I'm considering to buy the Arturia V Collection 8, which is on sale for 400 dollars, for arturia users. I would buy in a 4 monthly payment. (I know that there is the splice rent-to own deal, with less monthly sum but that's 600 dollars) The price is a bit too much for me, but on the other hand it's 27 vintage keyboards/synths, so the average price is 14 dollars, which is insane.
This would be my first purchase for a VST Plugin, maybe that's why I'm overcomplicating this. I mainly do lofi hiphop, chill ambient music, sometimes, hiphop. I know, that there is omnisphere and keyscape, which are perfect for hiphop, but idk, somehow for me the v collection seems to be more unique, maybe it's just the marketing. For this vintage lofi sound, I think this collection would be very suitable. I also own an arturia minilab mk2, so the midi control integrity would be perfect. I'm not a sound design guy, I mainly work from presets, altough I usually tweak the parameters, but I don't make presets from scratch.
It was cool to have most of the plug-ins and libraries I used all in one place while I could preview presets when looking for the right sound. I also liked manipulating the UI knobs vs interacting with the UI of the plug-ins directly(especially for the arturia instruments)
V (as in virtual) Collection 8 is a complete product that includes Analog Lab V plus the full suite of 38 28 software instruments that are represented by Analog Lab presets. You also get more presets in the full collection.
The Analog Lab is an excellent preset browser & player only (fine for many folks), but if you own the full software instruments you will be able to open the full emulated synth interfaces for parameter editing, as well as create and save your own presets. Analog Lab still makes a very useful front end for browsing the collection, and even allows you to layer 2 synths in a multi preset.
I have the full version of IK Syntronic which is a close runner. I also have Roland hardware. The Moog is my main thing in the collection. I guess we all probably have lots of synths hanging out on the deals forum. I also remembered I have the UVI Synth Anthology.
V (as in virtual) Collection 8 is a complete product that includes Analog Lab V plus the full suite of 38 software instruments that are represented by Analog Lab presets. You also get more presets in the full collection.
I can't comment on all of the emulations offered in the collection as to accuracy. I believe Arturia went to great lengths to get these as close as possible, in many cases offering additions the originals don't have. I also realize no emulation is perfect.
When you consider my price of 249.00 for an entire collection of keyboards that are probably so close no one will know compared to the IK B3 X which was retailing at 299.00 when it came out, I picked it up for something like 60.00 with my IK credits. STILL, in comparison to something like the Korg Triton as a VSTi for 249.00 in the Korg shop, this really is a pretty sweet deal if I can open and play with settings similar to the real keyboards.
I also got the entire KORG Collection 3 (10 classic synths) for a cheap upgrade from KORG M1-LE, that includes the Triton and Triton Extreme. That collection is also a nice mix of classic analog and digital synths. Who better to model the original circuitry than KORG itself? Though just as with Arturia, it's best to buy the bundle rather than a la carte.
The Prophets, meanwhile, have been split into two standalone instruments; in previous versions, both the Prophet-5 and VS emulations were handled by a single Prophet V instrument. Once again, each gains a fresh set of presets, additional effect options and more depth of control via the Advanced view, bringing them more in line with the newer cuts in the collection.
Each instrument in the Arturia V Collection has a set of predefined controller objects in the Default Midi Controller Configuration. The example shown here is for the Buchla Easel. The control elements with red rectangles are included in the predefined set. In order to find the Midi controller assignment one has to click on the object and read the information from the black pop-up window (Midi CC number, channel, controller type and value range). There is no overview list of these assignments, neither in the virtual instrument GUI, nor on the Arturia website. Finding these default Midi controller assignments is a tedious task, that has to be performed for all instruments in the collection. The purple rectangles show the controller objects that may be assigned in a User Midi Controller Configuration. These are not included in the data overview presented here.
Arturia's first instruments were emulations of historical synthesizers, organs, and pianos. Arturia's Analog Lab is a collection of presets of these synths with limited sound modeling available, and comes bundled with many of their Keyboard Midi controllers. In 2018 Arturia released their first original software synthesizer named Pigments. Pigments now features four synthesis types, extensive modulation sources and visual indication of control signals. In 2022 Arturia released a new line of "Augmented" software instruments, which brought new approaches to already known sounds. These Augmented instruments are Voice, Piano, Brass and Strings.
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