Eventide today announced version 5.2 software for its digital processor: the H8000FW.  Version 5.2 is designed to give engineers and artists alike additional tools for sound creation, and adds over 100 new programs, including many from noted sound designer, composer and remixer, Richard Devine, and broadcast and post-production guru, Jay Rose.
  
The addition of seven new modules brings the total number of effects modules available to 249. These modules constitute the building blocks for creating your own unique effects, either from the front panel, or with the supplied programming tools VSIG? and VSIG X.  These new modules include:

- Audiomux – an audio crossbar router designed for surround sound and other complex routings
- Compressor – a new compressor with enhanced performance c ...

Pro Tools HD 7.2.1 is a free update to Digidesign's Pro Tools HD 7.2 software that provides specific support for Mac Pro. If you currently own Pro Tools HD 7.2 and want to migrate to a Mac Pro, download Pro Tools HD 7.2.1 for free. If you don't have broadband Internet access, you can purchase a Pro Tools HD 7.2.1 update CD for $9.95 from the DigiStore.

Note: Pro Tools HD 7.2.1 does not include support for Avid Mojo. Digidesign will add Avid Mojo support in a subsequent Pro Tools HD software release in 2007. If you wish to work with Avid Mojo on a Mac, use Pro Tools HD 7.2 software with a qualified PowerPC-based Mac configuration.

After years of research into lossless editing of the MP3 and AAC audio formats, Rogue Amoeba Software is thrilled to present Fission, a brand-new audio editor. Fission is the first and only editor on OS X to provide lossless editing of MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, and AIFF audio files. With Fission, users can trim, split, and fade audio files, then save the result with absolutely no quality loss! With Fission, users can...

- losslessly edit MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless and AIFF files. No re-encoding or switching formats means perfect audio quality for your files!
- split long recordings into multiple files.
- archive audio for later listening, by removing unwanted audio such as commercials.
- fade audio in and out to create a pleasing listening experience.
- create MP3 and AAC ringtones for your cell phone.
- do all this and a whole lot more!

Fission's not just easy to understand, it's easy to afford. Aimed at the consumer market, Fission costs just $32.

Native Instruments today announced MASSIVE, a true next-generation software synthesizer. MASSIVE combines advanced Wave-Scanning synthesis with a wealth of sound-shaping and modulation options, resulting in a sound full of warmth, punch, character and definition. MASSIVE is a true multi-purpose synthesizer for studio and stage. Itr is built from the ground up on a forward-thinking synthesis engine that makes full use of today's advanced processor architectures. Intelligent oversampling with up to 192 kHz internal resolution guarantees pristine audio quality across the full spectrum. A special wavetable technology with "Phase Shaping" allows for additional "Bend" and "Formant" play modes, which provide a wide range of further tonal variations in the oscillator stage. An additional modulatio ...

Native Instruments announces KOMPLETE 4, which incorporates the latest ABSYNTH 4, BATTERY 3 and FM8 versions, which add significant creative capabilities over their predecessors and offer increased integration with Native Instruments' host system KORE and its KoreSound format. The new KOMPLETE package also includes AKOUSTIK PIANO, the grand-piano emulation. Native Instruments has refocused the content of KOMPLETE 4, which now offers 12 instruments and effects that cover the full range of applications and musical styles in modern audio production. The sampling instruments INTAKT and KOMPAKT are no longer part of KOMPLETE, and will be discontinued as individual products effectively immediately. Comparable functionality is provided by the more powerful KONTAKT 2 and BATTERY 3 samplers. Owners of the individual versions of INTAKT and KOMPAKT can make use of a special crossgrade offer for KONTAKT 2.

KOMPLETE 4 will be available in October 2006 for a suggested retail price of 1299 Euro . An update for owners of KOMPLETE 3 will be available for 299 Euro. Owners of KORE or two qualifying products will be able to purchase an upgrade to KOMPLETE 4 for 999 Euro.