Serious free synths everywhere, powerful drum machine for 5 USD - the future of the market can be found perhaps under the 10 USD price tag? Centaurus from Koblo can prove this sentence. This virtual analog goodie costs 7.49 USD only, and performs quite well. For more info click here.

A short news on a simple instrument: Peter Yandell has produced SimpleSynth, a very basic synth application for Mac. It comes with a General MIDI-soundset, but can load any Soundfont file to extend the sonic range. Sounds are not tweakable but there is a low-pass filter with no resonance. It works as a stand-alone only. Get it here.

Theoretically it is very easy to discover that your iPhone could be a fine MIDI controller. Now it is reality, iTouchMidi is up in the Appstore for 40 euros: Jazzmutant is probably worrying as we suspect... A networked Mac is needed to perform the www.itouchmidi.com/.

Eighteen gigabytes of sampled material, Kontakt Player inside, and costs 300 USD: it is Synergy, Sample Logic's latest supersynth. Synergy gives you more than 1200 sound presets for the money, mainly in the modern synth/groove field. Check it here.