Last week we polished off the Universal Binary version of Hipno. You can download it from Cycling ’74 if you want to check it out.

The obvious news here is that Hipno can now be used on an Intel-based Macintosh. I have to say that it’s worth it to give that a try. The Hipnoscope is really really smooth and responsive on the new machines, the video-based plug-ins work great, and the modulator plug for using joysticks and game controllers to control the plug-ins works like it never has before.

Plug-ins are categorized in ProTools, they now work with the Clip Envelopes feature in Ableton Live (version 5.2.1 or the upcoming 6.0 recommended), and the plug-ins can now be used with Final Cut Pro and other applications which were previously problematic. This version (1.1) fixes virtually all of the known bugs with previous releases and it’s really exciting to see this release go public. We’ve been working on it for a long time.

If you do decide to update Hipno (the update is free for registered users), make sure you update all of your other Pluggo-based plug-ins too (including Pluggo and Mode). The Universal Binary version of Hipno only works with Universal Binary versions of the other packages. For Pro-Tools users, ProTools 7 or higher is required.

WooHoo! … back to having fun with all of these plug-ins!