Multiband Filterbank FX Plugin for MPC & DAWs

A Legendary Filter Style Returns

Multiband Filterbank isn't your average audio filter. It's been completely reimagined and designed around the favorite features, precision and quirks of legendary hardware, and then reimagined for the modern musician.

Multiband Filterbank has been crafted for precision and pinpoint accuracy in sculpting and shaping your perfect sound.

Much More Than a Normal Filter

A perfect mixing weapon of choice for Rock and Pop. A sculpting tool for Electronic to R&B and 808 Trap style. Multiband Filterbank can stretch even further into isolated soundscapes and laser focused sound design.

Remove drum elements in your audio, layer by layer to isolate a specific sound. Or twist and tweak the Mod and Envelope Follower parameters to create insane, one-of-a-kind rhythms with your audio.

Multiband Filterbank gives your instruments, voice, drum sounds, and audio tracks the flavor and punch you never knew you missed

COMPLETE

A carefully curated list of filter types, specifically tailored and designed for tactile, multi filter approaches to carving the exact sound you desire.

ELEGANT

An intuitive and multi frequency crossfade feature across Lo, Mid and Hi bands that blends, transforms and conjures up the possibilities for otherworldly filter results.

CHARACTER

A powerful and identifiable Pre-Drive function that offers tons of grit and grime to your original sound on the way in.

SMOOTH

Elegant Envelope Follower per band with graceful Rise and Fall attenuation parameters for added fine tune flexibility.

BOUNCE

AIR's Multiband Filter allows the user to modulate the incoming audio signal with a flexible sweeping Mod parameter “per band” for opening up and pushing your filtered audio to the tipping point.

It's All In The Details

Think of your favorite filter… now imagine a super flexible, multiband filter approach with complete control over every aspect as you sculpt and refine your sound.

Apply Pre-Drive, Lowpass, Hi-Pass, Notch and a sizable helping of multiple filter types and focused filter sweet spots.

Sweep across all 3 bands with dual attenuation to blend your sound into a perfect sounding masterpiece.a

Tweak the fluid Envelope Follower stage per band to lift your sound even further. It's all in the details. All at your fingertips with AIR's Multiband Filterbank.

What They're Saying

NEALHPOGUE

"I've always wanted to find a multi use filter that i didn't have to work so hard to get what I wanted out of it. AIR's Multiband Filterbank is that filter."

7 time Grammy award winning Mixer/Producer

Tyler The Creator - Chromakopia, Kaytranada - Timeless, The Marías - Submarine, Doja Cat - Scarlet

TERRENCE ELAM

"A quick and cool new way to add some movement and color to my tracks on desktop and MPC. I was immediately adding a dynamic texture to a simple piece of music using the Envelope Followers. Multiband Filterbank is perfect for adding harmonics and color to lifeless sounds! The GUI is simple, sleek, intuitive, and it took me no time to understand how it works."

Grammy Nominated Producer / Engineer

Divinity Roxx, GloRilla, Tree Sound Studios, Dreamville

KORESMA

"This AIR Multiband Filterbank plugin is dope! I really liked how dialed in and different I could make sounds come to life. Works great on the drum buss but also for creating rhythmic patterns with my tracks and sounds. The Mid Band sweep and the Envelope Followers are exactly what I've been looking for as a producer."

Producer Songwriter

Emancipator, Richard Houghten, Sky Vinyl Records, "Wasted My Love" for Axel Mansoor

BROOKS ALEXANDER

"This Filterbank plugin is awesome, I currently don't have anything like it. Having control over the parameters of each band is cool! As a techno producer - I can see this plugin being super useful. The presets are amazing - did not expect to get so many cool sounding FX from a multiband filter plugin."

Artist / Producer

Hardwell's Revealed Recordings, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Pt 1

JOSH JACOBSON

"Multiband Filterbank is an imaginative take on one of the most essential tools for electronic music production! The knobs are intuitive enough that I always had some idea what was going on. The Pre Drive sounds really musical and pleasant and I love the Triple Peak preset for bringing out some immediate crispiness from drum breaks."

