It’s the kind of unusual synth that you might not risk buying in hardware but will be only too pleased to discover in software, especially with an expanded UI that makes it somewhat easier to wrestle with.Ī synth you might well have bought in hardware – thanks to the many reissues made by Korg in recent years – is the MS20.

This was a keyboard with a pretty unique sound that covered everything from coarse to lush sounds thanks to its mix of digital oscillators and emulated analogue filter. The company has also added 14 sound banks and there are two final ‘Augmented’ additions that see V-Collection 9 go a little off road, which I’ll come to later.įirst of the new classic synths is SQ80 V, a recreation of Ensoniq’s crosswave digital synth. However, Arturia has managed to add a couple of significant classic synths and also made quite a few enhancements to existing instruments.

The collection comprises analogue and digital synths, vocoders, pianos, organs and even samplers, and at €599, it’s a lot less than any single one of these instruments will probably cost you secondhand in hardware.Īrturia V-Collection 9: What’s new in v9?Īfter eight previous versions you’d think that pickings for new keyboard emulations would be thin on the ground. Now at v9, the collection dwarfs that initial set, with 33 instrument emulations and over 9,000 presets. Towards the end of that decade it bundled these plus emulations of the ARP 2600 and Yamaha CS-80 together into what has become the Arturia V-Collection. This is about as good a collection of plugins you’ll find and there’s no better way to bolster your access to classic synth and keyboard sounds (not to mention a couple of newer instruments) without spending tens of thousands of pounds on the real deal.Īrturia started producing software synth emulations in the early 2000s with the Modular V and Mini V, both based on classic Moogs. The collection has become quite bulky so the tyranny of choice will become a real issue.

Fine software emulations of most of the best keyboards ever made, and for a fraction of what they would cost you in hardware.

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