Apple announces new (and lower) prices for Mac Mini, iMac and iPod nano on the Apple Store :

- Mac Mini Core Solo now ships at 619 €
- Mac Mini Core Duo now ships at 799 €
- iMac core Duo 17" now ships at 1299 €
- iMac core Duo 20" now ships at 1699 €
- ipod nano 1GB now ships at 159 €
- ipod nano 2GB now ships at 209 €
- ipod nano 4GB now ships at 259 €

FuzzMeasure Pro 2, a major update of the audio and acoustical measurement application for Mac OS X, has been released today. FuzzMeasure 2 now supports reverberation time measurements, and improved impedance measurement capabilities. Under the hood, FuzzMeasure Pro 2 has also received numerous improvements to its core signal processing components, which improve calculation precision and measurement capabilities. Existing features, such as microphone calibration and device correction, have also been improved to support automatic operation.

FuzzMeasure costs $250, and is a free upgrade for all 1.x customers.

Rogue Amoeba is working hard on a new major application, dubbed Fission. Fission is an audio editor allowing the cutting and trimming of pieces from audio files, as well as splitting files into multiple pieces. Perhaps most impressively, Fission edits MP3 and AAC files without re-encoding. It'll also work on AIFF and Apple lossless files. Not at all coincidentally, this is the quartet of recording formats Audio Hijack Pro supports.

Fission is now in need of testers. If you're interested in testing Fission, just visit the Rogue Amoeba web site.

Sonic Charge has released Universal Binary versions 2.0.2 in Audio Units and VST of its MicroTonic. Sonic Charge MicroTonic is a plug-in featuring a unique drum and percussion synthesizer combined with a pattern based drum-machine engine. You can use the ΅Tonic as a sound module to play drum sounds from your MIDI keyboard or sequencer, or you can use the built-in pattern engine to play drum patterns in sync with your sequencer.

This free update is available in our Software section.

Mackie announces the release of its new C4 Commander virtual MIDI and hardware control software. Using an intuitive drag-and-drop visual interface, Mackie C4 Commander allows users to map parameters of popular MIDI hardware devices to the V-pots and scribble strips of the C4, for remote hands-on control and comprehensive visual feedback. Over 180 of the most popular MIDI hardware devices come preloaded into C4 Commander, while custom layouts are easily constructed with the visual interface.

C4 Commander software is a free download from Mackie web site.