Native Instruments was absent from all the digital DJ announcements at NAMM this year, focusing instead on their new Kore player and Soundpacks. However, Native usually waits until MusikMesse to unleash their biggest news. So we’re wondering if they’ve got anything cooking for the show in March. With Serato, Stanton, Vestax, Numark, and others...

URS has released the URS Saturation Plug-in for Mac. The URS Saturation plug-in digitally recreates four different and distinct pre amplifiers each featuring: a different type of input stage saturation, even and odd ordered harmonics and soft clipping. The initial four Pre Amplifiers models include: • Class A Tube Mic Pre Amplifier – Vintage...

Sonic Time Works have the 4081L Digital Reverberator plug-in for Windows. Features: • SMP (symmetric multiprocessor) Optimized Digital Reverberation • Real-time previews • Supports VST Automation • Equalization controls • Digital in/out level metering • 64 bit floating calculations (internal) • 32 bit in/out...

Vember Audio has updated Surge, their subtractive hybrid virtual synth for Mac and PC, to version 1.5. Enhancements: • Filters: The new filters in version 1.5 are capable of self-oscillation and can sound anywhere between clean to dirty depending on how hard they’re driven. They are incredibly fast which means that no matter how much they are...

Loopmasters have released Dubstep 2, a brand new Download Pack featuring over 290MB of Dubstep beats, basslines, drum kits and effects, plus bass and atmosphere patches all ready to play in Kontakt, Halion, Reason NNXT and SFZ. This pack moves on from Dubstep 1 by including more single hit sounds, many more patches and lots of single bass sounds so you can...