Artist, Producer & DJ

Laufey, Lizzy McAlpine, BAYNK, Tim Atlas, Mazda, TV series Bel Air

TERRENCE ELAM

"A quick and cool new way to add some movement and color to my tracks on desktop and MPC. I was immediately adding a dynamic texture to a simple piece of music using the Envelope Followers. Multiband Filterbank is perfect for adding harmonics and color to lifeless sounds! The GUI is simple, sleek, intuitive, and it took me no time to understand how it works."

Grammy Nominated Producer / Engineer

Divinity Roxx, GloRilla, Tree Sound Studios, Dreamville

KORESMA

"This AIR Multiband Filterbank plugin is dope! I really liked how dialed in and different I could make sounds come to life. Works great on the drum buss but also for creating rhythmic patterns with my tracks and sounds. The Mid Band sweep and the Envelope Followers are exactly what I've been looking for as a producer."

Producer Songwriter

Emancipator, Richard Houghten, Sky Vinyl Records, "Wasted My Love" for Axel Mansoor

BROOKS ALEXANDER

"This Filterbank plugin is awesome, I currently don't have anything like it. Having control over the parameters of each band is cool! As a techno producer - I can see this plugin being super useful. The presets are amazing - did not expect to get so many cool sounding FX from a multiband filter plugin."

Artist / Producer

Hardwell's Revealed Recordings, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Pt 1

JOSH JACOBSON

"Multiband Filterbank is an imaginative take on one of the most essential tools for electronic music production! The knobs are intuitive enough that I always had some idea what was going on. The Pre Drive sounds really musical and pleasant and I love the Triple Peak preset for bringing out some immediate crispiness from drum breaks."

Artist, Producer & DJ

Laufey, Lizzy McAlpine, BAYNK, Tim Atlas, Mazda, TV series Bel Air

Features

Resonant Filters per band:

Cutoff
Resonance
Envelope Modulation Amount

Filter Type:

Low Pass
Band Pass
High Pass
Notch
Peak

Pre-filter Drive Control

Level Control

Envelope Follower Per Band, assignable to any band:

Rise
Fall
Gain

Live Spectrum Display

Solo Per Band

DISCOVER

1. Walkthrough

2. Overview

3-Band Filter Bank with Adjustable Crossovers

A unique approach to creative filtering, the AIR Music Tech Multiband Filterbank re-ignites the sound, flavor, and energy of legendary hardware multiband filters of the past and brings them into the future.

TRY IT FREE

Download the 10 day trial of Multiband Filterbank desktop: VST, AU, or AAX

System Requirements

Multiband Filterbank is designed to support VST 2 and VST3 Plugin hosts as well as full support for AU, AAX, MPC standalone and desktop systems running version 2.15.1 (or later). This software requires an internet connection for authorization. You will need to install Akai's MPC desktop software version 2.14 or higher to use desktop versions of the plugins.

Windows

MAC

MPC/Force Standalone Compatibility

Windows 10 (22H2) - Windows 11 (23H2)

macOS 13 Ventura - macOS 15 Sequoia - Intel and Apple Silicon

Multiband Filterbank is designed to run on standalone MPC systems running 2.15.1 or later, including:

84.4MB (installed footprint) + 36.3MB (installer) = 120.7MB

192.8MB (installed footprint) + 87.4MB (installer) = 280.2MB

MPC One

4GB RAM

(8GB recommended)

4GB RAM

(8GB recommended)

MPC Live

Intel Core i5, i7, 2.3GHz processor

MPC Live II

VST 2/3 compatible host

MPC X

AAX plugin compatible host

MPC Key 61

AU plugin compatible host

MPC One+

Desktop Standalone

MPC 37

Not currently available for Force customers

MPC LIVE III