Amazing presentation. SO knowledgeable AND articulate!! Great speaking voice as well. Great examples presented here. No time wasting etc. etc. This presentation is superb. I wish everyone could be this GOOD!!!
As a long time customer, Arturia with V Collection 6 they have FINALLY offered me the upgrade from 6 to 8 for 100 bucks. So now I have to watch both your videos. ;) Thanks.
thanks for sharing! I got the Keylab 49 Mk2 and it came with Arturia Analog Lab 4 and the Piano V2.... I'll tell you right now Arturia is being slept on!! So underrated.. Thanks for sharing!!
The Farfisa is what Rick Wright played on nearly every Pink Floyd album of the ‘60s and ‘70s, especially the middle albums like _Ummagumma_ and _Meddle._
I own several original synths (minimoog, prophet vs, jupiter) that are emulated in this package. Guess what? I prefer V7. No more instability, all keys are working, no cracks from the pots - just great. On the downside: Arturia actually shows on several synths audio inputs. They are only there for cosmetic reasons. You can not actually run external audio through them. A bit of a scam. But overall: great package and as you can see in the video: you really need to study them before you can tell how they work.
Definitely one of the pluses of the V Collection for sure especially when it comes to the more vintage side of things. And, especially in the context of a mix, it's damn hard to tell the difference anyway and I'm sure the end listener would never even know haha. I'll be interested to see what future versions offer as they have started cutting out the filters from a few of these and such, so perhaps we'll see some kind of audio through capabilities in the next update (and hopefully a Roland D50!)
@@VenusTheory I wouldn't hold my breath for a D-50... Roland wants you to subscribe for access to the "Roland Cloud," sort of similar to this collection, but with only Rolands, including the drum machines.
The original DX7 only used sine waves for all 6 operators, whether they were modulators or carriers. The fact that you can select from multiple waveforms for any operator on the Arturia is HUGE! The TX81Z was a 4 operator rack mount synth that had multiple waveforms for each operator.
I was debating about getting this or not but when you imported your own sample into the Mellotron and played it back using the Mellotron circuitry, I was sold.
Took me MANY HOURS to get through this video as I kept toggling back and forth to my own Arturia V Collection 6 (that I picked up for $40 since AVC7 just came out) playing around with all the instruments and learning that I have SO MUCH to learn! Thank you much for making this!!
Thanks for this epic run-through! I know something this big is too much to cover in just an hour and a quarter, but you gave us most of the highlights and several nice peeks under the hoods of some of these great emulations and some of the enhancements. Arturia, you're amazing. Very, very nice. Thanks.
Yo! Glad you enjoyed it! It was definitely a hard video to tackle and quite a bit got either cut out or skipped over as I didn't want it to be crazy long and unwatchable haha. There's so much ground to cover, but I'm glad it was a good overview! One day I do want to sit down and do some deeper explorations into some of the instruments but there's just been so many other things to review/demo on the channel that it just keeps getting pushed back on my list of ideas haha. That said, V Collection as a whole is an incredibly enjoyable experience and a powerhouse of sound for just about any style!
@@VenusTheory -- From just a user's perspective, the V Collection 7 is pretty much overwhelming. I have had this recurring dream since I was 11 or 12 in which I get lost in a vast museum, and exploring the V Collection sometimes feels that way -- except in THIS museum we're allowed to touch and play with all of the exhibits. A dream come true!
bro, i've found myself using the v7 collection moreso than any other plugin for the past couple of weeks. thank god for splice and arturia making it affordable until you're able too pay it off in full
For sure! V Collection is absolutely ridiculous. The depth and usability of it all is pretty unrivaled when it comes to 'play it and have fun doing it' aspect. Can't wait to see what future versions hold!
@@VenusTheory Yeah id imagine. thats awesome. Great demo too man, really makes me want to purchase this. I had a quick questions though about installation. Does it have you download all the plugins at once or do they have a menu where you can pick and choose which synths youd like to download first?
