Human touch technology has announced the release of version 1.5 of its freebie Sika Oriental Scale instrument, including the first Mac release, and the launch of its summer sale on all products and releases (20% sale on all its products from 3rd to 17th of May).

Sika v1.5 is a major update. It has been rewritten for both Mac OS X and Windows and now works via the Pluggo runtime as VST, AU and RTAS plug-ins.

New features in Sika 1.5:

• New enhanced sound engine.
• 3 simultaneous sound sources (factory, user and percussion).
• User sound bank to load external SoundFonts.
• Doff and Riq Maksoom styles.
• Sync to host with tempo changes.
• Full automation control.