Arturia V-Collection 5

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Sun May 29, 2016 5:36 pm

Here is a link to an interview on YouTube with Glenn Darcey from Arturia.
It's long but interesting, and besides giving us a peek behind the scenes of Arturia and the decisions they took Glenn also tells more about the current V-collection, Arturia's plans for the future incl. Spark, as well as a status update on the MatrixBrute, the AudioFuse interface, and the new KeyStep.

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Mon May 30, 2016 8:01 pm

Anyone else finding V Collection 5 to be buggy?

Issues I'm finding include:

CS80V3: I can't press the Sawtooth waveform black button on each channel (perhaps one out of 100 presses will engage, so it seems to be a real GUI issue)

CS80V3: The Ring Modulator is weaker in effect when fully on than on CS80V2

All Plugins: Can't allocate MIDI controllers to synth parameters via their new Learn mode

All Plugins: Can't import presets from the previous version.

I've logged bugs against these with Arturia (they have a user problem tracking system). They have already notified me that they are writing a preset converter to convert old presets into a format readable by these new versions.

BobTheDog · Post by **BobTheDog** » Tue May 31, 2016 5:57 pm

Arturia software buggy, well I never!

I have gone back to using the previous version, the old "Random massive burst of monitor killing noise" has reared its ugly head again in the new versions.

It took them years to stop them happening in the old version so who knows how long it will take them to fix the issues with these ones.

Rashk · Post by **Rashk** » Tue May 31, 2016 10:42 pm

In my experience all Arturia software is buggy. But the worst thing is: Arturia doesn't care.

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:59 pm

Last Saturday I was supposed to be sending a neighbour some videos I took of a gig our respective daughters did.

I saw the Arturia offer in my inbox and spent the rest of the day downloading, installing and playing. Been doing a lot of playing on the Jup 8 and Mini V so far - I am pretty impressed - next think is to set up my PRO-2 as a controller.

May be a bit buggy, but sounds good

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:00 am

Rashk wrote:In my experience all Arturia software is buggy. But the worst thing is: Arturia doesn't care.

You need to log calls - and - be polite (I'm slowly learning how to do that

).

To validate my claim - I posted three support requests with Arturia last week - and - they have all been answered.

And - the issue with my controller was a reset of my controller - not a bug!!

I know we all have different experiences with these companies where one person loves them and another hates them - probably both stances valid because one had a good experience and the other a bad one - but I've found increasingly (in my old age

) - that if you're polite to the support groups of these companies they will react positively.

And - I've been using V Collection and all Arturia plugins since their release and they are actually stable - well - up to these releases - there are likely to be teething issues with these because they are complete rewrites.

and I have to say - I'm really loving them. The new Jupiter 8V is quite 'Roland'! The older version sounded just like a generic plugin - but this one is bloody brilliant - and I normally don't warm to plugins but I have to say, Jupiter 8V V3 is a huge improvement.

Also - as much as I loved MinimoogV, this version sounds better. Overall - a nice collection.

But to get back to the point - it isn't true they don't care. I'll give you one anecdote - when they released CS80V I tried to convince them to release a controller with polyphonic aftertouch. Who contacted me by email - their CEO. We had a multi email conversation and they even went as far as initiating exploratory communications with - CME. It all nearly pulled off - but the economics just didn't work out. But what does CME sell today - the Xkey controller with - polyphonic aftertouch. it was a real insight into how these companies work - and I can tell you - they are all passionate, obsessed with this area, pushing the boundary and often hanging in business wise by the skin of their teeth.

It's the same for Korg and the bigger companies too. This is a tough business - there are far easier ways to make money or even make a company 'work' - so I assure you - they may be very, VERY far from perfect - but - by and large they all care.

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 5:51 am

Nah thanks...this is not the 90s anymore.

Broadwave · Post by **Broadwave** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 6:55 am

I had a few problems initially... I couldn't allocate a midi controller to some of the plug-ins in stand alone mode. Persistence helped, it all seems to be working now.

BobTheDog · Post by **BobTheDog** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 8:00 am

Kevin Nolan wrote:
Rashk wrote:In my experience all Arturia software is buggy. But the worst thing is: Arturia doesn't care.

You need to log calls - and - be polite (I'm slowly learning how to do that ).

To validate my claim - I posted three support requests with Arturia last week - and - they have all been answered.

And - the issue with my controller was a reset of my controller - not a bug!!

I know we all have different experiences with these companies where one person loves them and another hates them - probably both stances valid because one had a good experience and the other a bad one - but I've found increasingly (in my old age ) - that if you're polite to the support groups of these companies they will react positively.

