Berlin-based producer Stewart Walker turned around 2,600 exclusive minimal- and techno-genre samples for the new Future Loops Stewart Walker Minimal Sessions, available now.  

Finish up your late-night production sessions on a high note, with new Zenhiser sample packs Late Night Techno Grooves and Pure Minitech Basslines. Zenhiser puts forth its best offering of underground techno, through samples designed expressly to inspire you in the wee morning hours.  

Kreativ Sounds is lending its creative flair to Arturia's Prophet V software synthesizer. The SYN Prophet V Sounds V1 preset collection expands upon the synth's warmth and character, through 34 presets with their own individual controls.  

The Lexicon Omega Studio Desktop Recording Bundle puts all the necessary components for desktop recording in one package. The bundle includes the Omega Studio USB recording interface, Steinberg Cubase LE 4 multitrack audio and MIDI recording software, the Lexicon Pantheon VST reverb plugin, and an AKG D 88 S lead vocal microphone and mic cable.  

For those who love a good harp but never seem to be near enough to play one, Cinematique Instruments has released Celtic Nylon Harp, a Kontakt-powered instrument featuring the sounds of a small-sized, nylon-stringed harp.  

The 9 Soundware Operator preset collection offers a throwback to the early days of FM synthesis-infused electro and pop, presenting 50 original presets for Apple Logic Pro's EFM1 synthesizer.  

The Roland V-Compact TD-4SX just started shipping, so what better time to take an in-depth look at this, the most affordable, all-mesh-head V-Drum set around? That's a rhetorical question.  

Ueberschall welcomes you to Planet Trance, where it's trance all day, every day. The new soundbank for the Elastik Player features 3.3 GB of trance harmonies, melodies, and atmospheric pads in styles ranging from that of the mid 1990s to the present.  

Owners of iPhones and iPod touches can put their handheld device to work as a professional field recorder and Podcast publisher, thanks to Audiofile Engineering's new app, FiRe 1.3. In addition to its practical recording and editing features, the under $10 app incorporates iZotope-powered effects.  

SE Electronics intends to jump headfirst into its next decade of business by releasing the brand new X1 mic, the Project Studio Reflexion Filter, and two money-saving bundles.  

The Holophone PortaMic Pro microphone is complete camera bling, bringing surround recording directly to your video camera in a compact, mountable design. With the PortaMic Pro, you can capture, from a single point source, a discrete surround recording that provides a 3D immersive experience.  

DJs, sound designers, sound engineers, composers, and researchers would benefit from using the VRSonic VibeStudio Designer 2 audio authoring suite to create surround mixes, to spatialize instruments, and more.  

Said to be the world's first battery-powered digital snake, the Roland Systems Group RSS S-0808 features 8 inputs and 8 outputs, along with a compact, lightweight design that supports multiple power options, including battery-powered, embedded-powered over REAC, and power over Ethernet.  

Expensive car magazines might just see their ad spaces filled up with guitars instead of fancy watches, as people get their hands on the new Blackbird Guitars Ferrari Rider Carbon Fiber Travel Guitar. This lightweight, carbon-fiber guitar has the style and look of Ferraris, with the practicality of a compact guitar.  

Ride the new Waves line of post-production mixing tools: Vocal Rider, WNS Noise Suppressor, and LoAir. Vocal Rider automates the vocal riding part of the mixing process (hence the name), while the Noise Suppressor offers broadband noise suppression on dialog tracks and LoAir creates and enhances LFE content.  

For Reason users whose tracks and projects are too clean to retain any soul, Propellerhead Software is offering the Reason Soul School ReFill sample library as an easy way to put the soul back in.  

Those looking for a digital version of the Vitalizer MK2-T will have to wait less than a month to get it. SPL will release its Vitalizer Analog Code plugin in early December, for both Mac and PC users.  

Sound effects, glitch hits, atmospheric sweeps, and odd retro noises were sampled from the ARP Odyssey analog synthesizer to create the new Wave Alchemy Odyssey FX sample pack. What's more, this pack of 70 royalty-free samples can be yours for free.  

The classic Pultec EQ has been cloned and brought to life by Cartec Audio. The EQP-1A is completely hand-assembled and features point-to-point wiring, an all valve gain stage and valve power rectification, and much more.  

Meant to deliver accelerated corrosion and / or corruption to your metalcore, industrial, techno, nu metal, and hard rock tracks, the Producer Loops Accelerator 2 sound collection offers all the dark, driven guitar riffs, sub basses, drums, and synthetic sounds you could want.  

The latest loop library from TeamDNR, Cinematic Loops, offers film music-ready grooves and styles in full versions, versions without bass, and in construction kits.  

What could make a lightning bolt-like Gibson Explorer even better? Making it with seven strings instead of six, of course. The 7-String Explorer takes the classic lines and features of the original guitar and spins them into something even cooler.  

Hailed as the most innovative guitar in the history of music, the new Gibson Dusk Tiger guitar is here, with an exotic jungle-like exterior along with programmable active four-band parametric EQ systems for both the magnetic and the piezo pickups, a switchable LP-Z High Definition Impedance circuit, and more.  

It's time for another installment of Yankovic Explains It All. On this week's episode -- Auto-Tune -- the good Dr. Yankovic explains the difference between vocoding and pitch-correction, and what to take for T-Pain.  

Why, what's this? The only proper attire for a Zydeco-themed Naw'lins wedding, of course! It's the Urban Outfitters Washboard Necktie!  

We all know that Buckethead shreds with the speed and accuracy of an Enron intern riding a laser-guided combine, so the fact that the new Gibson Buckethead Signature Les Paul is a finely-tuned chops-enabler should come as no surprise. Also like Buckethead, his signature LP is over-sized, menacingly white, and. . . umm. . . slightly odd.  

Defective Records took Electro-music.com's Klee hardware step sequencer and spun it into a MIDI-enabled software version. The soft Klee offers most of the features found in the hardware version and boasts the unique ability to keep more than one “step” active at a time.  

Asymptotic Valley wants you to know that non-organic items are still desirable. The company's new virtual synth, Inorganic1, is based on subtractive synthesis and offers a plethora of features at the welcome price of zero.  

Explore modular synthesis and plug in digital cables to digital ins and outs with the new U-he ACE (Any Cable Everywhere) software synthesizer.  

Sound design artist Jeremiah Savage used field recording and advanced synthesis to create the sci-fi sounds for the new Native Instruments Sonic Fiction Kore-powered instrument. The instrument comes with 100 KoreSounds with eight morphable sound variations each, for a total of 800 individual sounds.