Mikko Maducdoc has released version 1.9.1 of Milk Guitar, a freeware strummable, midi-controlled diatonic guitar VST instrument for Windows PC.

Changes from Milk Guitar beta 1.9

• Ultra-lightweight: unzipped DLL file is now only 10MB from 19.8MB.
• Reduced noise by over 80%.
• Remastered the same sample set.
• Fixed minor chord bugs.

Visit Mikko Maducdoc for more information and a link to download Milk Guitar.

Wavelore Instruments has released Pedal Steel Guitar, a pedal steel library which is fully playable in realtime.

Instead of relying on pre-recorded licks and loops, the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar uses single-note samples fused with GVI’s powerful filters and modelling tools to put all ten bendable strings of E9th tuning right under your fingers!

Pedal Steel Guitar features

• 10 strings of E9th tuned Pedal Steel Guitar.
• 1.3 GB of samples, based on over 4 GB of source material.
• Runs on Windows XP as VSTi plugin or Standalone mode using your ASIO drivers
• Includes 8-way round-robin samples per note; no false sounding repetions of notes or phrases.
• No loops; Samples decay fully and naturally. No truncation or extraneous noise.
• 2 types of optional release samples.
• Natural Harmonics at the 12th, 7th, and 5th frets, using 4-way round-robin.
• DEF and PRF filters offer expressive realtime dynamics and polyphonic string bends/slides on a single MIDI channel.
• Full control over neck position/chord voicing.
• Gigapulse amp modelling; flexible amp/mic and room simulation for a wide range of tonal colors.
• Samples recorded direct. Use the included Gigapulse amp models or your favorite amp-sim plugins.

The Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar is available in two versions:

1. Full Edition - comes with 8-way round-robin samples for every note recorded, including the same number for each of the two included release sample variations (that’s 24 samples per note), as well as 18 amp simulation presets, created from three different amplifiers, and open (natural) harmonics at the 5th, 7th, and 12th frets above every string in 4-way round-robin. Its total size on disk is 2.7 Gigabytes.
2. Lite Edition - includes 2-way round-robin, 6 amp sim presets, and no harmonics. Its total size is about 700 Megabytes. Both instruments are highly playable, containing the same innovative programming techniques to allow full realtime control over expressive factors like dynamics, neck position, chord voicing, bend direction/speed, bend type, and vibrato.

Pedal Steel Guitar is available for $269.99 USD, while the Lite version costs $179.99 USD.

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Sonoma Wire Works has released RiffWorks T4, a free edition of RiffWorks guitar recording software that includes looped recording, automatic track creation, InstantDrummer, effects, song posting, online collaboration, and a “Quick Start” tutorial in 14 languages.

RiffWorks T4 key features

• 4 RiffWorks Layers.
• 24 RiffLink Layers.
• RiffWorld Free Membership.
• RiffWorld Creator Membership for $10/mo $60/yr.
• RiffCaster Song Posting.
• InstantDrummers demo included.
• Included Amp Models: AmpliTube® Duo LE & Studio Devil BVC.

Check this page for a full comparison between RiffWorks T4 and RiffWorks Standard.

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Nine Volt Audio has released Big Bad Guitars, a collection of tough and heavy-duty modern rock guitar loops that will turn any track into a bruiser.

Amp sounds were dialed in and recorded by producer, mixer and engineer Michael Wagener, known for his work with many top hard rock and heavy metal bands like Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica.

Big Bad Guitars features

• 925 files for each format: REX2, Stylus RMX, Apple Loops and ACIDized Wav. Each part is presented as a mono, single guitar part, and an accompanying stereo loop with each part panned hard left and right.
• Organized into “mini-song” suites. Each suite contains clearly labeled song parts, riffs, string “scrapes” and sustained chords for endings and breaks.
• 130+ “remix” style guitar loops that feature filtered, “stuttered” and effected sounds designed to take each suite to the next level.
• Any of the REX-based loops (used in Stylus RMX and Reason) can be used at tempos as slow as 70 BPM.
• “Toolbox” section of straight-ahead 8th and 16th note palm-muted power chord loops, designed to supplement any suite or stand on their own as the backbone to any track.
• Using Big Bad Guitars within Stylus RMX requires the user to drag-and-drop only one folder into RMX’s included S.A.G.E. Converter.
• All loops are in 24-bit/44.1kHz resolution.

Big Bad Guitars is available for $99.99 USD.

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