Tonal Matter AB has released Säve River, a sample-based instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt 8 and the free Kontakt Player. It is available now at tonalmatter.com for €89, delivered and activated through Native Access. It marks the debut release in the company’s Instrumental Places series. Säve River is built from field recordings captured at five…

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I’ve had a sneak look at The Wedding Music Canon, a book coming later this month from an experienced US-based wedding DJ covering great tracks to play in wedding DJ sets from the 1950s up until the 2010s. Thankfully this isn’t a set of AI-generated lists. These are all hand-picked and time-honoured tracks that the…

Reloop has announced the RP-2000 Mk4 entry-level DJ turntable, which brings improvements over the popular RP-2000 Mk3 model, such as a more rigid chassis and more refined controls. Ultimately, this remains a classic design, very similar to the time-honoured Technics SL1200 Mk2, with a simple +/-8% pitch control, S-shaped tone arm, and all the other…

discoDSP has released updates for Vertigo, Discovery Pro, and Bliss. Vertigo 5.4 Vertigo 5.4 adds three per-voice LFOs, MPE support and a Keep Section that holds modulation, controller and effects setups across program changes. This update is free for all Vertigo 5.x customers. YouTube.com/watch?v=ctFkR5x4Z-s Bliss 3.22 Bliss 3.22 imports third-party sampler formats through ConvertWithMoss and…

Fanan has released Domina, a seeded MIDI arpeggiator offering “672,000,000 built-in seeded arpeggios”. The arp responds to single notes but its greatest benefit is responding to any chord and delivering complex arpeggios based on them. Domina builds a complete pattern from a six-digit seed: note lengths, rests, ties, accents and a melodic contour and plays…

Schallenberg Engineering has released Collision: Bongos, a free bongo sample library for the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt. I haven’t used Schallenberg Engineering’s libraries before, but this is definitely a very cool freebie. It is fairly compact at 268 MB, but the sampling depth here is much better than you might expect from a…

Raccoon Audio has released RoboComp, a stereo character compressor for macOS and Windows, with a $49 launch price through August 31st. RoboComp combines a familiar compressor layout with two controls that let you decide which parts of the signal drive the compression. Basically, the idea is to shape the movement and stereo character without building…