Arturia V Collection 9. Predictions?

[EnGee]

I was almost sure that the V9 would have Kawai K5000 (or similar)!! Anyway, just in time I think when I've just was thinking that I absolutely don't need any new synth (except K5 or K5000 emulation)!

Let's see the price that Arturia offers me. I already have SQ-80, so I expect not more than $99. I already like the old P5/PS emulation, so I expect them to sound even better now The Korg MS-20 might be more faithful than Korg's one as it is newer (I think). Of course the CS-80 would be the highlighted and more important one. I hope that they write ARP-2600 and Modular from scratch next.

I liked the Piano V, so it is a welcomed addition They should have added Pigments 3 and Spark IMO, to be a complete collection! Anyway, I'm disappointed a little from not seeing Kawai K5 emulation and the absence of any Beat box!

[noiseboyuk]

Is the augmented strings any different from the free version they had released?

Since they named the free version "Intro", I believe so. If they don't meen "Introduction to the Augmented series".

Yup, that’s confirmed by the screenshot from the Japanese site. A different name and an Advanced button.

[Zipede]

Augmented Strings & Intro are listed separately in ASC in the Explore Products section, I couldn't get it to download though.

[ghettosynth]

I was almost sure that the V9 would have Kawai K5000 (or similar)!! Anyway, just in time I think when I've just was thinking that I absolutely don't need any new synth (except K5 or K5000 emulation)!

While I'm not sure that I would upgrade for that, it would at least be interesting.

[J Veronica]

If the leak is correct I might wait for VC10.

Nothing here I desperately want. Happy with VC8!

[mountainmaster]

Piano V? Since the current version is Piano V2, shouldn't that be Piano V3?

[Niowiad]

What's interesting is the MS-20 V has the Korg logo in those screenshots. If it's still there at release it means Korg licensed the rights to them, despite having their own MS-20 product

Good point. In fact, is this the first officially branded product from Arturia?

The Modular and Mini used to be "Moog Modular V" and "Minimoog V" with the Moog brand.
The "Wurli" used to be "Wurlitzer V" with the official logo.
The SEM V used to have the Oberheim logo.

But most of their stuff still uses the official product/brand name and logos under some kind of licensing, agreement or concession... ARP2600, Farfisa, VOX Continental, Synclavier, Solina, Matrix-12, OB-Xa, Prophet VS, Buchla Easel, CMI, Synthi, Mellotron, Clavinet...

For the rest of them, they use "workaround" names, like for their current stuff from Moog, Roland, Wurlitzer and Rhodes.



Anyway... is that the entire VC9 lineup?
The new synths are the MS-20 and the SQ-80 (october 2021 release).
I would expect at least one more, if not a couple more....

[EnGee]

I was almost sure that the V9 would have Kawai K5000 (or similar)!! Anyway, just in time I think when I've just was thinking that I absolutely don't need any new synth (except K5 or K5000 emulation)!

While I'm not sure that I would upgrade for that, it would at least be interesting.

It would be nice to have something like that:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/camele ... amel-audio

[Examigan]

What's interesting is the MS-20 V has the Korg logo in those screenshots. If it's still there at release it means Korg licensed the rights to them, despite having their own MS-20 product

Good point. In fact, is this the first officially branded product from Arturia?

The Modular and Mini used to be "Moog Modular V" and "Minimoog V" with the Moog brand.
The "Wurli" used to be "Wurlitzer V" with the official logo.
The SEM V used to have the Oberheim logo.

But most of their stuff still uses the official product/brand name and logos under some kind of licensing, agreement or concession... ARP2600, Farfisa, VOX Continental, Synclavier, Solina, Matrix-12, OB-Xa, Prophet VS, Buchla Easel, CMI, Synthi, Mellotron, Clavinet...

Otherwise they have "workaround" names, like they do for their stuff from Moog, Roland, Wurlitzer and Rhodes.



Anyway... is that the entire VC9 lineup?
The new synths are the MS-20 and the SQ-80 (october 2021 release).
I would expect at least one more, if not a couple more....

I bet the the others that were updated took a lot of their time, plus (according to the news gathered here so far) there is the Augmented Strings and Voices.

[Echoes in the Attic]

I was sort of hoping for other digital synths, however I must say that I am happy to see they redid the CS-80 and Prophets, and I'm especially pleased that they split up the prophet V and VS. Hopefully the VS is a little more authentic and cutting like the original. I'm very curious to hear they're go at the MS-20 as I still haven't been 100% happy with any current emulations out there (I own but don't love the Korg version), though Diva is the one I like the most (which of course isn't the original layout just modules). But I dunno, the MS-20 has some serious bite and Arturia don't tend to nail the bite of some of these analogs. Still, this may be enough to make me upgrade from V6 as I already kinda wanted the vocoder, synthi V, CZ, emulator, Mellotron, and SQ80. And I don't use the old CS-80 and prohpets at all. So if they are improved enough, the CS-80 and Prophet VS could be like new synths. The new CS-80 GUI looks much improved as well, the last one was horrible.

What are those switches on the MS-20 between the oscillators. I can see that the top one says Sync I think, which is great. What's the lower one? Maybe Cross mod. I was hoping this one would have the modifications from the MS-20 Desktop, which had sync and fm. I see that this one also has PW Modulation where Master Tune usually is, so that's a great addition.

I hope they add mpe to the CS-80 and other rebuilds, like they did to the SQ80.

[ghettosynth]

Surprised to see the Augmented Series in V9. Would have liked another new synth that I don't already have, but I expect the CS-80 and Prophet VS remakes will feel like new instruments anyway.

I'm willing to bet this is because they want to sweeten the deal because they don't really have much new and they chose to invest their energy in that stuff.

[Synth Master Jedi]

I'm not sure if I have a use for any of the augmented stuff, so unless this upgrade is priced decently, I might just choose to wait for a while. I probably should, because I haven't even gotten around to playing with everything in V8 fully yet.

[dumbledog]

I hope the MS-20's filters can properly track the keyboard pitch now. One of the annoying things about the OG (and carried over to the remake) is that, while the keyboard and pitch input famously use the old-school linear Hz/V scheme, the cutoff frequency input uses the V/Oct standard now adopted by Eurorack. The end result is that you can't, say, provide a consistent bass bump by setting a bit of resonance on the high-pass filter and expect it to stick as you go up the keyboard.

Ironically, you can get both pitch and cutoff to track by using the TOTAL input jack on the top left and setting the T.Ext knobs juuuuust right. Takes some back-and-forth but I've been able to get about 3 octaves of decent track from a Eurorack sequencer this way.

e: And yeah, I'm really scratching my head at why Korg is endorsing Artiuria's take on a product which directly competes with their own VST but eh, bring on the PWM.

[DrGonzo]

I'm really scratching my head at why Korg is endorsing Artiuria's take on a product which directly competes with their own VST but eh, bring on the PWM.

Yeah, that one is a bit of a head-scratcher, but Korg as a company have always been more relaxed about their business and open to new markets and ideas. I mean they even put out a virtual MS20 on the Nintendo DS!

Can you see Roland creating a built-it-yourself synthesizer with a user-programmable engine as the Nu-Tekt? Korg is really like Nintendo in music tech. Really open to new ideas.

/C

[poonna]

e: And yeah, I'm really scratching my head at why Korg is endorsing Artiuria's take on a product which directly competes with their own VST but eh, bring on the PWM.

I guess Korg’s own VST has been there long enough to no longer make any significant profit now. Better to license the trademark out for another round of profit.