Software

The Focusrite Guitar FX Suite puts quality over quantity, providing eleven professional VST/AU plug-ins that are sonically equal to, or better than any Guitar FX plug-ins on the market.

AmpliTube Fender is the only official Fender guitar/bass amp and FX software suite, made by IK Multimedia in cooperation with music icon Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

Ultrawave Guitar Racks is a live guitar effects processor, which adds effects to your guitar in real time. Asio: v2 is supported for low latency recording and playback.

Overloud announces TH1 Triode, its Essential Guitar Effects Suite. TH1 Triode features the same technologies and features found in the flagship product TH1, giving access to technologies never seen before in its price range.

Studio Devil has announced the release of Virtual Bass Amp, the newest addition to their line of vacuum tube modeling guitar amplifier plug-ins.

Line 6 has announced Pod Farm, a replacement for Amp Farm, their TDM amplifier-modelling plug-in. But instead of being limited to use within Pro Tools HD or TDM systems, the new product can be used with any audio hardware, and with virtually any DAW software.

Sonoma Wire Works has announced RiffWorks T4 guitar recording software plus four RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions are to be bundled with the Line 6 POD Studio recording interfaces.

Image Line Software has introduced to the market a collection of guitar effects called Hardcore. Available for both Mac and PC users, Hardcore gives virtual access to 10 popular stomp-box style effects, each with a unique sonic character.

Wavelore Instruments has announced the release of its long-awaited Pedal Steel Guitar virtual instrument for Windows XP/Vista, with Mac compatibility to follow later this summer.

Applied Acoustics Systems has released Strum Acoustic GS-1, a new acoustic guitar software synthesizer which brings a fresh solution to music producers and composers for the creation of acoustic guitar tracks.

Sonoma Wire Works has updated RiffWorks Standard and Line 6 Edition (Windows and MacOS). With RiffWorks musicians can record ideas at the moment of inspiration, create complete songs with drums and effects, collaborate online with musicians around the world, and cast tunes to RiffWorld.com, a vibrant online community.

Optek Music Systems has announced that their Fretlight guitar companion software title, M-Player, is now available for Apple Macintosh customers. With this addition, the company now makes two Fretlight solutions for Mac users, the first being the Fretlight GarageBand plug-in.

Applied Acoustics Systems has announced the release of Strum Acoustic GS-1. Strum Acoustic GS-1 is an acoustic guitar software synthesizer based on the latest AAS physical modeling technology.

Startup company Overloud is soon to release its second product. TH1 is the new virtual guitar amp software based on 4th generation technology that boasts unique features not found in other virtual amplifiers.

Digidesign says their new 'Eleven' guitar amp emulation plug-in for Pro Tools, Avid, and Digidesign VENUE systems sets a new standard in sound quality and tone-shaping.

TrueFire has announced 335 BLUES, an interactive video Master Class with legendary guitarist Larry Carlton.

Jon over at Guitar Noize is pretty impressed with Sonoma Wirework's guitar recording and effects software, Riffworks. Coupled with something like Abelton Live, Jon says he would pretty much have a perfect set up for a very small amount of cash.

eMedia Music Corp has announced the release of Version 4.0 of Guitar Method Vol. 1. The new version includes a more intuitive interface, improved high-quality audio and video, and new fretboard skins.

Macintosh tab editing software, TabView, has been updated to version 1.14. It's now possible to see the details of the guitars defined in the tab using the new Guitar Setup panel: For every guitar you can see the description, the tuning and the capo to use (if any). You can also click on the string buttons to tune your guitar.

Notion Music has announced PROGRESSION, a powerful new tablature and playback application designed for guitar players. PROGRESSION features thousands of real electric and acoustic guitar samples from Neil Zaza, and electric bass and drums samples from Grammy Award winners Victor Wooten and Roy “Future-Man” Wooten.

NetMusicMakers has announced the release of over 500 royalty-free licks and loops from legendary musicians. Available exclusively from its website

IK Multimedia has announced that the highly awaited AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix is now available.

Sony Creative Software has announced an upgrade to their Sound Forge professional digital audio editing application to version 9.

RiffWorks Standard by Sonoma Wire Works, distributed by IK Multimedia, is now available from resellers worldwide. More RiffWorks users than ever have the opportunity to participate in Sonoma Wire Works' RiffRumble VII song contest.

Peterson Tuners is soliciting beta testers for the latest (2.0) version of StroboSoft. On PC, this version will have VST plug-in capability. Both Mac and PC testers are requested since this version has updates not included in our (1.xx) prior version.