Wave Arts has announced the Master Restoration Suite, a comprehensive set of restoration plug-ins for cleaning up tape, vinyl, and acoustic recordings.

The MR Suite consists of 5 plug-ins :

- Master Restoration - all-in-one plug-in
- MR Hum - hum removal, buzz removal, and brickwall filters
- MR Click - click/pop removal and crackle removal
- MR Noise - broadband noise reduction
- MR Gate - noise gate

Main Features :

- All sections can be monitored to hear signal that is removed.
- Comprehensive displays for all processors.
- Onset detector in crackle processor keeps onsets bright and crisp.
- Extremely low latency (under 20 msec) noise reduction can be used in live situations.
- Fast noise floor learning time (down to 50 msec).
- Auto dynamics mode in nois ...

Novation has announced that the XioSynth 49 is now shipping. So the XioSynth now has a big brother for anyone wanting the awesome sound and unrivalled feature set but with more freedom for hands to roam. The 49-key XioSynth provides Novation-class synthesis with seamless audio interfacing and MIDI controlling capabilities to boot.

For more information, visit their web.

Shuriken has released CopyShop which is a very simple but effective buffer chopping / FSU effect plug-in - it chops up the audio buffers and plays them back; you can choose the length of the piece of audio played back and when to apply it.

CopyShop is available for Mac OS X (Universal Binary) as a VST effect plug-in and it is Donationware.

Harmonic Sense has released ChordMate, a chord finder for guitarist with advanced features such as a powerful rule editor in order to fine-tune your search, or a chord symbol lookup tool. ChordMate displays the results of your search as a collection of beautiful diagrams which are customized based on the type of guitar: classical, acoustic, jazz, or electric.

ChordMate is available for Mac OSX (PowerPC or Intel processor). Note that a demo version is also available.

Garritan has announced Marching Band, a new Kontakt Player 2 based Marching, Wind and Concert Band Collection. Marching Band features Trumpets, Trombones, Marching winds, Euphoniums, Baritones, Saxophones, Sousaphones, Tenor Horns, Mellophones, Marching percussion (including drumline sounds from Virtual Drumline 2 by Tapspace), and more... with expressive control, Tongue/Slur Articulations, Intonation, Vibrato, etc. enabling you to create realistic-sounding Marching Band, Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Brass Band, Drum Corp and other Band Arrangements quickly and easily. You can even build your own bands with Ensemble Building.

Marching Band includes Native Instruments' Kontakt 2 Sample Player and will thus be available for Windows and Mac OS X (Universal Binary) in VST, AU, DX, RTAS and stand-alone formats. Marching Band is expected to be released during January 2007 with an MSRP of $239.