Virtual Instruments

Synapse Audio has introduced EKS-9, unique VST/AU plugin dedicated to creating vintage-style electronic bass drum sounds – and has served up a sexy 3d ad for a virtual instrument to boot.
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Its virtual analog engine is not only capable of authentic recreations of the sounds from such machines, but can synthesize new kick sounds with lots [...]

Image Line Software has released a beta version of Drumaxx – a new percussion modeling instrument that gives you control over physically modeled drums that can be routed to independent outputs for external effects processing.

Ultimate Sound Bank has introduced Acoustic Toy Museum, a massive collection of sampled toy instruments.
Hundreds of musical toys were used to create this unique sound library, including toy pianos, bells, toy guitars, baby drums, blow toys and more.
Acoustic Toy Museum is now available now for $349 USD (includes the full version of UVI Workstation).

This video demonstrates Voice Band for the iPhone.

Hollow Sun has introduced Novachord – the first and only soundset from the legendary Hammond Novachord:
Using divide-down oscillators (the world’s first?), the Novachord was fully polyphonic. These pass through resonators, hi-and lo-pass filters and a simple but effective envelope shaper. What is particularly impressive is that the Novachord had LFOs and envelope shapers for every [...]

Native Instruments today introduced Abbey Road 60s Drums, the first virtual instrument created in its collaboration with the iconic British recording studio.
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For use in the free Kontakt Player and the industry-leading Kontakt 4 sampler, Abbey Roads 60s Drums features two quintessential drum kits of the Sixties era, a Gretsch and a Ludwig, which were recorded [...]

This video tutorial, via Brian at NextStepAudio, demonstrates how you can create your own multi-sampled instruments.

NAMM: Vir2 Instruments has introduced Electri6ity, described as “the ultimate virtual electric guitar instrument.”

NAMM: Roland introduced the RD-700GX SuperNATURAL Piano Kit (K-RD700GX1) -  a dedicated expansion board and a USB memory key to update the RD-700GX operating system.
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Derived from V-Piano technology and the 88-key stereo multisampling engine, the SuperNATURAL Piano Kit enhances three dimensions of piano expressiveness to the RD-700GX. The result is seamless tonal change that corresponds [...]

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