The Italian Grand from Synthogy has been shipping for some time as an expansion for the Ivory piano software. Now the Italian Grand is available as a standalone product (for Mac and Pc) and is no longer just an expansion pack for existing Ivory users.

Highlights of Ivory Italian Grand Piano :

- Premium 10 Foot Concert Grand
- 19GB Core Library
- Over 2000 Samples
- 12 Discrete Velocity Layers
- Comes with Ivory piano engine
- Release samples triggered by velocity and duration
- Una Corda (soft pedal) samples at multiple velocities
- Full EQ and Effects section
- All of Ivory's Piano Specific features and controls
- Dozens of new Ivory programs and effects

Ivory Italian Grand is available now for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU, RTAS and stand-alone formats at a retail price of $169.

AudioWarrior has released Studio Drums for HALion 3. This library includes 30 hard hitting multi-velocity professional kits from authentic acoustic kits to contemporary electronic collections and ethnic percussion from around the world.

Studio Drums is available now for Mac OS X and Windows XP | Vista, it costs $49. Note that HALion 3 is required.

Do you remember this excellent article about iZotope RX last month ? Well, iZotope has finally released iZotope RX audio restoration plug-ins, featuring the essential tools for cleaning and restoring audio.

Available for VST, Audio Unit, MAS, ProTools (RTAS, AudioSuite), and DirectX, the plug-ins are now included with the standalone version for the same price of $349. Current RX customers are eligible for a free download of the plug-ins. Note that a 10 day fully functional trial of RX is also available.

Once again, Ueberschall announces the release of a new sample library : Analog Attack.

With more than 1450 diverse Patterns and Sequences for 1.6GB of contents, this new product works well with Electronic Methods such as Minimal, Techno, House Hardstyle, Breakbeat, Techhouse, Progressive and Trance. Analog Attack was developed with analog synth and signal processing gear of today and yesterday. The instruments used for this production include: Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Prophet 5, Prophet 600, Andromeda, Se-1x, Omega 8, Arp 2600, Yamaha CS 80, Juno 106, SH 101, Matrix 6, etc... As usual all this material is supported by the elastik audio instrument.

Analog Attack is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU and RTAS formats at a retail price of $119/€99/£69. For more information, please visit the link below :

Christian Knufinke Software has announced the release of SIR2 v2.3 for both Mac OS X (VST/AU) and Windows (VST).

New in Version 2.3 :

- Initial mac release.
- Internal convolution engine redesigned.
- If you have two mono files, one with "L" and one with "R" at the end of the file name, you can click with right mouse button on one of these files to create a stereo file.
- GUI now remembers that the time-line is in "Beat-Scale"-mode.
- When ever you convert a wav-file (or aif) to a sir-file, you will asked if you want to store it into the default impulse file directory or at the current location.
- Fixed a CPU-glitch when play a loop in ableton live arrangement-view.

This update is free for all registered users. Prices start at $189 / €125 for new customers.