This video is as good as the V Collection. Got my collection on sale at €200. I also use Reason 11 for synths, as a vst in Ableton Live which is also fantastic with its stock instruments and rack extensions. I’ve also subscribed to the Roland Cloud service last year (I know subscription services suck) but I wanted to get my hands on those classic legendary synths and workstation style boards and modules. My take on all this?? Reason was my intro into synthesis and I love to modular feel to it. Roland cloud was a 12 month impulse subscription. Although it’s great having all those vintage synths at your finger tips that sound great, it’s a CPU hog and it crashes in Live frequently (none of my other VSTi do that) and it’s a subscription model. But the VCollection?? Wow!! Sounds amazing, CPU friendly and is frequently on special offer for purchase. Can do more or less what Roland cloud has to offer and you have it for keeps. Bye bye Roland subscription.
Won a 6 month trial of this with 50% off the product after the 6 months, about as close to analogue synths as I’ve heard (bar maybe Dexed) 100% buying, great review!
Buchla systems are really interesting! I do wish I lived in an area that was a bit more conducive to my 'what if' tendencies but that's the price of living in the countryside haha. However I have watched a lot of videos on the Buchla systems and it does seem like a really interesting way to approach synthesis - some really whacky stuff for sure!
I've been a user of Arturia going on ten years now. I got it because it was the opportunity - and the one chance in hell - I would ever have in having those classic synths on my own. And this was back when they had six options available: ARP2600, CS80, Jupiter-8, Minimoog, Moog Modular, Prophet V. Obviously a lot has happened since then and I've been continuously impressed with how they went above and beyond its original counterparts.
I feel that! I would really love to own some of these myself but I'd be living in the box they arrive in haha. I'm really excited for the Behringer DS80 though and have my wallet at the ready. I might have to look into some of the Roland stuff too as I dearly love the Jupiter but I'm holding out for a Behringer clone of that as well someday. Arturia really killed it with V Collection though, and their products as a whole have never really failed to impress me. I love my Keylab, I had a great time with a Minibrute when I owned one, and I really wish I could have kept the Matrixbrute I bought briefly as it was a monster but I needed a poly and couldn't buy another synth on top of the Matrixbrute haha. Maybe someday I'll get one again though!
Yeah, I think I remember a free download for the original bundle for the first 30 days or 60 days as a V Collection . . . Maybe it was like $50 or something, when it first released. I went for it and never looked back. I was so lucky. Now, besides the V Collection 7, I’ve added Pigments and updated everything yesterday, including going to Pigments 2. There is a huge offering of presets for people like me who sometimes are a bit lazy about creating sounds from the raw base. So, although I don’t have all their preset bundles, I do have 10,140. I have a 61 key controller from their last gen, but want to upgrade to the newer higher level 61 keyboard in BLACK!
Perfect deep dive, this is 200 euros at the moment with my Arturia discount (which is around £180 for me) so it seemed like a really good deal and then I saw this video and I was like yeah that's actually mad
It's a lot of fun to play for sure! I completely spaced that one when making this video and it wasn't until the editing phase that I realized I had left it out haha. 10/10 for this collection though, amazing purchase all around!
I own the V collection, and Arturia did it right. I’ve had for a couple months, and i have explored only some the synths in depth. but the Prophet, Jupiter, Mellotron, DX7, the Rhodes are stunning. So far, the big surprise for me is the Wurlitzer. What they’ve done with the sound mod is awesome. The DX actually sounds better than my old DX7...and you can program it without giving up your sanity. Kudos to Arturia for this jaw-dropping collection.
It's really killer! Agreed on the DX7 though haha, I bought one and sold it shortly after due to how easy the DX7V is/doesn't make me want to dig my eyes out. I think over time my favorite has probably become the Matrix 12. Really stoked to see what future versions of the collection contain!
I recommend checking out the Farfisa V a bit more... it's a really good emulation of one of the classic sounds of the 60s (Pink Floyd used it extensively in their early days). And yes, the SEM V is just magnificent
Glad it was helpful! And I'm sure you'll enjoy it, the depth and variety of sounds are incredible. As a producer, it's on my 'must have' list as this is probably the most comprehensive sonic palette of classic sounds/synths out there at a really affordable price point all things considered.
