it's april 2025, any news on lexicon version upgrades? is there a theoretical update date?

On March 27th Harman_pkarr wrote on Lexicon forum:
"Yes, updates are coming for ALL plug-ins. PCM-R, PCM-E, LXP, MPX (Including MPXi/MPXL demo versions)"
No date has been set. There was a picture that is supposed to be from an early beta of a new version where the built date was 22 October 2024. One reason that was stated was some iLok error that must be first corrected by iLok. I'm not holding my breath :-)

Doubt there'd be a pre-announcement of anything as the bundle is now in its, what...16th year of working perfectly on win7, 10, 11 based daws etc.

It is after all....stellar reverb/room/eff stuff that doesn't really need a tweak imo. My pcm60, 70, 80, never received updates after i bought those new I can't think of anything I'd change on the Lexi plugs via updates.

Harman/Lexi would likely never do a pre-announce if they decide they want to return to supporting newer Apple os either imo. Moot point for those of us not using Apple products.

On their own website, they updated the date of the tear sheet March 2025. It’s a PDF and when you read it it looks like it was written five years ago and talks about power PC

So they just change the date.
I have no idea what they’re doing

And neither do they

It may not need anything on the windows side. Mac users need them to add Silicon support and to fix the achingly slow close times in ProTools.

Other issues have been posted above.

There's work to be done. The post on the Lex forum does nothing for me. They have posted similar statements many times, for years. The lure of "we haven't forgotten about it" helps them continue to sell these software bundles to poor souls who don't know what they're getting into.

Yes - it's not the reverbs/effects that need to be tweaked as they are a 1:1 port...nobody would want that as people buy this bundle to get the hardware Lexicon sound in software. It's the fact that it doesn't work in native silicon mode on Macs...so they need to update it to work with newer Macs that's all.

Maybe they don't want to

I’d like to have the algorithms in a single interface.

I think we all would. It would require a lot more coding than they're likely to get into.

We’ll be lucky to see an update considering how useless they are. At least we actually got a software PCM96.

As I understand it, the team from Flux in France is now working on the lexicon suite. If this is accurate, I have high hopes for an update...

On Windows, for the reverbs, everything is working fine so we don’t need an update unless it brings new features. I’ve been hearing bullsh*t from Lexicon for years, I don’t have high hopes 😂

If that is the truth, I would assume that imply that the update will be major new version with a fee. And people will be sure that pre-flux version sounded better.

The supposed new updates are supposed to be free.

No, they're not. I'll just state this so that everyone gets bent out of shape by July

I see Flux has allocated ilok provisioning for Lexi ...whatever that means timeframe-wise.

Haha. Yes, no doubt.

I know everyone wants one plug-in that has every algorithm in it and that does make sense, but I'll just take it as it has been for the last 10 years, because I just set it up in a template
plate on one aux random hall on another

They're not really reinventing the wheel here windows machines are fine small companies that have far more plug-ins to deal with have ported over to silicon mac years ago.

I get that Mac are a pain in the ass, I've been a prisoner of Apple for 25 years or more, when they decide to do something, all the downstream effects are felt, they went from PowerPC to Intel now to their own Chip,
But honestly, I have to say the silicon chip is almost otherworldly to have a computer run that fast and barely get hot at all. Truly groundbreaking.

But I won't give this company a pass since so many developers had to bite the bullet and get their stuff out the door… And we have paid so much for this plug-in. Literally, two plug-ins in their whole arsenal are still on the hook.

They could've given this job to soft tube, they could've given this job to Kiive... dozens of other companies

Pulsar, actually do all the effects for arteria. This is very common. if you click on logos, you'll see names of designers and it doesn't take much to figure out who's making what.

In the case of pulsar, they're design language is exactly the same as arteria with a blurred background edge giving the impression that the GUI is a hardware piece in a three-dimensional space

Seeing as lexicon already have the plug-in up and running, peeling off a tiny bit of their gigantic corporate cash wouldn't have been a big deal
And yet.... five years later I'm writing this ..like a clown