C. Hackl has released four new VST instruments for Windows. New VST instruments Stereo Steinway Piano II, a rompler plug-in featuring 96Khz/24bit samples of a…

NUSofting has launched SMPlugins, a website featuring commercial VST plugins produced using SynthMaker. Marimka and Acidome, two plug-ins previously available from NUSofting, are now available…

CineSamples has announced Drums Of War, a European style war drums library for Kontakt and EXS24. Drums Of War features Nils Liberg’s new “Truly Random…

Gibson has announced a contest where you can win a Les Paul Traditional Goldtop and a Guitar Rig 3 Kontrol Edition from Native Instruments. The…

Pethu has released Maxim 16-2EQ Mixer, a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows PC. From the manual: The Maxim 16-2EQ is a 16+2 channel stereo…

Bitword has released a new version of Oxide Kits Vol 1, a collection of drum kits now including kits for FXpansion GURU. If you are…

Native Instruments has released Absynth Twilights, a new KORE SoundPack. ABSYNTH TWILIGHTS contains 200 additional ABSYNTH presets including 1,600 sound variations that range from ethereal,…

Arman Bohn has put up a poll to decide which VST instrument he should release next. Here’s what you can choose from: Hydrogen Spectra, a…

Mikko Maducdoc has released Lemonstrum, a freeware full-range guitar strummer VST instrument for Windows PC. Its simplicity and ease of use gets the clutter out…

DSK Music has released BassZ, a freeware rompler VST instrument for Windows PC. DSK BassZ features 24 bass sounds (acoustic & synth). Master section (level,…

Time+Space has launched a new contest where you could win a copy of ProjectSAM Symphobia, an eagerly anticipated collection with everything you’ve been missing in…

bioLogic has released a free set of violin samples. He writes: Recorded with a Rode NT3 small diaphragm condenser about 6″ from the strings, fed…

Robin Schmidt’s Music Engineering Tools has released version 1.0 of Straightliner, a straight-lined subtractive synthesizer in a modern guise. Straightliner key features 4 alias free…

de la Mancha has released version 2 of pitchfork, a 3 band pitch shifter / modulator, covering everything from subtle doubling to total pitch destruction.…