Wot the droogs up to, then?
Vellocet are currently working on the core of two VST instruments with FXpansion in London, funnily enough almost next door to a Bloomsbury housing estate used in ACWO. (Thought it looked familar, eh Dim?)

First up is the BFD, an extremely high quality acoustic drum module, disk-streaming multi mic'ed recordings of vintage and modern drum kits produced by LA engineer Steve Duda. Each of 6 kits is over a gigabyte in size, each of a variety of hit styles having 11 channels of 24 bit sound, upto 46 velocity layers per kit piece. An integrated Groove Engine allows for semi-automated performance and exploration at a higher level, with hundreds of grooves played by real session drummers. The BFD is nearing release - exploding all over a hard drive near you September 2003.