Arturia V Collection 9 - Official Thread

[Niowiad]

It's under "digital synths" probably because it looks like one

[grrrz]

Arturia has made it clear that countdown if for the introductory pricing. June 5th is the last day of the discount.

Does the upgrade price also go up after june 5th?

It usually does. I expect it to increase by $50 as the standard upgrade price for dis-loyal customers (those on older versions) has been $349.

does the upgrade price per instrument changes? It's 50 coins which is already a quarter of the full price; hopefully this is not discounted

[ghettosynth]

Arturia has made it clear that countdown if for the introductory pricing. June 5th is the last day of the discount.

Does the upgrade price also go up after june 5th?

It usually does. I expect it to increase by $50 as the standard upgrade price for dis-loyal customers (those on older versions) has been $349.

does the upgrade price per instrument changes? It's 50 coins which is already a quarter of the full price; hopefully this is not discounted

I'm not sure, I don't think so though. I've only ever upgraded one individual instrument and it was $29.

[LoveEnigma18]

Arturia has made it clear that countdown if for the introductory pricing. June 5th is the last day of the discount.

Does the upgrade price also go up after june 5th?

It usually does. I expect it to increase by $50 as the standard upgrade price for dis-loyal customers (those on older versions) has been $349.

does the upgrade price per instrument changes? It's 50 coins which is already a quarter of the full price; hopefully this is not discounted

I'm not sure, I don't think so though. I've only ever upgraded one individual instrument and it was $29.

During 50% off sales, the upgrade prices are slashed by half as well. So, what you see as $50/$30 right now will eventually be $25/$15 at some point, which is the perfect time IF you are only interested in one or two instruments. Otherwise, with Arturia it is usually best to get the V Collection (either new/second hand/upgrade/etc.), which you will eventually want anyway when the offers are tempting.

[grrrz]

Arturia has made it clear that countdown if for the introductory pricing. June 5th is the last day of the discount.

Does the upgrade price also go up after june 5th?

It usually does. I expect it to increase by $50 as the standard upgrade price for dis-loyal customers (those on older versions) has been $349.

does the upgrade price per instrument changes? It's 50 coins which is already a quarter of the full price; hopefully this is not discounted

I'm not sure, I don't think so though. I've only ever upgraded one individual instrument and it was $29.

During 50% off sales, the upgrade prices are slashed by half as well. So, what you see as $50/$30 right now will eventually be $25/$15 at some point, which is the perfect time IF you are only interested in one or two instruments. Otherwise, with Arturia it is usually best to get the V Collection (either new/second hand/upgrade/etc.), which you will eventually want anyway when the offers are tempting.

ok thanks good to know; so besides black friday are there other regular sales?

[LoveEnigma18]

Yes, Arturia does have sales every quarter (I mean not necessarily Q1, Q2, etc. type). However, there might not be a better deal on V Collection or newly released instruments again this year.

[Examigan]

I haven’t checked out the new additions yet, but I do really like the rebuilt CS-80 V4.

[Fleer]

I haven’t checked out the new additions yet, but I do really like the rebuilt CS-80 V4.

That, and both rebuilt Prophets.

[Examigan]

I have heard those two sound much better now. I am just taking any time I have to learn all about the CS-80 V, then I will definitely check out the Prophets.

[egbert101]

Bit unhappy about the upgrade price of 199 euros, but I think the newer CS-80, Prophet 5 and Prophet VS sound amazing.

[YoGuRTeLLo]

Friends tell me. I think to buy while discount. Before that, I did not use plugins from Arturia. I have a keystep 37 and Augmented STRINGS (I don't remember how I got it, it seems even for free).
Therefore, the price of the collection will be 399.
Is it worth it? For electronics / experiments with industrial, maybe even with atmospheric black mixed with electronics? Maybe even for the classics with an admixture of electronics.. What do you think based on your experience?

