Audio Ease, the company famous for their Altiverb is planning to release a little audio utility called Snapper which would become very quickly essential.

Snapper is fully compatible within the Mac OS finder and appears when an audio file is selected indepedently of its audio format mp3, aif, mono or stereo even the dolby 5.1. It includes a wave vizualisation as well as the playback of the files but it's only the tip of the iceberg because it allows you to edit the audio files like a selection and drag& drop. The mp3 conversion is also done in a simple click.

Best feature is that Snapper also works in the context of iTunes and let you export the files directly to Pro tools cursor....Just a dream !

No release date is annonced yet but in the mean time you can already watch a demo video showing all the possibilities of this nice utility.

SonicBirth, the Mac OS X Audio Unit / VST designing application that allows users to build their own Audio Unit / VST plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch, has been updated to version v1.2.0 and released as freeware and open-source (GPL) (available on SourceForge).

Focusrite will unveil a new OS for their Liquid Mix at Musik Messe 2007 that delivers a number of improvements over the original software.
The new software features an EQ side-chain on the compressor, providing an additional one-band EQ to be fed into the side-chain of any classic compressor emulation. Combined with the existing 'Listen' feature, this provides the ideal solution for high quality de-essing and more creative compression. It also ensures that the Hardware follows the Software GUI functionality in every way and delivers improved stability on both PC and Mac, making Liquid Mix rock-solid, even when operating with all 32 instances simultaneously. On top of that Liquid Mix v2.0 offers variable buffer size as well as supporting large DAW buffer sizes, helping to ensure lower lat ...

Toontrack has updated Superior to v1.6.0. The main purpose for this update is compatibility with Intel based Apple Macs and VST 2.4 compliant hosts. Superior 1.6.0 also includes a number of bug fixes and introduces new features in relation to Cymbal management and default handling.

For more information, please visit their web site.

Puremagnetik has released Microdrum, a unique groove sequencing pack for Ableton Live 6.

Features :

- 5 Unique Drum Kit Banks for Ableton Live 6
- Over 50 Preset Groovetracks
- 30 Percussion Menus for Ableton's Impulse
- Over 230 24-bit Samples
- Easy Drum Editing and Sequencing with Extensive Ableton Macro Controls
- Quickstart lesson files

For more information, please visit their web site.