

This emulation (pun intended) recreates that crunchy lo-fi sound. The Emulator II’s 8-bit sampling goodness and factory library were used by too many 80s artists to count. If you’ve ever seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or listened to more than 30 minutes of 80s music, you’ve heard this sampling monster. They’ve also added yet another sound bank in the form of PatchWorks: a 700-patch library of sounds for Analog Lab V.

However, Arturia gives you all that and adds Emulator II V, Jun-6 V, OB-Xa V and Vocoder V, as well as reworked versions of Jup-8 V, Stage-73 V and Analog Lab. Personally, I feel like the M-Audio Hammer 88 really compliments V Collection best because it’s one of the few USB/MIDI keyboard controllers that have an expression pedal input.We thought it couldn’t possibly get any better than this staggering collection of vintage instruments (and wealth of patches). It’s also really easy to assign different parameters to your USB/MIDI controller. That’s because each instrument in V Collection is truly unique. You’ll have much more flexibility that way. However, I usually use this as a starting point and then proceed to load the instrument as its own software instrument. It makes it effortless to find the sound(s) I’m looking for without digging into dozens (if not HUNDREDS) of software instruments. This is probably one of my favourite features of V Collection… Instead of loading each different instrument, you have them all-in-one (including the presets). It’s basically a massive software instrument and search engine that includes all 28 instruments in V Collection.

You’ll even save some time and resources by using Analog Lab. It might require more CPU power (instead of HDD/SSD speed), but the results are worth it!Īctually, I’ve still managed to run V Collection on some pretty outdated machines! Each sound you make with the keyboards/synths in the V Collection are 100% accurate emulations of the original. The “secret ingredients” to V Collection are True Analog Emulation (TAE) and Phi.Īs I already said, you’re not working with sampled instruments here.