[tactile_coast]

Friends tell me. I think to buy while discount. Before that, I did not use plugins from Arturia. I have a keystep 37 and Augmented STRINGS (I don't remember how I got it, it seems even for free).
Therefore, the price of the collection will be 399.
Is it worth it? For electronics / experiments with industrial, maybe even with atmospheric black mixed with electronics? Maybe even for the classics with an admixture of electronics.. What do you think based on your experience?

Yes in my experience I would say so there is a lot of content too experiment with, almost too much. But to see if it fits your expectation you really should demo some of the synths before parting with that much cash. The demos dont expire and are really useful I would recommend trying at least the SQ80v, MS20V & the Buchla Easel V which are my personal favourites.

[YoGuRTeLLo]

Yes in my experience I would say so there is a lot of content too experiment with, almost too much. But to see if it fits your expectation you really should demo some of the synths before parting with that much cash. The demos dont expire and are really useful I would recommend trying at least the SQ80v, MS20V & the Buchla Easel V which are my personal favourites.

Thank you very much for answer!

[OllieBoi]

Friends tell me. I think to buy while discount. Before that, I did not use plugins from Arturia. I have a keystep 37 and Augmented STRINGS (I don't remember how I got it, it seems even for free).
Therefore, the price of the collection will be 399.
Is it worth it? For electronics / experiments with industrial, maybe even with atmospheric black mixed with electronics? Maybe even for the classics with an admixture of electronics.. What do you think based on your experience?

I don't know. I personally regret all the money I feel that I have wasted on the different V Collection editions over the years. I got sucked in because the V Collection instruments look like the original hardware instruments but up until very recently never actually sounded as good as the originals, IMO.

Regarding V Collection 9, I already own u-he's Repro and a hardware Sequential Pro One keyboard. So the updated Prophet 5 V doesn't really interest me. I'm also not super impressed by the new CS-80 V4. It certainly sounds good and reasonably realistic. But I think you could probably create pretty much the same patches that are included in the CS-80 V4 preset library using something like Diva (the way Swan Audio has created very realistic OB and Minimoog presets using just Diva). Of course, Diva hasn't specifically modeled the CS-80 oscillators and especially the CS-80 filters. But so many of the CS-80 V4 presets are just bread and butter analog synth sounds that any good analog modeled synth can recreate.

I know people will scoff (and mercilessly ridicule and mock me,) but I think you could use Steinberg's inexpensive $99 Retrologue 2 synth plugin to recreate almost all of the analog modeled synth presets included in the V Collection (and would use less CPU power doing so). Of course, there are still a lot of cool digital/hybrid instruments in the V Collection like the SQ-80 V, Prophet VS V, DX-7 V, CZ-V and of course the Synclavier V, Fairlight V, and Emulator V. If those really interest you, then the V Collection might be worth it.

I personally would put the $399 toward Spectrasonics' Omnisphere if you don't already own it. It's a totally different animal but sounds fantastic, includes over 10,000 amazing presets, has a wide assortment of characterful built in FX that are relatively light on the CPU, an encyclopedic collection of multisampled waveforms from all the classic hardware synths along with a comprehensive set of DSP oscillators and wavetables, a super flexible modulation matrix for each of the 4 layers in a patch, multistage envelopes and loads of LFOs if you need them, a HUGE assortment of great sounding filters, an awesome arpeggiator, one of the best patch browsers of any instrument, and is dead simple to use. Why not learn one instrument like Omnisphere really well rather than 30+ in the V Collection all with their own idiosyncratic interfaces (that are usually, but not always, based on the original hardware instruments and thus often don't make a lot of sense presented the same way in software)?

Anyway, sorry for the novella. I hope this helps.

[dumbledog]

Why not learn one instrument like Omnisphere really well rather than 30+ in the V Collection all with their own idiosyncratic interfaces (that are usually, but not always, based on the original hardware instruments and thus often don't make a lot of sense presented the same way in software)?

Because it's fun