Garritan Announces Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand Piano, Professional Edition 

The software instrument is said to be a virtual concert grand piano with the same vibrancy and tone of a real Steinway Model D Concert Grand piano....

Digidesign Announces Transfuser Preview 

Transfuser allows you to create, manipulate, and perform loop- and rhythm-based music in real-time within Pro Tools....

Karma-Lab Releases Chemistry 3 - Groove Injection! 

This collection offers 64 "Karma-fied" combis and 128 GEs for the Korg Karma Workstation and the Korg Triton Series. ...

IK Multimedia Ships SampleTron 

Created with the help of Sonic Reality, SampleTron provides a collection of Tron and other vintage keyboard samples. ...

Puremagnetik Releases Purple Kit 

Puremagnetik has released Purple Kit for Ableton Live 7, Native Instruments Kontakt 3, Apple Logic, and Apple GarageBand....

Steinberg Groove Agent 3.01 (Mac/Win)  

By David E. Weiss

Unless you have the luxury of bringing in a session drummer every time you need a drum track recorded, you might want to consider a more practical alternative:...

XLN Audio Addictive Drums (Mac/Win) 

By Tony DiLorenzo

Every drum programmer has a personal approach to making tracks groove, but wouldn't it be nice to get the right feel and sound without much effort? Addictive...

Big Fish Audio Primal Drums  

By Marty Cutler

Rhythm beds are the percussive equivalent of synth pads: complex and evolving textures of rhythm instruments that we can most often hear in film scores...

Dan Dean Productions Solo Strings Advanced (Mac/Win) 

By Rob Shrock

When it was released several years ago, Dan Dean's Solo Strings library was widely sought after due to the high quality of the sample recordings. Solo...

Digidesign Structure 1.0 (Mac/Win)  

By Nick Peck

Digidesign has released Structure, an RTAS-based sampler plug-in for Pro Tools HD, LE, TDM, and M-Powered versions 7.3 and later on both Mac and PC. The...

Image Line PoiZone 2.0 (Mac/Win) 

By Tony DiLorenzo

PoiZone 2.0 ($79) is a straightforward subtractive synthesizer with two oscillators, three resonant filter modes, two ADSR generators, and variable polyphony...

IK Multimedia Announces AmpliTube 2 Duo with Notion Music Progression 

AmpliTube 2 Duo amp and effects software automatically installs with new copies of Progression guitar composition software....

Native Instruments Releases Kore Player 

You can use Kore Player to access and play Kore SoundPack material as a standalone instrument or in a host sequencer....

Outsim SynthMaker 1.0.8a (Win) 

By Peter Hamlin

In the simpler early days of electronic music, many composers created their own circuits, partly out of necessity and partly because they had a specific...

Patchman Music Turbo VL 

By Scott Wilkinson

Turbo VL As a MIDI wind player, I've always loved the Yamaha VL-series synths for their highly expressive sounds that can be exquisitely shaped with breath...

Native Instruments Kontakt 3.01 (Mac/Win) 

By Jim Aikin

Software samplers are a vital component in today's studio environment. Whether you're laying down a piano track, composing a film soundtrack, editing...

Puremagnetik Releases TeeBee  

Puremagnetik has released TeeBee, a collection of instruments and loops sampled from the Roland TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer....

Kong Audio Releases ChineeSuona 

Kong Audio has released its new Chinee Series plug-in called ChineeSuona....

Native Instruments Kontakt 3.01 (Bonus) 

By Jim Aikin

Native Instruments Kontakt 3 is packed with options and has a user interface to match. Clicking a button often opens up a whole new panel studded with more buttons, sliders, knobs, graphic displays, or other widgets. ...

Manytone Updates ManyBass 

The sample-based bass synthesizer, which is available in VSTi formats for Macs and PCs, now offers disk-streaming....