BIAS today announced it has begun shipping Peak Pro 5.2, the Universal version of the Peak Pro audio editing software for Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" on both Power PC and Intel-based Macs. Peak Pro 5 and Peak LE 5 customers may download the update to version 5.2 directly from the BIAS website at no charge. Peak Pro XT 5 users may also update their license of Peak Pro 5 to version 5.2 at no charge via the BIAS website.

New retail editions of Peak LE 5.2 ($129), Peak Pro 5.2 ($599), and Peak Pro XT 5 ($1199) are also shipping. Free trial versions of Peak Pro 5.2 and Peak LE 5.2 are also available.

Plogue announces that a new version (v0.92) of Bidule has been released, which features : New disk streaming code,ReWire master support on MacIntel, Added possibility to turn off fading windows, ReWire temporary files are now created in a Bidule owned folder, SDK: added support for plugins with no output and Bug Fixes. Bidule is a realtime modular creation studio aimed mainly at artists seeking a new creative environment to experiment with. With Bidule, you create your own live music creation environment, inserting audio and midi devices, ReWire Devices, Au and VST instruments and plugins.

Details and download on the Plogue web site.

AirEQ is the very first product released by Eliosound and ships today. AirEQ is a new musical equalizer created to meet every single expectation of musicians, mixing engineers and producers. It's been conceived to be the high quality equalizer you need in most situations. Mixing, mastering, tracking, whatever your sampling frequency is, AirEQ always brings you the same quality of equalization in the whole audio range. And you can use it on every track, without overloading your CPU.

AirEQ 1.0 AudioUnits/VST ships for $269.

McDSP unveils its new ML4000 Mastering Limiter, designed for music, mastering, post, and live sound, in single and multi-band configurations. It contains the ML1 single-band configuration mastering limiter (brick wall design) and the ML4 Mastering Limiter with Gate, Expander and Compressor, both in mono and stereo versions.

The ML4000 will ship in July of 2006 for $495 (TDM, AudioSuite, RTAS).

Native Instruments announces that registered Akoustik Piano users can now download the 1.1 update for free. This new version now supports up to 150 voices and includes many other performance enhancements. It also features an improved user-interface as well as a new recorder, stretched tuning, re-pedalling and a bass boost.

Akoustik Piano 1.1 now also supports both Kontakt 2 and Kore.