Freeverse and Felt Tip Software recently announced "Tuna Pitch", a free app and widget to help you tune your guitar or other instrument. With five built-in presets including the standard EADGBE tuning, reference tones, and the option to set all six strings to any note, Tuna Pitch has everything you need to stay in-tune!

The Tuna Pitch app features a high-contrast, expandable window so it's easy to read, while the widget version is small and won't clutter your Dashboard. Both the app and widget are 100% free and are available for download from Freeverse's new website.

Steven Massey has just released the TD5, an analog tape delay plug-in. Simply put, the TD5 sounds and acts like a "real-life vintage tape delay, deep, thick, gritty, and three dimensional". The TD5 has up to 2 seconds of delay time, can sync to the Pro Tools tempo map, and provides a number of tonal options.

The TD5 plugin is priced at $79 and comes in both RTAS and TDM plug-in types. Note that a demo version with no limitation is also available. For more information, please visit the link below.

Alesis has introduced the Performance Pad tabletop and kit mountable drum pads with a built-in drum machine. It features eight velocity-sensitive drum pads, a built-in electronic drum machine, inputs for a bass drum pedal, hi-hat pedal, and a Line-level input to connect a CD Player, iPod®, computer, or other audio device so that percussionists can play along with nearly any recorded mix. Built-in rhythm patterns are also included to compliment playing.

Features :

- 8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads with Dynamic Articulation
- Built-in professional drum machine so you can record and play back your own beats
- 50 Preset / 50 User drum kits with 233 sounds assignable to any pad
- Built-in rhythm patterns to complement your playing
- Large LCD display with easy-to-navi ...

Yamaha has released version 1.1 updaters for Pitch Fix, Final Master, Vocal Rack and 01X Channel Module. These updates bring compatibility with Mac-Intel (Universal Binary).

RME has announced the new HDSPe MADI card to be shipping. RME further expands the "e"-line of Hammerfall DSP recording solutions for the PCI Express bus found in current Apple OS and Windows based desktop computers. With higher data rates the PCI Express bus enables high channel counts associated with lowest latency options.

The HDSPe MADI card offers a 128 I/O-channel computer connection, all 64 input and 64 playback channels can be routed and mixed independently to 64 physical outputs. For even higher channel counts several MADI cards can be combined. Compared to the standard PCI HDSP MADI card, the new PCI Express version offers several advantages :

- support for higher sample rates up to 192 kHz
- Lowest latency – down to 1 ms!
- Sync to Time Code with RME's Time Code Option Mo ...