Native Instruments has announced the TRAKTOR Tutorial DVD, a new multimedia workshop that enables DJs to get the most out of TRAKTOR 3 DJ software. With a comprehensive video tutorial (more than three hours of high-resolution video), artist interviews and special workshop content on the disc, the DVD allows TRAKTOR users of all experience levels to get to the heart of the software and utilize its advanced creative capabilities to the fullest extent.

English language version will be available in stores and from the NI Online Shop in May. For more information, please visit their web site.

FabFilter has just announced RTAS versions of FabFilter Timeless, Twin, Volcano, Simplon, and One. With this release, all plug-ins will also receive small bug fixes and updates for the AU and VST versions. In addition, FabFilter One will be extended with MIDI program change handling, improved knob behavior and interactive help hints.

The final release is currently planned for the end of April and it will be free for existing users. Note that FabFilter will demonstrate the new RTAS versions at Musikmesse (hall 5.1, D48).

After posting a demo of their software compression "Solera" and EQ "Epure", Flux offer us a freeware called "Bitter Sweeter" which is a dynamic processor who can deal with the transients.

Bitter Sweeter is available in VST, RTAS and UB formats, the Au support is still under development !

VirSyn has just released a new virtual synth called Poseidon. At first sight it looks like a simple structured analog "Oscillator-Filter" synthesizer with all controls visible at once... but the real power is working under the hood : the oscillator is the same as the spectral modelling sound generator of their CUBE and the variable slope Filter is a completely new design based on the unique F-domain synthesis.

Main features :

- Spectral modelling oscillator
- Time machine
- Timbre control
- F-Domain Filter
- Spatializer
- Resynthesis
- Effects
- Arpeggiator
- Standalone and plugin

Poseidon is available now for Mac OS X (UB) in VST, RTAS and AU formats for €199.

Sinevibes has just released the Space Oscillator Audio Unit plug-in for Mac OS X, which is a unique combination of a synthesizer and a sound processor. At its core, it has a unison oscillator with a spacious stereo sound, that can react to incoming audio in many exciting ways and is simultaneously controllable by a flexible step sequencer. Combined with many other interesting audio shaping tools, Space Oscillator allows to create new sonic textures from intergalactic strums to droid speech.

Features :

- Spacious stereo unison oscillator with wide detune range and variable frequency stepping
- Audio-triggered envelope generator
- Advanced step sequencer with lag processor
- Ring modulator, bit reduction and resampling
- Intuitive user interface
- Extensible collection of fa ...