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I would feel ungrateful asking for more. They just added two synths that I had owned and thought they would never emulate: 1. MS-20 because Korg seemed to be actively pushing emulations and reproductions. 2. SQ-80 as it was never as high end as many of the other collection synths. That being said, I would like a sketchpad sequencer in analog lab. Just to put together patches from different synthesizers to see how they work together.
In synth emulation, the Yamaha FS1R. Formant synthesis is one area where you can't buy the hardware and no one else has done an emulation. It would really showcase what the V Collection has been all about. Moving away from emulation, more physically modelled instruments.
Well, I was hoping for a Memory Moog, but I'll take the Korg :-) (Was hoping, because Cherry Audio's interfaces just aren't for me, and with Arturia's emulations you always get that fantastic extra stuff they throw on top, making those instruments so much more interesting)
Mate, you need to make a full on sound design and music production course. I'd buy that in an instant! The melodies you made to demo the new instruments sound great
Currently downloading mine. Ever since hopping aboard the V collection train in 2016 find myself regularly throwing money at Arturia because they do everything synthesis so well.
@@ASAPJermz I agree, except their endless encoders are awful (at least on the MIDI controllers; I haven't tried any of their other ones such as those on MicroFreak). Turning them slowly is consistently jumpy and erratic, and it's not just me, it appears to be very common from looking at their forums. It's the only thing I wish was changed about my Minilab Mk2. I wish I could know the pleasure of recording automation with endless encoders in realtime without having to go back and delete 90+% of the keyframes so the parameters aren't jumping all around. It's a shame because the integration with Analog Lab and V Collection is incredibly good. Arturia, if anyone from your company reads this, *PLEASE* make a *strong* note to your MIDI hardware dev team to consider looking into and fixing this issue for a Mk3 lineup of Minilab, Keylab, and Keylab Essential. I will buy and spread the word with glee if you guys do. Maybe look into how Novation did their Circuit endless encoders because those ones operate quite smoothly for me at least.
@@mikeexits Right now we have a Roland 88 key piano, I have the MPK 225 controller & a 37 key nano keyboard. I haven't owned a synthesizer before so I'm not sure which is best 🤷🏼♂️
"Screamy mono-ey things" is the best way I've ever heard that particular type of synth be described and I love it, it's my favourite type of lead for sure.
Hoped for some drum solutions with the new V collection, especially since they introduced Augmented Series into it. Something like a Spark 3 to tie the entire collection up.
Exactly. Fully updated Spark 2 is /almost/ great and really could use a big update to tighten it up further and make me want to use it. Simple stuff like "normalizing" and/or lowering volumes across kits, as well as better "preset" management -- along with a simple scaleable UI and stability enhancements. Tweaking/tuning the modeled kits to sound more like the drum machines they claim to be would be welcome. As a side note I'd love for u-he to release a low resource drum synth companion to Hive, something like Microtonic but also with the ability to sound like the old classics too. Be fun to see them update the old "Love the Machines" magware drum plugins to 64 bit and put them all in a bundle. They are so immediate and good sounding. There were hundreds. I have 70 or so of them "collected" and they are so easy to get a great sound and sequence out of quickly, but are mostly Windows, and 32bit. If you search a bit you can relatively easily find the 808 and 909 kits (e.g. "ltm909" with the sequencer -- all sample based) but many of them seem to be lost IP. Be so cool to have "legal" and updated versions. Who ever worked on the various sample sets did an ace job though being sample based limits their tweakability of course. Urs/u-he (iirc) was responsible for adding the samples to the re-used sequencer container (which I believe he developed/had developed). I am so struck by how the limitations of these plugins foster rapid music making and keep you from getting bogged down by complexity.
Go check out 'IV Vintage Drum Machines', a free collection of an absolute boatload of vintage drum machine samples (all the classics from Linn, Roland, Oberheim, Simmons and a whole lot more). Sure it'd be nice to have them load into your DAWs drum machine as complete presets, but it's pretty quick to get that set up in my experience.
Not sure if you have any UVI stuff, but Prime 8+ is $27 at the moment (just checked - May 15th - $39 normally) and works in the free workstation if you don’t have Falcon. It’s pretty awesome.
Arturia are such a great company, updating Pigments for no extra cost, great products (I don't work for them!) and just being so helpful to it's customers. Thanks for your videos Venus Theory always really helpful too!
I think the future is in modeling. Arturia, along with SWAM and Pianoteq make improvements in their modeling all the time, so when their new versions come out, their instruments sound even better. With samples, they take a lot of external SSD space, and longer to switch instrument; however, the modeled instruments do use processing power. It’s fun to see how much progression has happened even in the last couple of years. Thanks for the video.
You deserve to have 100 times the subscribers you have. Amazing work an all of the videos, I can only imagine how much work goes into them. P.S. Arturia V9 collection is an absolute MUST HAVE, I find it really challenging to work without it.
Very happy Arturia customer. I really like the focus here on updating and improving existing instruments. The Piano, in particular, will get a ton of use. As a producer the most important thing is the tone coming out of the speakers, glad to see them continually getting better!
After spending a couple of years playing with various hardware and software synths, I’ve come to Respect the V Collection more. It’s a pretty damn good collection of software synths with an insane set of presets for getting things done. Edit: very nice musical demo. Showed this off quite well.
With these more recent videos you are creating, they are quickly becoming a gold standard for my own content development. You are very thoughtful and attentive to the details of your videos, but now even moreso. Very good ! Been a licensed user of Arturia’s V Collection for quite some time, but I really like the addition of the Ensoniq ! . . . and the updates to the other VSTi’s are definitely welcome. Haven’t gotten it yet, but intend to when the right time presents itself.
Always great to see you drop a new video and no exception here. To pile on the Arturia love, I've been all in with these guys (HW & SW) for years and I'll add that their support team is great. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to this domain, and I find their team professional, knowledgeable and patient. Thanks again for all your great content.
Great channel. Keep it up! Question: is Sonicpass a viable alternative to V Collection or Kontakt? I like the idea of Sonicpass's combo of a very large samples library for quick workflow but with the power of Falcon for deep diving (putting aside the arguments over the value of subscriptions). Thanks!
Recently bought collection v on sale. Was ingoring that for a long time, because I tried demos several times on Version 4 and Version 6, but didn't like that back then. Pigments was more than enough to cover all that sonic territory. But. After I saw sale price for 99$ as Pigments user, it was hard to resist. Then I discovered the most powerful thing of Collection V is preset library. Sometimes while working on a project you understand that you need specific sound, like it happened to me with Lately Bass preset. I just opened Analog lab, found it, and continued working without stopping to design a sound. Also its nice to have such synths to fiddle with like Buchla Easel emulation or Modular V. When I want to play with some modular stuff, I just fire it up, poke virtual cables and have fun. Arturia did great job, that's for sure. One of the best companies out there 👌 I won't buy an upgrade now, because I still have a lot synths to explore. By that time it will probably get an update or will go in sale 😅
Amen. Being able to say “ah Lately Bass here would be cool”, or something similarly iconic, is a gift. Even if sometimes it’s a case of “what’s the name of that bird in that 808 State song???” 😂
Thanks broseph! I'm a hack of a musician, but I've been buying gear to have my band buddies over, and I got an Arturia with V Collection 8, just so folks can come over with minimal (or no) gear. The Arturia stuff sounds so damn good. I used to have a couple Fender Rhodes keyboards, and the subtleties of the sounds are really spot on. Love this stuff!!! And like you said, the cost per keyboard is crazy cool. Now I think I'll upgrade, just cuz.
