Virtual Instrument

Is Native Instruments' virtual picked acoustic guitar better than the real thing?

Toontrack's virtual bass player should have its human counterparts very worried indeed.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. From a damaged, poorly-maintained Soviet-era monosynth that suffers from crackles, frequency drift and other problems, RR saw an opportunity to create an unusual polysynth...

Is it a drum loop player? Is it a drum sampler? Auddict try to do both, and more...

If you are looking for a source of instant drum parts for your latest electronic music production, UJAM's Beatmaker 2 collection might be just what you need.

Bassynth is all about big and meaty bass sounds. Its 11GB sample library comprises over 800 multi-samples of 'real' instruments such as brass, winds and bass guitar, plus synthetic sounds.

IK Multimedia follow up their highly acclaimed MODO Bass with a percussive counterpart.

Hyperrealism is the order of the day with Waves' new virtual bass instrument.

Prominy's bass instrument comes of age with a major version 2 overhaul.

Rating: ***** 4/5 Stars. This ROMpler-based instrument for Kontakt offers some fairly classic-sounding pianos and keyboards.

Soniccouture's fabled loft yields further synth treasure...

IK Multimedia's newly updated one-stop sample shop is bigger and better than ever.

Audio Modeling's SWAM range delivers a complete suite of virtual solo woodwinds and strings.

Now in its seventh incarnation and offering three new instruments, Arturia's V Collection just keeps getting bigger and better.

UJAM add three flavours of bass player to their growing virtual musician catalogue.

Rob Papen's versatile Rack Extension vector synth has been reborn as a plug-in.

VSL push out the boat with hall-recorded rock power drums and two top of the range grand pianos.

Arturia built their reputation on software recreations of classic synths, now they're back with one of their own.

FXpansion's new soft synth boasts sensational sound and an almost unhealthy level of modulation.

How do you improve on the ultimate drum studio? Steinberg attempt just that with the latest version of Groove Agent.

Mojo 2 Horn Section is an ambitious instrument that aims to succeed where other virtual horn sections fail.