This fantastic software instrument is a modeled epiano from Devine Machine, OTR-88 . It is only ten megabytes long, has no any sample, you can edit its sounds per key, and has vintage analog effect pedals, modeled, too. If you don't want to invest the horrible price of 229 euro at the first time...

Audio Damage has seriously upgraded their step filter into a full-featured effect sequencer. BigSeq2 plays six effect at a time, and all the effect blocks have an own analogue-style sequencer, plus a gate sequencer for switching on and off. The surface is very clean and straightforward, and the...

AmpliTube Fender now out in the shop spaces, thanks to IK Multimedia . Their modeling software's special edition was prepared with cooperation of the Fender staff, and consists of emulation of not less than 45 different Fender units (12 amp boxes among them). The price of the full version is 169...

The modeling piano synth is quickly rising: now version three is on the display. It has a seriously advanced acoustic model that even determines the radiated sound waves inside the cabinet. Upgrade is free for the registered user, and a second sales point: you will have 5 different, freely...

IK Multimedia announced Amplitube Fender , a special edition of the company's modeling guitar processor. Software developers worked together with Fender's engineers to recreate not less than 45 pieces of legendary vintage equipment. All this cost 169 euro - or you can choose the smaller, Studio...

iZotope released Ozone 4 , a new version of their great mastering package. It has an eight-band parametric EQ, multiband compressor, exciter, stereo imager, a mastering reverb for the price which is 250 USD. Buy it here .

Blue Cat issued 11 different effect plugins in AU format for free. Chorus, flanger, phaser, EQ and more - download them here .

A nice long list of modeled pianos can be downloaded freely for Pianoteq already - a new one is just coming. Walter pianoforte, an instrument built in 1790 and owned by the famous piano player, Paul Badura-Skoda, is modeled carefully for the software instrument.

Novation offers an own-developed effect plugin package from now, Novation FX Suite . It is compatible with VST/AU applications, and consists of five modules. Four are ordinary ones - chorus, delay, tremolo and phaser -, but the fifth is rather exciting. It is the filter section of their expensive...

fxpansion united three synth plugins in one: D.CAM: Synth Squad has three modeling synthesizer in a single environment. Strobe is an analogue solo synth, Amber is a string synth, and Cypher is an FM synth with three oscillators. Fusor, the environment builds big sounds from the three components...

Spectrasonic gathered nice acknowledgements last year with their supersynth, Omnisphere. This year they want the same with a new product, Trilian . It is a successor of the old but good bass module, Trilogy - Trilian is 64-bit OS compliant now, and has a much wider selection of acoustic, electric...

Ableton's Live enjoyed numerous news in the first month of the year. Most importantly, it will receive a serious new version upgrade, Live 8. It will feature a new warping engine, a new groove engine, a new mix toy for looping grooves, five new effects (including a vocoder), and simpler operation....

Arturia will update two of their synth at the same time. Both Minimoog V and Brass will get version 2, with significant changes. Mini will have much more presets, with a revolutionary 3D navigation system, plus some new effects, while Brass will have a new surface, and some new elements in the...

Largo is a new computer toy from Waldorf , with an engine that is essentially a replica of their Blofeld synth module. It has three oscillators and two suboscillators per voice, all generating analog and wavetable sounds, too. Filters are kicking, as it is common in the company, and it has an...

Discovery Pro , discoDSP 's new soft machine reads patches from Nord Lead and Nord Lead 2X. It has 4 layers per voice, 3 oscillators per layers (two of them are VA, one plays back samples), resonant filter types, graphical envelope generators, arpeggiator, effects and many more. It costs 149 euro...

Audio Damage packed three Rough Rider compressors into one single plugin, Rough Rider Pro , for 49 USD. You can use them connected serially, or switched parallel, for separated frequency bands. Attack can be tweaked down heavily which brings sound into distortion. Read it, buy it here .

You can buy SONiVOX 's great sampled instruments nested into virtual instruments: they work both as stand-alone and as a plugin. Every piece of them are cheap - 20-30 USD -, but contains only a single theme: Bass - Rickenbacker, Guitar - Stratocaster, Guitar - Les Paul etc, so anyone can build an...

Antares formed a new version of Auto-Tune: Auto-Tune efx costs only 129 USD, and does all the big things that are commonly known but graphical editor and formant correction. Go check here .

At GForce , three days to renew the legendary Mellotron's finest software emulation, M-Tron. The new M-Tron Pro will have several surprise inside and outside: contains 3.5 gigabytes of samples, more than 700 presets, works in dual and split modes, vintage effects are present at the end and more -...

Koblo's new, small green synth is Vibra2000, cots 30 USD - check it here if you like.

IK Multimedia 's fine mastering suite, T-RackS got a new version. It also runs in stand-alone, and has a grand total of nine processing algorhythms - five of the are new, for example the emulation of the legendary Fairchild 670 compressor. You can configure the order of the effects freely, and it...

LinPlug's  RMV is a serious instrument, having a heavy-weight sample playback engine and a sophisticated drum synth, too. It has 48 instrument pads, all polyphonic, and all have an own 12x12 modulation matrix as well as envelope generators, parametric EQ, distortion, lots of insert effects at the...

Voxengo's Elephant mastering plugin reached version 3.0 recently. It has ten types of limiting, converts bit resolution, kills DC offset, oversamples 8 times, calculates with 64-bit resolution and so on. Purchase it until 15th, October for only 70 USD - later you have to pay 90 USD. Here .

This is Alchemy , a new supersynth software from Camel Audio . It is a sample/VA based instrument, packed with a huge array of digital sound manipulation funtions. It loads almost any sound sample (you get two gigabytes with him), has sound morphing, and analogue modeled filters. The arpegggiator...

Supersynth specialist Spectrasonics promised the top-of-the-line Omnisphere months ago - and finally it is here. Priced at 499 USD, it is not a cheap toy, but it serves for the money heavily. It has a maximum of 10 oscillator per voice, plays back samples and has VA-generators also, and has an...