Numark has introduced the NDX900, their new professional DJ controller and MP3/CD/USB player. The NDX900 DJ controller is capable of mixing music from virtually any digital source, including a computer, audio CDs, MP3 CDs and even USB flash drives. (Nice!) NDX900 has a layout that is recognizable to DJs everywhere around the world, with a large, seven-inch touch-sensitive illuminated platter, frontloading...

The EKS (Electronic Kickdrum Synthesizer) is a VST/Audio Unit plugin, specifically designed to create electronic kickdrum sounds of finest quality. The plugin offers six high-quality sound models, a mix of vintage hardware emulations, and new, modern kick drum sound models, designed for your next club hit. Despite their fundamentally different nature, all models respond to the sound parameters in...

Steinberg have released the 1.1 update to its LoopMash app and they’ve also announced the release of a free versionfor iPhone and iPod touch users. That’s great news, right? Here’s what’s new in this version: LoopMash Version 1.1 adds preset sharing and an in-app store. Users can now expand their LoopMash library with various content sets, each containing over 50 premium audio...

Ueberschall have released  a new sample library for their Elastik Player, and it’s called Funk & Soul. Funk & Soul keeps the authentic feeling of Funk & Soul music. Live recorded guitars, funky real drum loops, bass licks with 100% groove and much more soul oriented material. All loops are 4 bars long. There are 400 drum and single drum tracks, all easily combinable. More than 700...

Arturia announced three summer-exclusive Analog Experience bundles: Analog Experience The Laboratory + V Collection Analog Experience The Factory + The One Analog Experience The Player + Hip Hop Producer These hardware / software packages come with keyboard controllers and various Arturia emulations of classic instruments. Analog Experience The Laboratory + V collection bundle (now €599 [$846]...

kiloHeartshave released kHs ONE for both Windows and Mac OS X, and it’s the company’s first software synth. kHs ONE is an analog/subtractive synth plug-in designed to be dropped into any type of project, benefiting both professionals and hobbyists. You get three oscillators, two filters and one waveshaper per voice, engineered to keep aliasing and other artifacts to a minimum. All aspects...

The Jomox XBase-09 is an analog drum machine based on Roland’s 909. The difference is like the Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris fight in Way of the Dragon. They both got kicks, but at the end of the day Bruce Lee broke Chuck Norris’ fucking neck. The 909 is good, but the Jomox is better. Our new sample pack consists of 53 samples from Hyphae’s XBase-09, created by Hyphae and Megatroid one hazy night...

Today seems to be a happy day! Here’s your chance to get the amazing plugin by Applied Acoustics, Lounge Lizard EP-3  at a special rate. The price is $89 until the end of July. That’s a $110 discount on the regular price of $199. And for thouse of you who are asking themselves if I’m affiliated in  any way with AAS, no, I’m not. I just love the plugin, and I thought this...

u-he has updated Zebra and Zebralette (which is now free) to version 2.5.1. This might not be a massive update at first sight, but  there are lots of improvementsand additions, the most important (to me at least) is 64-bit support. Also, they’ve added new spectral effects and extra presets. Zebrify, the effects version of Zebra2, also benefits from the makeover. The “oscillator playground”...

Propellerheads have announced a few days ago that Reason 6, their flagship software will be hitting the stores on September 30th, 2011.  That’s great! Now, here’s what’s new in version 6, as they say “it’s a whole lot bigger, better, and ready for any idea you throw at it.” New Mixer The first thing I’ve noticed is the new mixer that looks like an SSL Console...