Virtual Instrument

UJAM expand their virtual guitar repertoire with two new instruments.

We conclude our review of PG Music’s unique music auto-generation package by exploring some of the more advanced ways you can shape its output.

Wave Alchemy’s Revolution breathes new life into a pantheon of classic drum machines.

With thousands of styles, songs and sounds on tap, Band In A Box 2017 can supply everything from inspiration to finished tracks.

DrumCore users have been waiting a very long time for a new version, but version 4 is finally here — and available for both Mac and PC.

This sample-based virtual instrument designed for Kontakt features the voices of the award winning Uganda-based Aba Taano choir, a group of four male and two female singers...

IK’s modelled bass instrument offers both realism and a fantastic degree of real-time control.

Spectrasonics’ major keyboard collection combines classic vintage instruments with a gallery of unique rarities.

The humble TB303 has proved notoriously difficult to recreate in software, but ABL3 comes far closer than most.

Imaginando’s DRC is a polyphonic synthesizer available in multiple formats, which becomes of more interest when you...

Modartt have recently unleashed more Pianoteq instruments...

Attack EP88 is an elaborate, 47,000-sample presentation of a vintage 88-key Rhodes Mark I prepared with a brass tack on the surface of each hammer, guaranteeing a Rhodes attack like no other.

Arturia have updated their V Collection, and one of the stand-out instruments is a recreation of Farfisa’s classic combo organs.

A Noah Bell is a type of Indian bell, traditionally sold by monasteries as a way of generating income. It’s usually necessary to assemble differing-sized bells into a set so that together they form a musical scale, and that’s what Soundiron have done to create this virtual instrument.

Chris Hein’s popular horn, wind, guitar and bass collections are some of the most deeply sampled products on the market and show a remarkable eye for musical detail. The veteran producer has now released Chris Hein Solo Violin...

B5 utilises clever synthesis tricks to overcome the ‘sample stacking’ phase-cancellation artifacts typically associated with sample-based virtual organs.

Eclipse is a Kontakt instrument with a lot of similarities to Orbit, Wide Blue Sound’s previous opus. The installation...

Hollywood Solo Instruments puts world-class violin, cello and harp sounds at your fingertips.

Heavyocity soar into orbit with a collection of dramatic scoring elements.

Conceived as an affordable alternative to the Ondes Martenot, the Ondioline was invented by Frenchman Georges Jenny in 1940. Soniccouture’s Kontakt recreation stays true to the simplicity of the original, modelling its features and behaviour as closely as possible...

All of Output’s products so far have been an attempt to break new ground in the world of sample processing. Their first...