URS Plugins offers an April promotion enabling buyers of any one of the following products (Native or TDM) to get a BLT Program EQ (Native or TDM) free:

-URS Classic Console EQ Bundle
-URS Classic Console Graphic EQ Bundle
-S series MIX EQ
-FullTec Program EQ

More info on URS web site.

TriTone Digital announces an update to v1.1 and 1.11 for Hydratone. The hightlight of the update are 2 new EQ models, To avalon 737 and amek9080 they add to 550 API and ISA 110. The update 1.11 changes: implement latency message (33 samples) repported to the host and misc code cleaning. HydraTone EQ plug-in is base on multi-staged convolution, and allows to blend both valve based and solid state equalization derived from historic circuits.

AudioEase has just and quickly updated Altiverb v5 to version 5.0.1. This release fixed automation problems in HTDM version, speeds up load times, fixes 'resource not found -192' bug, and adds "alternative IR searcher' for Preset selection.

Mackie has announced the availability of demo version 2.0 of its Audio-Midi sequencer Tracktion. This new release introduces an enhanced MIDI editor, more comprehensive keyboard rol and the ability to map hardware MIDI controllers to filter parameters. This version also adds a new 64-bit mix engine, improved external synchronization support, eight auxiliary sends and returns, and full integration for Mackie Control Universal and C4 controllers.

The demo version is available on Mackie web site and full version will be in shop in May 2005.

Heizenbox the Granulizor v2.2 beta 1 is now available. This release improves Length Quantization, Buffer Record Quantization and Filter synchronization, allows you to assign and change presets with MIDI keyboard and fixes several bugs.

Heizenbox is a granulizor plugin for VST hosts running on Mac OS X