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The iAno is - you guessed it - a virtual piano for the iPhone.
This is available now as a free download for jailbroken iPhones. Let’s hope that when Apple officially opens up the iPhone to developers that they let everybody get at this sort of delightful weirdness.
Features

A complete four octave keyboard.
Multi-touch. Up to 5 [...]

Blu Gruv has released Prophanity, a freeware Windows VST version of the Prophet 5.
Features:

Oscillator A: Frequency, Osc Waveform (Saw/Square), Pulse Width, Sync.
Oscillator B: Frequency, Fine, Osc Waveform (Saw/Triangle/Square), Pulse Width, Low Freq, Keyboard.
Mixer: Osc A, Osc B, Noise.
Poly-Mod: Sources - Filter envelope, Osc B; Desinations - Freq A, PW A, Filter.
Wheel-Mod: Source mix (LFO/Noise).
LFO: Frequency, Waveform [...]

The Morrison Digital Trumpet, or MDT, is a new brass-style MIDI wind controller designed by Steve Marshall with Australian multi-instrumentalist James Morrison.
The MDT is a MIDI wind controller designed to make it as easy as possible to transition from the regular trumpet. For trumpeters, your hand position will be very similar to what you’re used [...]

Winter NAMM Show Update: Garritan’s new Virtual Pipe Organs collection is designed to capture the grandeur of a variety of different historic and contemporary pipe organs:

a Small (Early) Baroque Organ (circa 1740);
a Late Baroque organ (”Bach”— circa 1748);
a Gothic organ; a Renaissance organ (one of Europe’s oldest circa 1587);
a Romantic organ (circa late 1800’s); and
two [...]

NAMM Show: EastWest has released the Fab Four Virtual Instrument - and unauthorized collection of virtual instruments based on the same kind of instruments and recording equipment used by the Beatles to create their music.
I was able to check Fab Four out on the show floor, and it sounds like they’ve done a great job [...]

Namm Show Update: Applied Acoustics Systems introduced Strum Acoustic GS-1, an acoustic guitar software synthesizer that they describe as the keyboardists’ acoustic guitar.
Strum provides a collection of steel and nylon acoustic guitars and includes elaborate voicing and strumming modules for the realistic reproduction of a guitarist’s playing techniques. Chords played on the keyboard are automatically [...]

Vir2 Instruments has introduced two new virtual instruments - Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS.
Elite Orchestral Percussion offers 19 gigabytes of sterling orchestral percussion with a sophisticated script engine, and BASiS fills the low end with a large collection of electric, upright, fretless, and synth basses.
Elite Orchestral Percussion
Vir2 Instruments’ Elite Orchestral Percussion is a  19GB library [...]

Winter NAMM Show: Digidesign announced updates Hybrid, its high-definition synthesizer, and Strike, its virtual drummer plug-in.
Hybrid Version 1.5 offers a number of important new features, as well as a vast increase in the program’s already wide sonic palette. Boasting an entirely new VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter) vintage filter, this plug-in update makes it easier than [...]

Soundware and software distributor ILIO has announced a interesting program with hard drive maker Glyph Technologies to offer hard disk pre-installed with virtual instruments.
ILIO’s G-TIP (Glyph–Turnkey Installation Program) packages will include virtual instrument software from Vienna Symphonic Library and Synthogy pre-installed on Glyph hard drives. Purchasers of these packages may register their software with the [...]

EastWest intro’d Quantum Leap Pianos, a detailed collection of some of the world’s finest grand pianos.
Description: 
More than half a million dollars’ worth of pianos are included in this collection, all meticulously recorded by EastWest/Quantum Leap producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix. These include a $225,000 Bechstein D-280 Concert Grand. Other pianos featured in the library [...]