The famous and legendary KVR Developer Challenge 2012 finally lauched today and there are 54 free plugins, samples or other devices ready to download. They are all free. Like every year

Subatomic Software released Audulus, a modular music processing app for MacOS and iPad. The iPad app is currently available for $ 9,- USD. More info here: http://audulus.com

Antonio Blanca released  Dron-e, a free instrument for NI Reaktor. “Dron-e is a Reaktor Instrument specialised in creating ambient, generative, abstract and cinematic soundscapes and drones. Dron-e contains flexible parameters

Spitfire Audio released a free Albion II Loegria update to version 1.1 New features: Support in all patches for polyphonic legato sequencing using velocity splitting. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuTVH-cGBWM for more info) Ability

pocketBlakus released Emotional Cello at vi control forum for free a couple of days ago. In the meantime there is a lot of interaction going on and several users/developers have

Daniel James did another video. This time he is demonstrating the new Action Strings library from Native Instruments.

SampleOddity released Thrash DI, a guitar library for NI Kontakt. Its available at the SampleOddity website for $49 USD. There is also a free version available: http://www.sampleoddity.com/thrashdifree/ “Thrash DI is

Dynamic Sound Sampling released Orchestral String FX, a sample library for NI Kontakt. The library is available for $99 USD. “Orchestral String FX is a library consisting of effects using a

Crypto Cipher released Tongue Drum, a library for NI Kontakt. The Library is available for 49 US$. More info here: http://www.cryptocipher.in

German drummer and percussionist Ralf Goeldner performs an improvised piece on the Korg Wavedrum. This is the first clip in a series of four performance videos with Wavedrum, Wavedrum Mini

Ableton announced the release of Push, a new controller (they name it instrument) for Ableton Live 9. The design was made by Ableton, the hardware is made by Akai. Features