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The AIR Legends Black Friday deal puts 80% off the bundle, bringing it to $49 until Nov 26, 2026, for three AIR Music Technology instruments: Xpand!2, DB-33 and Vacuum Vintage.
The AIR Legends Pack is a bundle of three virtual instruments: a multitimbral workstation synth, a tonewheel organ and a monophonic vintage synth. You get all three as AU and VST plugins.
Xpand!2 began life as Xpand! in the Creative Collection that ships with Avid Pro Tools. It was reworked as Xpand!2 for Pro Tools 8, with new controls and an extra 1 GB of sounds, and later released as a standalone plugin.
Each patch holds four parts. Every part gets its own MIDI channel, note range, mix, arpeggiator, modulation and effects settings.
Voice mode is set per part. Polyphonic parts run up to 64 voices. Monophonic parts let you pick First, Last, Highest or Lowest note priority, which suits basses, leads and solo lines.
Sound generation covers subtractive and FM synthesis, tonewheels and sample playback. Presets sit in 29 categories, from pads, polysynths and leads to pianos, organs, strings, guitars, ethnic sounds, basses, drums and loops.
Smart Knobs and Easy Edit Knobs handle quick changes, the latter across the whole patch at once. Two effects processors offer 50 editable effect types.
DB-33 recreates classic tonewheel organs of the B3 Style, along with the rotary-speaker cabinets they are usually played through. AIR says the organ model, the convolution rotary cabinet and the tube overdrive emulation are all its own designs.
The rotary cabinet also works as an effect on an audio track, so you can run other sources through it.
Vacuum Vintage is a monophonic synth with two vacuum tube oscillators. Instead of picking one of the four wave shapes, you can morph between them.
The oscillators feed a mixer with drive/distortion and ring modulation, then high-pass and low-pass filters. Envelopes and built-in effects round out the signal chain.
The preset library comes from sound designers Richard Devine and Mark Ovenden. It covers leads, pads, bass, arpeggios, percussive sounds and FX.
The bundle comes in AU and VST only. Pro Tools AAX and RTAS versions are not available.
A free iLok account and Licence Manager authorise the software. A physical USB iLok is not required, and you need internet access to download and authorise.
On Mac it supports up to macOS 12 Monterey and is not natively compatible with Apple Silicon. The VST may work in some DAWs under Rosetta. On Windows, 64-bit Windows 7 SP1, 8 or 10 is listed. Either platform needs a 64-bit host and 1 GB of free disk space.
Yes. The AIR Legends Black Friday deal takes 80% off, bringing the bundle to $49, and it ends Nov 26, 2026. It covers all three instruments: Xpand!2, DB-33 and Vacuum Vintage.
Three AIR Music Technology instruments. Xpand!2 is a multitimbral workstation synth with 2500+ presets and parts, DB-33 is a tonewheel organ with 122 presets, and Vacuum Vintage is a monophonic synth based on vacuum tube modelling.
AU and VST only. The maker lists VST64 as qualified for Cubase 6 and Ableton Live 9 on Mac and PC, and AU64 for Logic X on Mac. Pro Tools AAX and RTAS versions are not available.
Not natively. The pack supports up to macOS 12 Monterey, and full Apple silicon support is not available. The maker says the VST plugin may work in some DAWs when run through Rosetta.
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