Arturia have redesigned the interface to be much more “playable” as the original Casio layouts were made up of buttons and increment inputs – not the most intuitive.Īrturia V Collection 7 also sees updates to their existing plugins, for more information check out the Arturia website here.Īrturia V Collection 7 is set to retail at EUR €499 (Around R8000), they are doing an introductory promo for EUR €399 (Around R6500) and offer various upgrade paths depending on whether you have a previous version.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. The new synth remake that has been added to the new Arturia V Collection 7 is the CZ V, a remake of Casio’s cult-classic Phase Distortion synthesizer. The new V Collection 7 introduces the Synthi V, a remake of the “quirky” EMS Synthi hardware synthesizer. This made it popular for live performances, and can be heard extensively in works from Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. The legendary EMS Synthi first became available in the early 70s, it was designed as a portable modular synthesizer – it had a mod-matrix which used a clever pin system, minimizing on cables and patch-points. Remakes of cult-classics – EMS Synthi and Casio CZ… Mellotron V is one of the new synths in Arturia V Collection 7, it features all of the original tape loops from the early Mellotron models, and even the ability to load your own samples onto the tapes, something which is pretty hard on a real Mellotron.

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