Some may have had the email from Spectrasonics this morning : Spectrasonics release an exclusive mini collection of Grooves in pure New Orleans style, 50 grooves in SAGE stylus RMX, WAV, AIFF, Apple Loops formats. The grooves use the likes of Alex Acuña, Abe Laboriel Jr, Greg Bissonette, etc. So there's definitely worse around ;) All the grooves are new stuff and you don't need Stylus RMX to beneficiate of the given the formats but to use the Groove Control Technology, you'll need the SAGE file and Stylus. Now the main point of this mini collection is that 100% of the funds (Yep: 100%) are directed to http://www.habitat.org helping the Katrina victims.

The collection is available online only (hence the maximum benefit going to charities) for $25, and you'll need a fast internet connection as the files weight a total of 100MB. According to Super Prince of the Space, our member who told us all about it, they are serious stuff and it's for a good cause!

Do you remember the days when recording with your old sampler , and the immediate pleasure you had from jamming the records ? Here it is back, forget all the pain of waveform editors ! OneShot Recorder is a VST plug-in that allows you to to record, normalize, reorder, detect audio levels and MIDI note and save your audio automatically. Instead of recording in your DAW or sound editor and have hard and boring time in cut/export , OneShot Recorder will do everything automatically!

HHB Communications has developed the FlashMic DRM85 - the world's first professional Digital Recording Microphone. Perfect for all voice recording applications, in particular broadcast and press interviewing, the FlashMic combines a high quality Sennheiser omni-directional condenser capsule with 1GB of flash recording memory to create a convenient, durable and portable recording device that's extremely easy to operate.

With no fiddly cables and connectors to worry about, journalists can be recording instantly with just a single button-push. Either .wav linear or MPEG 2 encoded audio files can then be transferred quickly and easily via USB to Macintosh or PC computers and laptops for editing and onward transmission. A Date/Time stamp is stored along with the file, with the internal real time clock-set/synchronized automatically by the host computer.

No detailed informations from BIAS about this new Peak Pro update V 5.0.1.
Nevertheless, it's downloadable for free on the link below and it should fix some minor difficulties.

BIAS Peak is still a stereo audio editing, processing, and mastering application for the Macintosh.

Yowstar released The Doepfer Programmoer, a free software that gives you a simple interface to edit presets on your Doepfer Pocket Fader or Pocket Control.

This only allows you to program Controller, Pitch Bend, Mono Aftertouch (Ch.Pressure), Program Change, Note On, Note Off as event types. Source code for Max/MSP is included.

Camel Audio have just released CamelPhat v3.15 and CamelSpace v1.15, as well as an extra Camel Space bank by Tim Conrardy. TC Bread'n'Butter shows how CamelSpace may be used for every-day effects needs as well as more exotic uses. Registered users will receive details of the free upgrade via email.

New in the latest versions:
- graphics code has been substantially optimized
- bug fixed in Mac version which could cause crash on certain systems
- demo version 15 min time-out removed, time between silences increased to 40 secs

Korg introduces the Legacy Collection — Digital Edition, a plug-in suite containing two virtual Korg digital synthesis masterpieces: The M1 and WAVESTATION 1.5, plus the MDE-X multi-effects found in Korg's original Legacy Collection. Like the original, the new Digital Edition delivers classic Korg synthesizers reborn as software.

M1 Software Synthesizer
The sound engine of the M1 is available as an eight-part multitimbral virtual instrument, and has been updated with new features such as a resonant filter and dual Insert effects. In addition to offering the PCM, Program and Combination data of the M1 plus all of the data from the 19 optional PCM/Program cards, new drum sounds have been added for a massive total of over 2,700 vibrant presets.