I've watched and saved hundreds of synthesizer /keyboard/module demos on YT, and Ujiime san is definitely the coolest. He never wastes our time and plays pro :)
different experience having everything all in one unit, fun to play without a computer sometimes, I prefer real analogue but can't deny the convenience and complexity digital can give you, room for both
hmmm the only thing I miss is the sound of the old synths. The looks is here. Most of Arturia emulations don't sound very authentic and convincing, actually. Nice looking GUI has a powerful placebo effect. The only Arturia emulations that sound nice to me are Matrix-12, Prophet VS/5, and SEM kinda. The biggest rubbish are Moog emulations. Those sound nothing like Moog, and the filter sounds quite lame. NI Monarch is a better Moog emulation. GForce Minimonsta, too. I'm just trying to be objective, not trolling. ;) Cheers!
I didn't watch with subtitles. I felt I knew what he was saying purely from the context, his inflection, and excitement. Especially on the mini V. My translation: Holy Moley POLYPHONY!!!!!
I only like a few softsynths, and this collection has almost all of them in one box. You have to have this if only for the patches these softies have to offer - well, and the Moog Modular CS-80, Prophet and Oberheim SEM. You should be able to tell that they sound rich and juicy, and pretty darn authentic. Real CS-80s and Obie 8 Voices can set you back $10,000 or more just by themselves, and a Moog Modular as much as a house! Save thousands and get this!
lol actually what he said is 'osireta' instead of oscillator, 'fuiruta' instead of filter, 'kato ofu' instead of cutoff, 'steppu sikensa' intead of step sequencer, and so on. yes, those are loanwords from english in japanese. similar sounds with its original english word but not same. maybe you can learn japanese very easily if you try to learn.
You must be smoking rocks.....I have the keyboard and the software running thru his same imac with KRK speakers....ALL arturia stuff sounds amazing!!! ANALOG is all about the effects...Nothing is ever "raw"...YOU have to make the sounds YOU want.
Lol translate into English, and its another epic tale of a model, he has reproduced this with beer, money and the dream, and there is never such a future. Epic stuff.
This man is one of the best out there but i have not got a clue what he is on about apart from when he turn,s some thing on or off , i wonder how long it would take to learn his language ,or some kind person put,s subtitle for us English folk ,, please
by the way any one no what he think,s of the Arturia v collection 3.0 i am trying to search for as many reviews as possible before committing to shelling out £339.00 that's a the cheapest i can see,, it is very tempting what do you like minded folk think,,,
99% of all critics of plugins can't even remotely describe in precise musically and technically norms what they mean with "fat" and "warm", but constantly throwing around those two words...
I suggest you do what we were doing back in 1990 in our first incarnation as "Burnt Republic" where I ran all of real synths and drum machine through VARIOUS guitar distortion Stomp boxes. You can do that now Virtually or externally. It gives WAY more punch externally though and wont eat up your CPU.
burntrobot I'm looking for a synth box capable of mimic real instruments (guitars, bass and drums basically) and add some cool effects to it, if such exist. Any tips?
Then it sounds like you are looking for a sampler/sequencer. I'd visit a local Guitar Center and look into their used area. I found it easier to learn hardware first then software was a breeze!
burntrobot "more punch", that if there, just would wind up being compressed during recording, mixing etc. But that "more punch" is a myth propagated by people who want to feel like their hardware is better somehow. I had pretty much ALL the cool stuff, moogs, hardware synths, guitars, distortion boxes, everything. With a great system with good AD and DA, good amp etc, 16/24/32 bit mixing you can get more than enough to make your ears bleed with the better virtual instruments. We're also at a place in time that say a system based i7 4770k, with good hardware like Asus in a PC with windows 7, can run the equivalent of a room full of synths (moog/jupiter) etc, while recording real vocals/guitars (or keyboard guitar effects), along with amazing distortion/tube effects all in one machine for under $1000. I know, because I'm doing it right now.
VoidSECT - My favorite thing to do for over 30 years now it use keyboards to mimic real guitars, bass, drums and so on. Most people would do just like "electronic" mixes, where I'd try to get it sounding real. Now I'm doing all plugins under windows 7 and Sonar Producer (doesn't have to be that though). I'd use a good loop of a distortion guitar running in a software sampler, then output that to some of the best amplifier VST simulations with distortion, and some reverb, then run it through to EQ (or the other order). Then it takes a LOT of practice to pull of things that sound like good guitar. Not everything can be done perfectly, but many things can. Or just grab a guitar, which I do sometimes, and play that for fun. To get good at using a keyboard, practice for like hours a day, with pitch and modulation, and try to copy good players like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, or whoever. But this is what I imagined when you said, "synth box". Otherwise, I'm not sure exactly what you meant.