And I felt bummed when the NI store had this for £250 last month. I kept refreshing the store page for a week between TH-cam videos, back when it was V-8 collection. Then I decided I wanted it, right when the price went back up. Originally I decided against it, just so I wouldn't get lost and distracted with all the different instruments, but now... well, I can wait till next year's sale. I had the last minute change of mind when I just decided that the good folk at Arturia deserve money for their great work. Well done Arturia for another great update.
I'm still on V Collection 7, pretty happy with it. I love Arturia, and obviously there's something here for everyone, but I can't say there's much enticing me to update to 9, other than maybe the MS-20. I also just bought a Komplete Kontrol S88 and upgraded to Komplete 13 (not ultimate) so... I probably shouldn't be spending money on softsynths for a minute...
I could have written that comment myself. V collection 7 has lots of great stuff and I just got the S88 and komplete 13. Also got myself a neat Maschine mk3, which I recommend you to get, if you don't have it already. ;) Keep choosing neat stuff to inspire!
There was a great deal on 7 to 8 about a month ago, for me it worked out at £86. I'm fully prepared to wait another couple of years for the same kind of deal to be honest. I mean, they're vintage synths already, what's the rush :)
The original, V2 version of the Korg MS-20 VST sounds crazy good. Don't know how it compares with Arturia's but I liked it better than the Cherry Audio PS-20 and unlike Arturia's it's suuuper light on the CPU. Goes on sale for 50€ during the summer, BF, and so on. If you're looking just for that, it's what I recommend.
I love the New Arturia V collection 9. It's amazing! I've been using Arturia from day 1 of their first releases. It's improved an incredible amount over the years of updates. I highly recommend it to anyone into producing music. BTW, I enjoyed your demo... you play great! 👍 👍
As te owner of their KeyLab MK II and a few instruments, I just bought it for a ridiculous price of $149. Great collection and the great price! Respect.
Also Arturia added MPE support to Jupiter-8, Juno-6, Emulator II (also to Korg MS-20, Augmented series, and to both Prohets) - strange that they only mentioned about this in changelog. Becase it make Arturia's plugins even more interesting.
Love the idea and spent more than I care now to admit on this collection and also have Analog Lab V and 2 Arturia keyboards so I love the idea of what they offer and I just want it to sound good! Rhetorical questions mostly, but just annoys me that it seems as if I am going to have to try something else besides my 3 computers that can’t produce any thing record worthy due to crazy latency and crackling. Definitely not here to hijack your solid presentation. any pointers, “non useless complaint blogs”, or straight forward check list to try in light of updates, Your tunes sound amazing, and I greatly appreciate your channel.
Great job on video! Your clear and concise presentation style made it easy to understand the latest features and updates in the V Collection. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community!
Nice overview. The thing you didn't mention (and, to be fair, Arturia are almost silent about it in their marketing blurb) is that all of the new synths and the updated synths now support MPE. So this update adds 7 new MPE instruments to the Arturia roster. Plus the MPE implementation here is really nice, making it super easy to assign different parameters to the different expressions in a unform fashion. Don't know why they aren't shouting that from the rooftops. Which is a pro in terms of considering the upgrade. Cons wise, not that fussed by the Augmented series, seem to be trying to cut in on the NI market, but just not quite up to par with NI hybrid romplers. Seems like an odd move from Arturia, rather than just getting on and modelling a couple more interesting synths, which is the brand here. None of the presets from the Cs80 v3 transfer to the V4, so it's very hard to A/B them, but most of the difference in sound and cpu hit seems to be coming from the new fx section, as far as I can see. A lot of the v4 presets are heaviy eq'd, chorused and lavished in reverb. So basically all the things you did to the v3 (and the original machine) to make it sound good. Not sold, especially as I'd have to recreate all my presets from scratch. The prophet Vector interface now shows you the waveforms, rather than just an opaque knob with numbers. That's why it feels much more accessible. Plus it's now MPE, which makes it an expressive monster. Same with the five. Good sounding prophet, great. Good sounding MPE Prophet, next level. You don't address the rationale of upgrading here, which is understandable as they give you the update for free. I agree v collection is a no brainer if you are buying it outright. Especially if you do it in one of the occasional half price sales. As to whether this upgrade is worth it, I'm firmly on the fence just now. The MPE stuff is tempting, but do I want to pay the same money again as I paid for the whole collection in the first place for two new synths and MPE upgrades to a handful of others... We'll see. I'll probably do what I always do, tinker with the demos for a couple of weeks and then impulse buy. Or wait until the next round of sales when they offer me the upgrade for 150 bucks. One way or another, there's an innevitability here. Arturia are, as you say, just one of the more interesting makers out there right now.
What do I think of the V collection? Having been a user for years, I've found that there's really a couple instruments that I can't do without but there's a lot of them I never use. And the same is true of the massive catalog of presets; I find a lot of them interesting but basically unusable in my context. That being said, the DX7, pigments, Solina, and OBX are essential to my live gear. Definitely they needed to update the Prophets! The Piano is getting better with every iteration and I've been using it more, but it's definitely a modelled vs sampled instrument, making it much lower in CPU demand but also a little less realistic. I really love the way that Arturia is bundling patch banks for tribute type artists and for specific genre's within V collection.
Got 8 a few weeks ago, but not even close to used up...great video as always! And this together with Pigments and EFX Fragments are my fav among now 650 VST..
I wonder if they were to add 3 or 4 new synths for V-Collection 10, what those would be. Gr8 vid as always. It's nice to see them continually update their circuit emulations too.
Been big fan of the "KORG Collection 3" for years. Last year took a chance on Arturia's V 9 collection half price Black Friday Sale. Was absolutely blown away at the quality and quantity of great sounding vintage Synths! Best music investment I've made in a long time. Life is good! Thanks for a great video, very informative, also got me playing around with the SQ80 V which I had not yet tried. So many great Synths, so little time!
Thanks for the overview. Just started with some arturia stuff yesterday to supplement my Logic and other sounds. I like some of what I’ve heard on what I eventually downloaded and like some of the sounds here. It may have been excessively busy or something but the arturia downloads were some of the slowest I’ve ever come across and the largest pack had to be downloaded several times before it got through without download errors.
@@catastrophicjones Yes I was just unlucky with the day I wanted to download. 8 hours and multiple download errors for Analog Lab V was a bit excessive.
