Puremagnetik has released Metalsphere, a sound design toolbox of intense soundscapes, suspenseful textures and horrific environments.
Description:
Metalsphere contains a huge array of sonic possiilities. With up to four individual distorted and layered sound sources, users can easily tailor their individual textures and signal levels. Sound designers, film composers and producers alike can each find something in [...]

Native Instruments has released Deep Transformations, a Kore Soundpack that turns Kore 2 and the free Kore Player into a creative sound processor for live performance and studio productions.
Utilizing the sound engines integrated in Kore, the new sound pack provides 150 multi-effect combinations that can “color, transform and mangle any audio material in inspiring and [...]

Heavyocity’s Evolve is a new Kontakt 2 virtual instrument offering “diverse percussion, massive stings/transitions, and evocative tonalities.
Features:

600+ beat-sliced loops strategically key-mapped into 7 genre-specific suites.
60 sequenced and arpeggiated percussive and tonal instruments.
75+ modern percussion kits and instruments.
45+ sting and transitional instruments.
250+ tonal instruments and FX.
3 custom scripted interfaces.
Nearly 6 gigabytes containing 3,900+ 24/16 bit samples.
Powerful [...]

Native Instruments has released KONTAKT RETRO MACHINES, the latest sound library for KORE 2 and the free KORE PLAYER.
The sounds in KONTAKT RETRO MACHINES originate from eleven analog synths, five vintage digital synthesizers and six classic drum machines, with a dedicated sample set for each of the over 130 included KoreSounds.
KONTAKT RETRO MACHINES makes extensive [...]

Bela D Media has introduced DSynth, described as a power tool combined with a collection of unique and awe-inspiring synthetic sounds and instruments..
The Data DSynth was intentionally designed from the very beginning to be a work in progress. The included PCM data is carefully selected original raw material to be used for future development of [...]

Soniccouture has announced the release of Kontakt Scriptorium, a collection of KSP Scripts, a sound library and set of tutorial videos for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 and 3.
KSP scripts are like ‘plug-ins’ for Kontakt. KSP allows you to manipulate Kontakt parameters at a microscopic level, creating new behaviours, unique timbral characters or even generative sequences.
For [...]

NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced a new 130 Gigabyte sound library aimed towards music, TV, film and game composers using Native Instruments’ Kompakt/Kontakt software - the Complete Composers Collection.
It’s pretty massive - bringing together seven of the company’s most popular virtual instrument collections:
EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Symphonic Orchestra Gold Complete
: (Gold Edition and Gold Pro Expansion (Gold [...]

Native Instruments today announced Kore Player, a free software instrument that adds full “ready-to-play” capabilities to the recently established line of Kore Soundpack libraries.
Based on the Kore 2 host system, the Kore Player lets musicians and producers efficiently access and play any Kore Soundpack material in their host sequencer and as a standalone instrument - [...]

Sounds And Effects has announced Synths of the 1970s for Kontakt. Source material was recorded at 24 bit from the Mini Moog, ARP 2600, Moog Opus 3, ARP Odyssey, and Oberheim SEM.Developed by Terry Grame, who was a sound developer for many of E-Mu Systems’ hardware sound modules, the intent here is to be much [...]

AudioWarrior has released Acoustic Grand Pianos & Electric Pianos for Kontakt.
The sample collection is based on the Fender Rhodes 73 Stage MKII, ‘Bright’ Steinway 88-Key Grand Piano, ‘Mellow’ Steinway & Sons 88-Key Grand Piano and the Wurly Electric-Piano/Organ.
Includes:

The Wurly Electric-Piano/Organ with its tube-like vintage vibe
A deep, powerful, ‘bright’ 88-key Acoustic Grand Piano with resonant lows [...]

Robotmakers offers up a switched-on cover of Sleigh Ride:

Recorded in one live take, with some prerecorded tracks. The polysynth part uses Kontakt instruments created from modular samples (MOTM GX1 Filters).
via Nabble

Vir2 have announced syntAX, a Kontakt Player 2 based virtual instrument described as ‘part synth, part interactive sonic revolution’.
The core of syntAX is a 2000+ patch synth library covering an immense amount of synth territory, including soaring leads, evolving pads, thick basses, harsh distortions, unusual textures, other-worldly atmospheres, FX, hits, blips, and more.
Then syntAX blazes [...]

Native Instruments has announced Kontakt 3, the latest version of its popular software sampler. The new version is centered around a next-generation instrument library that, according to NI, “sets new standards both in its musical scope and in its creative value, while also adding a wide range of new functions and refinements in all areas [...]

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 [...]