What midi controller-keyboard is he using? Anybody? He seems to have pre-assigned the knobs on the VSTs to it and I like the variety of its controllers...you know, push buttons/faders/turning knobs/and even little drum pads and keyboard...Appealing
It's VIRTUAL... and INEXPENSIVE. What I can't understand is why ppl pay for full size hardware virtual analog. I think these are fantastic, but does my Mini V sound as good as a real Mini? Please...
Lol, he runs it on a mac like a fool. But that's alright, it works. Only thing is it can run less plugins than a high end PC which can be found for under $1000 if you know where to shop. Why? obviously because apple never ships the fastest cpu's, even though they charge more. Not hard to figure out. Like when they made people wait nearly 2 years for core i7 imacs, while pc users had them. That's why. That said, I have this software and it runs great in windows 7. The moog modular is amazing!
A lot of music production software is OSX specific, like Logic Pro, or have better support on OSX like Protools, Ableton Live etc. OSX also has far better built in Audio/MIDI support. That and a majority of the music industry uses macs, so removing any potential compatibility issues is a major factor too, especially if you want to share projects, plugins etc. Yes, overall macs are overpriced, underwhelming and underspecced, but I can see why they're often used in music production. As for CPU power, any potato can be easily used for music production, so this isn't a huge concern unless you aim to do a lot of high samplerate stuff/need to have virtually no latency. I'm able to drive a lot of VSTs, MIDI control hardware and record 16 audio inputs all at once with a shitty AMD CPU. I was still able to do it fine with my previous Q6600 build. If music software utilised GPU power, then that would be amazing and would definitely make PCs a far better option. It could solve a lot of latency issues and GDDR5 RAM is much faster than DDR3/4 RAM.
It`s a valid point.. Am also A PC user, but never the less, if you checked things out, really many things still run better on a Mac than a PC, even if the PC have an i7 and 32gb ram you still get further with a Macbook Pro with an i5 and 16gb of Ram. Music production is not the same thing as making a fast gaming PC. You also generally have much better performance from an Audio interface running thru Firewire or Thunderbolt on a Mac vs usb2/3 or Firewire/Thunderbolt plugin cards on a PC, and have to check if your audio hardware will even RUN with the plugin card especially for Firewire cards. Thats why musicians that use it professional, in 99% cases Will always use A Mac setup. There are so many quirks in PC hardware that if you have to use it seriously in music production, you really need to know what hardware to choose or not to choose, and if we are talking laptops for live usage, its near impossible to find a PC laptop that will have the expandability to use an eg working Firewire or Thunderbolt interface, and be able to expand beyond 16-32gb ram.
i own this software and it sounds like rubbish - very thin and not warm at all. The difference is personality between the cs80, minimoog, jp8 and pro5 come down to the graphics more than anything else - they all kind of sound the same. While this is a nice demo, i think he should have turned the effects of and played us the raw sounds.
v. 3.0 (this one) was very disappointing, especially the CS80V. But every version since then has improved and now V 5.0 and the new v6.0 are pretty authentic and fat sounding.
ces logiciels sont biens mais ont tué la vraie valeur musicale , car la majorité convergent vers le technique inconsciemment , et ils s y noient ainsi ils se retrouveront avec ni inspiration ni avec une belle composition musicale
I have both sparkLE and minlabs. Both are useless pieces of crap. Minilabs crashes every tenths or so times you chnage between voices. Its impossible to use inside a DAW as it crashes if you even look at it like you want to changes a setting. I upgrade SparkLE from 1.6 to 1.7.1, boy what a mistake. The midi controller software crashes just by opening the program. The actual SparkLE program has an "unsupported sampling rate" error and no way I can see to change the sampling rate. When I tried to rollback to 1.6 the sound is distored and crap. I have contacted Arturia 3 times in the last two weeks and the most sensical reply I get is from an automated email system. In conclusion, hardware = junk, software = useless, support = non- existant. Don't waste your money or your time.
Keep in mind that any sample library and midi programs in general are CPU eaters. Usually, you'll need to have a pretty beefy computer actually manage using such software. From your description, I'm guessing you're using a laptop.
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