Cakewalk has announced the release of Rapture, a new wavetable synthesizer designed to produce pop, dance and electronic sounds. Rapture combines an advanced modulation system with an non-aliasing wavetable resampling engine. It features 40 Envelope Generators, LFOs, and Step Generators per patch, and comes with more than 500 programs including Basses, Leads, Pads, Arpeggios, Textures, Electronic Percussion and Sequences.

Rapture will be available in February (AU, RTAS, VST) for $199.

Clavia released the V. 1.40 of the editor of his G2 synthesizer family. It's packed with: another color scheme possible for coloured impaired persons, a Patch Adjuster which is changing parameters in a patch at a global level, a Patch Mutator which is using interactive evolution to alter settings. Now when you drag a patch cord near the window edge, scrolling will occur, and the "z" key will display the last played note.

In the killed bugs list you find:
- tool tip text in OscMaster course parameter corrected
- Patch Level display in the synth and the editor are the same now.
- G2 stand safe from some modules crowded patches.
- Patches with more than 255 cable segments possible.
- Save As now suggest the entire filename and not only the valid 16 chars.
- Gain in FltStatic when cha ...

If you're involved in sound for film-video and Pro Tools LE user, this new DV Toolkit 2 is right for you ! DV Toolkit 2 will include three plug-ins TL Space Native Edition convolution reverb, DINR LE noise reduction tool, and Synchro Arts VocALign Project. This pack will also contain DigiBase Pro file management tool, DigiTranslator 2.0 option, and Pro Tools mp3 export option. DV Toolkit 2 allows users to expand their Pro Tools sessions to up to 48 mono/stereo tracks (up to 96 kHz) and adds several functions, such as : Time code and feet frames functions, export session text, scrub trim tools, continuous scrolling and more...The upgade to Pro Tools 7.1 will be included in this pack.

DV Toolkit 2 will be available soon for $1,295

IK Multimedia announces from Winter NAMM collaboration with Presonus to provide bundled packages of IK Amplitube LE software with all audio recording interfaces distributed by Presonus. IK Multimedia also announces a partnership with Yamaha corporation : IK multimedia plugins (SampleTank SE, AmpliTube LE, T-Racks EQ) will be included with a selection of Yamaha musical audio products (Yamaha USB mixers and FireWire interfaces).

Digidesign will unveil at Winter NAMM its new "Music Production Toolkit" dedicated to Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered users. This new tool-package features :

- increased track count (48 mono or stereo tracks up to 96 kHz) !!
- mp3 export option;
- 5 plugins : Hybrid, TL Space Native Edition, Smack! LE, SoundReplace and DINR LE;
- multi-track version of Beat Detective;
- included Pro Tools 7.1 software upgrade.

Digidesign Music Production Toolkit will be soon available for $495. A special offer will be announced soon for recent Pro Tools 7 buyers.