Digidesign was proudly demonstrating the first offerings from their new Advanced Instrument Research (AIR) group, a brand-new division that is dedicated to creating powerful virtual instruments purpose built for the Pro Tools environment.
The first in a series of Pro Tools instruments from the AIR group, Xpand! is a free RTAS sound factory workstation plug-in that provides fast, efficient ways to access and manipulate thousands of high-quality sounds directly from within Pro Tools. Xpand! offers virtual analog, FM, wavetable synthesis, and sample playback, plus virtual tonewheels and effects. Start with any of the more than 1,000 factory patches and then fine-tune the four component sound parts to craft anything from pristine-sounding acoustic instruments to complex synthesized soundscapes or loop-driven techno tracks. Built for songwriters, film composers, DJs, electronic musicians, music producers, and sound designers, Xpand! is a sonic powerhouse that will become an indispensable component of any Pro Tools environment.
Digidesign Xpand! Features:
- Comprehensive sound factory for all musical styles and applications
- More than 1,000 factory patches and 500 combinable part preset
- Four layer-able parts for millions of combination
- Subtractive synthesis, wavetable, FM synthesis, sample playback, virtual tonewheels, and effects
- 64-note polyphony
- Quick and easy sound tweaking
- Two built-in effect sections and four arpeggiators/phrase generators
- Highly efficient – requires little CPU power per instance