Playing EVERYTHING on ARTURIA ASTROLAB 

Kudos to Woody. Woody does the best production of keyboard demos and reviews. As a home studio guy, I can understand his pain behind the scenes and the thoughtful planning and execution process.

I'm sure there are some people for whom the Astrolab is fine. For me, though, I'm happier with my own MIDI controller that I prefer and mapping its four knobs to the V Collection. I'm considering getting a low-end Surface tablet to run softsynths for a more portable option. If Arturia would just release the V Collection for iPad, I'd pay full price for it immediately.

Top-notch production and performance, Woody. The camera angles/shot composition are perfect. Great lighting too. 🎉

11:08 That real choir is fantastic.

I have the Arturia V Collection, and I’ve always thought the pianos were the weakest point. I still feel like I hear that here; they just seem to lack a certain tonal depth or something. Does anyone else agree, or am I an outlier here?

Great demo! I’m still on the fence about because I already have the software but I do see how this could be usuals as a great auxiliary board for me.

Great sounds and great playing!

Terrible UX design. Who in their right mind gets inspired by a Nest thermostat?

Let's put together something like the Arturia Polybrute 16 with lots of controls, a big screen, and a dedicated sequencer. It would smash so much competition in the workstation and even synth market that it might cause whiplash across the big three whom are clearly in a rut these days. But this? Ya, I need my controls. I suppose if I was just a player it might fit, but again. Such a targeted audience. At least the big three workstations are trying to cater to larger pool of musicians these days.

Nice sounding synth great demo sir

It sounds really good.😊

Awesome instrument, great demo. Thanks a lot, Woody. Kind regards from Munich, Thomas

I loved that lead riff. Reminded me of Cliffs of Dover.

Controls are on the wrong side if you ask me.

Genesis kit please😊

Nice demo Woody. I recently purchased one of these and it’s a decent addition to my synths. It’s never going to replace my Kronos 2 for live use, but offers some great presets to by used in the studio. Really needs to be connected to AnalogPro on your computer to make using it easier.

You are the best Woody!!! 🖖🤓👍

2000 $$-I have all the Arturia sounds in my computer -a lot to mess with

Great Video! Greetings! :)

Thank you woody for your amazing video. This product or every workstation or synthesizer should have kontact player as a standard protocol that users can install their plugin from native instruments or hollywood eastwest or vienna library or others on their keyboard but this arturia player users are limited to arturia plugin and cannot install other third party plugins and in other hand it should can stack up to 16 sounds together like 16 upper sound but u can stack up to 2 upper so this machine has this limitation. The arturia company goes 20 percent of a standard protocol of a best workstation or synthesizer but it should still collaborate with kontact and embed this features that convert this product to a international standard workstation for world that everyone waiting for. I hope we can see these features soon with big 8 inch lcd touch from native instruments or other brands. I Just wanted to say that you have very deep insight to all keyboard brands ecosystem in all RU-vid channels that I have ever seen. Best luck for you. 🎉🎉🎉😊

if you already have a midi controller, can you just buy these sound for you computer?

Don't like esthetically, but It sounds awesome 💥

I am a weird guy who actually likes the design of this keyboard, but dislikes sound of Arturia plugins 😅

Any reason you are wearing the headphones backwards? 🤔🤔

Polytouch ?

Great presentation, but cant see the difference with the Arturia KeyLab Essential mk3 61-key, with Analog Labs 5 included, well I can about $1200 😏

Is the screen not too small?

I can imagine the tiny round central screen will be a huge put off. Rubbish design, especially the placement of the knobs. Not the most thoughtfully designed keyboard.

Meh. Preferring Hydrasynth miles ahead