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- MPC 2: Desktop Recording Software -

MPC More Flexible Than Ever
Its never been so easy to buy MPC your way... You can now unleash your creativity while harnessing the power of MPC software in a way that works best for you.

Heavyweight Production Hub
Latest version of the acclaimed composition software features audio track recording, real-time audio warping, Audio and MIDI drag-and-drop, along with enhanced Q-Link control.

A Fully Featured DAW
MPC 2 is designed to be the ultimate platform for unrestricted creative versatility alongside must-have tools that deliver unprecedented control. MPC 2 supports all 3rd Party Midi controllers with templates for all popular models. MPC has graduated from a highly acclaimed performance instrument to a fully featured DAW.

MPC Software features powerful MPC Plugin instruments like Mellotron, Hype, and Solina, alongside world-class Insert Effects like AIR Stutter and Half Speed, including cutting-edge pitch processing in the AIR Vocal Suite, and much more. Advanced MIDI Multi capability transforms MPC into the ultimate MIDI sequencing studio centerpiece. Simultaneously connect and route all the MIDI gear in your studio including class-compliant USB Keyboards, MIDI interfaces, and USB to CV modules to supercharge your I/O connectivity. Combine this with deep internal MIDI routing capability across tracks, comprehensive MIDI routing to any MIDI compatible synthesizer, drum machine, or sound module, along with multitrack recording and MPC becomes the heartbeat of any production setup. Unleash the true power of your music production setup with MPC 2 software.

Advanced Audio Track Recording
Outfitted with resizable faders, an adaptive channel strip, a dedicated audio track editing window, resizable waveform view and much more, MPC 2 is designed to be the ultimate platform for unrestricted creative versatility alongside must-have tools that deliver unprecedented surgical control.

Realtime Time-Stretch and Pitch-Shifting
MPC 2 makes it easy to creatively manipulate the time and pitch of any source material: a chopped vocal in an audio track, a drum loop in a clip program or an orchestral phrase loaded into a chromatic sampler program.


- VIP 3: Instrument Host Software -

Virtually Unstoppable
Control and command nearly any VST plugin or effect using VIP 3.1

VIP is a ground-breaking, award-winning music software platform that provides musicians and composers with a total-control solution for their virtual instrument and virtual effect collection.

Welcome To The World Of VIP Music Software
VIP provides you with unparalleled access to your virtual instrument and effect collection, seamlessly integrating the hardware / software experience and grants the unrestricted freedom to create in a user-friendly, intuitive format. The combination of VIP and a compatible keyboard controller maximizes workflow and ensures a playing experience that feels natural and enhances creativity - the natural, tactile feel of hardware, now fused with the unrivalled processing capability of virtual Instruments.

Effortless Integration, Enhanced Workflow
Don't change the way you work, enhance it with VIP. Fusing compatibility with virtually every VST-compatible virtual instrument & effect plugin, standalone functionality for live use and operation as a plugin within an AU, VST or AAX compatible DAW, VIP seamlessly integrates with your current setup, maximizing workflow and opening up a world of unchartered creative possibilities. Now, with the inclusion of the VIP Native Plugin Map Standard (VIPMS), expand your library with the growing list of developers producing dedicated plugin maps for VIP, enhancing your experience with VIP and maximizing your creative workflow

Unrestricted Access
Explore your VST patch library and make your presets your own. VIP instantly relays critical parameters to your VIP-enabled keyboard's screen delivering immediate 1:1 access to the instrument or effect and it's various editable functions. Transform your computer-based plugins into an entirely hands-on playing experience and experience the VIP workflow breakthrough.

Intelligent Patch Browser
At it's core, VIP features an intelligent patch browser that integrates sound patches from the your entire collection of VST virtual instruments and effects, allowing you to select, control, play and layer those plugins directly from your VIP-enabled keyboard. With VIP's patch browser you quickly find sounds based on instrument type, timbre, style or articulation - explore your instrument collection, expand your sonic arsenal and discover patches you never knew you had!

