After two years of development LinPlug has announced the release of the Organ 3 Drawbar Organ, the successor to the daOrgan series. With Organ 3 LinPlug released a software organ emulation with all controls found on the original Hammond B3 as well as a sophisticated rotary speaker simulation.

Organ 3 main features :

* Now 3 individual manuals (Upper, Lower, Pedal)
* Manual settings can be saved/loaded and copied/pasted
* Percussion
* Separately adjustable for Upper and Lower
* Adjustable volume
* Adjustable pitch
* Vibrato
* Separately switchable for Upper, Lower and Pedal
* Adjustable Chorus effect
* Adjustable "age"
* Drive with adjustable brightness and body
* Adjustable velocity response (from off to full)
* New Glide mode with "Held" mode and adjustable ...

Digidesign is now shipping Pro Tools 7.3 software, a powerful new Pro Tools release that delivers new music composition tools, customizable user enhancements, and improved post production workflows. Here are key features for HD version :

New Music Creation Features

* Dynamic Transport mode allows playback to operate independently of the current selection
* Loop playback automatically updates to the selection without manually stopping and starting the transport
* Loop Trim tool enables you to easily turn audio or MIDI regions into loops
* Create Click Track command and preference
* New Tracks Default to Tick Timebase preference speeds up loop-based workflows
* Key Signature ruler enables key signature changes and transpositions
* Send to Sibelius command offers streamline ...

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After nearly a year of development reFX has finally released NEXUS, a "next generation" ROM synthesizer plug-in for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU formats.

Feature highlights:

* Over 4 Gigabytes of previously unreleased sample material.
* Over 650 presets including all popular genres.
* Expandable: New samples and new presets. Three expansions are available already (with more in production):
o Dance Orchestra: Choirs, strings, brass, timpani, etc. $69.99.
o Dance Vol.1: 128 fresh dance sounds. $69.99.
o House Vol.1: 128 funky house sounds. $69.99.
* Production quality built-in reverb (by ArtsAcoustic).
* Freely programmable arpeggiator.
* Trance-gate.
* Skinnable: Five skins to choose from.

Nexus is available for Mac OS X (Universal Binary) in VST and Audio Unit formats and has an MSRP of $299.99.

Soniccouture have released their very popular KIM sampled instrument in EXS24 format. The Kim is a type of dulcimer or zither from Thailand, and is related to the Chinese yangqin. It is sometimes spelled khim. It consists of a flat soundbox with 42 wire strings stretched across in 14 sets of 3. The courses are struck with two thin bamboo mallets with soft leather tips. The Kim was sampled at 24-bit /44.1 and contains 184 MB - 137 separate unlooped samples. Each note was sampled individually with 4 velocity layers, twice, to give an extremely natural, expressive response.

For more information, visit their web site.