Virtual Instrument

More collections of drums, guitars and basses in the Indie genre.

MusicLab have turned their guitar-modelling attentions to the legendary Rickenbacker.

Despite enormous popularity in the 1980s, Casio’s CZ range has never been made into a soft synth, until now.

Over almost a decade, Pianoteq has gone from strength to strength. Version 5 offers astonishing realism with remarkably low CPU and hard-drive requirements.

The Mellotron is not lacking in software emulations, so what does EZkeys Mellotoon have to offer?

U–he’s Bazille is a complex synth capable of an astonishing variety of sounds.

If you want to create convincing keyboard parts but don’t have the playing chops, AutoTheory might save your bacon.

It’s been a long time coming, but the follow up to XLN’s Addictive Drums was worth the wait.

Garritan’s latest library raises the bar for virtual piano instruments.

Does DM307 live up to Heavyocity’s reputation for seriously good beat creation tools?

Arturia have pointed their considerable modelling experience at recreating a ‘60s classic.

Drum Spillage 2 lets you get down and dirty with synthesized drum sounds.

Arpology combines Sample Logic's wealth of sampled sounds with a sophisticated arpeggiator to create a unique virtual instrument.

Having done electric guitars, Vir2 turn their attention to acoustics, but the inexplicable '6' remains intact...

The Minimoog is not exactly short of software tributes. How does NI's measure up?

Rob Papen's venerable soft synth gets a comprehensive update.

Hardware systems for generating MIDI output from guitars are often expensive, impractical and unreliable. Jam Origin's revolutionary software alternative is none of these things.

Have Toontrack improved their popular EZdrummer software without compromising its fundamental 'easy' approach?

With today's sophisticated virtual-instrument technology, it's never been easier to create realistic drum...

Apps based on existing software are far from unusual, but Wolfgang Palm has chosen to go the other way.

Rhythmic Robot’s Shortwave is a Kontakt instrument crammed with ghostly voices, radio tuning sweeps, morse code bleeps and an assortment of hisses, crackles and pulses.