Virtual Instrument

If you hanker after the sound of uber-heavy metal guitars, but don’t have the guitar chops or the seven-string guitar to pull it off, then Heavier7String might be just the (virtual) session guitarist you are looking for...

Bechstein have exhaustively sampled one of their own instruments to bring us this lavishly produced virtual piano.

Gothic Instruments have assembled their Dronar modules into a one-stop-shop for soundscape creation.

Outside the big-hitter sample library/virtual instrument developers, there are a whole host of smaller, indie-style developers doing their best to compete, either by offering something unique or accessibly priced. Folio Bass is one such product...

Featuring the vocals of Clara Sorace in three different sets of vocal presets, Zero-G’s Electro Virtual Instrument library also includes a sizeable collection of instrument sounds: synths, guitars, leads, pads, drums, drum loops and various sound effects‑style groupings.

Waverazor offers an aggressive take on waveshaping synthesis and some seriously deep editing.

While virtual drummers are part of the music technology furniture, non-drum virtual instruments that provide automatic musical accompaniment are thinner on the ground under iOS. Enter iBassist...

Electric Sunburst delivers highly polished Les Paul-style electric guitar performances via a Kontakt front-end...

Output’s new subscription-only instrument offers creative loop manipulation and an ever-expanding library of sounds.

To create Dream Machine, EZKeys engineers Mikael Stenberg and Viktor Hansson combined samples of a Fender Rhodes Mark 7 with those of a Schiedmayer Celeste, having discovered that the two instruments complimented each other extremely well.

Bass Slapper is a stand-alone and plug-in (VST, AU, AAX) virtual instrument that, with just a little bit of practice, will allow you to give the likes of Stanley Clarke, Bootsy Collins or Mark King a run for their money.

On offer here is a wide range of more abstract ‘wind-flavoured’ sounds — in fact, just about anything other than traditional brass and wind.

Waveskimmer (developed in collaboration with Kike Godfrey of ShapedNoise) is a ‘pulse machine' sample-based virtual instrument.

A collaboration with a renowned composer and electronic music pioneer launches Spitfire Audio into outer space.

Partnering again with veteran iOS music-makers Blue Mangoo, Embertone's Jubal Flute is the second of their Kontakt instruments to be released in iOS guise.

Arturia’s new V Collection includes a digital tribute to possibly the funkiest of all keyboards — the Clavinet.

Modartt’s modelled piano just keeps getting better...

MusicLab’s latest update makes RealGuitar more real than ever.

If a rare and expensive collection of analogue synthesizers continues to allude you, IK Multimedia have just the thing.

Synthogy continue to do what they do best, with another pair of stellar virtual pianos.

It’s been a long time coming, but the new version of Superior Drummer raises the bar for virtual drum instruments.