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DJMaytag · Post by **DJMaytag** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:50 pm

This flew under my radar, as I am not a V-Collection user, just a Jup-8V and SEM V2 owner. What's the deal with the upgrade from V3 to V4 of the Jup-8V? What sort of benefit is there to this update? Were there other major updates to Arturia's plugin synths?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:56 pm

V4 is a complete DSP rewrite. It actually sounds good now.

DJMaytag · Post by **DJMaytag** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:14 pm

I didn't think that V3 sounded horrible. Will the two co-exist on one machine together, or does V4 overwrite V3?

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:17 pm

V4 is a separate plugin, it is also not compatible with V3 because it's completely rewritten from scratch.

tonedef71 · Post by **tonedef71** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:27 pm

DJMaytag wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:14 pmWill the two co-exist on one machine together

Yes, the two plug-ins can co-exist. As someone else mentioned, the presets from V3 are not compatible with V4.

Niowiad · Post by **Niowiad** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:54 pm

Besides everything already listed, V4 deals with aliasing much better than V3 (although I also liked it), bringing it up to modern standards, and that alone justifies the upgrade in my opinion.

Arashi · Post by **Arashi** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:09 pm

DJMaytag wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:14 pm I didn't think that V3 sounded horrible. Will the two co-exist on one machine together, or does V4 overwrite V3?

I agree. V3 was not bad…just didn't sound as authentic. I did some patch matching with the Jupiter-8 plugout in my System-8 and in some cases it was very close…but in others it was noticeably (not just different, but didn't sound as good), and the gap could not be closed. V4 has closed the gap to the point that I consider it on par with Roland's version. There are still some subtle differences, but they both sound pretty authentic to me.

I really like Roland's emulations, but I hate their plugins (bad UI, terrible performance, bugs that never get fixed), so from now on I'll be using the Arturia version when I need multiple instances or I'm away from the studio (the System-8 is still my default).

BTW, Arturia did a good job on the Juno-6 plugin as well. (The chorus is slightly off, but not bad. I give it an 8/10 because the chorus is really important.)

vertibration · Post by **vertibration** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:16 am

The new jupiter is really good. Its their best vst imo.

DJMaytag · Post by **DJMaytag** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:07 am

I took the $29 splurge to upgrade. Will give it a whirl tomorrow, and will support TAL with buying the J-8 when it goes to full price.

Niowiad · Post by **Niowiad** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:17 am

DJMaytag wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:07 am ... and will support TAL with buying the J-8 when it goes to full price.

DJMaytag · Post by **DJMaytag** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:42 am

LOL. I’m a big supporter of my favorite small developers. I’ve got a lot of TAL’s commercial plugins.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:58 am

DJMaytag wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:07 am I took the $29 splurge to upgrade. Will give it a whirl tomorrow, and will support TAL with buying the J-8 when it goes to full price.

Arturia Jup-8V V4 upgrade?