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Rayzoon has announced that Jamstix 2, “The World’s Most Advanced Virtual Drummer VSTi” according to the company, will be released on 8/20/2007.
Features:

Real-time groove composition using dedicated style and drummer modeling (not static patterns!)
In-depth drummer limb simulation, including triangulation of hand movements, ensures that the grooves are always humanly playable (no ten-armed drummer here)
Advanced feel [...]

Soundfonts.it has released Miles’tone, a new VST physically modeled instrument designed to bring realistic trumpet sounds to your sequencer. Miles’tone is designed to work with a wind controller, but can also be played with a traditional MIDI keyboard thanks to the built-in dedicated envelope generator.
Miles’tone is a simulation of a trumpet, based on a mixed [...]

 

 Miles Davis As A Plug-In [1:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ueberschall has released Liquid Instrument Series Vol. 8 Drums, a new VST that makes it possible to move, pitch, stretch or even delete any single note of the snare, hi-hat, or bass drum loop without affecting the rest of the groove. All loops and single sound loops automatically adjust their tempo to your arrangement.
Try radical [...]

Maizesoft has introduced Maize Sampler, a sample engine that lets you share your samples with musicians around the world.
Features:

Propagation (VSTi export) with pre-defined UI styles
Keyswitching between 12 layers
Disk-streaming
Sample-mapping, velocity layering
16 channels, 4 stereo output, 32 polyphonies
Supports 8, 16, 24 bit sample rate
Built-in simple reverb and EQ
Both VSTi and Standalone modes
Comes with a Soundfont to Maize [...]

Pipeloops has released a new sample library for Kontakt-2, Cavaillé-Coll Organ of the Église de la Madeleine (Paris), that brings the sounds of a large French romatic cathedral organ to your studio. It comprises a small number of select combinations of stops, ranging from the soft sounds of the 8′-Fonds to the full and glorious [...]

 

 Chorale from: Felix Alexandre Guilmant: Sonata for Organ No 5 [1:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Vienna Symphonic Library has released the new Vienna Instruments Collection Special Brass.
Description:
Like the recently released Special Woodwinds, the 21 GB Vienna Instruments Collection Special Brass offers resonant rarities that a first-rate virtual orchestra can’t do without.
To create the perfect counterpart for Vienna’s now famous Epic Horns, the team recorded an ensemble of six trumpet [...]

ChocolateAudio, which has just about the coolest name ever, has announced Mock Bass, advanced electric bass library with just about the coolest name ever, too.
The Mock Bass is sampled from a luthier’s custom made electric bass made by Jacaranda, and includes the latest sampling technologies, featuring four string, automatic string switching, fret position selection, intelligent [...]

Toontrack has released EZdrummer 1.1, which introduces new functionalities as well as providing essential bug fixes for all users and compatibility for the recently announced EZX-s. It is required for the Nashville EZX but is otherwise highly recommended for all users. EZdrummer 1.1 is available for both Intel Mac and PC in VST, AU and [...]

Abbey Road Studios and Propellerhead Software have announced that they have partnered to produce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill for Propellerhead Software’s Reason.
Abbey Road Keyboards delivers a hypersampled collection of seven unique instruments, recorded using the original equipment at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill consists of Reason 3.0 patches with samples [...]

Homegrown Sounds, best known for producing unique pads/textures through its range of sample CDs, has released Astralis, a VSTi designed for making complex sounds easy to produce.
Description:
If interplanetary excursions are your thing, you will love Astralis, a synth to loose yourself in. Astralis is packed with soundscaping features, and is an intuitive. hands-on sound design [...]

Wallander Instruments has introduced the WI Visual Instruments series - collections of virtual instruments that combine advanced behavioral modeling with extensive amounts of sound data extracted from acoustic measurements and recordings of real instruments. The first release is a brass collection - Brass1.
Description:
Distinguishable for the WIVI instruments are their extreme realism and expressive capabilities. Even [...]

 

 Wallender Brass Demo [0:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

AudioRealism has announced a new virtual drum machine, AudioRealism Drum Machine (ADM), that promises to capture the best of the sounds of drum machines of the early 80’s.
Features

Three realtime switchable drum machine models
Internal 32 step sequencer with global accent per step, four prescale selections per pattern, flam and shuffle, 128 patterns per instance
Pattern transformation [...]

 

 Roland 606 style demo [0:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Roland 808 style demo [0:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Roland 909 style demo [0:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

H.G. Fortune has released the upgraded ProtoPlasm 21, which has been completely reworked. New features include Super Modulation Morphing (SMM), key-control on Delay (LKO), LFO modulation matrix and a dedicated Attack Oscillator it enhances it’s main purpose as synthesizer for vivid textures, soundscapes and pads.
384 patches are included.
Here’s a video preview that features the sounds [...]

Everytime we get a press release from Precisionsound, I’m surprised by the latest instrument that they’ve sampled and made a virtual instrument out of. Instead of another Rhodes or string library, they’re sampling Nigerian Udu and Retro Gadgets.
Their latest sample set features Alpine Concert Zither, a very common instrument in Alpine Europe, but rarely heard [...]

Soniccouture has released eBow Guitar - the first sampled re-creation of the unique sound of the eBow.
The ebow ( Energy bow), is a small, hand-held device that ‘bows’ the strings of a guitar using an electromagnetic field. It produces a unique guitar sound, with a very slow attack and infinite sustain.
Two guitars were painstakingly sampled, [...]