Celemony Software (www.celemony.com) releases Melodyne Version 3 for Mac and PC. Melodyne3 is no longer limited to the editing of melodies, but can handle homophonic and polyphonic textures. Other upgrades include fully automatic analysis of the audio material, powerful macros for the correction of intonation and timing errors and numerous improvements in the user interface…In related news, Digidesign (www.digidesign.com) will be bundling Melodyne Essential free-of-charge with Pro Tools software…Eventide (www.eventide.com) has released a version of its H8000FW, a FireWire-enabled version of the H8000 processor. Current users can upgrade to add FireWire functionality. Customers who purchased an H8000 or H8000A after October 7, 2005, are eligible for a free FireWire upgrade…Princeton Digital (www.princetondigital.com) has released a VST version of its Plate 2016 reverb plug-in. The plug supports 44.1/48/96kHz rates and uses challenge/response copy protection. The plug-in will run in demo mode for 10 days or 500 launches…HHB's (dist. by Sennheiser, www.sennheiserusa.com) PortaDrive system now includes a 71W/hour NPL7 lithium-ion rechargeable battery, replacing the original 52W/hour NPL50, boosting PortaDrive's continuous operation from two to three hours. An 80GB hard drive is also now part of the system…Cedar Cambridge (www.cedar-audio.com) V. 2.5 is now available as a free upgrade and includes two new restoration modules and numerous upgrades to the core system. New features include improvements to the pre/post operations, multiple levels of undo/redo, and advancements of Event Manager and Automation systems… Metric Halo's (www.mhlabs.com) V. 2.2 update of its Mobile I/O Console and driver software for Mac OS X provides increased performance across all Mobile I/O hardware models. Users of the Mobile I/O 2882, 2882+DSP, ULN-2 and ULN-2+DSP can now take advantage of the free update with Mac OS 10.3.9 through 10.4.2…Edirol (www.edirol.com) now offers fully supported V. 1 drivers for Windows x64, allowing users to fully utilize their 64-bit hardware…The LT-ADAT upgrade from Lynx Studio Technology (www.lynxstudio.com) lets Lynx Aurora converters add up to 16 channels of ADAT Lightpipe I/O. This a full-function ADAT interface that provides two ADAT Lightpipe inputs and outputs when installed in an Aurora 8 or Aurora 16.