{"id":958,"date":"2022-05-11T05:58:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T05:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=958"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:53:31","slug":"arturia-v-collection-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/arturia-v-collection-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Arturia V Collection 11 \ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“YES BUT THIS COLLECTION GOES UP TO ELEVEN”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This page covers the V Collection from version 9 onward. It is currently being refreshed<\/strong>.
For earlier versions please go to this page<\/a> (to see the buff smurfs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is now no doubt that the V Collection<\/em> has changed course over v9, 10 and 11. It once was a select history of synthesis leaning back across the 70’s to the 90’s, bringing the owner a living museum of electronic sounds. It was the One. But growing competition from smaller, more nimble foes like Cherry<\/a> and the big manufacturers themselves – Roland<\/a> and Korg<\/a> getting busy in their vintage – has taken a toll. Arturia had the head start, but is unlikely to maintain it. So they have started into a different path based around their Pigments<\/em> engine and a sample library – the Augmented<\/em> series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the time the Arturia KORG MS20 appeared in V9 it seemed redundant – KORG had already supplied the software version years ago, while Cherry not only had a MS20 but went on to supply a working replica of an actual PS-3300<\/a>. Hell, Full Bucket had an imperfect <\/a>‘simulation’ out for free ages ago. Arturia has fallen behind in delivering the clique antiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One solution might be to go full Godzilla – try patch up any differences with other makers – or buy them out. Get into some more unusual kit. But I appreciate that Arturia have looked at this situation more carefully and wisely and steered to something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augmented Menus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Instead we have Augmented <\/em>things which all seem quite pleasant and useful but first looked and sounded so Native Instruments that it took me a while to get over it. In version 11 we get the full range of augmented instruments from piano to Chinese instruments. We also get a revised interface – more detailed and less bloated. At first use they seem to be ‘solutions’ of the sort that NI supplies<\/a> but there is much more depth – once you have decided on a family. That makes sense as most, not all users are happy with presets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clicking on the Advanced button opens up a subset of Pigments<\/em> – Arturia’s complex synthesiser<\/a>. The wavetables and samples are limited to the theme instrument of each plug in but still there’s a wide variety of sounds possible. The idea seems to be to confine each derivative to a single role and thus make for easier sound design choices. But you end up with seven different instruments this way, which forms barriers to cross breeding the sounds<\/a>. Will that matter? We will see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: all the Augmented synthesisers share a bug – broken tuning on the analogue oscillators.<\/strong>
I think it’s been fixed – will double check – there’s no version update!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Arturia smurfs have been very busy in quality control. Some of the older keyboards have been rewritten and improved in version 10, including the CS80<\/em> and the two Prophets<\/em>, which have been disconnected – no more hybrid. The Prophet VS<\/em> now has expandable single waveforms in the oscillators which is a little closer to the Wavestation. I can imagine that this was not a trivial task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The newest antique is the Roland JP-8000<\/em>, mother of the supersaw. I have a hardware JP-8080<\/a> and very much enjoy using the split layers to create sounds that occupy opposite ends of the spectrum – e.g. a very deep and rich bass and throaty high. Such a simple thing but it makes a huge difference – and Arturia misses out<\/em><\/strong>. Bwaaaargh! Merde! <\/em>OK so that’s a feature of the 8080 not the 8000 but c’mon when there is a Super Jupiter available, don’t just go with the Jupiter! Probably no one else will care but I’ll keep using Cherry’s Mercury 6<\/em><\/a> for this very feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might also want to know about the Feedback Oscillator – yes it can be polyphonic – the original was monophonic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pure LoFi<\/em> is part of the shitty microphones, poor quality tape, electrical hum and engineer’s farts that obsesses the current generation. Do I need to tell you that we hated all that when we were stuck with it? Humph. Note that Pure LoFi<\/em> is one of a Pure<\/em> series, yet to be unleashed, so we should expect similar titles on a shared engine – probably different samples. The graphics make it very obvious they’re quoting a Liven keyboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve already discussed MiniBrute V<\/em><\/a> and will eventually get to SEM V<\/em> and Elka-X V<\/em>… even though Cherry has already swooped in for the kill on these two. That means a compare and contrast which lesser reviewers will relish… they love their X versus Y reviews. Me, I’m more for the pop culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK Arturia – you’ve been the king for a long time. It’s good to be king. But there’s trouble on the borders. Pull out the stops. Run it up the flagpole. Hire a jester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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