Product Reviews by KVR Members

This synthesizer is amazing; it's a very good, useful emulation of the OB8, from what I can tell, and it has the features I want an emulation of the Oberheim synths to have: clear, lush sounds, easy interface, unison, sample and hold.

The sound is incredible. It doesn't have a sub oscillator, but I haven't been able to tell if it really needs one; you can get the synth to grind low without much of a problem, especially with the unison mode.

There's not much that can be said about the user interface and features; it has a set of filters, the SEM's resonance and cutoff features that seem to be clear enough. (I don't have an actual SEM to compare against, nor am I really concerned about an exact match, personally; I just want the thing to sound good.)

All in all, a very worthwhile synthesizer; I use it with Cubase 7.6, 64-bit windows version, and it works very well for me.

This thing is actually super-nice. The same company puts out the BBE sweeteners, but Cosmos has a more organic feel, a more subtle feel - which makes it more effective. The gain stages make it very easy to tune the output levels, and the three drive levels are impressively useful.

I love this synth. I'm a big fan of the Oberheim sound and feel, and this is an excellent rendition of it.

The sound is very lush, and very "analog" - you can get very deep, thick sounds, or reedy thin sounds. The onboard effects, while not part of the actual SEM product, are very useful and appropriate.

Most things about this device are about as perfect as one could imagine them being; it's very easy to use, very easy to control, very easy to play with.

The modulation matrix and voice programmer are very useful and extraordinarily powerful, probably easier to use in the SEM than any other Arturia synth. I would have hoped that the number of outputs would have matched the inputs (which would have enabled sample and hold, for example) but no luck; this is a very small criticism, in the end.

There are bigger-sounding, possibly more faithful SEM emulators out there - Sonic Projects' OP-X, for example - but the Arturia SEM-V is easier to use in my opinion, and well worth the investment.