TASCAM has released GigaStudio 4., its Windows sampling workstation.
New features include the QuickSound database tool, additions to the QuickEdit interface and user interface improvements.
GigaStudio 4 features:

Supports 64-bit operating systems like XP64 and Windows Vista 64 (32-bit version also available).
Unlimited polyphony.
96kHz/24-bit sample support.
128 MIDI channel playback.
embedded GigaPulse convolution reverb.
iMIDI rule programming includes legato mode, round-robin, alternation, [...]

BandmateLoops.com has introduced iAcoustica Studio, a new multi-sample Universal Acoustic Drum Library.  iAcoustica Studio offers eight unique, realistic drum kits for Reason, Kontakt 2, EXS-24 and GigaStudio.
iAcoustica Studio is based on two full acoustic drum and cymbal sets and utilizes a broad range of sticks, mallets, metal brushes and wooden brushes.
Also included are hundreds of [...]

Multisampling specialists Wavescape Studio have released the Nord Modular G2 VOL. 01- Club Life sample library, which features sounds for pop, dance, trance, electro, house, hip-hop. All sampler presets have extensive modulations settings in each format: move the modwheel and the library starts to “breathe”.
The library is available in three different formats:

WAVESCAPE™ MULTIPAK (EXS/EXSP24, Reason [...]

LearnGigaStudio.com has released DVD Video versions of Volume I and Volume II of their Online Training Videos from the instructional series “Learn GigaStudio 3″.
These broadcast quality DVD videos feature GigaStudio 3 guru David Govett along with Larry Seyer demonstrating configuration and use of GigaStudio 3. The lessons are presented in easy to understand terms and [...]

Precisionsound has introduced Cembalo, a big Harpsichord sampled in stereo with 2 velocity layers for both the notes and release notes, 241 samples in total, recorded in 24bit and dithered down with Apogee dithering to 16bit.
There are also additional Cembalo FX programs included with 67 stereo files of string clusters, ambient noises and hits.
All programs [...]

Prominy has announced new sample library; LPC Electric Distortion & Clean Guitar, for GIGA STUDIO 3.0 / 2.0, capturing the sound of Gibson Les PaulTM Custom. The LPC guitar library includes over 60 Giga-bytes, approx. 150,000 samples
Features:

243 .gig files which includes over 7,200 instruments
Single note, 5th-dyad chord, 4th-dyad chord, mute(tight, medium, loose), octave, vibrato(single note, [...]

Kirk Hunter, a leading U.S. developer of orchestral sample libraries, has announced the release of his new Concert Strings/Brass/Winds, the first ever orchestral library created for the GigaStudio 2.54 format with musicians recorded in their onstage seated positions with both close and far microphone placement.
On completion, Strings/Brass/Winds is projected at 180GB in size, with a [...]

Tascam unveiled a major update to the powerful software-sampling program, GigaStudio 3.0, at the NAMM 2004 Summer Session.
The new version, a from-the-ground-up rewrite of the original application, adds dozens of new features for composers, sound designers and music producers. Available in three versions – Orchestra, Ensemble and Solo – it offers up to unlimited polyphony, [...]