Have you guys noticed that ANYWHERE you turn on the net for Arturia everything is dead. Their own forum last posts are like from BC except some Chinesse spamming. KVR Arturia is somewhere in there too. Anyone anything on this? Are they that bad?
Even though i own the V3 Collection and love the SEM V.
What is it with Arturia?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1339 posts since 25 Sep, 2011 from New York
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- KVRAF
- 2912 posts since 13 Apr, 2008 from Charleston, SC
I think they are focused on their hardware right now....Beatstep. Spark 2 IS due out.
But in terms of making waves, they are polar OPPOSITE of IK Multimedia, ha ha! IK spams their OWN forums.
Jon
But in terms of making waves, they are polar OPPOSITE of IK Multimedia, ha ha! IK spams their OWN forums.
Jon
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1339 posts since 25 Sep, 2011 from New York
Lol.
Reality is a Condition due to Lack of Weed!
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 24 Nov, 2006
Hi,
maybe we are not as much reactive as you would like us to be but we are trying to follow our forum as well as this one.
The thing is that we have also other things to do (as thejonsolo said) so sometimes it takes a bit of time to answer.
Kevin
maybe we are not as much reactive as you would like us to be but we are trying to follow our forum as well as this one.
The thing is that we have also other things to do (as thejonsolo said) so sometimes it takes a bit of time to answer.
Kevin
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- KVRAF
- 2083 posts since 28 Feb, 2011
Kevin, you do a great job and always have.
Arturia is an industry leader again as they once were, but now it's in softsynths with dedicated controllers, and controllers without dedicated synths. Spark, SparkLe, and the new one (forgot the name) are all brilliant...these are designed and manufactured by musicians who make live music, hands-on. The concept of a dedicated controller, without tons of menus but rather tons of knobs, with software running as a VST in your DAW that looks and works exactly the same ... is brilliant beyond words.
As a Spark user, I have always loved the thing, and Kevin has always been very responsive to problems. Arturia is constantly updating the software, hugely improving it, as well as adding new libraries - lots of them. Though I have criticized some of their aging softsynths, I have been and remain a fan of the company overall. I hope they continue to be around and innovate.
I was an early user of the MinimoogV, when it was too CPU-hogging to do most of the types of hands-on things I wanted to do with it (changing multiple parameters simultaneously wasn't possible with even the most powerful PC). I collected their softsynths over the years and eventually upgraded to the V 3.0 collection. Less than a year later I sold it on e-bay for a huge loss because I wasn't using them anymore.
I think the V-Collection is great for programmers looking for particular sounds, and many of the newer emulations are really good. But over the past few years the sound quality just didn't cut it for live playing (filter and sync sweeps, etc.) compared to U-He, NI, Xils, Spectrasonics, etc. The best example is the ModularV. The filter still can't be swept without artifacts, even on a powerful i7 hexacore! I don't know why - maybe there's no oversampling. I suspect that the tech they used is very CPU-intensive and they couldn't update that 9-oscillator beast without a crippling CPU-hit. Don't really know. But imo, they should have found a way to update the sound quality of these synths. That's their Achilles heel in today's market.
But their older synth's problems don't overshadow their current triumphs at all imo.
Arturia is an industry leader again as they once were, but now it's in softsynths with dedicated controllers, and controllers without dedicated synths. Spark, SparkLe, and the new one (forgot the name) are all brilliant...these are designed and manufactured by musicians who make live music, hands-on. The concept of a dedicated controller, without tons of menus but rather tons of knobs, with software running as a VST in your DAW that looks and works exactly the same ... is brilliant beyond words.
As a Spark user, I have always loved the thing, and Kevin has always been very responsive to problems. Arturia is constantly updating the software, hugely improving it, as well as adding new libraries - lots of them. Though I have criticized some of their aging softsynths, I have been and remain a fan of the company overall. I hope they continue to be around and innovate.
I was an early user of the MinimoogV, when it was too CPU-hogging to do most of the types of hands-on things I wanted to do with it (changing multiple parameters simultaneously wasn't possible with even the most powerful PC). I collected their softsynths over the years and eventually upgraded to the V 3.0 collection. Less than a year later I sold it on e-bay for a huge loss because I wasn't using them anymore.
I think the V-Collection is great for programmers looking for particular sounds, and many of the newer emulations are really good. But over the past few years the sound quality just didn't cut it for live playing (filter and sync sweeps, etc.) compared to U-He, NI, Xils, Spectrasonics, etc. The best example is the ModularV. The filter still can't be swept without artifacts, even on a powerful i7 hexacore! I don't know why - maybe there's no oversampling. I suspect that the tech they used is very CPU-intensive and they couldn't update that 9-oscillator beast without a crippling CPU-hit. Don't really know. But imo, they should have found a way to update the sound quality of these synths. That's their Achilles heel in today's market.
But their older synth's problems don't overshadow their current triumphs at all imo.
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- KVRian
- 1236 posts since 8 Jan, 2012 from frankfurt, Germany
Are there any plans from Arturia to update their Synths. It would be nice to reach the Quality from Diva or Monark, I think a lot of people would pay for an update, if also the GUI would become more Userfriendly
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1339 posts since 25 Sep, 2011 from New York
I would love to but ... sold my V3 Collection...if they come to the level of Diva e tc...i'd buy it in a bit.
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- KVRist
- 312 posts since 30 Jun, 2003
It would be nice if they fixed the iMini Audiobus initialization issue...how long has iOS 8 been out? I won't consider buying anything more of theirs till they start supporting the current products better.
Dave
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
I was interested in SEM V, but after reading various comments about it and Arturia software in general, I didn't dare buy it 
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- KVRist
- 113 posts since 23 Nov, 2012
the sem v is superb and I highly recommend you buy it..its great for all kinds of genre of music it can crwate bass flapping basslines and classic sounding synths that sound straight out of a john carpenter movie.
as with a lot of arturia plugins they can be a little tempremental at times but just for the sound it can produce you couldn't ask for a better synth plugin.
as with a lot of arturia plugins they can be a little tempremental at times but just for the sound it can produce you couldn't ask for a better synth plugin.
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- KVRAF
- 8414 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Alesia
I noticed arturia likes to keep pushing out new products before they finish ironing the bugs out in their old ones. I imagine this runs the support staff pretty thin..
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1339 posts since 25 Sep, 2011 from New York
SEM V is actually their best Synth and the only one i have, i love that thing.
Reality is a Condition due to Lack of Weed!
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- KVRian
- 1145 posts since 29 Jun, 2012
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TonyFlyingSquirrel TonyFlyingSquirrel https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=162941
- KVRist
- 43 posts since 14 Oct, 2007 from Auburn, Wa.
I just wish they had phone support.
This is where I found my experience with Roland and Alesis to be stellar.
This is where I found my experience with Roland and Alesis to be stellar.
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 21 Nov, 2014
I've always had great support from Arturia, although I've never had a chance to try Roland or Alesis phone tech support because their keyboards have always worked flawlessly for me!!
