AudioEase has released a version 5.4 of Altiverb. This update features : problems with "load as Aux" and "load resets...", improved PT interface, improved MAS interface, improved VST interface, and several bugfixes and minor improvements. Altiverb is a sampled acoustics processor that offers realistic one-, two- and four-channel sampled acoustics of real halls, cathedrals, bathrooms — and virtually any acoustic environment.

Bonneville announced the release of a full and free version of CPS. CPS is a realtime interactive programming environment for audio, MIDI and other media & I/O. Patches are build by placing objects and making wires between them. Areas of interest are sound design, algorithmic composition, DSP, electronic/computer music and education. CPS can be used in any realtime situation where sound plays a role.

CPS is available as download for free (it previously costs $150).

Soundhack announces :

- a public beta version of the Freesound Bundle, which contains five plugins in Audio Units versions, now for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

- the Universal Binary version 1.1 of Spectral Shapers collection of plug-ins in both AU and VST formats. SSH is a collection of 4 plugins based on processes from the program SoundHack.

The Paris AES show was a great opportunity to discover the real faces that hides behind the MacMusicians nicknames and other pro audio geeks that were around. We now have the proof that these guys ARE aliens (as if we didn't know)...

Garritan announces free online orchestration courses. The free Interactive Edition of "Principles of Orchestration" is based upon Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov's celebrated text. In this Interactive Edition you will be able to simultaneously hear and see examples from Rimsk'y-Korsakov's own works realized with Personal Orchestra.

This course will be offered free of charge at the Garritan web site.