Akai Professional X Eventide

Akai Professional & Eventide Join Forces To Provide Producers & Performers With Extra-Terrestrial Space-Warping Sound. For A Limited Time, Users Of Akai Professional’s Advance Keyboards & MPC Touch Will Receive A Free Download Of Eventide’s Blackhole Classic Reverb Effect — available for 60 days starting 1st August 2016

Eventide’s Blackhole redeemable upon registration of either an Advance Keyboard or MPC Touch whereby new and existing users will be provided with an NFR code and applicable download link

Eventide’s Blackhole empowers producers to create extra-terrestrial spatial effects, unlike conventional reverbs that are tethered to the limitations of the real world. From expansive, lingering reverb tails to subtle, ambient washes that underpin the backdrop of a chart-topping mix, Blackhole is the recording industry’s secret weapon. The dimension- altering sound of Blackhole is an invaluable tool in the sonic arsenal of producers, sound designers and composers across many genres.

Blackhole Highlights

• Incredibly easy to use with over 50 presets; many created by Eventide artists

• Ability to create extremely musical effects useful for highlighting key instruments

• Supernatural settings for abstract spatial effects and drones

• Subtle settings for ambient washes and track highlighting

• Unique “Gravity” control reverses the arrow of time by inverting the reverb's decay

• Kill Switch mutes the input so you only hear the reverb for truly incredible effects

• Mix Lock enables for scrolling through presets or settings while keeping the wet/dry mix constant

• Fully flexible mono and stereo options. Brings new realms of stereo imaging to mono instruments

• Innovative Ribbon and Hot Switch for changing any combination of parameters simultaneously

  Blackhole was designed to give musicians, performers and producers extensive control, allowing them to craft their own instantly recognizable signature sounds. Included with Blackhole is a carefully curated set of 50 presets that serve as a launch pad for sonic explorations. These presets cover spaces as small as a room and as large as space itself meticulously crafted by artists including Richard Devine, Flood & Alan Moulder, Venon Reid, Jonsi & Alex and Jon Agnello.

  In short, Blackhole is destined to be one of those tools that you turn to time and again when reality just isn't enough.

Akai Professional’s highly innovative Advance Keyboards and Virtual Instrument Player (VIP) application transform computer-based plugins into an entirely hands-on playing experience. With a full contingent of performance-ready controls, coupled with Akai Professional’s legendary keybed technology and a full-colour display, the Advance Keyboards deftly fuse the power of software instruments and effects with the live playability of a keyboard workstation. With the release of VIP 2.0, producers and performers have unrestricted access to their virtual instrument and virtual effect collection, using Multis and Effect Stacks to rapidly create immersive, expressive sonic textures - all without having to reach for a mouse or look at a computer screen. With Eventide’s Blackhole, users can seamlessly add an otherworldly texture to their repertoire - with critical space-altering parameters instantly mapped to the Advance Keyboard’s performance-focused assortment of controls.

MPC Touch introduces a new approach to music production with an ultra fast and super intuitive workflow, powered

by a radiant 7" colour multi-touch display. With MPC Touch, users can literally grab and pinch waveforms, draw midi events, adjust envelopes, chop samples, add effects and precisely set parameters using ultra-intuitive gesture based controls. Combined with the classic MPC feel, sound and award-winning pads, the Touch embodies the best elements of Akai Professional’s past while taking music production gear into the future. When combined with Eventide’s Blackhole, performers and producers will explore unchartered sonic heights with unparalleled scope for resampling, blending textures or creating the perfect ambience to sit behind a mix.

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