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....

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...

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...

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....

Tone2 Updates Gladiator 

Tone2 has updated Gladiator to version 1.2.2....

Musicrow Releases Magic Vox 

Musicrow's latest release is Magic Vox, a virtual instrument comprised of the sampled sounds of 12 different guitars....

Scarbee Black Bass 

By Babz

Scarbee's first bass product, J-Slap'n Fingered (JSF), evolved over several versions to become one of the most advanced virtual basses around. Its extensive...

Vital Arts Plectrum 

By Marty Cutler

The secret of sampling's longevity is not just how realistically it can reproduce instruments such as drums and piano, but also that any sound you can...

Realitone Introduces RealiVox 

Realitone has introduced RealiVox, a solo vocal virtual instrument....

EastWest NAMM 2008 Announcements 

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Convention this month, EastWest made a number of product announcements. Keep reading to learn more....

DIGIDESIGN Velvet 

By Tony DiLorenzo

Because I learned to play on a Rhodes Suitcase 73, I was thrilled to hear that Digidesign had developed an electromechanical piano plug-in. ...

IMAGE LINE Software Morphine 1.3 

By Marty Cutler

Today's music-software offerings include a spate of additive synthesizers. Image Line has joined the fray by releasing Morphine ($159, download only),...

KEYTOSOUND Nexsyn 1.1r11 

By Marty Cutler

KeyToSound's Nexsyn ($339) is a software synth that combines sample playback with traditional synthesis techniques. It supports AU, VST, and RTAS on the...

Image Line Software Morphine (Bonus) 

By Marty Cutler

Morphine is a hybrid of additive and subtractive techniques along with resynthesis tools. It offers spectral models for emulating acoustic instruments and can serve as a springboard for creating fresh new sounds out of familiar harmonic content. Morphine relies on four Generators (roughly equivalent to oscillators) to play spectral models from its own supply or from user-supplied samples. ...

Modartt Releases CP-80 Add-On Instrument for Pianoteq 

Modartt has released an electroacoustic grand piano add-on: the CP-80....