New Air plugin coming for MPC Standalone on 11/29!

Very interesting!

https://www.airmusictech.com/blackfriday/

does anyone recognize the box pictured in the background with the Cutoff knob?

Classic Effects Hardware Processor with a cutoff knob? hmmmmmmm.... not sure on that one. The knob looks familiar but can't quite pinpoint it.

I don't think that knob represents the source since it looks modern.

Fix the f@£#*ing midi bug instead of trying to sell me more shit.

The knob is just a 3d render of AIRs modern flat TUI aesthetics - I wouldn’t take it as a guide.
I’ve seen a slightly larger image yesterday somewhere - there is a smaller, thin knob next to it labelled as *CO (DCO/VCO ?). That could suggest some sort of vocoder maybe (?). On the other hand 3 decades would take us to the mid 90s/early 2000s where there was plenty of Eventide-esque rack modules - Harmonizers / Digital Reverbs etc… Cutoff doesn’t have to be a main feature of this plug and it looks like its placed towards left edge of the render so it’s not centered enough to be a main feature (could be kind of decoy). I don’t believe they will give a $99 „just like that” - price is arbitrary and I guess it will go down to something like $39 or so (Ether is $79). I’ll bet we will see a „pro” version of this thing months after. My 5 cents

EDIT:
Actually I’ve never opened 2.15.1 - I wonder if there is anything in it ?
EDIT2:
I took another glance at it and that smaller knob might be as well a „MOD” knob - too blurry and I’m not getting any younger lolol

definitely a MODULATION knob

One of the pages on the Akai site suggested this is an updated version of Xpand 2.

jamos wrote:One of the pages on the Akai site suggested this is an updated version of Xpand 2.

They already did that with Fabric didn't they? This new one is apparently an effect of some description.

jamos wrote:One of the pages on the Akai site suggested this is an updated version of Xpand 2.

nah... Xpand2 is still being updated, they wouldn't give it away just like that - latest beta is dated to 25th October

It says fx processor. I'm guessing a tape delay or a lexicon reverb

TT_Lab wrote:It says fx processor. I'm guessing a tape delay or a lexicon reverb

With Delay Pro, I doubt it would be a tape delay. The Lex reverb would be nice if it could do it well.

B-Wise wrote:With Delay Pro, I doubt it would be a tape delay. The Lex reverb would be nice if it could do it well.

Yes. I thought about that, but Roland RE201 type delay is quite different to Dealy pro. The Lex was because of the 3 decades fx processor on the announcement
Anyway, just a wild guess

not that wild as you might think
a few weeks ago I've posted a screenshot of decompiled function that limits the number of instances of ether to two per project. Clearly they've been dabbling with reverbs in standalone, otherwise what would be the point of limiting instances of that reverb in controller mode if you have virtually unlimited cpu power there .
Maybe they came to conclusion that ether is not optimized enough for standalone (hence two instances only) and came up with more lightweight but same nice sounding reverbs aka lexicon clones ?