SoundLib is a shareware that helps you manage your growing sample and sound library. If you are tired of searching through stacks of CD ROMs, floppies, and DAT tapes, SoundLib is for you. Enter basic or detailed information, then print a media label for a variety of formats.

MacAudioLab, makers of Mac audio tutorials announces the release of the a comprehensive tutorial for MOTU Digital Performer 3. “The Complete Digital Performer 3 Series” is a 5 CD-ROM set that covers over 5 hours of in-depth video tutorials on Digital Performer. The CDs can be viewed in a large Quicktime window format – up to 720X480 window. PDF documentation accompanies the CD-ROMs for a searchable archive of topics as well as where to find them on the CD-ROM.

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Native Instruments announces a new version of its PRO-52 synthesizer, called the PRO-53. It comes with many new functions and improvements such as new oscillators, the option for inverted filter envelopes, and an additional filter highpass mode. The PRO-53 is equipped with a MIDI Learn function for fast and convenient integration of hardware MIDI controllers and the option to load controller maps. The PRO-53 also comes with an optimized graphical interface as well as new sounds that take full advantage of the extended functions.

LinPlug releases FreeAlpha a free VST synthesizer. The FreeAlpha features a subtractive design with special attention being paid to recreating the warmth and feel typically found in early-1980s analog synthesizers.[p]

Key Features
* up to 12 note polyphonic
* VST2.0 plugin software synthesizer (cpu dependent)
* Unlimited number of presets (direct from disk)
* 2 oscillators with each 2 from 30 different waveforms; pitch, amplitude and symmetry modulation from LFO, Envelope or MIDI
* Fat and rich-sounding Multimode filter; cutoff and resonance modulation from LFO, Envelope and MIDI
* 2 separate ADSFR envelopes for amplitude and cutoff and a additional pitch envelope ; time ranges from super-fast 1 millisecond up to full 10 seconds
* LFO with 6 waveforms, variable attack, variable ...