Arturia V Collection 9. Predictions?

[onerob]

Seeing as there's a DX7 they could add a TX816 as well, although it might eat CPU for breakfast.

[Chrisk-K]

I have upgraded from V7 to V8, and do not plan to upgrade to V9 unless hell freezes over or unless the upgrade cost is less than $50.

[dlandis]

I never owned an Ensoniq. Even though I liked their sound, I never trusted their build. Mainly because a store I worked at was an authorized service center that constantly had a pile of them coming in weekly for repair.

I remember that many people had issues with the polyAT keyboards on the VFX and a couple other synths they made. I was blessed in that, for whatever reason, I never had an issue with it.

Overall, I think that I had the most fun programming Ensoniq's synths. They were very inviting in that regard.

[BBFG#]

I never owned an Ensoniq. Even though I liked their sound, I never trusted their build. Mainly because a store I worked at was an authorized service center that constantly had a pile of them coming in weekly for repair.

I remember that many people had issues with the polyAT keyboards on the VFX and a couple other synths they made. I was blessed in that, for whatever reason, I never had an issue with it.

Overall, I think that I had the most fun programming Ensoniq's synths. They were very inviting in that regard.

I played them as well, and they always felt like they were ready to break.
Reading their history, it seems they were always destined to be a great plugin.
Still miss the E-mu sound and what a fully blown Proteus/Morpheus would bring to the collection.
(I also sometimes miss meditating or shooting hoops at their Scotts Valley office, which they were kind enough to allow whenever I wanted.)
I did feel that Ensoniq seemed cursed for any business getting involved with them hardware-wise. But a Fizmo plugin would definitely fit in that vein with a Morpheus plugin.

[fmr]

Still miss the E-mu sound and what a fully blown Proteus/Morpheus would bring to the collection.
(I also sometimes miss meditating or shooting hoops at their Scotts Valley office, which they were kind enough to allow whenever I wanted.)

I think you mean the Ultra Proteus, not the Proteus (the Proteus was a shitty ROMpler that basically played the samples naked - no filters or anything).

The Morpheus and Ultra Proteus, OTOH, had the famous Z-Plane filters, that were also featured in the latest models of the E-Mu samplers (E-IV line). AFAIK, the Z-Plane filters are still under patent protection, therefore noone could launch an instrument featuring them without some kind of licensing agreement. Currently, the patents belong to Creative Labs, which bought all the E-Mu assets.

[davidka]

Still miss the E-mu sound and what a fully blown Proteus/Morpheus would bring to the collection.
(I also sometimes miss meditating or shooting hoops at their Scotts Valley office, which they were kind enough to allow whenever I wanted.)

I think you mean the Ultra Proteus, not the Proteus (the Proteus was a shitty ROMpler that basically played the samples naked - no filters or anything).

The Morpheus and Ultra Proteus, OTOH, had the famous Z-Plane filters, that were also featured in the latest models of the E-Mu samplers (E-IV line). AFAIK, the Z-Plane filters are still under patent protection, therefore noone could launch an instrument featuring them without some kind of licensing agreement. Currently, the patents belong to Creative Labs, which bought all the E-Mu assets.

I believe Dave Rossum's firm (Rossum Electro-Music) might hold this specific technology?
http://www.rossum-electro.com/products/morpheus/

It could be easier to approach him than Creative Labs. If I read it correctly, they weren't particularly open for discussion regarding Ensoniq legacy stuff.

[BBFG#]

Still miss the E-mu sound and what a fully blown Proteus/Morpheus would bring to the collection.
(I also sometimes miss meditating or shooting hoops at their Scotts Valley office, which they were kind enough to allow whenever I wanted.)

I think you mean the Ultra Proteus, not the Proteus (the Proteus was a shitty ROMpler that basically played the samples naked - no filters or anything).

The Morpheus and Ultra Proteus, OTOH, had the famous Z-Plane filters, that were also featured in the latest models of the E-Mu samplers (E-IV line). AFAIK, the Z-Plane filters are still under patent protection, therefore noone could launch an instrument featuring them without some kind of licensing agreement. Currently, the patents belong to Creative Labs, which bought all the E-Mu assets.

Yes and no. Definitely meant Ultra/Morpheus, but realized that Proteus had more sample ROM when a 2000 was filled. So that was what I was implying. Creative could however license someone to do this, since they're too lazy to do it themselves.
Along those lines, maybe you or someone else knows if that includes Ensoniq? I know they were 'merged' before the Creative buy out, but not sure how that played out with the Ensoniq brand. I mentioned Peavey as well, but again, they might be even more tight fisted with their abandoned software. The DPM stuff was great though. For me, it was a D-50 on steroids.

[mrcleats]

Novachord would be nice.

Maybe a Wasp.

And, yes, a decent theremin, with MPE, would be cool too.

[dayjob]

And, yes, a decent theremin, with MPE, would be cool too.

first time someone used 'theremin' and 'cool' in the same sentence.

[vulpes777]

They have a string machine. And a vocoder. I'd be surprised if a recreation of the VP330 didn't show up in the collection sooner or later.

Regards,

--
Marco

[mrcleats]

And, yes, a decent theremin, with MPE, would be cool too.

first time someone used 'theremin' and 'cool' in the same sentence.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1793337632/ ... W1A03FK72J

[melomood]

Any chance they might make another one of their own,like pigment?

[mrcleats]

Unlikely for the collection, which is all emulations.

[melomood]

Oops. I thought their collection was just a bundle deal

[VitaminD]

Ensonic Fizmo

I almost bought one of these when they were discontinued and being blowout for a few hundred bucks in stores. At the time I didn't understand it, seemed more like a strange novelty. Now I see they sell for big bucks and are pretty interesting synths!