Announcing the first in a new series of Waves Webinars: Your chance to hear from Waves artists and insiders and get your questions answered.

SONiVOX, Boston based virtual instrument manufacturer today announced the release of their heavily anticipated Grand Piano Virtual Instrument, Eighty Eight. Conceived and designed as an exceptional virtual embodiment of a Steinway CD 327 grand,...

Now available for VST, AU and RTAS - A new version of Elastique Pitch Plugin is available for download. The new version 1.1 brings new features and numerous minor bug fixes. This version adds VST and AU support and removes the need for iLok.

XILS-lab is proud to announce its new product : the polyKB. The polyKB is a recreation of a very rare, very powerful polyphonic synthesizer released in the 80's by a french company. It is a polyphonic substractive synthesizer based on two...

FXpansion is proud to present the second instalment of Yamaha artist signature snares for your BFD2 library. With the usual high levels of detail, multiple channels and multiple articulations, BFD Signature Snares Vol.2 is ready for you to...

Audio Damage gave us an preview of Discord3 plugin via their Analog Industries blog. It follows the Discord2.  Discord 2 took the vintage pitch-shifting style of Discord 1 and 1.5 to an entirely new plateau. With a full-featured delay section...

Waldorf has announced that a new TechnoTrance Soundset for Largo from sound designer Rob Lee is now available. The soundset contains128 brand new presets and consists of Arps, fat basses, House and Techno chords, searing leads, evolving pads and...

The art of DJing is now in the digital age, and the next generation of DJ mixers needs to keep pace with the CDJ revolution. The DJM-2000 truly does that. The brand new DJM-2000 is Pioneer's most powerful performance mixer and is the perfect...

Starlight is AAS’ third sound bank title for Ultra Analog VA-1 and lands with sounds collected at the confine of the galaxy. Its 149 presets scattered across ambient, arpeggiator, arpeggiator bass, chime, effect, keys, lead, rhythm, and...

SPAN is a freeware real-time “fast Fourier transform” audio spectrum analyzer plug-in for professional music and audio production applications. For the most part it was derived from Voxengo GlissEQ dynamic parametric equalizer and...

Steinberg releases its final set of compatibility patches and updates for its VST instruments, as already announced in December of last year, thus completing the transition to supporting the latest operating systems Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6.

Feeltune introduces an easy to use like a groove machine, powerful like the latest computer technology, and empowered by the versatility of plugins. Today the Rhizome is the only box combining samplers, mixing desk, sequencers and synthesizers,...

Alchemy Player is the perfect solution if you lust after the sounds of Alchemy but don't want to create your own presets. It's also extremely affordable at just $59 / €49 / £39. The Player is included free when you purchase any...

Block is a compact and programmable MIDI control surface designed for interactive audio performance. Built on the same bi-directional and adaptable platform as the Ohm64, Block provides a powerful interface for creating and interacting with sound...

The X-Poly is a free upgrade to the Poly-850 for Windows and OS X. Apart from being a maintenance update to improve compatibility for the latest OS X and Windows editions and multiprocessor environments, it adds very useful new features.

EVOLVE MUTATIONS 2 takes audio-visual sound design to the next level, bringing 2 GB of new and original sounds for composers of film and TV scores, game sound designers and music producers seeking unique effects and textures. Split into four...

TC Electronic have now released version 2.4 of the software package for their audio interfaces. With this free download, you will get support for 64-bit Windows-based operating systems as well as enhanced stability if you are using a Mac running OS X...

For many moons G-Force have harboured the desire to release a full set of sounds recorded from their funky old Optigan. They considered building a completely new instrument but ultimately thay've made the decision to integrate these sounds within...

JazzMutant has released this teaser video for Mu, a multi-touch Ableton Live controller for the Lemur. Mu is a Max for Live plugin, so you will need Ableton Live 8 and Max for Live to use it. Pricing and availability are to be announced. Guess...

Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a refreshing twist. It is based on mod trackers. Mod trackers are characterized by displaying and editing music in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. These patterns...

The German Elysia company is known for their high-end compressors which they have been building for several years now. They have teamed up with the designers of Brainworx and used their vast knowledge of discrete components and translate them to the...

Denon DJ Europe is exhibiting its complete new product line up, announced over the previous few months, at this year's Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt (MusikMesse), including the world's two best DJ mixers, a new digital turntable with powerful...

112dB announces that Redline Monitor, the high-quality near-field monitor simulation for headphones, has been updated to version 1.0.4. This maintenance release applies to both the retail and the trial version.

The upcoming free MASCHINE 1.5 update will bring crucial enhancements to the innovative groove production studio. These include enhanced host integration, drag & drop MIDI and audio, new Vintage Sampling Modes (MPC60 / SP1200), MPC sample...

