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Flavor Pro
Introducing Flavor Pro, our brand-new flagship lo-fi multi-effects plugin, designed to manipulate samples, melodies, loops, and instruments to the extreme for today’s modern lo-fi sound. Flavor Pro transforms your effects experience into a whole new future/retro landscape.
Works With:
MPC Standalone Systems
AU
VST
VST 3
AAX
What's Your Flavor?
SIX FAST AND CREATIVE CONTROLS FOR ADDING INSTANT FLAVOR
Introducing Flavor Pro, our brand-new flagship lo-fi multi-effects plugin, designed to manipulate samples, melodies, loops, and instruments to the extreme for today's modern lo-fi sound. Flavor Pro transforms your effects experience into a whole new future/retro landscape.
VINTAGE LO-FI SAMPLING MAGIC
100 INSPIRING PRESETS TAKING YOU BACK TO THE CLASSIC SOUNDS
At the heart of Flavor Pro ingredients are 6 powerful effects modules providing immersive Lo-Fi control with unlimited possibilities. Add instant effects such as Pitch Flutter, Tape Saturation, Tape Dropouts, Distortion, Drift to 12/8 Bit sampling, Vinyl rumble, hum, pops & crackle emulations. Whatever your music style, Flavor Pro's powerful multi-effects layout allows instant vintage magic and manipulation on your production in a fast creative way.
WOBBLE & FLUTTER
Add "Wobble and Flutter" to your tracks, emulating the classic effect of vintage analog equipment like degraded tape machines and vinyl record players. With dedicated controls for Rate amount, Fast/Slow Speed, Drift, Stereo Width, X Modulation, Mix, and Vary Control.
SATURATION & DISTORTION
Add the vintage magical sound of analog saturation warmth, noise, and distortion. With nine models including Tube, Speaker, Vinyl, and Synth emulations, plus HP/LP Filter, Mix, and Vary Controls.
SAMPLE RATE & BIT RATE REDUCTION
Recreate the iconic lo-fi sound of vintage and classic old-school Akai MPC and S Series Samplers to VHS and cassette tapes. With dedicated bit crushing and sample rate reduction controls to color your sound. Also includes HP/LP Filter, Smooth, Glitch, Length, Envelope, Stereo and Vary Controls. The Flavor never stops!
TRUE VINYL NOISE EMULATION
Control the "true sound" and behavior of vinyl with accurate Crackle, Clicks, Pops, Hum, Rumble, and Noise emulations.
VOLUME - TAPE MACHINE DRIFT & DROPOUTS
Emulate the behavior of Reel 2 Reel Tape adding dropouts and drift. With dedicated controls for Rate amount, Fast/Slow Speed, Drift, Dropouts, Stereo width, Mix, and Vary Control.
TIMBRE - LO-FI EQ SOUND PROFILES
Add EQ color enhancements with 32 creative EQ profiles to shape your sound even further. From Lo-Fi Radio Resistors to 1930's Gramophone and classic Boomboxes.
INTENSITY, MAIN OUTPUT HI/LP EQ, WIDTH & MAIN OUTPUT GAIN CONTROL
Control the overall amount of Flavor Pro's effect across your sample groups and the main output channel. Enhance and create even more possibilities with the dedicated main output Hi-Pass and Low-Pass EQ Filters. Add stereo dimension, space, separation, and width to your productions along with main output gain control.
Unlock and explore "30 years" of lo-fi sampling history in a single powerful plugin.
Taste the Flavor yourself and add new ingredients to spice up your beats and instrument plugins.
Unlock these sounds in Akai MPC/FORCE for FREE
Purchase this plugin and you'll get the ability to unlock it within your Akai Professional MPC / FORCE Standalone hardware as well as using within your favorite DAW. Seamlessly move productions from standalone hardware to your DAW with the same great sounds.
System Requirements
Flavor Pro is designed to support VST 2 and VST3 Plugin hosts as well as full support for AU, AAX, and MPC/FORCE Standalone systems. This software requires an internet connection to authorize. You will need to install Akai's MPC desktop software version 2.11 or higher to use desktop versions of the plugins.
| Windows | Mac | MPC/FORCE Standalone Compatibility |
|---|---|---|
| Windows 10 (21h1) - Windows 11 (21h1) | macOS 10.15.7 Catalina - macOS 12.4 Monterey (M1 compatible - check Specific MPC Models for Driver Support) | Flavor Pro is designed to run on standalone MPC systems running 2.11 or later, and FORCE systems running 3.2 or later, including: |
| 2GB free disk space (20GB for all content recommended) | 2GB free disk space (20GB for all content) | MPC One |
| 4GB RAM (8GB recommended) | 4GB RAM (8GB recommended) | MPC Live |
| Dual-core 2.5GHz CPU | Dual-core 2.5GHz CPU | MPC Live II |
| VST 2/3 compatible host | VST 2/3 Plugin compatible host | MPC X |
| AAX plugin compatible host | AAX plugin compatible host | MPC Key 37 |
| AU plugin compatible host | MPC Key 61 | |
| MPC One+ | ||
| MPC X SE | ||
| FORCE |
| Variant | 1 |
