Musical instruments and pro audio freeware news

Foo has released version 1.3 of Foo-YC20, a physical modelling combo organ synthesizer.

DDMF has announced that the freeware equalizer IIEQ is now also available for Mac OS X in VST and AU effect formats.

Voxengo announces the release of Marvel GEQ - freeware linear-phase 16-band graphic equalizer plugin with multi-channel operation support (designed to support up to 8 input/output channels, audio ho…

Wave Alchemy releases Wired Electronics, a free drum sample pack produced with semi modular synthesizers.

BTE Audio has released version 2.0 of TS' Secret, a free vintage overdrive VST effect plug-in for Windows.

Michael Ourednik has announced the release of version 2.0 of Argotlunar, a real-time delay-line granulator VST effect plug-in.

Tocca-Music has released VSTplayer, a new freeware / donationware VST host application for Windows.

Applied Acoustics Systems has announced the release of the Swatches sound bank compilation for the free AAS Player plug-in.

Martinic has updated the free Combo Model V organ plug-in to version 1.0.5.

rs-met has announced the release of EngineersFilter, a free Christmas Gift for Windows users.

Crossfire Designs has announced the release of MIDIPadz Lite, a free, simple and easy to use drumpad controller for the iPad.

mzuther has released K-Meter, a free, Open Source, implementation of a K-System meter according to Bob Katz's specifications.

Jeskola Buzz plug-in developer Joachim has released BattleComp Vintage, a "punchy yet smooth compressor".

MUTOOLS has released MuVerb VST, the first VST plug-in based on the MU.LAB technology.

Green Oak Software has announced the release of version 2.5.0 of Crystal, the free semi-modular software synthesizer for Windows and Mac OS X.

Lil'Plug offers "some warm, deep drive combined with a splash of smooth EQ," according to ZionDSP.

Bayan has released version 1.2 of AREX 2011, a new free VSTi drum module for Windows based on a hardware drum machine from the early 1980s.

LePou Plugins has released LeCto, a guitar amp simulator inspired by an American modern high gain head.

Sonoma Wire Works and Taylor Guitars have teamed up to create and release the free Taylor EQ app: an input EQ for enhancing the sound of a Taylor guitar when played through GuitarJack on an iOS devi…

Korg has announced the microSAMPLER Bonus Sample Pack, a collection of sampled sounds available as a free download to all microSAMPLER users.

AudioTeknikk has released DoublePrecisionEqualizer, a free EQ plug-in that got its name because it uses "double precision floating point stream" in the critical parts of the calculations.

v-o-f has released xage, which is described as a simple sequenced LP-filter, modulating cutoff and resonance in cycles of 8 steps.

WOK has released SimpArp, a free MIDI-Arpeggiator VST plug-in for Windows.

Prodyon has announced the release of Phenome, an eight-part multi-timbral SoundFont Player VST instrument.

NTS Audio has released Benassi Bass, a customized "Benassi bass" virtual analogue synthesizer that follows the techniques Benny Benassi used to synthesize his specific type of sound.