IK Multimedia, a concern who has made a concerted effort to offer a wider breath of products as of late, has released their own dedicated reverb plug-in, which has been modeled on the classic units of yore. IK Multimedia doesn’t actually come out and state which “classic reverb” units they modeled, but the Lexicon 480L appears to be a definite...

Native Instruments has finally unveiled their anticipated “DJ System” – Traktor Scratch/Audio 8 DJ – to the public. NI primed the hype engine by sending out sneak shots of the Audio 8 DJ interface, but left it up to the imaginations of public who was waiting to see, with bated breath, what NI’s answer would be to Stanton’s...

Stanton has announced FinalScratch OPEN, their open-ended solution for digital DJing. After Stanton was dumped by Native Instruments, Stanton had to come up with a solution to take their FinalScratch solution into the future without completely alienating their fervent consumer base. Stanton has responded by offing DJs the ability to use any of the leading DJ...

Korg has introduced the R3 synthesizer/vocoder. The compact R3 packs the main feature set and sounds of the upscale RADIAS into an affordable and portable performance keyboard. Its Multi Modeling Technology (MMT) synth engine provides a wide diversity of synthesis techniques, and incorporates ultra low-aliasing oscillator performance borrowed from Korg’s...

M-Audio has announced The Virtual String Machine virtual synth from GForce. VSM contains the evocative tones of over a dozen of the finest vintage string synthesizers: Freeman String Symphonizer, Eminent 310, ARP Omni II, ARP Quartet, Crumar Multiman, Polymoog, Elka Rhapsody, Korg PE2000, Logan String Melody, Eminent Solina, Roland RS202, Yamaha SS30 and more....