Garritan has announced the availability of free Kontakt Player 2 / Mac Intel updates for Personal Orchestra and Jazz & Big Band. The Official Kontakt Player 2 versions of both GPO and JABB are now posted for download at the Native Instruments web site. This version extends the features of Kontakt 2 to GPO/JABB and brings Mac-Intel compatibility as well as new features.

For more information, please visit their web site.

We're very pleased to publish in the MacMusic Articles Section a review of AEON studio monitors, written by our friend and well-known sound engineer Steve Forward. AEON is a 2-way active nearfield monitor with a very wide frequency response (30 Hz to 30 kHz), a powerful sound and a great stereo image. AEON monitor is manufactured by APS and distributed by AudioPlanet.

Thanks to Steve, and enjoy your reading !

Nomad Factory in partnership with DontCrac[k] today announces the launch of their third Blue Tubes V3 Pack that is nothing else than a complete pack of hot effects to be used with any VST - RTAS/AS and AU audio sequencer host. The Blue Tubes Effects Pack is a collection of 6 very high quality plug-ins processors for PC and Mac OSX. The pack contains : A "Dual Analog Chorus", an "Analog Phaser", a "Vintage Oilcan Echo", a "Tempo Delay", a "Stereo Imager" and an "Analog Valve Driver" .

The Blue Tubes Effects Pack is available now and can be purchased from the DontCrack web store at only $229 (MSRP $289). The Blue Tubes Effects Pack can also be purchased as part of the award winni ...

Native Instruments has announced the release of Guitar Rig 2 Producer Pack, a limited edition "software + hardware" bundle for recording and arranging guitars and bass. The package consists of the Audio Kontrol 1 audio interface and the Guitar Rig 2 Software Edition.

Guitar Rig 2 Producer Pack offers a price advantage of more than $ 230 / € 200 (36%) as a bundle over the combined individual price and is available now at selected dealers and online for a short time only.

Minnetonka Audio Software ships AudioTools Batch Pro, the industry's first fully automated processing tool for audio assets. Batch Pro is a flexible, easy to use, and powerful tool for editing, converting, transcoding, encoding, and applying plug-ins to sets of audio files in a batch mode. Users specify input files, configure a chain of processors, set parameters for each processor and run the job. All files are automatically processed and placed in the specified output location. Integrated access to vintage analog processors, external digital processors, and VST plug-ins both stereo and surround, including Minnetonka's SurCode for Dolby® Pro Logic II VST plug-in, is possible.

AudioTools Batch Pro is available now at a retail price of $1,495 (USD). For more information, please visit the link below.