Virtual Instruments

Spectrasonics has announced that it is now shipping Trilian, the successor to its Trilogy bass module.
Description:
Trilian’s massive 34GB core library features new Acoustic, Electric and Synth basses – as well as enhanced versions of the classic Trilogy sounds. With a brand new user interface and numerous software innovations, Trilian is the first 64-bit native software [...]

This tutorial video shows the key features of the Impulse drum sampler in Ableton Live 8 and how some of these features operate.
This video is ideal for the novice to intermediate level Music Technologist wanting to learn Live 8.

The Beat Thang Virtual was uploaded by: BeatKangz
Duration: 21
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Boston based virtual instrument manufacturer SONiVOX has introduced Sampla – Hip Hop Production Sampler, a new virtual sampler plug-in for MAC and PC designed for fast sampling and beat creation for hip hop producers.
Features:

MPC style editing & slicing for easy instrument & beat creation
Imports Wav, Acid, Broadcast Wav, Aiff, & MP3 Format Files
Easy to [...]

Pettinhouse has released WarmJazzFREE, a jazz guitar sample library for Kontakt.
Here’s a preview of WarmJazzFree:

 

 Jazz Guitar [1:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

7 Kontakt patches ready to use: 1 patch is dry for amp simulators and 6 patches are amped with the Kontakt effects processor emulating some of the popular guitarist sounds.
129 unique samples.
3 layers.
Round robin played – upstroke/Downstroke.
Release samples for each note.

You [...]

Soniccouture has announced that Glass / Works is finally available.
Glass Works is the first SC product to be packaged in Native Instruments’ Kontakt Player, meaning that non-Kontakt owners can enjoy the enhanced scripting and control that Soniccouture instruments have become renowned for.
Glass Works is a sampled collection of 3 instruments which generate sound from glass.

Modular Piano – Acoustic piano simulation by subtractive synthesis was uploaded by: zioaxiom
Duration: 84
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Sunday Synth Jam: This is the latest video demo of Christian Bannister’s work in progress, Touch Loop Navigator (name subject to change!) – a multi-touch sound manipulation program.
A few months back, we featured Bannister’s Low Frequency Entity. He’s been busy since then.

Free Music Software: The free audio looping application Mobius, available for Mac and PC, has been updated to version 1.4.
Changes in Mobius v1.4

The following features were added:

PACMANS ARE BACK!
Shuffle now supports complex patterns in scripts

The following bugs were fixed:

Threshold recording broken, could never stop recording
loopCount variable always returns zero
script lines ignored if they didn’t end [...]

Chris Randall of Audio Damage has announced Tattoo, a percussion synthesizer for Mac & PC:
With the caveat that the UI isn’t 100% finalized, here you go. Have a gander at Tattoo, our first instrument. Some salient points:

No samples. This is a drum synthesizer. Each voice is purpose-built, as well, rather than just having a general [...]