And - I've been using V Collection and all Arturia plugins since their release and they are actually stable - well - up to these releases - there are likely to be teething issues with these because they are complete rewrites.

and I have to say - I'm really loving them. The new Jupiter 8V is quite 'Roland'! The older version sounded just like a generic plugin - but this one is bloody brilliant - and I normally don't warm to plugins but I have to say, Jupiter 8V V3 is a huge improvement.

Also - as much as I loved MinimoogV, this version sounds better. Overall - a nice collection.

But to get back to the point - it isn't true they don't care. I'll give you one anecdote - when they released CS80V I tried to convince them to release a controller with polyphonic aftertouch. Who contacted me by email - their CEO. We had a multi email conversation and they even went as far as initiating exploratory communications with - CME. It all nearly pulled off - but the economics just didn't work out. But what does CME sell today - the Xkey controller with - polyphonic aftertouch. it was a real insight into how these companies work - and I can tell you - they are all passionate, obsessed with this area, pushing the boundary and often hanging in business wise by the skin of their teeth.

It's the same for Korg and the bigger companies too. This is a tough business - there are far easier ways to make money or even make a company 'work' - so I assure you - they may be very, VERY far from perfect - but - by and large they all care.

I recently put in support requests to Arturia, Ableton and Celemony.

Arturia answered first within the day, Ableton took two days, Celemony never bothered to answer and needed chasing up after 14 days!

jorgemncardoso · Post by **jorgemncardoso** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 9:27 am

Just installed the collection yesterday, and went strait to the Synclavier

Man, I'll tell you, I have the version 4 and its good but never though it was really great (with the exception of one or two synths), but this time, I would buy it even if just for the Synclavier, it just blew me away in sound quality, warmness and fullness, with one hell of a punch in the lows.

It has virtually most of (if not all) the patches Tony Banks used for the period Genesis used the Synclavier, and so much more...
It has all the sounds from Mama, Home By the Sea, Domino... You name it

Looking forward to test all the other stuff too, especially the newer versions of the Jupiter, Prophet and Cs80

Derek Cook · Post by **Derek Cook** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 5:06 pm

jorgemncardoso wrote:
It has virtually most of (if not all) the patches Tony Banks used for the period Genesis used the Synclavier, and so much more...
It has all the sounds from Mama, Home By the Sea, Domino... You name it

Can't wait to find those.

Are they obvious?

keego · Post by **keego** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:28 pm

jorgemncardoso wrote:Just installed the collection yesterday, and went strait to the Synclavier

It has virtually most of (if not all) the patches Tony Banks used for the period Genesis used the Synclavier, and so much more...
It has all the sounds from Mama, Home By the Sea, Domino... You name it

What are the patch names as I could only find the Voices for Mama.

jorgemncardoso · Post by **jorgemncardoso** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:56 pm

keego wrote:
jorgemncardoso wrote:Just installed the collection yesterday, and went strait to the Synclavier

It has virtually most of (if not all) the patches Tony Banks used for the period Genesis used the Synclavier, and so much more...
It has all the sounds from Mama, Home By the Sea, Domino... You name it

What are the patch names as I could only find the Voices for Mama.

I'll have to look into it again to write down the names of the patches, ill post them when i do.
But from the top of my head, there is the 'Voices 1', the eerie voice lead for Mama (you have to switch portamento On for that tho). The 'Voices', the voice pad for Home by the Sea (the one before the synth solo), i think the main lead solo for HBTS is there too. The Vibes sound for HBTS. The "ghost's" noise Tony plays in the background in the final guitar solo on HBTS, but i had to turn off two pitched partials for it to sound the same (non pitched), cant't remember the name of the patch right now, it's the one Tony explains here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3l7nJujnBU minute 2:45
I'm positive there is one or two sounds from Domino but i can't remember witch.

I'll have to dig in for real this weekend

jorgemncardoso · Post by **jorgemncardoso** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 9:40 pm

Outstanding news guys:

I dont know if anyone knows but there is an official facebook group for patch share on the Arturia Synclavier V

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TimbreShare/

As a lot of the original factory banks and patches are not present in the first official release, one of the group moderators has posted a link to ALL, yes, ALL the Synclavier's factory bank libraries

It's in a Dropbox link here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o7j07gfeaxys ... atuWa?dl=0

So get them while the're hot

They are in .synx format, meaning you put them on a folder and go to the menu on the Synclavier V, choose Import, go to the folder and import all the banks.

What ever Tony Banks sounds where missing in the software factory banks, they are there for sure!! $\:D/$

EDIT: The "That's All" organ patch was just posted

Derek Cook · Post by **Derek Cook** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:02 pm

Thanks for sharing, will need to check those out!