The MHC drum plugin bundle now includes Electronic Kits, Ambient Kits, Acoustic Kits, Attack Kits and Common Kits. Common Kits includes three additional soundpacks. Thus, the bundle now includes five drum plugins and 15 additional soundpacks (3 each).

THE FINGER is opening up new ways for intuitive sound mangling, live remixing, and advanced tempo-synced effects processing – in the studio or on stage. And since it is powered by the free KORE PLAYER, everybody can immediately use this outstanding multi-effect without the need to buy KORE, REAKTOR or another NI product.

The world’s best DAW-control software gains full compatibility with Propellerhead Reason and Record, and much more! Both versions of the longest established, most powerful and best implemented DAW-control application, Automap from Novation, have been updated to bring full integration with Propellerhead’s brand new Record software. On top of this, the v3.2 revisions of Automap Pro and Automap Standard feature enhanced support for Reason, plus other workflow optimisations, for unrivalled MIDI control.

Cakewalk announces a feature packed upgrade for SONAR Producer, the leading choice in digital audio workstations and SONAR Studio the most powerful digital audio workstation in its price range. SONAR 8.5 continues to innovate with new capabilities including enhanced beat creation and arrangement tools, a new drum instrument loaded with stellar kits and patterns, an enhanced audio timing toolset, new multi-stage effect plug-ins for drums and percussion sounds and vocal tracks, engine optimizations and stability improvements, and many additional workflow and technological advances, notably Windows 7 compatibility.

For its official release of Trillian Spectrasonics has chosen Paris. At the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) on October the 22nd, 2009 Spectrasonics will have the world premiere of its highly anticipated new bass virtual instrument Trilian, successor of its award-winning Trilogy Total Bass Module.