When you buy the actual synth, you get its presets but obviously you can adjust all the controls on the synth and make whatever new sound you like.Īnalog Lab technically incorporates all the synths from V Collection 6, but you can only access the presets (the same 6,000+ which come with the individual instruments). Across all the V Collection instruments, there are over 6,000 presets in total. Mind you, when I say 'get you started'', there are hundreds of presets with each synth, and I can imagine some people just use the presets and never actually delve into making their own sounds. 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.Each of Arturia's virtual synths come with a selection of presets to get you started. 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of HDD/SSD speed), but the results are worth it!Īctually, I’ve still managed to run V Collection on some pretty outdated machines!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.

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