I wish they added a good vst emulation of the odyssey. I love arturias gui and they keep getting better at emulation. I haven't been happy with the korg vsts of ms20 and odyssey I purchased a while back at all.
I'm rapidly becoming an Arturia enthusiast. I was planning on buying a Kawai MP-11SE digital piano, but they were not available, and will not be available until July 2023. After much investigation, consideration, trepidation and procrastination, I bought a Keylab88 mkii, rapidly followed by a minifuse 2. No regrets! I don't think I can resist the V collection 9.
I just bought the update yesterday. It takes up a good bit more drive space, too! Great video as always, Cameron! Sadly…still no update to Spark (which I still use all the time).
I love their stuff too. V Collection is one of veeerrry few VST packages that stacks up to NI Komplete in terms of price-to-power/variety ratio, in my opinion. And their hardware synths seem fantastic (though I don't speak from experience; the OG Korg Minilogue is the most I've ever paid for a piece of music hardware, let alone synthesizers, and I haven't tried MicroFreak yet). I only hope they one day get around to fixing their terribly jumpy endless encoders (on their MIDI controllers like the Minilab and Keylab series). Turning them slowly in any direction while recording automation makes lines that look like a 2D cross-section of sandpaper under a microscope.
I didn't expect they will update Piano V2 to 3 and I agree with you yes it sounds not so much different..but it's like better than before , the ui update it's really cool and it was much appreciated by me tho ahahah
@@xntricity6446 they had a black Friday sale on recently and, because I also already owned Augmented Strings and analogue labs, I was offered a crossgrade price.
This seems great and I'll definitely be upgrading but I was really hoping for an update to the Vocoder to allow for a user defined carrier signal. Imagine just using other instruments from the collection!!
The update was worth it for me because they've started to add MPE to a bunch of these instruments. Not only the ones rewritten for 9 either, MPE has made it into Emulator II, wahey.
Got V-Collection 8 and the upgrade price is pretty good value considering the additional synths/updates. Really wish they'd go for the JX-8P next time around. PG-8X is wonderful but isn't too hot on the updates so won't be surprised if we start seeing compatibility issues with newer hardware/OSs. So glad I went for a Keylab for my first 25+ key MIDI controller as the integration with V-Collection & Analog Lab is wonderful. Sure it's not the same has having the physical synths in front of you, but it's a damn great workflow.
Im curious to ask does the V collection have more presets from the instruments vs analog lab V or the only upside of having the V collection is getting access to tweaking and using the individual synths
I have always loved Oberheim stuff, mostly on account of Eddie Van Halen's influence on my musical path. I've grown quite fond of the CS-80, though. I know Roland has their own thing going on, but it would be nice if they would cooperate a bit with Arturia and get the D-50 in there.
Super late comment here, but Roland have their own equivalent (Roland Cloud), so things like the D-50 & JD-800 etc. that are mostly well known due to their famous samples used unfortunately are very unlikely to be shared with Arturia. You could always get a trial of Roland Clound & record a bunch of samples from it that you could then use in CMI-V or Emulator II V (or something like the TAL-Sampler). Not perfect, but probably your best bet. Alternatively get yourself a D-05 Boutique
nice demo Cameron,not sold on those augmented instruments tough,like pigments they should'nt be in the V collection the v collection is/was all about retro synths,there are still a lot of them arturia could re-make those modern morphing instruments can be made with kontakt or even with the layer function in studio one
I’ve had the V8 for less than a year. My issue is the Keylab Essential 61 has hanging notes. No firmware updates gave corrected this. Using my Roland RD700 NX this problem is not there. However I wanted to use the Arturia keyboard for the menu functions. Happy with the software, want to crap on the hardware! 😃
Just upgraded from 7 to 9. I disagree with you on the Moog Modular as that's one of my favorites along with the Obx-a. Waiting for it all to download. I can't wait to dive in to the vocoder, augmented strings, and augmented voices.
the best thing about v synth is that you can load it up as individual synths OR you can load it as a vst with instant dive into its millions of patches. the patch browsing itself is a joy to use with the rating feature and instant recall. arturia have really thought this through unlike roland cloud which is clunky and barely usable.
Ouch ! The upgrade price from V 8 !!! ... I'll wait 🙄 I LOVE Pigments and really like my V8 Collection. For CS-80 sounds my GoTo is still Arminator2 by Krakli ... P.S. Augmented Strings is Sweet, I can't lie.
Good morning Cameron, a tad late to the party but can you tell me if the sides of that Arturia midi keyboard are that awful brown like the white version ? And yesterday I purchased an A49 Native keyboard as an upgrade to my little Oxygen 25 and found a huge difference in "key feel" where the Oxygen 25 keys are light and easily pressed whereas the A49 keys are rather firm and sort of "CLUNK" down for want of a word of which makes me wonder how the keys feel on the midi I want to buy next the S61 Native OR whatever the "PERCEIVED" new keyboard launch is from Native in June but I'm just an amateur. I've got Pigments and would like the V9 collection but money is wittering down rapidly on what I can only describe as a "Musical Magpie Mayhem" in the software spending department with things I DON'T need but love. Anyways, digressing again I DEMOED Electra 3 from Tone2 last night and THOUGHT it was a far cry from the original fabulous Electra2 but maybe I'm going ToneDeaf in my older years !! Happy Wednesday to your Tuesday, have a Fabulous week
I generally like the V Collection. Not all of the synths are winners in my book, but it was a good grab (I have V7 plus some individual additions). I do wish the upgrade prices would also take into account whether or not you own some of their other products, their upgrade pricing can be a bit hit or miss. As for V9, I gave the newbies a test run and it has some entries I really like, but some of them I'm lukewarm on. Still not sure if I should go from V7 to V9 or not.
I have had the V Collection since version 4 and have always had a good time with it. Not all the synths, naturally; there are some that I never use, like the Casio CZ101 emulation or the Fairlight, but I'll bet that's true for every owner. The only disappointment I have is that certain glitch factors have not been emulated. Specifically, the DX-7 won't glitch like the original 1983 synth (I still have mine): it doesn't behave the same with fixed-frequency carriers, the envolopes don't get "confused" when setting Level 2 to zero along with Level 1 and trying to use Rate 1 as a delay. The Prophet VS didn't sound like a real one (I still have one of those too) and the Synclavier's sampling function doesn't sound at all as clean and weird as the original. Maybe V 9 improves some of that; I'll find out. Also, I'd rather the next synth Arturia adds to the V Collection be the PPG Wave, glitches and all. Don't have one of those, but I want one. That "click" as it jumped through wave tables is iconic and not available in software - yet. Should be easy; it was software to begin with.
