Toontrack Music has released EZplayer Pro, the follow-up to their percussive MIDI engine EZplayer Free.
EZplayer pro is a VST, AU and RTAS plug in for Mac and PC with extended Map Wrapping capabilities between major drum sampler formats in the market. (FXpansion’s BFD 1&2, Digidesign’s Strike, NIs Battery, EZdrummer and Superior Drummer in addition to […]

pfilter is a free Windows VST that creates a steppy, gated effect, but using filter cut-off instead of volume to give a wider range of possibilities. It uses a variable state filter, triggered between 2 adjustable cut-off values by a tempo-sync’d probability-based step sequencer. An LFO can modulate the filter when triggered and trigger pulse […]

KarmaFX has released Version 2.0 of the WIndows VST KarmaFX Plugin Pack, which features reverb, delay, EQ and Filter plug-ins.
KarmaFX Plugin Pack 2.0 changes:

Added performance improvements.
Added SSE3 code path and memory optimizations to Reverb plugin.
Plugin dll’s are now compressed for faster load times.
Individual version numbers for the plugins have been removed.
The plugin pack now […]

OutSim has updated SynthMaker, a Windows audio programming tool for creating virtual synths and effects:
There are a huge number of fixes and enhancements in the new 1.1 release of the software. We have a new de-zipper component, new trigger based FFT and iFFT components and components for acquiring system information such as MAC addresses and […]

Robin Schmidt’s Music Engineering Tools has released a public beta version a new free synth VST for Windows, Straightline.
Description:
Straightliner is a straight-lined subtractive synthesizer in a modern guise. You will find the well known building blocks of classic analog synthesizers (4 oscillators, a filter, 2 envelope generators) patched together in the traditional way.
Now you […]

Kammerl Audio has released a set of 5 free VST plugins for Win/OsX, complete with bizarro Goldfrapp-style synth babes:

Pitcher
Warm Distortion
Scratcher
Looper
Slicer

Let me know if you think the plugins are as disturbingly hot as their logos!
via AudioLemon

Rough Diamond Productions has a large collection of free VSTs for the PC, including delay, gate, ducker and compressor.
I’m on Mac - so if you give them a try, let me know what you think.

BitWaves Software has introduced MusicBeam, an AU/VST (Mac/PC) plugin for online music collaboration.
Using MusicBeam you can exchange audio from your sequencer with collaborators around the world.
“No more bouncing, compressing and emailing your tracks to your bandmates!” according to the company. MusicBeam does it all for you, in near-real-time.”
The application is now in public beta. […]

KeyToSound Audio Technology has announced the release of public beta versions of its new audio production suite, the Production Pack, for users on the Windows and Mac operating platforms. The operating version is 1.0r2.
The Production Pack is a collection of four studio-quality audio mastering tools for use in Digital Audio Workstations and host programs. The […]

Wusik, creators of the Wusikstation VSTi, have announced 3 new products.
Descriptions:
Wusik Tool Melody
You play a chord in the lower section of the midi-keyboard, and the upper section white-keys will follow the chord you play. So, for instance, if you play 2 keys at the lower area, those 2 keys will be used for all the […]

Blue Cat Audio has updated their all-in-one dynamics processor, Blue Cat’s Dynamics. The new version (2.0) of this Compressor/Expander/Limiter/Gate DirectX and VST plugin for Windows brings undo/redo support, presets export/import as well as user interface enhancements.
New Features:

Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plugin with absolutely no noise
Undo/Redo
Load/Save presets in a host-independant format: you can now share presets […]

Steinberg have announced that Groove Agent 3 is now shipping. Groove Agent 3 provides new virtual drummer modules, drum kits and a range of other features .
“Groove Agent 3 puts musically complex and ultra-realistic drum tracks just a few clicks away,” said Helge Vogt, Steinberg’s Product Manager for VST Instruments. “The simplicity of the […]

Crysonic have introduced SpectraPhy LE, a highly optimized look-ahead Brickwall Limiter and Loudness Maximizer based on it’s bigger brother SpectraPhy VST.
SpectraPhy LE has been designed to be used for tracking, mixing, mastering and live use or whenever a large quantity of limiters are required per project.
SpectraPhy LE Features

Proprietary Physics based Peak Limiting and Loudness […]

The Sound Guy has released ReSpatializer, an advanced panning, surround sound and spatialization plug-in. ReSpatializer supports up to eight input channels, each of which can be individually positioned.
Features:

Selection of angle, spread and spin for each source
LFE (low-frequency effect) tools
16 different output formats
Host tempo sync for source rotation

ReSpatializer is available in VST and Audio Unit formats. […]

ndc Plugs has released Fragmental, a free Windows VST plug-in.
Description:
A complex multi-fx plugin incorporating a delay, granulator, three phase vocoder effects, a reversinator, and three types of modulation source. Incorporates a very flexible routing scheme capable of serial and parallel effects routings, and a new kind of modulation routing based on a kind of pie […]