Drumtracker is Toontrack's answer to Drumagog - a software that analyses your acoustic drum track and makes a MIDI file, according to your beats. The very low price is 99 euro, for both PC and Mac. Check here.

Transfer 314,95 USD for Sony here, and you will own a brand new ACID Pro 7. The world famous loop sequencer has numerous new features like track freeze, a serious new mixer, rendering sound real-time, programmable tempo changes, a very new, sophisticated time-stretch algorhythm. It works with every resolution up to 24/192.

Arman Bohn has sampled the favourite instrument of the non-musician: tuned glasses, filled with water. It has a single octave and completely free; its name is Glass Armanica. Click here to download.

Sonic Charge released a new software synth, Synplant, which breaks all your expectations that are related with a synthesizer plugin. Instead of dealing with usual parameters, Synplant uses a seed (a program patch) which you have to plant, and develop into different directions. Sound generation parameters are nested into a DNA-spiral far under the very simple surface. The program is a fun to use and I recommend it - it is worth a free try at least.

If you want to own it fully, you have to pay 89 USD, here.

You can buy SONiVOX's great sampled instruments nested into virtual instruments: they work both as stand-alone and as a plugin. Every piece of them are cheap - 20-30 USD -, but contains only a single theme: Bass - Rickenbacker, Guitar - Stratocaster, Guitar - Les Paul etc, so anyone can build an own orchestra with only the relevant samples. Go click here to learn more.

Antares formed a new version of Auto-Tune: Auto-Tune efx costs only 129 USD, and does all the big things that are commonly known but graphical editor and formant correction. Go check here.

You only have to pay half price at Native Instruments for all the updates during the Christmas season - it is the first good news from the company. Second is for the interface buyers: Audio Kontrol 1 will contain a bundle of a great Native synth of your choice from Absynth 4, FM8, Pro-53 or Massive. Third, Guitar Rig Kontrol Edition will contain a Cubase LE, a Kore Player, plus Pop Drums as a Soundpack. Check here.

PC users can have this fine environment for 20 USD. It is called MorphVOX Effects Rack, and deal with VST effects - you can arrange them into any configuration. It runs all the processors real-time - with a small latency, of course. try or buy - here.

DSK dropped a fine free synth plugin called Bluez. It has two oscillators with 134 waveforms, plus waveform drawing feature, nice filters, and a bunch of effects. The surface is clear, straigthforward. Download it from here.

Mixed In Key, the popular DJ software reached version 4. For those who are not familiar with: it is a program that finds the key of a song from the audio file. The price is 58 USD, and here is its product page.

At GForce, three days to renew the legendary Mellotron's finest software emulation, M-Tron. The new M-Tron Pro will have several surprise inside and outside: contains 3.5 gigabytes of samples, more than 700 presets, works in dual and split modes, vintage effects are present at the end and more - all this wonder will be step forward from shadow in Monday, at GForce's website, for 199 USD.

HG Sounds will soon introduce a new big synth plugin, Astralis Bion. For a preview, they shared now its cut-down version, Astralis Baby Bion for free download. It has wonderful ambient patches with two oscillators, 32-stage envelopes, multimode filters, distortion, flanger. Developed partly in SynthEdit. Download it here.

A musician/composer from Norway, Erik Wollo made this lovely plugin synth, Wollo Voyager. It works in VST and stand-alone, has two oscillators, effects, and costs 25 USD. Try it here.

Sonic Projects' emulated Oberheim synth, OP-X grew up, and it is a full synth family now. The basic, entry level version is OP-X Free, an insrument which has only a few presets, and you cannot change or rewrite them. Next, OP-X Player has more sound slots, and you can load any OP-X preset bank into it, for 39 USD only. At the top, OP-X Pro is the best one, having multimode filters. Check here the family website.

Koblo's new, small green synth is Vibra2000, cots 30 USD - check it here if you like.

Native Instruments will sure make a big hit with a new generation of DJ software: Traktor Pro and Traktor Scratch Pro. What is the most interesting is the totally redesigned user interface which seems very logical. It even displays the album art of the tracks that playlisted. A huge bunch of new effects will improve the excitement, and the loop functions make it a real sequencing instrument - just check the demo videos.

IK Multimedia's fine mastering suite, T-RackS got a new version. It also runs in stand-alone, and has a grand total of nine processing algorhythms - five of the are new, for example the emulation of the legendary Fairchild 670 compressor. You can configure the order of the effects freely, and it has a very safe and sophisticated metering system. A new, refined oversampling method is also implemented. The full Deluxe version costs 500 USD, while the Standard that lacks all the new effects but has the new frame costs 200 USD. Here is the product page to know more.

Sony has officially announced the next version of their loop-based sequencing software: ACID Pro 7. For the 400 USD it will do all the audio resolutions up to 24/192, with the maximum configurability - surround 5.1 is also supported. It will come with 3000 audio and 1000 MIDI grooves from Sony, and all the MIDI functions are highly extended. A professional mixer panel is the next big smash in the application, with flexible routing, and integration with external effect processors. The official webpage is already opened for everybody.

UltraMixer, a nice DJ application runs on Windows, OS X and Linux, too. It has three levels: the very simple Free is rather a sample, and works for two hours at a time. Basic for 109 USD has no such disadvantage, and Professional has numerous goodies for 239 USD. The lattest has ASIO support, real-time effects, time-stretch, sample player, looper, 31-band graphic equaliser, BMP-counter, controller interface and so on. Check here if you are interested more.

From now, Focusrite offers their super channel effects algorhythm used in Liquid Mix DSP-powered interface as a software plugin pack for TDM-equipped Pro Tools systems. The product is named Liquid Mix HD, It costs 499 USD, and you can learn more about from here.

Stay tuned, the entire Pro Tools family will renew in the near future, an official info page is already set up. It will have numerous new plugins, five new virtual instruments, a new graphical user interface, enhanced scoring and MIDi editing, and better controller integration. It will run well on Vista, too, and on the Mac it will handle HD-video thru QuickTime.

LinPlug's  RMV is a serious instrument, having a heavy-weight sample playback engine and a sophisticated drum synth, too. It has 48 instrument pads, all polyphonic, and all have an own 12x12 modulation matrix as well as envelope generators, parametric EQ, distortion, lots of insert effects at the same time, and a humanizer. Six groove player and slicer serves the musician, and a library module with advanced search capabilities. More than 10,000 sound samples is coming with the package, plus 1,500 audio loops and 2,600 MIDI grooves. RMV costs 139 euro, check here the details.

Audio Damage wants a good reputation therefore they dropped out a new, analogue modeling compressor for completely free. Rough Rider works on both PC and Mac as a VST effect, has a stylish analogue design, and has some modern functions like MIDI Learn. Download it from here.

This plugin instrument was named after some metal god as we learnt somewhere. Image Line's Ogun is made for producing metallistic sound and noises with its additive synthesis engine. An enormous quantity of 32 767 harmonics guarantees a very precise sound tailoring process - all of this is extended with some effects of delay, chorus, EQ and reverb. It costs 79 USD, click here to know more.

White Label has created this simple reverb plugin, bucketEER, which is basicly a 16-part delay module. If you use the channels parallel with very different parameters it can mix enough the sound to create a reverb-like effect. To make a real chaos, randomize functios help you. Go here to download for free.