Monkey Tools has announced Sound Grinder Pro, a Mac waveform editor and batch-processor:
From advanced metadata and file support to the new waveform editor, you will save yourself a significant amount of time in editing and processing tasks, and with full support for both Intel and PPC processors, you can be assured that your results are [...]

Clavia has released the Nord Wave Manager, an application that allows Nord Wave users to create Sample Instruments from any standard audio file and download these to the Nord Wave synthesizer through its USB interface.
Highlights:

Creates mono or stereo samples from an audio file (.wav format)
Easy to map samples across a keyboard range
Graphical interface for setting [...]

Sion Software has released version 2.0 of their free QuickAudio audio editor for Windows.
QuickAudio lets you edit, play and record digital audio as well as convert between various popular audio formats. It has standard audio editing features, multiple undo, audio spectrum analysis as well as support for up to 24 VST plug-ins.

Sonic Studio began shipments today of the 1.2 release of soundBlade.
The 1.2 release incorporates hundreds of optimizations and stability enhancements, as well as almost two dozen feature additions, including an 8-channel option for surround work.
Running natively on Mac OS X, soundBlade relies on Core Audio for default I/O so hardware lock–in is eliminated. The application [...]

Bias has announced that SoundSoap Pro has been updated to version 1.2 and features 100% native compatibility with Apple’s Power PC and Intel-based Macs, while also offering support for Windows XP and Vista.
SoundSoap Pro uses a unique, integrated interface that allows the user to access any tool from within a single plug-in window. Tool [...]

Sony Creative Software has announced an upgrade to their Sound Forge professional digital audio editing application to version 9.
Sound Forge 9 software contains a wide range of new features including multichannel audio support, which allows users to edit, process, and record multichannel audio files. Also new are workflow enhancements such as drag-and-drop editing between channels, [...]

Musikmesse: Celemony Software has announced the release of Version 1.8 of the bundled edition of Melodyne: Melodyne essential. This offers new playback algorithms as well as a number of bugfixes and improvements of detail. The update will be available for download free of charge by all registered users of Melodyne essential from the end of [...]

SKYLIFE SampleRobot V2.40, SKYLIFE SampleRobot Essentials V2.40 and SKYLIFE WaveRobot are now shipped worldwide by ESI Audiotechnik.
SampleRobot and WaveRobot offer unique functions to sample acoustic and electronic instruments fast and easily - so you can transfer real musical instruments very easily to the digital domain and then play them with any available software sampler.
On the [...]

Sonic Studio has announced a new version of their low cost premastering application, PreMaster CD 2.0, which they call “the go-to application for CD creation on the Mac.”
PreMaster CD 2.0 adds more background processing, more control and more functionality. This new release consolidates all the maintenance changes incorporated into the code base while adding the [...]

Winter NAMM: Redmatica has released Keymap, its advanced editor for the EXS24 sampler.
Keymap makes it easy to create and edit sampled instruments on your computer, and with its tools and functions you can easily convert your samples in great sounding sampled instruments. Import your EXS24 instruments, loop your samples, use Harmonic Resynthesis to reshape sounds [...]

 

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Audiofile Engineering is shipping Wave Editor 1.2.4.
Among numerous fixes and improvements, new features include:

iZotope 64-bit SRC™ for playback and processing
iZotope MBIT+™ dither
iZotope SonicFit™ pitch shift/time stretch
Tempo guessing via the Inspector
Vertical scroll bar for waveform
Properties panel for editing metadata

Wave Editor is available immediately for $250 from Audiofile Engineering’s newly launched online store. The new store now [...]

Celemony Software has announced immediate availability of the audio editing software Melodyne uno for Windows XP and Mac OS X. The brand new small version of the unique audio software Melodyne works in a similar fashion to a sample editor — except that it offers the characteristic Melodyne functions, making it the ideal tool for [...]

Sonic Studio has announced Manual DeClick 2.0, a Sonic Studio DDP option.
Manual DeClick 2.0 provides the highest level of quality and selectivity required by corporate restoration departments and discriminating independents worldwide. Jayson Tomlin, Vice President of Sales, states that Manual DeClick “…wasn’t just the first, it’s still the finest tool available for surgical restoration of [...]

Leapfrog Audio has released an update to its phrase-editing virtual instrument, Rephrase version 1.2.
New features:

Pristine sound quality - true sampler like quality reproduction.
Stereo audio support - stereo audio can now be imported and ‘Rephrased’.
Faster import - audio is imported around 3X faster.
Faster load/save - native format loads/saves are about twice as quick.
Smaller rephrase files - [...]

Sonic Studio has announced that their latest product, SonicStudio•DDP for Macintosh OS X, is being made available as a time–limited free download.
The newly released SonicStudio•DDP is a Mac OS 10–native utility specifically designed to read, modify and rewrite PQ metadata embedded in the industry standard Disc Description Protocol (DDP). DDP was developed to ensure data [...]