Steinberg have just released Hypnotic Dance, their latest  VST Sound Instrument Set, that offers an eclectic ensemble of 400 synth-laden dance sounds for your HALion Sonic, HALion Sonic SE and HALion 4 virtual instruments. The custom-designed macro page provides direct access to solid bass lines, cutting-edge leads and beautifully textured pads — perfectly suited for everything from trance...

Celemony Software has announced Capstan, a new stand-alone application for Mac and PC that removes wow and flutter from all common two-track formats. For with Capstan there is now for the first time a program capable of removing wow and flutter from musical recordings – whether on tape, compact cassette, wax, shellac or vinyl. Capstan detects wow and flutter by analyzing the musical material...

The guys behind Renoise have announced that Renoise 2.7 is now stable and ready for production. For this occasion they’ve teamed up with Puremagnetik.com to bring you “Puremagnetik XRNI Essentials Volume 1” – a hand-picked selection from their catalog of professionally multi-sampled instruments. This sample pack is free for all registered users, new and old. With over 500MB...

djDecks has finally reached v1.00. This release is based on the djDecks DX version that has been in beta for quite a while now, so this means that it will also play video and karaoke, allow video effects, text overlays and picture slide shows. Besides that, the browser, playlist, autoplay and search features have been improved, the audio engine is more flexible (allowing you to mix multiple asio/directsound/wasapi...