@@waltercruz2044 Not that I know of, but then I didn't really look, just assumed nobody had bothered to write one. Two that work great on a hardware DX-7, v.1 : 1. Set the carrier(s) to a low fixed frequency, then program as usual above them. If more than one carrier is involved, it helps to set them to mutally prime frequencies so no "beating" ever happens. This creates a wavery, "watery" sort of timbre vaguely reminiscent of an old Melotron, and can get some really unique "string ensemble" sounds. Fast attacks on the modulators get softened, but in potentially useful ways. 2. In an attempt to get a DAD(s)R envolope, I tried to set Level 2 to zero like Level 1 & 4, and use Rate 1 as a "delay" to the attack. With slow Rate 2 speeds, it creates a sort of "sloppy" section effect, but with fast Rate 2 speeds it does delay the sharp attack, but by an unpredictable amount for each key separately, so that solid chords come out arpeggiated, but with scattered, random timing. Manually arpeggiating the chords on the keys enhances the effect. Both of these "confuse" the CPU on an original DX-7; they don't work at all with Arturia's emulation, possibly due to vastly improved CPU performance that's more difficult to confuse. Maybe there's some way to emulate these effects in the code, but would it work the same? Would it be worth it at all? How may others are there that I never got around to exploring? Questions, questions ...
@@steveditore3165 hum.... I think that your 2nd point was a 'bug' that Brian Eno used on some of his patches and was 'fixed' on MK2 (EG forced damp). Have your heard about Plogue OPS 7? He went to great work to disassemble the original DX7 code, and I'm pretty sure that it should contain the 'bugs' of the original.
@@waltercruz2044 It did seem like the Arturia emulation was a hybrid of the original and the Mk 2 DX-7. I'll definitely check out the Plogue OPS 7, even though I do still have my 1983 hardware DX.
They are running a killer Black Friday deal right now folks. Half price. $299 for new users - my upgrade from 7 (works for 6 too) was $99. Can't pass that up. Yum.
may I ask you if some instruments stopped working after you uninstalled what you didn't want to keep? I just want to maintain a couple installed for now but the daw crashes as I try to open them afterwards. I can't figure out why.
Hello. Great overview of this amazing collection. Do you know if this collection supports the NKS format? I use a Komplete Kontrol keyboard by Native Instruments. Thanks
Alpha Juno and PPG Wave would be good reasons for me to upgrade. Still undecided whether the MS-20 and the updated Prophet 5 and CS-80 justify going from V8 to V9.
1:17 - Have you taken Kung Fu lessons/classes? This is a gesture of respect within that martial arts culture, which is why I ask. I took Wushu which - while I'd rather take Wing Chun or just about anything else for self-defense practicality - I could not understate just how much control it gave me over my body. Martial Arts are cool. Also, cool video of course. Still rocking V Collection 7 over here, which I got juuuust before 8 came out haha. At this point upgrading to the newest version is a waiting game for me, trying to justify the relationship between new features/instruments and the price (just like with Ableton 10, which I got just before 11 came out, although their update price feels particularly hefty to me). I have a hard time believing I'll ever not be excited about new Arturia software synths as they come out, they're great.
So glad to see the prophets separated. That has been long-running bone of contention because the UI had to change between the 5 and the vector everytime you changed presets. Looking forward to trying out the ms20 and hoping this means we may see other Korg machines included in v10 etc.....I'd love to see a poly800 and a DW8000 in the collection at some point. Great vid as always man, and cheers for the heads up on the new update.
I hope you can still stack the P5 and P5-VS together for combo patches. If this is answered in the video, I'll delete this reply once I get to that part, haha.
Agreed on the split. Do you use the Poly-800 much? Got one and a DW-6000 sitting in the storage locker and curious if people really love it, or a niche genre that uses them a lot?
Fizmo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need a Fizmo! Good lord. I'm old enough to remember seeing those in music stores. It was sad to see Ensoniq gasping for breath like that, with a big ol' Emu pecking away at their heads. For reals, though, I would love an ASR-10 knockoff. You can argue that they cover that with the current Ensoniq options, but there was something very specific about that sampler that made it sound different. It was really that or the Akais back then for affordable 16 bit samplers, but the ASR had a) its own special kind of sample thunk that made it easier to mix and b) those amazing f/x built in. But the real one I would want is a Waldorf MicrowaveXT. There is no 'really old synth' I have thought so many times of buying the real thing, no matter the cost and all of the problems with reliability. And I owned a Prophet 10 at one point. But the MXT was one of those synths that couldn't make a boring sound. Sadly, a huge part of that was the knobterrific interface, which would be hard to do in software. But please, please, please Arturia. MicrowveXT!
So, what do you want in V Collection 10? Still waiting on my damn Fizmo... 😅
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I would feel ungrateful asking for more. They just added two synths that I had owned and thought they would never emulate:
1. MS-20 because Korg seemed to be actively pushing emulations and reproductions.
2. SQ-80 as it was never as high end as many of the other collection synths.
That being said, I would like a sketchpad sequencer in analog lab. Just to put together patches from different synthesizers to see how they work together.
In synth emulation, the Yamaha FS1R. Formant synthesis is one area where you can't buy the hardware and no one else has done an emulation. It would really showcase what the V Collection has been all about. Moving away from emulation, more physically modelled instruments.
PPG Wave. The Waldorf one is getting a bit dated, so I think this might be an opportunity for Arturia.
more rare combo organs
Well, I was hoping for a Memory Moog, but I'll take the Korg :-)
(Was hoping, because Cherry Audio's interfaces just aren't for me, and with Arturia's emulations you always get that fantastic extra stuff they throw on top, making those instruments so much more interesting)
Mate, you need to make a full on sound design and music production course. I'd buy that in an instant! The melodies you made to demo the new instruments sound great
Currently downloading mine. Ever since hopping aboard the V collection train in 2016 find myself regularly throwing money at Arturia because they do everything synthesis so well.
You know that arturia's made something really incredible when their website is down after they release it
Honestly they rarely miss 🤷🏼♂️💯
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@@ArturiaOfficial All I want for Christmas is the MiniBrute 2 🙏🏼😂
@@ASAPJermz I agree, except their endless encoders are awful (at least on the MIDI controllers; I haven't tried any of their other ones such as those on MicroFreak). Turning them slowly is consistently jumpy and erratic, and it's not just me, it appears to be very common from looking at their forums. It's the only thing I wish was changed about my Minilab Mk2. I wish I could know the pleasure of recording automation with endless encoders in realtime without having to go back and delete 90+% of the keyframes so the parameters aren't jumping all around.
It's a shame because the integration with Analog Lab and V Collection is incredibly good. Arturia, if anyone from your company reads this, *PLEASE* make a *strong* note to your MIDI hardware dev team to consider looking into and fixing this issue for a Mk3 lineup of Minilab, Keylab, and Keylab Essential. I will buy and spread the word with glee if you guys do. Maybe look into how Novation did their Circuit endless encoders because those ones operate quite smoothly for me at least.
@@mikeexits Right now we have a Roland 88 key piano, I have the MPK 225 controller & a 37 key nano keyboard. I haven't owned a synthesizer before so I'm not sure which is best 🤷🏼♂️
"Screamy mono-ey things" is the best way I've ever heard that particular type of synth be described and I love it, it's my favourite type of lead for sure.
Mate, I could listen to you play with the augmented strings for hours. I started to shut my eyes, it was really nice!