Novation now have a YouTube channel featuring all Novation videos. Tips and tricks, artist videos, set-up guides and new product demos are all being be uploaded onto the NovationTV channel. Subscribe today for the latest information on the Novation...

Cakewalk recently released a free update for SONAR 8.5 Producer and SONAR 8.5 Studio. The SONAR 8.5.3 update is focused on AudioSnap 2.0 providing usability enhancements, optimizations, and overall improved stability when performing complex audio...

Symbolic Sound Corporation has expanded the list of real-time controllers and software that can communicate with its Kyma sound design environment by adding support for Open Sound Control (OSC) to its Paca(rana) sound engine.

SPL's new software tool looks very promising, specially considering that the German manufacturer has an ace under the sleeve: their proprietary Transient Designer technology.

In this video FL Studio Guru runs quickly over the main features of Drumaxx and how you can use the multiple output feature. Until March 31st 2010 Drumaxx is available under the Pay what you think it's worth system. ImageLine are donating 1 USD...

In this interview, San Francisco producer/engineer Michael Winger explains how he is using Reason, Record and Pro Tools together. He talks about some of the creative options this setup gives him and also gives us a demonstration on how to set it up...

Together with Danish sample specialist Thomas Skarbye and impulse response expert Ernest Cholakis, Alicia Keys has created a virtual piano that meets her professional standards and embodies the soulful sound that has become her trademark as a...

This tutorial shows us how to create a popular electro bass sound from scratch using a simple synth. In this case the Rob Papen Predator VSTi. This video is a must see for budding electro house producers. The Wideboys consist of the dynamic duo...

Waves posted an introductory tutorial about reverb and delay. The plug-ins used in this video are Waves R-Verb, SuperTap Delay, and H-Delay. For more information visit www.waves.com.

The CDJ-2000 promises to become the standard for the digital DJ. Together with Rekordbox, this could create the ideal digital DJ environment!

With the release of the CDJ-2000 this news doesn't really comes as a surprise but Pioneer have announced that the legendary CDJ-1000 has come to an end. This remarkable CD player has spanned almost a decade as the market leader, evolving through 3...

This is a versatile Rhythm machine for backing drums percussion so definitively not an 808 or 909 type thingie. It features 6 instrument parts / slots to choose from 512 inbuilt drum & percussions sounds. There are two step sequencers one for...

Having an SPL modular rack system had never been so feasible: In addition to the much-praised, 19-inch eight-module frame available already, the German manufacturer introduces now a brand new four-module rack system, as well as a Dual-Band De...

Numark, the world’s leading manufacturer of DJ technology, announces that V7, its new motorized turntable software controller, is now in stores. Numark developed V7 in strategic partnership with software developer Serato.

IK Multimedia is proud to announce that AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software, is now shipping!

This release brings initial support for the Reloop Digital Jockey 2 controller, improved support for the DJ-Tech i-Mix controller, and some improvements to the VCI-100 and Denon controllers.

After a maniacally busy year, Elbow is back in the studio working on their next album, the follow up to the hugely successful "The Seldom Seen Kid." We caught up with the band's keyboard player and producer, Craig Potter, at their studio in...

Omni Live is designed to turn an iPhone (or iPod Touch) into a simple, wireless remote control of Omnisphere’s "Live Mode" page via the touch-screen interface on the small, portable devices. Since Omnisphere’s Live Mode already...

Access Music released the highly anticipated version 4 of the Virus TI operating system. The new version adds stomp box distortions, comb and vowel filters as well as a speaker simulation and an extended arpeggiator. Every registered Virus TI user...

ImageLine are proud to announce Drumaxx. Drumaxx is a hugely flexible and great sounding percussion modelling instrument. You get total control over 16 physically modeled drum pads that can be routed to independent outputs for external effects...

Contributing to the ongoing debate about M/S Mastering, SPL introduces a new powerful analog tool that can manage M/S signal separation and integrate external processors seamlessly – The M/S Master. World Premiere at the Musikmesse in ...

Today algoriddim released djay 3.1 — a free update for all registered users of djay 3 — containing a ton of new features, improvements, and fixes.

bx_cleansweep V2 is a 2-band EQ offering our new "AntiCrush" 6dB HP & LP filters (hi-pass and lo-pass). These filters are taken from our critically acclaimed mastering EQ bx_digital and have been modeled after analog 1st order filters.

In an exclusive license agreement, Nord now offers a collection of the original Chamberlin tape library in the Nord Sample Library format. These 60 sounds compliment the previously licensed Mellotron sounds very nicely, and are available free of...

LinPlug have a lot of updates to announce this month. All of our updated products now work very well in Mac OSX 10.6 and higher and Windows 7, both 64- and 32-bit versions.

MOTUs Ethno 2 is now shipping. Ethno 2 delivers the most comprehensive world/ethnic sound library ever offered in a single package, combined with the most advanced virtual instrument interface for ethnic sounds. Version 2 adds significant new ...