Virtual Samplers/Sample Players news

DiscoDSP has announced that the shareware version of HighLife has been discontinued and that the Freeware Open Source version is the only release available from now on.

Univers Sons / Ultimate Sound Bank have updated UVI Workstation to v1.0.15.

Native Instruments has released a public beta version of Kontakt v3.5 for registered users (you need to be a registered Kontakt 3 owner to join the public beta test).

Steinberg Media Technologies has announced an update to its HALion 3 virtual sampler VST instrument that adds support for 64-bit editions of Windows Vista.

DiscoDSP has announced that the open source version of HighLife has been updated to R3.

It's only been a couple of days since v1.5, and W.Grabowski has already updated Samplelord to v1.5.1.

W.Grabowski has updated Samplelord to v1.5 and announced that several new versions - Samplelord Dev, Samplelord x64 for 64-bit Windows systems and Samplelord Leo for Mac OS X - are under development.

DiscoDSP has announced that R3 beta of the open source version of HighLife is now available.

EastWest has updated Play to version 1.2.0.

MaxSynths has announced the release of Cryologic, a VST instrument for Windows that combines a SoundFont Player and a 456 MB SoundFont Library.

Univers Sons / Ultimate Sound Bank have updated UVI Workstation to v1.0.14.

EastWest has updated version 1.x of its Play Software for Windows and Mac OS X to v1.1.13. Quantum Leap Voices of Passion has also been updated, to v1.0.5.

EastWest is offering users additional control over the company's PLAY-Powered instruments with the introduction of PLAY 2.0, which adds editing capabilities.

E-MU Systems has announced that the Emulator X3 Streaming Sampling Synthesizer is now in stock and shipping.

112dB has updated Morgana to v1.2.6.

Univers Sons / Ultimate Sound Bank has updated the free UVI Workstation to v1.0.12.

112dB has announced that the virtual sampler Morgana has been updated to version 1.2.5.

Sonic Reality has announced a new expandable studio instrument plug-in called the "Infinite Player", which is powered by Native Instruments' Kontakt Player.

Dangerous Bear Underground has announced the release of Prometheus X, a new wave-sequencing sampler VSTi for Windows, with the same features as DBU's flagship Prometheus, except with a new 900 MB sfz…

Univers Sons has released the first non-beta version (v1.0.10) of UVI Workstation and officially launched the UVI Sound Source web site where you can purchase all manner of sound expansions for the f…

E-mu has announced that the Proteus VX is now freeware! E-mu distributes it directly for free now on their website.

Vienna Symphonic Library announces new single instrument downloads: 47 Brass and Woodwind download instruments.

EastWest has updated PLAY to v1.0.080.

Tascam has announced that they ceased development of GIGASTUDIO and GIGASTUDIO related products as of July 21. Sales and support for the products will continue through December 31, 2008.

Time and Space announces that GigaStudio 4 from Tascam is now shipping.