- #ARTURIA V COLLECTION 4 VS 6 PRO#
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- #ARTURIA V COLLECTION 4 VS 6 SERIES#
Komplete Standard contains Session Strings, Komplete Ultimate contains the Pro version and the Symphony Essentials, and Ultimate CE the whole Symphony Series. AFAIK you can no longer export samples from Kontakt, though. Kontakt is required by many third party suppliers and allows you to heavily modulate your sample-based instruments once you get into it, and one can even make one's own Kontakt instruments out of samples from things you own (but not for resale, it might also depend whether the vendor encrypts the samples). Unlike Arturia, NI does a lot of sampled instruments, offering after all the industry standard sampler, Kontakt. Monark, FM 8 - synths built around specific technologies.
#ARTURIA V COLLECTION 4 VS 6 SERIES#
The Play Series - sample-based synths that can modulate two samples at once - mostly interesting for ready-to-play presets. Absynth, Prism, Mikro Prism - powerful and at times quirky synths built from Reaktor. On one hand Komplete contains many popular EDM synths: Massive and Massive X - the flagships. They generally don't seem to be much into sampled instruments, being mostly about synths. There's no studio strings for Arturia, IIRC. (Also currently 50% off due to Black Friday Deal.) It is very visual and plays in the same league as the big ones. Pigments is a modern wavetable synth by Arturia. (Currently 50% off due to Black Friday Deal.) That's what the V Collection is about, faithful emulation.
Beyond that you get a lot of classic synths emulated in the V Collection. But you can also click over to an advanced mode that exposes a whole host of new controls, some of which simply weren’t possible with the physical versions of instruments.The Mellotron was one of the main reasons I got Arturia. Like most instruments in the V collection, the main view is a pretty authentic visual recreation of the original. I’ve only had a few hours to mess with it, but it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite in the bundle. Unsurprisingly, my favorite sounds here are the lo-fi, warbly and bit crushed keys.
The Emulator II V is also rich and satisfying and crams in a surprising amount of ‘80s-style sampling power. Honestly, I’d switch the oscillators to “poor” calibration mode and never look back if I were you. You can even flip a switch to try and capture the magic of an aging and poorly serviced keyboard with oscillators that refuse to stay in tune. The Jun-6 V (Juno) is pretty spot on, and frankly it’s surprising that Arturia only just got around to emulating a Juno.
#ARTURIA V COLLECTION 4 VS 6 SOFTWARE#
Plus Arturia’s software versions include a lot of features and additional flexibility that just isn’t available on the originals. I’d say these emulations get you at least 90-percent of the way when it comes to the analog synths, and even closer when it comes to recreating digital instruments. Insanely nitpicky people might claim to hear the difference between the real deal and a VST, but I’m not sure I always believe them. In general all of instruments in V Collection are pretty solid. If Arturia’s flagship instrument bundle has a weakness, it’s the acoustic piano, electric piano and organ emulations, but the updated Rhodes is truly excellent. The improvements to the Jupiter are relatively subtle, but the Rhodes sounds distinctly better that the version in V Collection 7. The Jupiter 8 and Rhodes instruments are also getting upgrades.
It adds emulations of the Juno-60 and E-MU Emulator II as well as a 16-channel vocoder. In short, it’s a pretty comprehensive collection.Īrturia V Collection 8 is somehow even more comprehensive. It also included recreations of the Synthi AKS, Casio CZ-1, Mellotron M400, Fairlight CMI, Yamaha DX7, Buchla Easel, ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter 8, Minimoog, Moog Modular, Oberheim Matrix 12 and SEM, Sequential Prophet 5, Solina String, Synclavier, Hohner Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer 200A, Hammond B3, Farfisa Compact, Vox Continental and an acoustic piano. For example, even if you could find a Yamaha CS-80 for sale, it would probably cost about the same as a small sedan. Version seven which launched in mid 2019 included 23 instruments, many of them basically unobtainable in vintage physical form. That being said, even at the new higher sticker price V Collection is a hell of a bargain. Though, there is some bad news, the price of V Collection is going from $499 to $599. (The fact that they frequently go on sale for half price doesn’t hurt, either.) And today both are getting major upgrades. In the world of softsynths Arturia’s V Collection and Analog Lab are two of the best bangs for your musical buck.
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