Venus Theory I got it that night and I’ve been in love ever since. There’s endless possibilities. I make retro sounding ambient music so, this is a gold mine for me lol
@@cybersurfer3d837 Ha, yeah I'd imagine so! Definitely a pleasure to work with as there's so much variety in the collection. Can't wait to see what the next edition brings!
I was actually thinking of doing some separate videos on those. I did gloss over them a bit here but I didn't want to spend forever on each synth as there's so much ground to cover. Still a bit in disbelief how crazy the CMI and Synclavier are. Arturia nailed it with those two!
One thing a lot of if not most people miss is the Velocity setting at the bottom of the window. It defaults to DX7. Using a standard MIDI controller you won't get the full range of the DX7's velocity. But if you're using a DX7 to control it, you will get the full range. Unless they've changed that that I've missed. Another awesome thing about the DX7 VSTi is that it can both read DX7 patches and write patches a physical DX7 can use. But BEWARE DLing any large libraries of patches. They are generally a) Not named well if at all and b) Not sorted or tagged in any way. Oh. And there's often duplicates. .......... I made the mistake of installing a whole archive. It's ridiculous.
Seeing some people mentioning Splice- the smart way to buy V Collection is to wait for it to go on sale (multiple times a year, like Black Friday, the Holidays, New Years, etc- just google it). It always goes on sale for $299 for people who don’t own any Arturia stuff and $199 for people with an existing Arturia license (so buy a Keystep or Pigments or a filter/etc and register with Arturia first). And Arturia will do their own financing too.
For sure! There are some killer deals I see for it on occasion that kinda blow my mind! Almost a no brainer just to pick it up on sale just for the sake of having it.
Okay, I must say my attention span is tiny so it takes a lot for me to be able to watch even 10 minutes without skipping through. But I just watched 30 minutes of this without even noticing, and I plan on finishing it! This is such a fantastic in depth video & you've absolutely convinced me to buy this collection on Splice for $25 a month lol. But what most impressed me about this video was your throrough knowledge of a lot of the synths & how they work!! I wanted to know how you learned so much about them & if you have any tips for learning about synthesis? I absolutely love synths and i wanna know as much as I can about them, but I'm kind of overwhelmed and I don't know where to start 😅 any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this awesome video!! I definitely subscribed after this ☺️
Haha glad you enjoyed it - lots of editing and such for this video and I tried to keep it as interesting as I could given the long form. I'm sure you'll love V Collection though, it's insane and one of the coolest things out there for people into these classic synths/sounds. As for how I learned everything, mostly just being a nerd with no social life and nothing better to do. The vast majority of what I learned over the years has just been experimenting, picking apart presets, RU-vid, and resources like Dogs on Acid, Music Radar, Sound on Sound, etc. Beyond that, just Googling around and reading stuff on Wikipedia and whatnot is a great way to learn about the history of each synth and the subject of synthesis in general. That said, probably 80% of the stuff I know has little to no practical application in actually creating music, and even the stuff I do know for that is largely ignored in favor of 'just letting it happen'. Maybe I'll make a video on that at some point haha.
@@VenusTheory It definitely kept me interested & I watched all of it!! Thanks so much for replying & for giving me some places to look for info, I'll definitely try those resources. Also, I got the V Collection and it definitely did NOT disappoint at all!!! I LOVE IT!!! Thanks SO much again!!! I'll be looking forward to your future videos and projects :D
great vid, very informative. possibly in future videos could you increase the volume of the instruments slightly as they were slightly muted in relation to the commentary. Otherwise just want to go out and buy it now. definitely sold it to me
Glad you enjoyed the video! And I actually finally fixed that issue with the DAW/Voice audio recently. Something about the programs I use to capture the videos was acting weird and I finally got it fixed after updating a ton of driver stuff.
I have this plug-in but had yet to really dig into it, didn't know I could add my own samples. cool nor did I know it had all the stomp box effects. thanks.
