Big Fish Audio has released VI.ONE, a massive multi-disc sample library. It includes drums, drum loops, basses (including acoustic, upright, electric, and synth), world and ethnic instruments (organized by geographic regions), sound effects, guitars (acoustic and electric), keyboards, a full collection of orchestral instruments, screaming B3 organs, world-class acoustic pianos, prepared pianos, electric/synth pianos, pop horns and brass, a bank of vintage synths, and cutting-edge synth patches.

Contents :

* 20 Gigs on 3 DVD's
* Over two thousand sampler patches
* Standalone, AudioUnit, VST, RTAS

VI.ONE is powered by the Kontakt Player 2 engine, bringing instant access to the sounds via the standalone application, as well as being accessible within sequencers via every major plug-in format: AudioUnit, VST and RTAS. VI.ONE is available now at a retail price of $399.95.

AMG has released version 1.0.6 of their virtual brass instrument Kick-Ass Brass! which, apart from a few minor bug fixes, brings Intel-Mac support to the Mac OS X AU and Standalone versions - VST is planned for the future.

Puremagnetik has just released Analog Bass Volume 1 for Live 6, Kontakt 2 and EXS24. Analog Bass is a huge collection of over 50 multisampled analog bass instruments recorded directly from classic monosynths. Among the sound sources are the TB-303, Minimoog, Doepfer Modular and ARP 2600. The Ableton Live 6 version of Analog Bass contains over 50 Sampler Racks AND over 50 Simpler Racks. The Kontakt 2 version includes extensive KSP mappings for control of filters, time-based effects LFOs and envelopes.

Features :

- Over 50 Analog Bass Instruments
- Over 270 MB of 24-bit Content
- Ableton Live Simpler and Sampler Racks with Macro Controls
- Customized Kontakt 2 KSP Panels
- Easy Edit of Synth Controls and Effects

For more information, please visit their web site.

NuGen Audio has released version 2.1 of Line-up, bringing the plugin to Mac OS X (VST and AU, Universal Binary) for the first time. Line-up is a track adjustment utility designed to allow the rapid manipulation of audio inputs, including phase switching, multiple mono collapse options and sample accurate line-up of multiple audio tracks. Delay times can also be entered in m/seconds. These features can be useful for correcting mis-aligned tracks (no host PDC, phase re-alignment, long mic/speaker recording delay, etc.), checking mono compatibility and switching/muting/collapsing stereo channels. Line-up can also be used as a send effect to create very precise chorus, phase and doubling effects.

Line-up is available now as a free download for all registered users (registration is free).

Art.Lebedev Studio is annoncing for january 2008 the production of 400 new units of his keyboard Optimus Maximus. It's a USB keyboard including 114 keys with individual screens of 32 x 32 pixels OLED. Each key can be configurate for switching easily from "traditionnal" alphabet to cyrillic or arabic, you can also customise with differents symbols which makes it a real delight for using shortcuts of our favorite sequencers !

This great device has unfortunately a price of 1564,37 $. for more infos go to their website !