If you just want Xpand! 2 to work like Xpand! did, simply dropping it onto an instrument track will work fine, but if you want to access its multitimbral features, a single instrument track won't do. The new Xpand! 2 (above) can be set up for true multitimbral operation, whereby each of its four parts is played on a separate MIDI channel from a separate track (below). All new patches have a little plus symbol in front of them, while the original patches are labelled just as they were in Xpand!, ensuring maximum compatibility with older sessions. Xpand! 2 includes all of the original Xpand! content, and doubles it by adding 1GB of new sounds. The effects section has also been improved, and there are some new effects, too: take a moment to look at the Chaos Delay and Cloud Delay effects.ĭigidesign have also made Xpand! 2 multitimbral, although they haven't added extra outputs, so all the parts still have to go through the one stereo output. All the controls now fit on a single window, including the effects, arpeggiators and modulation. Like the original, each instance of Xpand! 2 still has four parts, but the guys at the AIR group have taken the four pages of the original Xpand! interface and combined them into one. At the same time, they also quietly upgraded the excellent Xpand! sample‑playback instrument plug‑in to version 2, adding new features and extra sounds.
It might be a free plug‑in, but the Xpand! sample player bundled with Pro Tools has some serious potential.Īs part of the Pro Tools 8 upgrade, Digidesign introduced the AIR plug‑ins that we explored in the March and April 2010 issues of Sound On Sound.
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