Virtual Samplers/Sample Players news

Skylife announces the upcoming release of the new SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite, with a set of tools for instrument mapping and export, auto sampling, MIDI remote control, format conversion, batch and…

Native Instruments announced Kontakt 5, the next generation of its software sampler.

EastWest has announced that the PLAY 3 Software Update is now available for download (currently v3.0.15).

Jörg Piringer has released RealBeat, a sampler software designed to enable you to record sounds, cut and loop them and create rhythms out of them.

Sineqube has released version 1.1 of Petri, a generative sample player & drum machine for Mac.

Steinberg is now shipping the latest version of its HALion virtual instrument.

Steinberg today unveiled HALion 4, the latest incarnation of the VST sampler.

Native Instruments has announced the availability of the final version (v4.2) of Kontakt and Kontakt Player.

Spectrasonics have released the new Omnisphere v1.5 update.

New Sonic Arts has announced that a Mac OS X Audio Unit version of Granite, its "Granular Texture Generator" instrument plug-in, is now available.

MOTU has introduced the latest version of its virtual sampler software.

Spectrasonics has announced and demonstrated a new version of their Power Synth Omnisphere at NAMM 2011.

Upgrade includes Symphonic Choirs "WordBuilder Inside Play".

Until the 1st January, New Sonic Arts are offering Granite for $49 instead of $80.

IK Multimedia has announced the re-release of SampleTank Free - which is now a full-featured version of SampleTank 2.5, with a 500MB specially selected sound library.

EastWest has updated PLAY to version 2.0.25 and Hollywood Strings to version 1.0.3.

AcousticsampleS has released updates for five of its sample libraries so that they can now load in AcousticsampleS' new ASPlayer plug-in sample player.

Imperfect Samples has announced the release of the Imperfect Samples Player, a universal VST / AU player for all Imperfect Samples libraries.

New Sonic Arts has updated Granite to version 1.1.

Native Instruments recently updated Kontakt and Kontakt Player to v4.1.1

Native Instrument has updated Kontakt and Kontakt Player to v4.1.

Vienna Symphonic Library has updated the Vienna Instruments to version 2.1.5740 for Windows and Mac OS X.

New Sonic Arts has announced the release of Granite, a new Granular Synthesizer VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

IK Multimedia announced the "Virtual Instrument Extravaganza Group Buy" Promotion, a "Three for the Price of One Deal" on the "Powered by SampleTank" range of software sound workstations.

EastWest has updated its PLAY Software to v2.0.8.