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Empress Effects has announced their Reverb pedal has started shipping, and requests customer inputs for next feature to be added in a free update.

VIProducer releases Just The Bundle Volume 1, a bundle developed with DJ/Producer Joachim Garraud.

First introduced at MusikMesse 2016, Softube's British Class A for Console 1 is now available.

KV331 Audio has updated their software synthesizers SynthMaster & SynthMaster Player to version 2.8, including major enhancements and bug fixes.

SoundToys has issued a warning regarding reported issues with version 5.0.2 of their plugins for Ableton Live & Studio One users on Mac systems.

What about steel drums on your next Summer track? well, this is exactly what Spitfire Audio seems to have in mind with the new Steel Drums library.

Slate Digital has released its long-awaited Virtual Microphone System.

Wavesfactory has released a first demo of their next grand piano library based on an instrument owned and used by Freddie Mercury.

The Loop Loft has released Dry Drums Vol 5, the largest library to this day in their Dry Drums Series.

Impact Soundworks release Sonic Forest, an original sound library for Kontakt which sales also benefit an environmental charity.

LANDR and SoundCloud announced a partnership to bring LANDR’s online mastering service to SoundCloud’s creator community - for free.

Owners of IK Multimedia’s iRig digital interfaces, mics & MIDI controllers can now unlock features inside of Cubasis LE for iPad.

The D16 Group announce PunchBox, a virtual synth created in cooperation with sound designers Sound Of Revolution and CFA Sound.

The MIDI Association is now offering the MIDI 1.0 specifications for download at no charge.

Noisebud has released Bipro, a new low-end dedicated compressor plug-in.

Hornet Plugins has released WahWah, a plugin emulation of a 1970s original, well... wah pedal.

Slate Digital's Everything Bundle now includes the Eiosis Air and Earth modules for Virtual Mix Rack.

Cockos has released version 5.20 of Reaper, most notably introducing a new MIDI notation editor.

Loops de la Crème presents Magic Djembe, a djembe library for the full version of Kontakt 5.3+.

IGS has released its new 576 Blue Stripe compressor unit, first introduces sooner this year at MusikMesse.

While Moogfest 2016 is currently (May 19-22) being held in Durham, NC, Moog is bringing back Minimoog Model D through a pop-up factory.

Arturia has released V Collection 5, an updated version of their V Collection bundle, now including five new instruments compared with version 4.

Waves releases DTS Neural Surround Collection, a bundle including three plugins under licence from DTS.

Slate Digital has released the FG-116 Blue Series, a bundle of two 1176-inspired compressor plugins for VMR.

Toontrack presents Seventies Prog EZkeys MIDI, a new piano MIDI bank for EZKeys.