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The mad MOK Waverazor experimental virtual synthesizer gets a big chunk of an update plus a library of new patches via the PluginGuru Unify plug-in host platform.
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Could the MP MIDI Controller be the ultimate hardware controller for plug-ins and VSTis? With a large screen, 32 encoders and support for any VST3 or AU plug-in, it looks very promising.
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The ELK Audio OS is capable of running recompiled VST plugins on a Raspberry Pi. Blackboard is a hardware interface that finally makes sense of that awesome potential.
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Retrokits are the masters of MIDI boxes that you didn't know you needed which quickly become things you can't live without. The RK-006 is one such box.
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A slightly odd looking 2 in/out audio interface designed to match the Platform line of controllers the Platform U22 VST is a high-quality simple recording solution with some DAW-less plugin action.
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You can now run your VST instruments and effects as modules within Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular with the new 1.2 update. With 12 parameter CV control modular fun will undoubtedly ensue.
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With version 0.6.2 of VCV Rack you can now load up all your VST plugins and virtual instruments as virtual Eurorack modules and control them with CV - genius!
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SoundGrid Mobile Server is a mini PC that'll host a stack of Waves plug-ins at extremely low latency. Use it for real-time monitoring or offload the processing from your laptop in a live or studio situation.
With convolution processing, Transformer is able to load samples, microphone and virtual instrument inputs; and morph them into sounds unexpected and unknown. It adds new sound layers to existing audio this ...
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Got a lot of USB MIDI gear knocking around? Well the RK-005 can host it and bring it all together into a single MIDI stream, clock to analog and then connect to a DAW or not. A super versatile MIDI interface.
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Third party developer bsp804 has come up with a version of VCV Rack virtual Eurorack software that can run as VST plug-in within your favourite DAW. It's a work in progress but you can try it out yourself.
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Propellerhead have released their flagship spectral wavetable synthesizer as a VST/AU plug-in. Will Europa by Reason be a unique port to the format or is this the beginning of a new era for Propellerhead?
The Expert Sleepers FH-2 will take your MIDI keyboard, MPE controller, MIDI fader/knob bank or groovebox and convert it all to CV while arpeggiating, clocking, LFOing and step sequencing.
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Camelot provides a cross-platform management, hosting and MIDI/Audio routing for live performance for not just virtual instruments and effects but hardware instruments too. It will even pull all the presets in.
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The new version of Akai's VIP virtual instrument host and performance software is no longer tied to their Advance keyboard range. Direct access over your entire VST library from any keyboard or DAW.
If you are looking for a simple, yet capable plug-in host so that you can run your favorite AU effects and instruments in a live context, Live Performer might be just the thing. The streamlined Mac app is ...
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You can now rummage around inside the synthesizer guts of the MicroKorg XL and XL+ with this new standalone and VST plug-in editor and controller. If you own an XL, you should have this.
Audiobus 3 is just waiting for Korg Gadget to get it's act together and then it could well have cracked the idea of an iPad as a music workstation
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Free guitar amp plugin for Mac and PC which looks very familiar indeed!
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Gig Performer is a plug-in host for live performance that lets you create your own multi-touchable front panel controls for your whole rig. Looks dated but the functionality is cutting edge.
You can play your virtual instruments DAW free in this nice, if slightly flaky, vPlayer VST Host from Digital Brain Instruments