Hoped for some drum solutions with the new V collection, especially since they introduced Augmented Series into it. Something like a Spark 3 to tie the entire collection up.
Exactly. Fully updated Spark 2 is /almost/ great and really could use a big update to tighten it up further and make me want to use it. Simple stuff like "normalizing" and/or lowering volumes across kits, as well as better "preset" management -- along with a simple scaleable UI and stability enhancements. Tweaking/tuning the modeled kits to sound more like the drum machines they claim to be would be welcome.
As a side note I'd love for u-he to release a low resource drum synth companion to Hive, something like Microtonic but also with the ability to sound like the old classics too. Be fun to see them update the old "Love the Machines" magware drum plugins to 64 bit and put them all in a bundle. They are so immediate and good sounding. There were hundreds. I have 70 or so of them "collected" and they are so easy to get a great sound and sequence out of quickly, but are mostly Windows, and 32bit. If you search a bit you can relatively easily find the 808 and 909 kits (e.g. "ltm909" with the sequencer -- all sample based) but many of them seem to be lost IP. Be so cool to have "legal" and updated versions. Who ever worked on the various sample sets did an ace job though being sample based limits their tweakability of course. Urs/u-he (iirc) was responsible for adding the samples to the re-used sequencer container (which I believe he developed/had developed).
I am so struck by how the limitations of these plugins foster rapid music making and keep you from getting bogged down by complexity.
Go check out 'IV Vintage Drum Machines', a free collection of an absolute boatload of vintage drum machine samples (all the classics from Linn, Roland, Oberheim, Simmons and a whole lot more). Sure it'd be nice to have them load into your DAWs drum machine as complete presets, but it's pretty quick to get that set up in my experience.
@@_mickmccarthy yo thanks for telling
@@j.du6 I agrée that Arturia are way overdue for an update to Spark. Why are they ignoring it? 😩
Not sure if you have any UVI stuff, but Prime 8+ is $27 at the moment (just checked - May 15th - $39 normally) and works in the free workstation if you don’t have Falcon. It’s pretty awesome.
Arturia are such a great company, updating Pigments for no extra cost, great products (I don't work for them!) and just being so helpful to it's customers. Thanks for your videos Venus Theory always really helpful too!
I think the future is in modeling. Arturia, along with SWAM and Pianoteq make improvements in their modeling all the time, so when their new versions come out, their instruments sound even better. With samples, they take a lot of external SSD space, and longer to switch instrument; however, the modeled instruments do use processing power. It’s fun to see how much progression has happened even in the last couple of years. Thanks for the video.
You deserve to have 100 times the subscribers you have. Amazing work an all of the videos, I can only imagine how much work goes into them. P.S. Arturia V9 collection is an absolute MUST HAVE, I find it really challenging to work without it.
Very happy Arturia customer. I really like the focus here on updating and improving existing instruments. The Piano, in particular, will get a ton of use. As a producer the most important thing is the tone coming out of the speakers, glad to see them continually getting better!
After spending a couple of years playing with various hardware and software synths, I’ve come to Respect the V Collection more. It’s a pretty damn good collection of software synths with an insane set of presets for getting things done.
Edit: very nice musical demo. Showed this off quite well.
One of very few VST packages that can compete with NI Komplete in terms of price-to-features/variety ratio, in my opinion.
@@mikeexits what's another?
Any advice on good plugins for 808's or other similar drum pads? I downloaded the Arturia Strings a few months ago
With these more recent videos you are creating, they are quickly becoming a gold standard for my own content development.
You are very thoughtful and attentive to the details of your videos, but now even moreso.
Very good !
Been a licensed user of Arturia’s V Collection for quite some time, but I really like the addition of the Ensoniq ! . . . and the updates to the other VSTi’s are definitely welcome.
Haven’t gotten it yet, but intend to when the right time presents itself.
Always great to see you drop a new video and no exception here. To pile on the Arturia love, I've been all in with these guys (HW & SW) for years and I'll add that their support team is great. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to this domain, and I find their team professional, knowledgeable and patient. Thanks again for all your great content.
Great channel. Keep it up!
Question: is Sonicpass a viable alternative to V Collection or Kontakt? I like the idea of Sonicpass's combo of a very large samples library for quick workflow but with the power of Falcon for deep diving (putting aside the arguments over the value of subscriptions). Thanks!
As always, another excellent review. Well done. You pack such a lot of relevant info into every video and I’m learning a huge amount from them.
Recently bought collection v on sale. Was ingoring that for a long time, because I tried demos several times on Version 4 and Version 6, but didn't like that back then.
Pigments was more than enough to cover all that sonic territory.
But. After I saw sale price for 99$ as Pigments user, it was hard to resist.
Then I discovered the most powerful thing of Collection V is preset library. Sometimes while working on a project you understand that you need specific sound, like it happened to me with Lately Bass preset. I just opened Analog lab, found it, and continued working without stopping to design a sound.
Also its nice to have such synths to fiddle with like Buchla Easel emulation or Modular V. When I want to play with some modular stuff, I just fire it up, poke virtual cables and have fun.
Arturia did great job, that's for sure. One of the best companies out there 👌
I won't buy an upgrade now, because I still have a lot synths to explore. By that time it will probably get an update or will go in sale 😅
Amen. Being able to say “ah Lately Bass here would be cool”, or something similarly iconic, is a gift. Even if sometimes it’s a case of “what’s the name of that bird in that 808 State song???” 😂
Thanks broseph! I'm a hack of a musician, but I've been buying gear to have my band buddies over, and I got an Arturia with V Collection 8, just so folks can come over with minimal (or no) gear. The Arturia stuff sounds so damn good. I used to have a couple Fender Rhodes keyboards, and the subtleties of the sounds are really spot on. Love this stuff!!! And like you said, the cost per keyboard is crazy cool. Now I think I'll upgrade, just cuz.
The filter on the MS-20 is the best filter I have heard on a plug in yet.
Great stuff, great video. You sound like Amiga music modules from the 80ies and 90ies when you demonstrate the Ensoniq and the Yamaha . Really cool
And I felt bummed when the NI store had this for £250 last month. I kept refreshing the store page for a week between TH-cam videos, back when it was V-8 collection. Then I decided I wanted it, right when the price went back up.
Originally I decided against it, just so I wouldn't get lost and distracted with all the different instruments, but now... well, I can wait till next year's sale. I had the last minute change of mind when I just decided that the good folk at Arturia deserve money for their great work.
Well done Arturia for another great update.
I'm still on V Collection 7, pretty happy with it. I love Arturia, and obviously there's something here for everyone, but I can't say there's much enticing me to update to 9, other than maybe the MS-20.
I also just bought a Komplete Kontrol S88 and upgraded to Komplete 13 (not ultimate) so... I probably shouldn't be spending money on softsynths for a minute...
I could have written that comment myself. V collection 7 has lots of great stuff and I just got the S88 and komplete 13. Also got myself a neat Maschine mk3, which I recommend you to get, if you don't have it already. ;)
Keep choosing neat stuff to inspire!