V Collection is crazy! Although it's a bit of a commitment, I recommend checking out the manual for all the gory details! There's a lot of stuff under the hood here and a massive array of sounds at your fingertips once you know how to use each instrument and some of their more not obvious features!
Great vid through and through but you rightfully earned my hitting the Like button when you said you hated the DX7's Electric Piano sound. I recall cringing from this cold plastic-y sound even as a kid back when Doogie Howser, M.D. was a thing.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! And for sure haha, something about that sound just sets my soul on fire. What's worse is my fiance loves 80s music, so it continues to follow and torment me.
Nice! The Splice deal is killer for V Collection. And for sure, the Mellotron makes me want to make lofi beats to study/relax to 24/7 live radio. Would love to see Arturia turn that into some kind of filter/effect VST so it could be applied on top of whatever, as I'm sure it'd make some killer drum loops and such
I was about to pull the trigger on the $25/Mo Splice deal when Arturia put on their 50% off deal on this and the FX collection. So I grabbed the collection for $250, bc Christ, it's a bargain even at full price; I agree with VT on that. If you can't wait for a sale like this though, or can't afford it, the Splice rent-to-own is a Godsend. I bought my first ever soft-synth through them - Serum. The Output stuff goes on sale occasionally but it's rarely much of a discount. I'll probably utilize Splice for them when I get around to it.
11:40 Waaait man , Orilriver? Ahahahah wow , didn't expect you to read/try all my favorite plugins..and yes, OrilRiver gives you amazing possibilites to have unic reverb effects. Ps. you can change the skin with the left mouse button , just click on the right side of the black window (on top of the plugin , if I'm not mistaken) , close it and reopen it. I tell you that , because the skin n2 is beautiful , nothing to do with the first one xD
Also my university last year had a Buchla System (7 I think), it was worth like £15'000 or something, it had a Dave Shope Barber shop phaser which was worth like £1200-1500, absolutely mad. It was really cool though it's pretty crazy, i basically just recorded a lot of drones and bass sounds, it had a lot of randomisation and random voltage functionality so I tried to use that
Buchla setups are something else. It's always fun to watch videos about them because the range of sounds you can get from them is just insane. Kinda cool that they are almost designed for a more experimental and less 'musical' approach.
I believe it's possible that the Minimoog stairstepping/aliasing only occurs when you're using a mouse to control it. I could be completely wrong though. If this is the case you probably found out a long time ago by now though haha. If I am wrong though I'm guessing they fixed it in an update by now.
me 2, I just decided to pick up an Arturia Keyboard instead of NI or Novation and now it's kinda bummer to see I can get Komplete for 200 and have to pay like 400 for this Arturia V Collection.
FYI - Farfisa is pronounced farFEEZuh. If you just use it as an organ, we used to call it the Farcheeeeza. But if you pump it through some stomp boxen - holy hell it's a scary beast. Frankly, I think the Mellotron is not that great. Yes, you can add your own samples, which is delightful, but as far as a Mellotron goes? GeForce's M-tron eats it for breakfast. The depth and accuracy and breadth of their collection of tapes is just - wow. M-tron even has some tapes from the predecessor of the Mellotron, the Chamberlin. However, M-tron is like $130, and in the collection, the MellotronV (when purchased on sale like it is now) comes out to like $17, so, yeah - totally worth it in context. Thanks for your review - I just picked up the collection last week. My faves? The CS80 gives me chills - almost made me cry. The Fairlight and Synclavier are truly amazing things for sound design. I really like the Wurlitzer and the Farfisa - very fun. The DX7 is a god send for the programming reasons you described. The CZ is OK . The Prophet 5 is *very meh*, but the VS is pretty good. The Oberheim SEM didn't flip my crank, but the Matrix12 made me weak in the knees. The Buchla is great for hell-noise. The MiniMoog is meh - the stepping on the filter is a crime against man and nature. The Moog modular is fine. The Arp2600 is, IMHO, better than the original as the original (at least the one I used) had a fairly high noise floor. The VST is silent, which is great. Thanks for your review!
