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December
The Subtractor Patches Reason Refill Volume 1 contains 256 new Subtractor patches including warm analogue synths, fat basses, cool sweeps, different beeps n' noises, hard industrial sounds, interesting synth pads, lush strings, wicked big beat sounds and mad fx which are great for writing and playing music in a variety of music styles.
Mig Music has sampled and produced a new sample CD called the "Virtual Wavestation Sample CD Rom" which contains 508 Korg Wavestation Samples in both WAV and AIFF formats.
April
CEntrance, a leader in professional audio technology, today released their "Universal Driver" for FireWire(tm) audio interfaces. The Windows(tm) audio software features unique technology that enables consumers to combine FireWire audio interfaces from various manufacturers into one, feature-rich audio system. Formerly incompatible audio devices can now record and play together in one studio setup.
March
[CodeOperator] has released COModPack, a package of 5 modulation plug-ins for OS X.
DADEV.com (http://www.dadev.com) has released a free package of modules for Synthedit. This free pack is a bundle of free useful brand new modules that extends the basic Synthedit possibilities.
February
A free downloadable demo version of the LaserBlade VSTi plug in softsynth has been released.
The popular AudioMulch interactive music studio has now officially been released in non-beta, 1.0 form after years of development.
LiveLab.dk has released LiveSlice 1.35, incorporating bugfixes and workflow improvements.
January
GVOX, the manufacturer of Encore, MusicTime Deluxe and Master Tracks Pro software, has announced the imminent arrival of Encore 4.5.6 for Mac. The upgrade will be available on January 31, 2006.
Blue Microphones has announced the launch of Blue University, a comprehensive online microphone education program.
Steinberg has released version 2.4 of its VST plug in standard. The new release brings 64-bit capability, Mac/Intel support, and double precision processing to the most popular plug in format.
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH has announced version 6 of its WaveLab editing and mastering software at the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California.
Recording School Online has produced a new series of videos called the "hands on" series. This new series of videos goes into great detail and is focused on the recording of musical instruments step-by-step.
Sonic Reality, developer of Sonic Refills for Reason and sound collections for SampleTank and other popular samplers, has announced one of the most powerful and universally compatible loop collections ever created. The new R.A.W. Universal Groove Kit features over 5,000 stereo loops in 24 and 16-bit audio files all delivered on 2 DVDs! These loops were also created in formats that every sampler and digital audio workstation can read.
Sonic Reality and Joytown Productions are pleased to announce that as part of the official release of the Studio ProFiles series, a Special Edition version is now available for a limited time exclusively at esoundz.com.
Sonic Reality has announced a new series of high-end sampled instruments called the "Infinite Instrument Series" which are designed to work with streaming samplers such as Kontakt/Battery, Giga, HALion, EXS and more. The first releases from the series are the "Infinite Drums" collections which are focused on natural acoustic studio drum kits formatted as playable multisamples (no loops).

Synapse Audio has released Version 6.2 of its music production suite for the Windows platform, Orion Platinum.

Chris-Melchior.com Offers Custom String Performances As An Alternative To Sampled Sounds or Full String Ensembles

LinuxUser & Developer magazine is running a series of features about free software, audio and music, called Audio Libre, and three new PDF articles are available for download

Linuxaudio.org has released its first compilation CD of music by artists using libre software - Tux Power! Every single part of the CD was made on Linux, including all the music, the mastering (with Jamin) and the artwork (with Scribus).

VirtuosoWorks, Inc. announces version 1.5 of its NOTION™ music composition and performance software. Atop the list of new features is compatibility with the Macintosh platform.

Voxengo has released version 1.1 of its BMS Bass Management System for surround sound mastering.
Spectrasonics Releases Version 1.5 of Stylus RMX with Windows RTAS Support

XARC Mastering, an online mastering studio, has upgraded its website and launched a new blog devoted to audio mastering. The company has also started an affiliate program, paying commissions to websites and businesses that send customers.

Kjaerhus Audio has announced the release of a new software synthesizer called Spectra.