Cherry Audio do a good emulation of MS-20 (called PS-20) currently on offer on their site for $29.
There was a great deal on 7 to 8 about a month ago, for me it worked out at £86. I'm fully prepared to wait another couple of years for the same kind of deal to be honest.
I mean, they're vintage synths already, what's the rush :)
The original, V2 version of the Korg MS-20 VST sounds crazy good. Don't know how it compares with Arturia's but I liked it better than the Cherry Audio PS-20 and unlike Arturia's it's suuuper light on the CPU. Goes on sale for 50€ during the summer, BF, and so on. If you're looking just for that, it's what I recommend.
If you use the Jupiter emulation, the updated version in V8 is great. Aside from that I’m happy you’re happy on 7! FOMO and GAS are monsters :)
I love the New Arturia V collection 9. It's amazing! I've been using Arturia from day 1 of their first releases. It's improved an incredible amount over the years of updates. I highly recommend it to anyone into producing music. BTW, I enjoyed your demo... you play great! 👍 👍
What a voice. This guy should get a radio show, preferably in the morning. Interesting video. Liked and subscribed.
As te owner of their KeyLab MK II and a few instruments, I just bought it for a ridiculous price of $149. Great collection and the great price! Respect.
Also Arturia added MPE support to Jupiter-8, Juno-6, Emulator II (also to Korg MS-20, Augmented series, and to both Prohets) - strange that they only mentioned about this in changelog. Becase it make Arturia's plugins even more interesting.
New video, new sounds to explore. Thank you for the quality videos!
That is the overview I was looking for. And great songs to preview instruments!
I'm fully paid up. V9 probably worth it for the Aug strings alone, but I really want to support them so they keep making great tools.
Love the idea and spent more than I care now to admit on this collection and also have Analog Lab V and 2 Arturia keyboards so I love the idea of what they offer and I just want it to sound good! Rhetorical questions mostly, but just annoys me that it seems as if I am going to have to try something else besides my 3 computers that can’t produce any thing record worthy due to crazy latency and crackling. Definitely not here to hijack your solid presentation. any pointers, “non useless complaint blogs”, or straight forward check list to try in light of updates, Your tunes sound amazing, and I greatly appreciate your channel.
Great job on video! Your clear and concise presentation style made it easy to understand the latest features and updates in the V Collection. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community!
Before I continue watching the video, your voice is amazing.
Man, the demos are out of this world… really great stuff…
Nice overview. The thing you didn't mention (and, to be fair, Arturia are almost silent about it in their marketing blurb) is that all of the new synths and the updated synths now support MPE. So this update adds 7 new MPE instruments to the Arturia roster. Plus the MPE implementation here is really nice, making it super easy to assign different parameters to the different expressions in a unform fashion. Don't know why they aren't shouting that from the rooftops.
Which is a pro in terms of considering the upgrade. Cons wise, not that fussed by the Augmented series, seem to be trying to cut in on the NI market, but just not quite up to par with NI hybrid romplers. Seems like an odd move from Arturia, rather than just getting on and modelling a couple more interesting synths, which is the brand here. None of the presets from the Cs80 v3 transfer to the V4, so it's very hard to A/B them, but most of the difference in sound and cpu hit seems to be coming from the new fx section, as far as I can see. A lot of the v4 presets are heaviy eq'd, chorused and lavished in reverb. So basically all the things you did to the v3 (and the original machine) to make it sound good. Not sold, especially as I'd have to recreate all my presets from scratch.
The prophet Vector interface now shows you the waveforms, rather than just an opaque knob with numbers. That's why it feels much more accessible. Plus it's now MPE, which makes it an expressive monster. Same with the five. Good sounding prophet, great. Good sounding MPE Prophet, next level.
You don't address the rationale of upgrading here, which is understandable as they give you the update for free. I agree v collection is a no brainer if you are buying it outright. Especially if you do it in one of the occasional half price sales. As to whether this upgrade is worth it, I'm firmly on the fence just now. The MPE stuff is tempting, but do I want to pay the same money again as I paid for the whole collection in the first place for two new synths and MPE upgrades to a handful of others... We'll see. I'll probably do what I always do, tinker with the demos for a couple of weeks and then impulse buy. Or wait until the next round of sales when they offer me the upgrade for 150 bucks. One way or another, there's an innevitability here. Arturia are, as you say, just one of the more interesting makers out there right now.
I'm glad to hear this since MPE compatibility means I can use that fluid chords vst with some of these.
What do I think of the V collection? Having been a user for years, I've found that there's really a couple instruments that I can't do without but there's a lot of them I never use. And the same is true of the massive catalog of presets; I find a lot of them interesting but basically unusable in my context. That being said, the DX7, pigments, Solina, and OBX are essential to my live gear. Definitely they needed to update the Prophets! The Piano is getting better with every iteration and I've been using it more, but it's definitely a modelled vs sampled instrument, making it much lower in CPU demand but also a little less realistic. I really love the way that Arturia is bundling patch banks for tribute type artists and for specific genre's within V collection.
Got 8 a few weeks ago, but not even close to used up...great video as always! And this together with Pigments and EFX Fragments are my fav among now 650 VST..
I wonder if they were to add 3 or 4 new synths for V-Collection 10, what those would be. Gr8 vid as always. It's nice to see them continually update their circuit emulations too.
Dude I am literally gonna ask this for my birthday because it is is just SO GOOD
Been big fan of the "KORG Collection 3" for years. Last year took a chance on Arturia's V 9 collection half price Black Friday Sale. Was absolutely blown away at the quality and quantity of great sounding vintage Synths! Best music investment I've made in a long time. Life is good! Thanks for a great video, very informative, also got me playing around with the SQ80 V which I had not yet tried. So many great Synths, so little time!
50% Black Friday offer is back!
Love the V Collection. Love this channel!
Great work - again. I love your work on this channel. Thank you for this top notch review!
Thanks for the overview. Just started with some arturia stuff yesterday to supplement my Logic and other sounds. I like some of what I’ve heard on what I eventually downloaded and like some of the sounds here. It may have been excessively busy or something but the arturia downloads were some of the slowest I’ve ever come across and the largest pack had to be downloaded several times before it got through without download errors.
I find it really fast to download. If you want slow try the east west sounds online. Omg takes like a day to download one instrument.
It was a super busy release day, it's usually not that slow. Most likely just due to lots of traffic.
@@catastrophicjones Yes I was just unlucky with the day I wanted to download. 8 hours and multiple download errors for Analog Lab V was a bit excessive.
Good info. Appreciate the vid.
Ha. Love the deadpan delivery. I see what you did there! 🙂
I wish they added a good vst emulation of the odyssey. I love arturias gui and they keep getting better at emulation. I haven't been happy with the korg vsts of ms20 and odyssey I purchased a while back at all.