Glad you enjoyed the video! Agreed on your points - I'd love to see some of the older synths in V Collection get an overhaul as the sounds are a bit hit or miss. I need to experiment with the Prophet VS more for sure though, it's always one I forget about as the Prophet itself is not super inspiring. After having V Collection for a while now I think I'd say the Matrix 12 is probably my favorite. That thing just sounds incredible any way you go about patching it haha. Add a good reverb, and it's pretty much everything that's good in life summed up in audio form.
@@danielmulholland5869 V Collection ! A few websites here in France (Arturia is a French company) had a promotion that lasted only 5 days I think and bundled the software with the keyboard.
Decided to invest in the V-8 collection as the offered price was 269 for 30 synths/instruments. Equals out to around 9 bucks apiece for each synth and instrument. I'll start playing around with presets, and then sound design if I get that far ever. Don't know if I got that price because I purchased their 61 MK2 keyboard. Don't know if I would have purchased the package if it weren't for you video about the collection? I wouldn't mind Arturia doing emulations of their own synths.
The mighty Farfisa !!! Lol. And the VOX Jaguar. Stuff like 96 tears by ? And the mysterians. Double shot by the k-otics. And light my fire by the doors. So many young folks have a hole in their experiences while making statements like “ way back in the 70’s. And the technology of the time”. Lol. We had the real thing. You have emulations. Think about it. The drive to go so far to get a sound. Must have be real visionary’s to create such machines. Real electronics. Real physics. All in a real world experience. No wonder there is so much sourness in this age.
Yo! I haven't tried the Roland version actually so I can't really say. Based on the sound demos I'd say they're pretty close, but I'd have to play with the Roland version to really nitpick haha.
I have. Both sound great but Roland is a CPU hog and of course is subscription based. Arturia collection is amazing sonically and cpu friendly. The only thing that Arturia haven’t emulated it the Roland D50..... yet??
Unfortunately no - didn't end up having time, and a family member wanted to take it back to keep at their house so I no longer have it. But, maybe one day I'll try and borrow it from them for an A/B!
I was hoping to hear fat wide sounds however I'm only a quarter of a way through. I'm hoping to use this synth to layer with Sylenth or hopefully even by itself if I can use FX to widen the sounds. Does anyone know if these synths are capable of that industry recognised (hollywood) big dynamic sounds please. Cool video much appreciated. *quick note I'm a hardstyle producer looking for inspiration from the older synths) *quick note again the DX7 has great potential for unique hardstyle leads once effects have been applied*
Yo dude! I'm not sure what synth you're referring to specifically as this collection features quite a few. However if you're just referring to V Collection as a whole I'd say it's definitely capable of nice big wide sounds! Most of the synths have built in effects to enhance the stereo image as well like Chorus or Reverb, and you can always add third party effects to your processing chain like stereo enhancers and whatnot. That said, most don't feature a 'stereo' or 'width' knob as they are emulating synthesizers that didn't have this function (although some allow you to pan the difference oscillators or layers). So, for that ultra dense unison stuff you can certainly use things like Sylenth or Serum or any other synth that allows you to spread the stereo image with the voices.
@@VenusTheory I'm really enjoying the different sounds they produce so after adding a 6/7 effects effects whilst at the same time layering this synth with lower eqs etc then I foresee great potential for the genre I am producing. I'll have to hit you up with a melody plus chords with the layering included within the next week to show you what I'm trying (and failing hehe) to express in this comment section. Thanks again for showcasing all of synths I've just bought this product via Splice so once dude thanks.
I've heard some rumors of some of the updated features and I'm pretty stoked! V Collection is killer already, but I'm sure it'll only get better with each update/version.
@@VenusTheory The update is now available. Hopefully these updates will make things better for you. I do hope you will do another review on the update.
