Bob Moog died August 21, 2005 at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.

MacMusic pays all its sympathy and support to his family.

Sonic Flavours announces the release of the Mac OS X VST effect version of R66 Reverb. The R66 is a 32-bit stereo digital reverb built for the VST platform. The R66 is a musical reverb based on a new algorithm — not separate plate, hall and room algorithms.

R66 Reverb ships at $149.

Wave Editor is an amazing audio editing software by Audiofile Engineering is today available as version 1.0. This important update includes : added "Zoom to Display All" keyboard shortcut command, fixed dragging a new file from an unsaved file, fixed an issue saving files in place with new header info, fixed an issue moving the playback head to next/previous label during playback, fixed an issue displaying progress panels during analysis, made the progress bar indeterminate on long Wave Editor file saves, fixed a display issue with the Audio Unit editor window with a Carbon AU, fixed an issue adding labels to an offset layer, and added new application and file icons.

Wave Editor will run, without limitation, for 15 days. After that, you'll need to purchase Wave Editor for $250 to use any of the application's functionality

Metro, Metro SE and Metro SX are now availble as 6.3.2 pre-version. This new release features : All MIDI tracks can now be routed to accept input from a particular MIDI input controller, effects are now supported when placed on the ReWire Aux buss, support for dragging samples of stereo audio files from either the left or right channel, recent files under OS X show long file names, and several bugfixes.

Upgrades from 6.2 are free. All new purchases include access to this version. There is an upgrade price of $34.99 to upgrade any flavor of Metro from 6.x to 6.3.2.

Db Audioware has updated Quantum FX to version 2.0. This new release now adds : Audio Units and VST support for Mac OS X, full sidechaining (for multi-track hosts), MIDI control and MIDI Learn, completely new ready-to-use plug-ins, and enhanced access to QFX plug-ins. Quantum FX is a software modular effects system that enables musicians and sound engineers to design, build and modify plug-in effects and audio tools.