Are you going to review v collection x? Love this review
I'm rapidly becoming an Arturia enthusiast. I was planning on buying a Kawai MP-11SE digital piano, but they were not available, and will not be available until July 2023. After much investigation, consideration, trepidation and procrastination, I bought a Keylab88 mkii, rapidly followed by a minifuse 2. No regrets! I don't think I can resist the V collection 9.
Great demo. Just added your music to my Apple Music Library. Keep it up!
Super demo of V9. Sounds great
I just bought the update yesterday. It takes up a good bit more drive space, too! Great video as always, Cameron! Sadly…still no update to Spark (which I still use all the time).
I also love ARTURIA's products, they really know how to make things familiar but innovating at the same time. I'm just a big fan since V Collection 4.
I love their stuff too. V Collection is one of veeerrry few VST packages that stacks up to NI Komplete in terms of price-to-power/variety ratio, in my opinion. And their hardware synths seem fantastic (though I don't speak from experience; the OG Korg Minilogue is the most I've ever paid for a piece of music hardware, let alone synthesizers, and I haven't tried MicroFreak yet). I only hope they one day get around to fixing their terribly jumpy endless encoders (on their MIDI controllers like the Minilab and Keylab series). Turning them slowly in any direction while recording automation makes lines that look like a 2D cross-section of sandpaper under a microscope.
I didn't expect they will update Piano V2 to 3 and I agree with you yes it sounds not so much different..but it's like better than before , the ui update it's really cool and it was much appreciated by me tho ahahah
You made some great music in this one!
Still exploring my V Collection 8. I’ll wait it out. Appreciate your content nonetheless 🔥🔥
Just grabbed it for €199 euros, which is an insane value for money. Can’t wait to give these a go tonight. Especially the more pad-oriented synths
How did you get it so cheap? Thanks
@@xntricity6446 they had a black Friday sale on recently and, because I also already owned Augmented Strings and analogue labs, I was offered a crossgrade price.
@@ropedragon9709 super, thanks a mill 👍
This seems great and I'll definitely be upgrading but I was really hoping for an update to the Vocoder to allow for a user defined carrier signal. Imagine just using other instruments from the collection!!
The update was worth it for me because they've started to add MPE to a bunch of these instruments. Not only the ones rewritten for 9 either, MPE has made it into Emulator II, wahey.
lol the Vocoder has MPE support, fun times.
Oh really? That's good to know, thanks for sharing!
Got V-Collection 8 and the upgrade price is pretty good value considering the additional synths/updates. Really wish they'd go for the JX-8P next time around. PG-8X is wonderful but isn't too hot on the updates so won't be surprised if we start seeing compatibility issues with newer hardware/OSs.
So glad I went for a Keylab for my first 25+ key MIDI controller as the integration with V-Collection & Analog Lab is wonderful. Sure it's not the same has having the physical synths in front of you, but it's a damn great workflow.
Im curious to ask does the V collection have more presets from the instruments vs analog lab V or the only upside of having the V collection is getting access to tweaking and using the individual synths
thank you ..amazing explanation/// you stuff is pretty dope //love and respect from Dubai
Just got this whole collection for $60 from a wholesaler audio site. Later I'll upgrade to X for discount. Incredible value.
V collection. It's a joy. I find their Ensoniq emulation more usable than the original hardware, which I own.
Beautiful demo projects! This made me decide to upgrade.
Was glad nine was doing better, you can imagine my surprise and dismay upon hearing the news about what happened with seven.
I have always loved Oberheim stuff, mostly on account of Eddie Van Halen's influence on my musical path. I've grown quite fond of the CS-80, though. I know Roland has their own thing going on, but it would be nice if they would cooperate a bit with Arturia and get the D-50 in there.
I’ve always assumed there’s some unique licensing issues (if not outright patent issues) with the D-50. Likely an interesting story there.
Super late comment here, but Roland have their own equivalent (Roland Cloud), so things like the D-50 & JD-800 etc. that are mostly well known due to their famous samples used unfortunately are very unlikely to be shared with Arturia. You could always get a trial of Roland Clound & record a bunch of samples from it that you could then use in CMI-V or Emulator II V (or something like the TAL-Sampler). Not perfect, but probably your best bet. Alternatively get yourself a D-05 Boutique
nice demo Cameron,not sold on those augmented instruments tough,like pigments they should'nt be in the V collection
the v collection is/was all about retro synths,there are still a lot of them arturia could re-make
those modern morphing instruments can be made with kontakt or even with the layer function in studio one
This voice ;) and thanks for the overview!
Arturia user since 2009. Nice full circle 😉
I’ve had the V8 for less than a year. My issue is the Keylab Essential 61 has hanging notes. No firmware updates gave corrected this. Using my Roland RD700 NX this problem is not there. However I wanted to use the Arturia keyboard for the menu functions. Happy with the software, want to crap on the hardware! 😃
The new synth added 2 days ago "Acid V" is really interesting, I did not expect that ❤
Jesus christ what a voice!!! I think I enjoyed your speaking more than the synths
Love it, what a great company! I have also the Matrix Brut. The Spark Drum Machine could be refreshed.
Great vid, I'm looking forward to trying out the new sq-80 and cs80. Ive subscribed, great channel
Just upgraded from 7 to 9. I disagree with you on the Moog Modular as that's one of my favorites along with the Obx-a. Waiting for it all to download. I can't wait to dive in to the vocoder, augmented strings, and augmented voices.
Great work as always ❤
the best thing about v synth is that you can load it up as individual synths OR you can load it as a vst with instant dive into its millions of patches. the patch browsing itself is a joy to use with the rating feature and instant recall. arturia have really thought this through unlike roland cloud which is clunky and barely usable.
You make the best V Collection videos
I love the v collection 8. Should stave off synth GAS for a few decades. 😁
Exactly what happened to me 😀 Don't want to buy new synths at least this year.
Yea I’ve only used about 7% of the synths in V Collection 8. I got a lot more exploring to do and I’m satisfied.
damn dude, my ms20 mini is literally right next to a stack of cassettes
Ouch ! The upgrade price from V 8 !!! ...
I'll wait 🙄
I LOVE Pigments and really like my V8 Collection.
For CS-80 sounds my GoTo is still Arminator2 by Krakli ...
P.S.
Augmented Strings is Sweet, I can't lie.
I heard that joke like 10 years ago, and I am proud to say, I just got it, I'm rocking a whole brain for sure.