19:24 yeah THAT crap EP YOU played, 😂yeah- The actual CLASSIC DX7 EP is quite pleasant and rich sounding. I will never understand DX-haters.😂😂 But I’m forced to agree with you in the fact that’s it’s frustrating not being able to just grab a filter knob log knob or slider, or even just simply change the keyboard octave easily. But the broke 18 year old inside my 55 year old body just HAD to have an actual DX7. And what makes you think mine just sits in a corner looking like a sexy midi controller and collecting dust 😏
Absolutely amazing video. I just got the V collection as well and I'm fascinated. Since you're a cubase user, do you use multiple instances of Analog Labs for different instruments, and you mess around the patch from Labs, or you just load the synths as separate instruments? What worked best for you? I wish Analog Labs had the Rack instrument option where you activate multi-outputs
Yo! I never really dug into Analog Lab all that much as I'm more a 'patch and go' type rather than digging through presets (which honestly means I end up wasting a lot of time patching haha). So, I just call up each synth individually and get tweaking
@@JasonGillmanJr Thats what I paid as I have a microbrute, Spark and Analogue Lab. Thats almost the price of a single synth from the range for the whole package.
@@hiddentechno8266 I picked up the Jup-8 and CS80 a few weeks earlier when they were running the individual synths half off. Between Pigments, the V Collection, and just recently, the Kilohearts toolbox, I think I should be set for a while.
Arturia always has some good deals if you're an existing customer for sure! Personally I think I might have to swing their 'three X' series stuff soon just to try it out.
Rather than adding that volume booster to that CS-80, you might have also tried screwing that volume knob a bit clockwise, as it was almost on zero? Also slight mistake on start of the video where you said that you can add noise AND ring modulation to that CZ. But no you cant. You can andd noise OR ring, not both. But other than that: Good video, and I do just got myself V Collection, and damn that it really IS good! :P PS: That Mini Moog filter isssue might be (just guessing) because you had it on Low play mode?
For sure! V Collection is a beastly bundle of toys. For the asking price, it's incredibly impressive what you get and it all sounds really killer too. As for the Moog filter, I'm not sure what the deal with that was but I think it was eventually fixed as I haven't noticed it (though I don't use that one all that much).
Venus Theory For sure! And I’m not either that big of a Moog fan either (sometimes used it for basses basically) but I do like that Modular one, as it’s the only ”true” modular in the collection and I haven’t really checked out modular synths before so that has that new novelty factor in it still. And not least that it sounds so much more fuller and ”beasty” than that mini one. Though I do kinda like those ”semi-modular” ones on a pack too. Theres just that weirdness factor on them that ”OK! I made this strange noise with this that sounds kinda cool. But where and whattahell kind of SONG I’m ever gonna be able to use it!?” :D Bit like some broken instrument, that sounds sick on its own, but how you are ever be able to use it in a band.
Hey, man! Nice stuff. What do you suggest for music producers between Arturia and Native Instruments? You may have other suggestions as well, so don't hesitate to share them with me.
Yo! Well Native Instruments does offer some pretty cool stuff like Razor or Reaktor that Arturia simply doesn't have a comparable product for. I suppose ultimately it comes down to what you need for your workflow/style - if you use a lot of 'classic' sounds and whatnot, the V Collection is damn hard to beat, and Pigments is also very capable for more modern sounds as well. On the other side, if you lean more to modern sounds with more cutting edge vibes then Native Instruments might be the better buy as they have a lot of cool tools and more unique offerings. As always, whenever possible I suggest you demo them as in the end it's just about how it sounds to you and how you like the workflow!
@@VenusTheory Thanks bud for taking your time and writing these valuable insights. I appreciate your efforts and help. So now I will consider both Arturia and Native Instruments.
The V Collection is on sale right now for $200. I want to love it, but is it just me, or do all of their synths sound really thin? UVI's catalog is on sale right now. Tough choices. I will probably go for Shade or Synth Anthology 3.
Some of the older ones definitely feel a bit bland for sure. I wonder if they'll update some of the older emulations with better oscillators and such but who knows. All around it's a solid bank of sounds and synths and in a mix they all sit pretty well except a few that always seem to need some extra processing and such. Whenever I need that like 'big analog' sound though, my go-to is Ultra Analog V3 from AAS.
