Free soundpack from Native Instruments and a free Live Pack from Ableton

via CDM, NI have released a free soundpack for Kore Player (which is free also) or Kore 2.
There is also a 400MB free Live Pack from Ableton, and a few more from them here.

Squarepusher talks Fluxux

Read it here, or just look at the pictures.

Audio Damage's Automaton

Automaton is a VST / AU for stuttering and altering your music inside your DAW of choice. It's $49, and you can check out some examples of how it works on the Audio Damage website, or watch videos of it in action, such as these two from youtube:

Remix DJ Spooky's Antarctic Meltdown

You can read about DJ Spooky's Terra Nova project here. And then you can go to The Pool and download some pieces to remix.

Acid 7 to be released in November

via KVR, Sony Acid 7 is coming soon. The new features don't exactly scream "must upgrade" (apart from it working with Vista) but the beauty of Acid has always been it's lack of more features than you could ever need so you can get on with making music.
You can compare version 6 and 7 here.

Stylophone VST

The Stylophone has recently been recreated for the Ipod Touch (via CDM) but you can also get some free Stylophone VSTs such as these:


de la Mancha Styrofoam


Sparque Stylophone, and there is help here about installing it.

SoundCloud is open

SoundCloud is now open to the public, if you had a beta account then you now have a Pro account for a month, after that you will have to pay for the Pro account.