The Power of a Multi
Sculpt immersive, expressive sounds and textures by harnessing the power of a VIP Multi. VIP's intuitive operation, all from a VIP-compatible keyboard allows you to rapidly layer up to 8 separate instruments and patches per VIP instance. Now creating multi-timbral leads and bass sounds, or other worldly evolving soundscapes could be easier - with VIP unrestricted expression is now waiting at your fingertips.

Effect Stacks
Expand the sonic capabilities of your VST collection with VIP's ultra-intuitive effect stacks. Load up to 4 different VST effects per instrument channel to sculpt the perfect sound and tweak key effect parameters directly from your VIP-enabled keyboard.

Powered For Performance
Fuel your creativity and ignite your performances with VIP. Armed with Pad Chord Progressions and user-friendly Key Control processors, VIP presents the ideal platform to explore new musical possibilities harmonizing root notes and playing chord progressions from the vast factory library or your own fully customizable motifs - plus, with the all-new Articulation controls, adding humanized flams and performance-centric note velocity to your performances has never been easier. Keep your production on point and never miss a note with VIPs Scales functionality; with Scales activated, instantly snap incoming MIDI note data to the scale of your choice taking the painstaking hassle out of learning scales and modes across multiple keys. With VIP3.0, experience a production platform that centers your focus on what's important - your performance!

Instant Recall
VIP Setlists make recalling your patches and Multi's simple, fast and intuitive. Create your own Setlists and experience on-demand access to user-curated instruments for stage performance and studio work. With a single button press on a VIP-compatible keyboard, you can adapt to song changes as the live performance progresses-without ever reaching for the computer.

- AIEP3 Complete: Virtual Instrument Plug-in Bundle -

The AIEP3 Complete Instrument Pack is an inspiring collection of twenty virtual instruments and progressive sound-design tools for the modern producer, composer and performer. Developed by AIR Music Technology, the team responsible for creating the award-winning virtual instruments and core effects offered with Avid's Pro Tools software, the AIR Instrument Expansion Pack brings the world's most innovative virtual instruments to your favorite DAW. These twenty instruments, ranging from breathtaking emulations of vintage gear, classic instruments and unique synthesis technologies, enable you to tap into familiar sounds or create something no one has ever heard before. With the AIEP3 Complete collection, if you can dream it, you can create it. There are no limits! Energize your music.

It's Time to Energize Your Music
The AIEP3 Complete Instrument Pack is an inspiring collection of twenty virtual instruments and progressive sound-design tools for the modern producer, composer and performer. Developed by AIR Music Technology, the team responsible for creating the award-winning virtual instruments and core effects offered with Avid's Pro Tools software, the AIR Instrument Expansion Pack brings the world's most innovative virtual instruments to your favorite DAW. These twenty instruments, ranging from breathtaking emulations of vintage gear, classic instruments and unique synthesis technologies, enable you to tap into familiar sounds or create something no one has ever heard before. With the AIEP3 Complete collection, if you can dream it, you can create it. There are no limits! Energize your music.

The Ultimate Virtual Instrument Collection
The AIR AIEP3 Complete Instrument Pack combines multiple synthesis technologies, premium instrument samples, high-definition drums, vintage electric pianos, and a comprehensive groove-creation platform to provides today's musician, composer, and producer with the latest innovations of German-engineered software. Hybrid 3.0 is an analog and wavetable synthesizer that combines the warmth of analog synthesis with futuristic digital controls; Loom is a modular additive synthesizer that lets you explore additive synthesis with 30 editable modules and a sound-shifting Morph Pad; Vacuum Pro is a polyphonic analog tube synthesizer that re-invents the gritty glory of the analog age; Structure delivers a world of sounds with multi-timbral layering and comprehensive sample editing; Strike is a drum and arranger instrument with a realistic performance engine; Velvet puts five sought-after electric pianos at your fingertips; and Transfuser is a melodic and groove creation that offers powerful sound manipulation capabilities. Altogether, the AIR instrument Expansion Pack includes 70+GB (uncompressed) samples, loops, effects, and 3000+ tweakable patches and presets programmed by legendary sound designers.