AIR Fabric Vintage Synths goes into the second round with Vol 2, featuring sample-based Andromeda, Oberheim Matrix 12, and Yamaha CS-80
In early April, Air Music Tech released Fabric Vintage Synths Vol 1, the first volume in a new series of sample-based synthesizer instruments for standalone MPCs and DAWs.
The first volume featured sounds from the Sequential Prophet-5, Roland Jupiter-8, and the Moog Memorymoog. Volume 2 is now available with new sample-based synth instruments. This time from Alesis, Oberheim, and Yamaha.
AIR Fabric Vintage Synths Vol 2
Volume 2 continues the series of virtual instruments. This time, they are based on three more legendary analog synthesizers: the Yamaha CS-80 (Fabric Vintage CS), the Alesis Andromeda (Fabric Vintage Andromeda), and the Oberheim Matrix 12 (Fabric Vintage Matrix).
Like the first three from the Air Fabric Vintage Synths series, these from Vol 2 are not accurate emulations again, nor do they intend to be. They are virtual instruments based on the Fabric XL engine, using multi-sampled sounds from these legendary synths.
Each instrument comes with an easy-to-use performance page with essential controls, including filter cutoff and resonance, envelope attack and release, effects amounts, and various oscillator controls.
On the edit page of each instrument, you can dive deeper and edit the sounds in more detail. Here you will find the same elements as in the Fabric XL engine.
Two multi-sampled oscillators, a VA sub oscillator, a noise generator, various AIR filters, three LFOs, three envelopes, an arpeggiator, and a multi-FX. Since it’s not an emulation, the filters or envelopes are not modeled.
Each instrument comes with a wide range of sounds. The engine also allows you to create new sounds from scratch.
First Impression
Anyone looking for classic vintage sounds from these three vintage synths for the MPC and wanting to go on a nostalgic trip will certainly find what they’re looking for here. It’s a bit of a shame that they aren’t emulations.
The new Air Fabric Vintage Synths Vol 2 is available now for an introductory price of $119 instead of $299 MSRP. Individual instruments are available for $59.
They are compatible with the MPC standalone, MPC Desktop, and all major DAWs. They run as VST, VST3, AU, and AAX plugins on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows.
More info here: The MPC Store
Akai milking their customers again with a few cheap samples plus some ridiculous GUI lipstick, transformed into fake instruments. Do you also feel insulted by Akai? Trying to sell you the same sample engine again and again for a price you can get a used hardware synth. This is a slap in your face.
Some might disagree with you but I do feel like AKAI is milking way too hard.
Buying a few packs and I’m already spending 1k on this thing. Not worth it at all.
NI komplete is cheaper and offers way more quality at a lower price. And both NI and AKAI are owned by the same guy.
The price for this stuff seems over the top for me. Even the “reduced” prices seem way too high. Is there anybody anywhere anyway who pays full prices for sample ware these days ?
I do not understand the complaints here at all. Akai is not FORCING anyone to buy anything. They are giving people options. As a consumer, that is all I want. With every option provided, the MPC becomes more capable. I don’t sample anything, but I like the MPC, so I like having all these synths.
Yes, the plugins are expensive, especially relatively to computer plugins. I agree. Ok there’s a very simple solution: don’t buy them.
The entitled attitude of people is just incredible. These companies don’t owe us anything, and we don’t owe them anything. This is business — choose to do business or don’t.
Why suck up to a company that doesn’t care much by selling you a stripped down MPC?
Huh?
Are you now also talking crap about my MPC One G2?
I love that machine, and I bought this new collection, just like the first one.
They keep making them because of people like me.
Just ignore it and don’t buy if you don’t want it.
Of course I do not buy them. I once bought Hybrid for 1$ instead of 99$. That is how ridiculous these prices are.
Hybrid is also a product that is over 10 years old
exactly.
You clearly have no idea what entitlement is, what it means, or how the term is generally applied.
Nobody is claiming Akai is forcing anyone to buy anything. That’s a straw man. The discussion revolves around the pricing proposition.
Calling people “entitled” because they criticise a pricing model is absurd. You seem to think you’re the gatekeeper of what constitutes a good value proposition. Let me clear this up for you: entitlement is believing you’re owed something for nothing. Saying “this is overpriced” or “the value proposition is poor” is consumer feedback. That’s how markets work.
By your logic, nobody could ever criticise the price of a car, software subscription, or meal at a restaurant because they can just “not buy it.” That’s absurd. Companies set prices; consumers judge them. Both are part of the same market.
Ironically, telling people to “just don’t buy it” contributes nothing to the discussion, as though all anyone was lacking was that profound piece of wisdom.
Okay, I think this topic has been discussed to death, and before it degenerates into a fight that isn’t about the topic and these instruments, I’m closing it.
As the operator, I have to draw the line somewhere. At some point, enough is enough.