LinPlug has released Alpha 3 and its free sibling, Free Alpha 3. Both virtual instruments are now available for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary in VST and Audio Units formats. Alpha 3 costs $99 / €79; upgrades are $19 / €19.

Free Alpha 3 shares the same engine as Alpha 3 but has a cut-down feature set. A comparison chart detailing the differences between the various versions of Alpha is available here.

Alpha 3 features the following main improvements:

• Improved sound quality.
• Noise oscillator.
• Filter-FM.
• Adjustable and modulatable ring-modulator.
• Increased polyphony (now 32 voices).
• Improved ECS (MIDI learn).
• Now 3 LFOs.
• Larger modulation matrix (now 7 slots).
• More than 150 new presets from some of the best sound designers.