Forever For Now has released Diatonic Shifter 2, a real-time diatonic pitch shifting and harmonizing Audio Unit effect.

Key features :

- Real-time, low latency processing for live performances.
- High precision post-processing for studio quality results.
- Truly diatonic in-scale pitch shifting, harmonizing and microtuning.
- Robust real-time pitch tracker with integrated visual pitch monitor.
- Four full octaves of pitch adjustment.
- Extensive user manual.

Diatonic Shifter 2 costs $9.99 and replaces the freebie Diatonic Shifter (which is still available as an unsupported "legacy" version). A demo version is available.

Ableton is pleased to announce that Live Lite to Full, the upgrade from all Lite versions to the full version of Live 6, is now available at musical instrument dealers worldwide.

All users of Live Lite (as bundled with products from M-Audio, Digidesign, Korg, Line 6, E-MU, Focusrite, Novation, Tascam, Allen & Heath, Behringer and TC Electronic) can now purchase an upgrade to the full version of Live 6 at a discounted price of €379 / $419 from dealers worldwide and from the Ableton webshop.

Softube has released the Vintage Amp Room plug-in for Pro Tools|HD Accel and VENUE. This plug-in features three great sounding vintage amp models that handle like real amps and give a raw and highly authentic sound. It has an intuitive 3-D rendered photorealistic user interface, complete with continuous click- and-drag mic positioning.

Vintage Amp Room is available now at a retail price of €649 (excl. VAT). Note that worldwide distribution of Vintage Amp Room is handled by TC Electronic and a PowerCore version of the plug-in is planned for June 2007.

Avlex Corporation is pleased to introduce the Superlux R102 Aluminum Ribbon Microphone. The R102's active aluminum ribbon consists of two parts: an electro-magnetic transducer and an impedance converting circuit. The electro-magnetic transducer applies a unique magnetic circuit field while the 2.5 micron thick aluminum alloy ribbon is suspended between two poles and vibrates in synchronization with the incoming acoustical energy. With its extremely low ribbon mass, the R102's transducer boasts a premium transient response as it converts acoustical energy into electronic signals—with the result being precise reproduction of the sound source, across all frequencies at either high or low sound pressure levels.

The R102 carries an MSRP of $399 and is expected to be available Q2 of 2007. This price includes a dual core shielded cable and a microphone stand adapter. The HM-31 high isolation shock mount is optionally available.

FabFilter has finally released RTAS versions of all its plug-ins : FabFilter Timeless, Twin, Volcano, Simplon, and One. All FabFilter plug-ins now run natively in Pro Tools on Windows and Mac OS X, as well as in any VST or Audio Units host. With this release, all plug-ins feature improved performance and elimination of occasional CPU spikes on dual-core systems, and they support the Audio Units reset functionality. FabFilter One now includes MIDI program change handling, improved knob behavior, and interactive help hints.

Of course, the RTAS plugins and updates are free for existing users. For more information, please visit their web site.

Nantho had mentionned this suite of plugins for spring It's now time and Wave Arts is releasing Wave Arts Master Restoration Suite : It includes 5 differents plugins available separately or as a bundle

- MR Hum suppress the buzz and other noises
- MR Click is dealing specially with the digital cliks or pops
- MR Noise is reducing the background noise
- MR Gate no comment
And finally Master restoration which includes every items

All are available for Mac OSX in formats: AU, RTAS, VST and MAS 349,95 $ for MR Noise, 99.95 $ for MR Click, MR Hum or MR Gate and 499.95 $ for the bundle Master Restoration Suite.

SONiVOX today announced the availability of a new virtual instrument powered by the audio engine of Steinberg's HALion Player, Broadway Big Band by Fable Sounds.

Main features :

- 100 Gigabyte multi-sample featuring contemporary brass (trumpets, trombones), woodwinds (alto, tenor, bari, soprano saxes, clarinet), and rhythm section instruments (upright bass, banjo, ukulele, drumkit, xylophone, Latin percussion)
- Huge selection of articulations, velocity layers and multiple takes
- Multiple microphone recordings
- Recorded note transitions - every note transition up to Major 9th in both directions
- Broadway Performer MIDI-Processing Performance Tool - allowing you to quickly play and select articulations
- Musical performance - instruments and performances with character and ver ...

ReKon audio has released VST Nord Editor, a realtime MIDI synth editor that allows you full control of every sound shaping parameter found on the Clavia Nord Lead rack and keyboard synthesizers, from within your favorite VST host. All parameters are fully automatable and you maintain all your patches on the computer itself without the hassle of manual dumps. VST Nord Editor also features the ability to save and load your patches to and from the editor in the native, standard sysex format. This editor works on the Clavia Nord Lead/Nord Rack model(s) only. The VST Nord II Editor will be coming soon to support the Clavia Nord Lead II model(s).

VST Nord Editor is available now for $49.95 as a VST instrument for Mac OS X . Note that a demo version will be released soon.

Version 1.0 of Sonic Visualiser, an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files, is now available. Sonic Visualiser contains advanced waveform and spectrogram viewers, as well as editors for many sorts of audio annotations. Besides visualisation, it can make and play selections based on the locations of automatically detected features, seamlessly loop playback of single or multiple noncontiguous regions, synthesise annotations for playback, and slow down playback while retaining display synchronisation.

Sonic Visualiser is Free Software distributed under the GNU General Public License. The 1.0 release is available now in source code form or as binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. For more information, please visit the link below.