The Prophet VS song sounds like it belongs in risk of rain 2. (The highest compliment I’m allowed to give). Love the vids
Good morning Cameron, a tad late to the party but can you tell me if the sides of that Arturia midi keyboard are that awful brown like the white version ? And yesterday I purchased an A49 Native keyboard as an upgrade to my little Oxygen 25 and found a huge difference in "key feel" where the Oxygen 25 keys are light and easily pressed whereas the A49 keys are rather firm and sort of "CLUNK" down for want of a word of which makes me wonder how the keys feel on the midi I want to buy next the S61 Native OR whatever the "PERCEIVED" new keyboard launch is from Native in June but I'm just an amateur. I've got Pigments and would like the V9 collection but money is wittering down rapidly on what I can only describe as a "Musical Magpie Mayhem" in the software spending department with things I DON'T need but love. Anyways, digressing again I DEMOED Electra 3 from Tone2 last night and THOUGHT it was a far cry from the original fabulous Electra2 but maybe I'm going ToneDeaf in my older years !! Happy Wednesday to your Tuesday, have a Fabulous week
I generally like the V Collection. Not all of the synths are winners in my book, but it was a good grab (I have V7 plus some individual additions). I do wish the upgrade prices would also take into account whether or not you own some of their other products, their upgrade pricing can be a bit hit or miss. As for V9, I gave the newbies a test run and it has some entries I really like, but some of them I'm lukewarm on. Still not sure if I should go from V7 to V9 or not.
Okay, that SQ80V demo was FIRE.
Used this collection in my latest house track. It's insane. 👍🔥
I have had the V Collection since version 4 and have always had a good time with it. Not all the synths,
naturally; there are some that I never use, like the Casio CZ101 emulation or the Fairlight, but I'll bet
that's true for every owner. The only disappointment I have is that certain glitch factors have not been
emulated. Specifically, the DX-7 won't glitch like the original 1983 synth (I still have mine): it doesn't
behave the same with fixed-frequency carriers, the envolopes don't get "confused" when setting Level 2
to zero along with Level 1 and trying to use Rate 1 as a delay. The Prophet VS didn't sound like a real
one (I still have one of those too) and the Synclavier's sampling function doesn't sound at all as clean
and weird as the original. Maybe V 9 improves some of that; I'll find out.
Also, I'd rather the next synth Arturia adds to the V Collection be the PPG Wave, glitches and all. Don't
have one of those, but I want one. That "click" as it jumped through wave tables is iconic and not
available in software - yet. Should be easy; it was software to begin with.
There's some text where I can find these glitches more detailed explained? Got curious about them.
@@waltercruz2044 Not that I know of, but then I didn't really look, just assumed nobody had
bothered to write one. Two that work great on a hardware DX-7, v.1 :
1. Set the carrier(s) to a low fixed frequency, then program as usual above them. If more
than one carrier is involved, it helps to set them to mutally prime frequencies so no
"beating" ever happens. This creates a wavery, "watery" sort of timbre vaguely
reminiscent of an old Melotron, and can get some really unique "string ensemble"
sounds. Fast attacks on the modulators get softened, but in potentially useful ways.
2. In an attempt to get a DAD(s)R envolope, I tried to set Level 2 to zero like Level 1 & 4,
and use Rate 1 as a "delay" to the attack. With slow Rate 2 speeds, it creates a sort of
"sloppy" section effect, but with fast Rate 2 speeds it does delay the sharp attack, but
by an unpredictable amount for each key separately, so that solid chords come out
arpeggiated, but with scattered, random timing. Manually arpeggiating the chords
on the keys enhances the effect.
Both of these "confuse" the CPU on an original DX-7; they don't work at all with
Arturia's emulation, possibly due to vastly improved CPU performance that's more
difficult to confuse. Maybe there's some way to emulate these effects in the code,
but would it work the same? Would it be worth it at all? How may others are there
that I never got around to exploring? Questions, questions ...
@@steveditore3165 hum.... I think that your 2nd point was a 'bug' that Brian Eno used on some of his patches and was 'fixed' on MK2 (EG forced damp).
Have your heard about Plogue OPS 7? He went to great work to disassemble the original DX7 code, and I'm pretty sure that it should contain the 'bugs' of the original.
@@waltercruz2044 It did seem like the Arturia emulation was a hybrid of the original and
the Mk 2 DX-7. I'll definitely check out the Plogue OPS 7, even though I do still have
my 1983 hardware DX.
They are running a killer Black Friday deal right now folks. Half price. $299 for new users - my upgrade from 7 (works for 6 too) was $99. Can't pass that up. Yum.
So what sort of RAM and processing power are we looking at for a smooth workflow?
I really like how they install a desktop icon for each instrument demo, as well as the tedious uninstall process.
may I ask you if some instruments stopped working after you uninstalled what you didn't want to keep? I just want to maintain a couple installed for now but the daw crashes as I try to open them afterwards. I can't figure out why.
I was offered a 60% discount last year so I pulled the trigger. Best present to myself 😂
do you still use it and how is your experience if I may ask?
Hello. Great overview of this amazing collection. Do you know if this collection supports the NKS format? I use a Komplete Kontrol keyboard by Native Instruments.
Thanks
Great music, man.
Dude, they absolutely should've paid you for that
Got into Boardsian territory with that prophet-5 demo
Alpha Juno and PPG Wave would be good reasons for me to upgrade. Still undecided whether the MS-20 and the updated Prophet 5 and CS-80 justify going from V8 to V9.
Lovely little track at 4:20
1:17 - Have you taken Kung Fu lessons/classes? This is a gesture of respect within that martial arts culture, which is why I ask. I took Wushu which - while I'd rather take Wing Chun or just about anything else for self-defense practicality - I could not understate just how much control it gave me over my body. Martial Arts are cool.
Also, cool video of course. Still rocking V Collection 7 over here, which I got juuuust before 8 came out haha. At this point upgrading to the newest version is a waiting game for me, trying to justify the relationship between new features/instruments and the price (just like with Ableton 10, which I got just before 11 came out, although their update price feels particularly hefty to me). I have a hard time believing I'll ever not be excited about new Arturia software synths as they come out, they're great.
So glad to see the prophets separated. That has been long-running bone of contention because the UI had to change between the 5 and the vector everytime you changed presets.
Looking forward to trying out the ms20 and hoping this means we may see other Korg machines included in v10 etc.....I'd love to see a poly800 and a DW8000 in the collection at some point. Great vid as always man, and cheers for the heads up on the new update.
I hope you can still stack the P5 and P5-VS together for combo patches. If this is answered in the video, I'll delete this reply once I get to that part, haha.
Agreed on the split. Do you use the Poly-800 much? Got one and a DW-6000 sitting in the storage locker and curious if people really love it, or a niche genre that uses them a lot?
Fizmo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need a Fizmo! Good lord. I'm old enough to remember seeing those in music stores. It was sad to see Ensoniq gasping for breath like that, with a big ol' Emu pecking away at their heads. For reals, though, I would love an ASR-10 knockoff. You can argue that they cover that with the current Ensoniq options, but there was something very specific about that sampler that made it sound different. It was really that or the Akais back then for affordable 16 bit samplers, but the ASR had a) its own special kind of sample thunk that made it easier to mix and b) those amazing f/x built in. But the real one I would want is a Waldorf MicrowaveXT. There is no 'really old synth' I have thought so many times of buying the real thing, no matter the cost and all of the problems with reliability. And I owned a Prophet 10 at one point. But the MXT was one of those synths that couldn't make a boring sound. Sadly, a huge part of that was the knobterrific interface, which would be hard to do in software. But please, please, please Arturia. MicrowveXT!