In 540 pages, 500 photos, Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew have signed maybe the "Bible" of all the Beatles work in studios: Recording the Beatles. Parts include Abbey Road EMI, the crew, recording consoles, microphones, tape recorders, effects, amps and monitors, instruments, the other studios.

The book "Recording the Beatles" is $100, and you can buy it directly at the Publisher's website.

Nomad Factory has updated the Audio Unit version of Liquid Bundle II - Classic to v2.3.

Changes:

- Fixed sample rate problem when changing the sample rate from the host.

Expert Sleepers has released a beta version of Crossfade Loop Synth v3.0.0 (beta 3). From version 3, Crossfade Loop Synth is actually two plug-ins: Crossfade Loop Synth and Crossfade Loop Synth Effect. The effect version takes the power of Crossfade Loop Synth and turns it into a live sampler, a looper and a very unusual and powerful delay effect.

Crossfade Loop Synth v3 is expected to be available for purchase some time during March 2007. Beta versions are available in VST and Audio Units formats for Mac OS X Universal Binary.

FXpansion has released Audio Units and RTAS versions of Orca, the freeware experimental monosynth based on detailed and accurate models of analogue synthesizer circuits and components.

Orca v1.11 is available now for Mac OS X (UB) as a free download from FXpansion's website, note that a free registration is required.

Virsyn have announced the release of miniTERA 2 which offers a radically simplified approach to sound design. The new version comes with layer sounds and a new sound browser.

New features :

- Easy Sound browsing with categories and attributes.
- Up to four layer per preset for massive sounds.
- Onboard reverb effect
- Dual mode for modulation effects
- Modified signal flow for better transparency of layered sounds.
- MIDI channel selection
- 100 new presets/sounds
- Intel based Mac compatibility
- VST 2.4 compatibility

miniTERA 2.0 is available for Mac OS X (UB) at a retail price of 89 €. Note that if you already have TERA 3, then you will get miniTERA for free !