MacProVideo.com has released the first in a new series of Logic 9 tutorial videos, called "Logic 9 First Look." This tutorial-video details many of the new features of Logic Pro 9. It is available for free from the company's website.

In this new title you'll explore the new interface features of Logic 9, while learning how this new version better optimizes CPU usage. You'll explore the new Notes function and the novel Bounce In Place feature. You'll also get a good introduction to Flex Time Editing, the convert to sampler instrument function, and the new Amp designer and pedalboard plug-ins.

Solid State Logic is proud to announce the release of Duende V3 and new X-Verb plug-in.

Duende V3 doubles the power that the Duende platform can be upgraded to with the introduction of an entirely new audio engine. Duende's new Hybrid Core Processing engine combines all of the advantages of dedicated DSP with use of your computers CPU processing power. V3 enables users to upgrade Duende Mini to 64 channels and Duende PCIe

Universal Piper is a new high-definition Bagpipe virtual instrument for Windows and Mac OS X.

Features :

• Play Highland Bagpipe (other bagpipes coming).
• Sculpt your sound on each note.
• Add effects (Reverb, EQ, ...).
• Listen to BWW and MIDIfiles with the Universal Piper sound.
• Switch between tempered and natural scale.

Universal Piper is available for Windows and Mac OS X in Stand-alone and VST and AU instrument plug-in formats. It costs €49.

After Mr. Sax T. (Tenor), Sample Modeling extends its family of Saxophone virtual instruments with two brand new brothers: Mr. Sax A. (Alto) and Mr. Sax B. (Baritone), exploiting the same technology, but based on completely new sample material, with a lot of new added features and supplied with Native Instruments' Kontakt 3.5 Player.

The Alto and Baritone Sax are completely new instruments, designed and programmed for the new NI Kontakt 3.5 Player. The current version is 1.51.
As in Mr. Sax T, v1.02, the main panel allows for monitoring and inputting control data. It includes a drop down menu for Keyboard, Breath-controller, Yamaha and Akai wind-controller input, symmetrical and asymmetrical pitchbend response, velocity or CC c ...

Mike Massberg and Dave Gamble proudly present Harmony Box, a free virtual synthesizer that has the rules of modal jazz built-in : you press a key, it plays the right chord. You just pick the key and the mode. An alias-free oscillator drives a self-oscillating filter and it has LFOs and Envelopes for fatness. Harmony Box was created especially for the Music Hack Day 2009.

Harmony Box is free and is available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU instrument plug-in formats.