Cycling '74, today announced that Octirama, a Surround Dynamics Processor for Digidesign ProTools TDM Systems will be available November 1st at $495. Octirama is a multi-band dynamics processor for 5.1 surround mastering for the Digidesign TDM environment. Octirama incorporates four and five band processing for each of five channels plus advanced bass management.

Steinberg today unveild the latest update- version 3.2 - to its Nuendo software. Nuendo 3.2 features a full Control Room section that provides up to four separate Studio outputs, extra Mix, Headphone and Control Room busses as well as configurable Input Returns and user definable Monitor Setups.

Nuendo 3.2 will be available as an update for registered Nuendo 3 customers from the end of 2005.

TC Electronic today announced a new version of a PCI card for the PowerCore platform. PowerCore Unplugged is the same piece of hardware as PowerCore PCI mkII but without the included plug-ins. This allows the user to compile an entirely individual package of optional high-end plug-ins for any mixing, mastering or production situation. PowerCore Unplugged is also the ideal solution for users, who need further processing power for their existing setup in order to run even more plug-ins simultaneously.

PowerCore Unplugged will ship in October, 2005 at 570 euros (excl.VAT).

URS announced the release of its new Classic Console Compressor Bundle. This pack offers software recreations of the the buss compressor/limiter of two famous british mixing consoles and includes the 1970 Compressor and the 1980 Compressor with two versions each. URS Classic Console Compressor Bundle is available as Native-RTAS-Audiosuite (Mac OS X & Mac OS 9) versions and costs $450. Audio Units and VST versions will be released soon.

Current owners of Everything Bundle 4.0 can purchase URS Classic Console Compressor Bundle for $699.99 (TDM) and $349.99 (Native), until October 31, 2005.

Synthogy announced that the new version 1.5 of virtual piano plug-in Ivory will be available at the end of october. This upcoming release will feature a new and revised library with arround 40 Gb of samples, with proprietary noise reduction for even greater fidelity.