama announced that several plug-ins from Native Instruments, East West and Garritan are now available on Receptor. Absynth 3, Elektrik Piano, Guitar Rig, Guitar Combos from Native Instruments, Garritan's Personal Orchestra, and Colossus, Bösendorfer 290 and EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Gold Edition from East West are now available to install now via the "User Installable" method.

Several other plug-ins - including Kontakt 1.5 and Kontakt 2 - are currently under testing and will be added to the user Installable page at Plugorama over the next few weeks.

Arboretum has released Ray Gun Pro v3.1 in Audio Units version for Mac OS X. Ray Gun Pro is an ideal tool for cleaning up scratchy vinyl, tape hiss, noisy dialog, HVAC noise, and any track with poor sonic quality.

Ray Gun Pro costs $159 and a demo version is available.

Wave Editor by Audiofile Engineering is now available as 1.0rc5 betra version. This amazing audio editing software now adds support for AIFFs with floating point, uLaw and aLaw compression, save panel default location from user's last, imported / newly recorded document is set as a "changed" file (will ask to be saved upon closing) and fixed possible issues with various Audio Unit on playback or flatten.

The music scanning solution PhotoScore Pro has been updated to version 4.0. Thos new release now includes extensive improvements to recognition accuracy , automatic scanning and recognition, a greatly streamlined editing interface, recognition of up to 4 voices per staff, recognition of appoggiaturas and cue-sized notes, 1-, 2- and 3- line percussion staff recognition, recognition of up to 64 staves per page and many more enhancements.

Steinberg has announced that the update to its HALion String Edition product is now shipping worldwide. HALion String Edition 2 offers a total of 9GB of solo and ensemble strings, and integrates Steinberg's HALion sampling technology with a specially recorded sound library. Samples are recorded in 24-bit and using top grade recording equipment. Included are solo and ensemble strings in a large variety of articulations including, crescendo, trills, up and down bowing, portamento and many more.

HALion String Edition 2 is available now for $399; registered owners of HALion String Edition Vol. 1 can update for $149.