And again. Dune 3 expressive suite:
I ran out of money to keep trying these at the moment.
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Same.
The demos sound fun, but I’m not hearing a lot of “this preset wouldn’t have been possible in any of the other synths we already own from previous Expressive Suites.”
I mean, I’d drop $40 on 300 more presets without a second thought, but I need more convincing to buy yet another synth.
I also need a longer runway, to save up for it. The intro sale is ending before I could possibly pull that off.
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Electric pianos are not my thing at all so it would be wrong of me to say much about their latest pairing.
I already owned Lounge Lizard, so my intro price on the new presets was only $20. I think it’s worth that.
Not worth $40, though.
Long story short, every preset ever made for LL now supports per-note bend, and the new presets are just gravy.
…because the rest of their MPE support is really just volume control.
(there’s a small mod matrix where you can map aftertouch and cc74 to three destinations: gain, tremolo depth, and tremolo speed.)
That does give you indirect control of more parameters, as the volume change is earlier in the chain than other parameters. You can use that to drive the auto-wah, for example. Or the distortion. But you can’t control those independently. At least, not per-note.
It’s a sensible arrangement, and the patches are exactly what you expect them to sound like.
Which is to say, largely the same as each other.
But maybe that’s a sign of MPE maturing.
This isn’t a bad thing, overall. But I don’t know that I would have branded it an expressive suite.
Good to see that AAS is finally seeing the light. Was pleading them to consider MPE support for 10 years+ now.
Have most of their old plugins (from Tassman 4 times), MPE support is a good incentive to finally upgrade 
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They are at it again and did a greast job of making this sound absolutely huge in the demo video
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Cool! The dev has a number of interesting looking synths that I didn’t know about (probably just me )
Yeah Dawesome have long included MPE support in their synths and they have an interesting take on synth development in general.