Mdsp and SmartElectronix announce the release of VST reverb MdspDuckVerb. The reverb output is compressed when there is a certain amount of signal present on its input. It allows to use a lot of wet signal on a voice without loosing too much intelligibility. They also ported MdspFlanger VST and MdspDuckDelay VST to Mac OS X. At last SmartElectronix has updated MdspCompressor and MdspDuckDelay. These two versions both feature new user interface.

EDiMu has been updated to version 0.6, which features several bufixes, support for jpg., .gif and .mov files. EDiMu-"Edition de Diaporamas Musicaux" -Musical Slide Shows Editing in English - is an application that allows you to create animations from one or several images (such as scores), a cursor, graphical notes or even one or more sound files. Thus, you can easily synchronize scores scrolling on screen with sound files, add a cursor as well as some notes. Cursor mouvements and notes showing or hiding can also be synced with sound files. This software is especially aimed at music teachers or musicologists.

Right now : it's midnight sharp and I know that you steadily enter the New Year that is showing up. Wether you are alone, with the family, with your darling, at work for some of you, ill for some others, with your friends or in front of your favourite Mac, I do wish you all, each one of our 60,604 members, our visitors, each one of our chatters on the forum, whether amateur, professional, discreet or super talkative, in the name of our dearest webmaster "Soif" and of the whole team of MacMusic a perfect, excellent and explosive New Year.

Since I have decided to drink a glass of champagne in the honour of each of our members, you easily understand that you will see yours truly and the news only tomorrow. Happy New Year 2006 !!!

Audio Ease has updated its reverb Altiverb to version 5.1.2. This new version of Altiverb features : can now load songs with preset in Logic, bypass is automatable again in Pro Tools, conversion from HTDM plug-in to RTAS plug-in when loading "old Pro Tools" sessions (before Pro Tools 7), and fixes not clickable window while starting up problem. 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.

Rekliner Records released a beta version 0.9 for its VST looper Loopy LLama. This looper was made to emulate the Jam Man or DL-4 - but also generate a click track so it could be used with a drummer live. It is designed to work with Plogue Bidule for live performance, but it can be used as a regular VST plugin as well.

List of new features and beta version available in the MacMusic software section.