Bunker 8 - Symphonic Hip Hop Bunker 8 has released Symphonic Hip Hop, a 5.4 GB construction kit that merges powerful symphonic arrangments and orchestrations with block busting hip hop rhythmatics. Bunker 8 have flipped the script. Merging powerful symphonic arrangments and orchestrations with block busting hip hop rhythmatics, like a ever insistent cinematic juggernaught rages forth ‘Symphonic Hip Hop’. Brilliantly deep cellos sections, timpani rollatandos, snakey flute lines, ambient rushes and pulse pounders. This is a premium collection of the higest order.

Cakewalk - Rapture v1.2Cakewalk has updated Rapture to v1.2.

Native Instruments - Urban Arsenal 2Native Instruments has released Urban Arsenal 2, a new collection of production-ready sound material for contemporary hip-hop and similar music styles. Created in collaboration with established urban music producers and sound designers, the latest entry in the Kore Soundpack range delivers a further assortment of professional groove material and instrument sounds for use in Kore 2 and the free Kore Player software instrument.

ReFx - Nexus 2.0 NEXUS2 is a next generation ROM synthesizer of the highest quality that can turn your musical dreams into a stunning reality. Forget about stereotypical, boring, stale, old sounding ROM synths and embrace the power of NEXUS2 to evolve your productions to a new level of greatness.

NEXUS2 explores new sonic territory delivering complex, ultra-fat, contemporary soundstorms that sound as good as the most expensive and best hardware available today. A powerful and flexible architecture is the foundation that supports the immediately useful and spontaneously engaging design of the instrument. Every aspect of NEXUS2 was built to produce music of the highest quality, quickly, with the least amount of fuss.

Big Fish Audio - Stratos: Drones & Atmospheres Big Fish Audio has released Stratos: Drones & Atmospheres, a construction kit sample library featuring over 4.1 gigabytes of evolving drones and dark atmospheres.Each construction kit contains a complete soundscape consisting of both synthetic and organic layers, allowing you to re-mix the component pieces as desired. All the kits were created with a common tonal center, making it easy to mix and match layers from any of the 50 kits, - yielding an almost limitless number of variations. Designed to cover a wide range of musical applications, STRATOS is an essential tool for composers, producers, and sound designers.

Lennar Digital - Sylenth1 v2.0Sylenth1 is a virtual analog VSTi synthesizer that takes the definitions of quality and performance to a higher level. Until now only very few software synthesizers have been able to stand up to the sound quality standards of hardware synths. Sylenth1 is one that does.

Sylenth1 is not just another synth. It was built from a producer's point of view. It was built to produce superior quality sound and music. It was built to perform. A lot of research has been invested in order to achieve unheard warmth and clarity. The graphical interface ensures the highest level of usability so you can fully unleash your creativity.

Nine Volt Audio - Big Bad GuitarNine Volt Audio has announced the release of Big Bad Guitars - a collection of tough and heavy-duty modern rock guitar loops. With aggressive and intense tones, all parts were recorded on two guitars through different amps, allowing for a huge stereo spread of six-string sound. As part of Nine Volt Audio's BPM Flex Series, every REX-based loop in the collection can be used at virtually any tempo without artificial stretching or unwanted audio artifacts.

Best Service - Convolution SpaceConvolution Space is described as "an entirely new region of the sound universe containing unexplored and uncharted sonic landscapes". 8.5GB of lovingly handcrafted Stereo and 5.1 Surround textures is packed into the included Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player - with 625 instruments built in to combine and explore these textures endlessly through the wonders of Convolution Based Spectral Recombination.