Audio Damage announces that Phase Two is now available as Universal Binary version for Intel based Macs. Phase Two plug-in is a perfect digital recreation of the Mutron Bi-Phase, one of the most sought-after vintage phaser units, highly prized for its liquid and subtle stereo phasing abilities. Phase Two features two separately controllable 6-stage phasers, and like the original unit, these two phasers can be routed in series or parallel, for everything from subtle stereo washes to full-blown alien attack.

This Universal Binary version is available as a free crossgrade.

The Digidesign Digistore is closed today, and it seems that the new "Music Production toolkit" for both Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered, and the new "DV Toolkit 2" will be available for purchase tomorrow. Regarding the new "Music Production toolkit" (allowing to expand Pro Tools count track up to 48 stereo or mono tracks), Digidesign announces in its compatibility document this pack requires a Digidesign-Qualified Power Mac G5 Dual Processor 2GHz or higher (including Power Mac G5 Quad), and that "Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz (first generation model M9032) may not achieve maximum track count".

Music Production Toolkit will ship at $495,00 and DV Toolkit 2 at $1295,00.

Impromptu is an new OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ's and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages. Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code blocks. Impromptu is a dynamic environment designed specifically for the creation and manipulation of running programs in live performance.

This stunning free application is available in our software section.

SimpleChord, the chord reference and composition tool for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 3.3. The new version, released Friday, adds the ability to export chord progressions to MusicXML format which can then be imported into many other music applications, including the latest versions of Finale and Sibelius.

The upgrade is free for all registered users; the program costs $12.95 US for a single-user license.

The vt3 by Smassey is a new 3-band equalizer plug-in with a crisp, unique sound that's extremely DSP efficient. The plug-in supports Pro Tools LE or Pro Tools TDM, including MIX, HD, and HD Accel. The TDM version operates with 48-bit precision. A trial version is available which has no time limitations and no annoying mutes or beeps in the audio.

The full version adds additional features and is available for $69.