Arturia Software Synths

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Ahand-picked, expertly-engineered suite of instruments combining timeless sonic craft with cutting-edge enhancements that seamlessly integrate with demanding production workflows. The most iconic synths, blissful keyboards, evocative hybrids and faithfully captured acoustic instruments for endless inspiration, vivid composition and boundless play.

High-performance features that you can count on, premium sound quality you deserve; V Collection X is the result of over 20 years of engineering innovation, musical exploration, and a passion for audio excellence and expressivity.

Vintage icons that sound every bit as exciting and powerful today as they did decades ago. We mapped every circuit, analyzed every component, and enhanced these legendary instruments to bring you unrivaled analog sound, from speaker-rattling sub bass to beautifully rich polyphonic pads.

Breakthroughs of binary and code from the pioneering days of digital technology, from instantly-recognisable one-shots to glorious sci-fi wavetable textures - reborn, remastered, and yours to explore.

Some of the most iconic and instantly recognizable sounds spanning over half a century, distilled into a selection of immersive virtual instruments. Fiery and evocative as ever, from gritty transistor moods to beatific organ tones, and everything in between.

Unique fusions of sampling, synthesis, and musical expression, propelling acoustic and traditional instruments into inspiring contemporary production territory. Discover a wealth of stunning hybrid strings, woodwinds, brass, piano and vocal sounds and apply creative enhancements with cutting-edge synthesis that will transform your musical ideation and composition - from the cinematic to the celestial.

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Long answer: No one keyboard layout (knobs, sliders etc) could hope to represent the myriad of synths in V Collection as it s, let alone how it may develop. I owned and think the Roland System 1 range never felt like a SH101, SH2 or whatever Roland tried to tell me. Rather than one synth to rule them all I prefer the Skeuomorphic representations where everything is where is supposed to be.

For me, the V Collection keyboard would hold tremendous value because it would make V Collection (or some expanded version of Analog Lab as hinted at by TMoore) portable, and completely unshackled by the Tyranny of needing a computer. The keyboard is the computer. You take V Collection wherever you want. You-literally-are playing a synth. With the ability to internally synthesize sound, and with a control surface with which to manipulate the sounds-just like a synth.

Arturia does make several standalone keyboard synths already, just not ones that run V Collection. In the price range you mentioned, you might consider the MiniFreak, which can produce a very wide range of sounds from digital oscillators, or the MiniBrute 2 for an all analogue synth.

The current trend is towards macros and quick parameters like resonance and frequency. Many controller keyboards already have four knobs and four sliders mapped to the macros, particularly those using NKI, like Arturia.

Does anyone get Arturia Synths maxing out now in Cubase 12?

I tried Juno 6 on the start up lead sound and it easily makes the peak meter go red without the Asio guard moving off bottom

Apart from certain sounds especially with Arturia everything looks ok

A peak meter is a type of measuring instrument that visually indicates the instantaneous level of an audio signal that is passing through it (a sound level meter). In sound reproduction, the meter, whether peak or not, is usually meant to correspond to the perceived loudness of a particular signal. The term peak is used to denote the meter's ability, regardless of the type of visual display, to indicate the highest output level at any instant. A peak-reading electrical instrument or meter is on...

When you open JUN6V and play the default sound the peak meter goes straight to red when playing both hands and a few other sounds here and there with the Aturia collection.

I do not get glitches or crackling though through normal.playing.

I have no trouble with Korg collection or Sampletank.

A developer named Fabio from steinberg said he replicated this on the mac, so i cannot be the only one. I do use the control room and i believe it has a few problems.

One guy said he gets maxing out , but when he disengages and re-engages the outputs in control room it is ok until a new instance of Cubase 12 is opened. Steinberg are looking into that.

I would have thought most synths should only max at the most half way on a single track.

So what ST is saying above is that the peak meter is audio related, so what is it about an instument tracks then. Are that not audio related??

As i said i do not get glitches, but it does look bad when the meter hits red after playing.

My Korg Wavestate i swould of thought could be heavy on the gas, but barely makes half way at the most.

The Asio Guard does not move off bottom when the Jun6V is played , so then it only must respond to wave files only. Is that right?

At the moment there is not a gret deal wrong, but i hate meters showing red. Annoying.

I thought i mention that the peak meter does max on the JUN6V quite easily but the real time meter is just under half way .

I have a decent I7 machine on windows 11 with 32 gig ram, so is this the limitations of the I7 six core machine.

Luckily no glitches.

Hi Mlindeb

I thought it best to say what i see even though it may be silly to some people but I cannot understand why the peak keeps hitting red on certain sounds espedcially Arturia but the live play meter does not go over half way and also no glitches.

Call it an observation rather than a moan.

I suppose the techies have an answer.

With the same Freeze options checked ("single bounce per track" and "track fx") a Freeze generates a silent audio clip. Tried it with B-3 V2, both the vst3 and vst2 versions, same results.

You're right, the audio interface is not involved, but the real-time/online audio buffer size is used as the default 'chunk' size for rendering offline. Some synths don't render properly offline if it's too low. Try setting the buffer to 512-1024 samples. If that solves the problem, you can set a non zero BounceBuffsSizeMsec= in the Configuration File to override the real-time setting when bouncing/exporting. I keep mine at 20ms (960 samples at 48kHz) which seems to work well.

Your built of windows 10 also play a role with bugs in Cakewalk. I have had personal experience with this on my test machine last month, where I never had issues with CbB before. I had by accident installed the 20h2 built of windows 10 instead of 21h2. Had a really bad experience with CbB. It kept reverting all my settings back to 0. Even plugin settings when I open the project again.

For whatever reason BounceBuffsSizeMsec was set to 200ms in my config file. Setting it to 20ms, and both Arturia synths in the current project froze correctly without resorting to Real Time.

That would be really cool but they would have to change some of the UIs radically to become touchable.

I've used a few of their synths on a Windows tablet and some are basically unusable without a mouse or touchpad.

Not sure if they'd invest the time to fix these.

Well Pigments seems to be touch friendly and if you are honest it might be the only Arturia synth you need cause if you tweak it right you can manage to emulate many of the other Arturia synth sounds.

@rs2000 said:

That would be really cool but they would have to change some of the UIs radically to become touchable.

I've used a few of their synths on a Windows tablet and some are basically unusable without a mouse or touchpad.

Not sure if they'd invest the time to fix these.

@tobi77 said:

I see the Arturia V 8 Collection but when watching some youtube videos on it many of the sounds sound very much like the sounds i see in Vital youtube videos but the Vital versions are just not named after famous older synths like in the V 8 collection.

I am looking at getting a larger midi keyboard only have the small one right now and see some come with a lite version of the V 8 collection but then i would need to pay more to update to the full V8 collection to get them all - out of my price range right now.