NEW Air effects

I see that 3 new AIR effects (Multitap Delay, Vintage Filter, Air Chorus) appeared to trial download on the MPC a few days ago.....

I'm surprised no-one is talking about it anywhere! Maybe everyone is burnt out waiting for 3.0 to appear

The strange thing is that they appeared in the "download" area on the MPC so you can have a 10 day trial. That implies they are paid for effects but they look like all the other AIR effects that we usually get free in an upgrade, it's not like they are complex plugin instruments like JURA, Model D etc, so why are we being charged?

Has there been any official announcement from Akai about this?

MPC-Tutor wrote:Has there been any official announcement from Akai about this?

Can't see any official announcement anywhere (Akai or Air sites) and only seen one other person post about it online. I was expecting to see loads of YouTube videos appear but nothing so far!

.....very strange considering how anything new from Akai/AIR usually explodes the forums

Nice, will try them later.
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These have been on the cards for ages, pretty sure Ultros mentioned they are already built into the OS since a few versions back.

I’m still waiting for a comb filter but not holding my breath.

Thanks for the info!

yeah, they’ve been embedded into firmware since at least january, there are two more extra ones that don’t show up on your MPCs just yet - expander and spectral.
All of these plugins are old rehashed versions of air plugs that been released and bundled 10 years ago with avid stuff.
If you google AIR/Avid bundle - you will find them, some of them even had their reappearance in OPX4 (multitap delay / expander etc).
In other words: „sell, rehash and sell again” - nothing to be excited about imho

dustyslices wrote:yeah, they’ve been embedded into firmware since at least january, there are two more extra ones that don’t show up on your MPCs just yet - expander and spectral.
All of these plugins are old rehashed versions of air plugs that been released and bundled 10 years ago with avid stuff.
If you google AIR/Avid bundle - you will find them, some of them even had their reappearance in OPX4 (multitap delay / expander etc).
In other words: „sell, rehash and sell again” - nothing to be excited about imho

Didn't you find something in the source code that suggests that Fabric uses some/all of the Xpand library?

Yep last december actually i messaged pete goodliffe on christmas eve iirc: "don't put your plugin content on the release server before release." lol

MPC-Tutor wrote:Didn't you find something in the source code that suggests that Fabric uses some/all of the Xpand library?

It uses modified Xpand sample playback engine not the actual samples or any other items from the original library.
There is quite a few references to it. Internally, Fabric plugin routine is called Xpand Fabric iirc - not at home atm so I don’t have access to my notes

Ultros wrote:Yep last december actually i messaged pete goodliffe on christmas eve iirc: "don't put your plugin content on the release server before release." lol

lol, I had several opportunities to message him with similar bs but I had second thoughts and I guess I didn’t wan’t to be a dick so I left him be. He’s a cool guy tbf

They appear as free in my mpc. No demo no activation.

THXjay wrote:I see that 3 new AIR effects (Multitap Delay, Vintage Filter, Air Chorus) appeared to trial download on the MPC a few days ago.....

I'm surprised no-one is talking about it anywhere! Maybe everyone is burnt out waiting for 3.0 to appear

The strange thing is that they appeared in the "download" area on the MPC so you can have a 10 day trial. That implies they are paid for effects but they look like all the other AIR effects that we usually get free in an upgrade, it's not like they are complex plugin instruments like JURA, Model D etc, so why are we being charged?

where is the link to this cos I dont see it on the akia website; but the vintage filter sounds interesting

jpeg wrote:where is the link to this cos I dont see it on the akia website; but the vintage filter sounds interesting

Just update to 2.12.2 and they are in the activate plugin menu on preferences. No release notes thou.

TT_Lab wrote:They appear as free in my mpc. No demo no activation.

i jus tried the vintage filter on the 10 day trial nothing special

TT_Lab wrote:

jpeg wrote:where is the link to this cos I dont see it on the akia website; but the vintage filter sounds interesting

Just update to 2.12.2 and they are in the activate plugin menu on preferences. No release notes thou.

im on version 2.11.10 and the plugins show up as a 10 day trial


but just tried the vintage filter and nothing to right home about; good that they have multiple different slopes but the mpc & air fx are just bland in general; there is ashit ton of them but they just are mostly dull to me but i guess they intended to be.