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BJ · Post by BJ » Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:48 pm

Well well well… music software and my vacation bonus meet again. First Halion 7 then NI Komplete upgrade and now Arturia.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:00 pm

question, how are Arturia FX plugins? we got so many compressors, tubes, reverbs (especially the Relab one) and so on. only the distortion plugin interests me and the granular one but the rest i dunno if they might replace my waves plugins?

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:19 pm

zvenx wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 3:11 pm Thanks, I think the only one I don't have is the Rotary.. Ironically I just bought UAD's rotary 147 two or three days ago.
rsp

Same here, yet that makes my upgrade $29... which seems pretty steep considering people are saying they can update from v1 $99. WTF?

miloszz · Post by **miloszz** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:24 pm

Huh, my upgrade on the account page is $69 but when I look at the main FX 4 page it's $49.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:30 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:19 pm
zvenx wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 3:11 pm Thanks, I think the only one I don't have is the Rotary.. Ironically I just bought UAD's rotary 147 two or three days ago.
rsp
Same here, yet that makes my upgrade $29... which seems pretty steep considering people are saying they can update from v1 $99. WTF?

Yeah, you definitely save by holding off. But $29 for the rotary isn't bad either. But there's no need for FOMO, they'll just eventually release FX Collection 5 with all this stuff plus more for a low upgrade price and you may get more bang for the buck waiting.

I feel like Arturia is one of the best when it comes to upgrade models.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:01 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:19 pm
zvenx wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 3:11 pm Thanks, I think the only one I don't have is the Rotary.. Ironically I just bought UAD's rotary 147 two or three days ago.
rsp
Same here, yet that makes my upgrade $29... which seems pretty steep considering people are saying they can update from v1 $99. WTF?

They use the exact same system as Native Instruments. You can wait years and get a bargain.. or you can upgrade every time and pay quite a lot more.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:04 pm

.. as for the Rotary plugin. It really is quite nice. When used very subtly (dry/wet set to about 5%) you can get some awesome subtle motion and transient dulling on sources. This can be very effectively used to push back instruments into the mix. Sort of what I've been doing with FabFilter Saturn once in a while, slowly moving the various cross overs, saturation and EQ nodes with slow(ish) random LFOs, then make it super wide in mid/side mode and finally mix that subtly in with the dry signal.

The preamp section is also really characterful and sounds awesome on various sources. My only gripe with that part is the high amount of highs that are cut. Every signal gets really muddy by default, which suites some sources but not all. Wish it was possible to get higher bandwidth out of it.

nanostream · Post by **nanostream** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:27 pm

Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:30 pm Yeah, you definitely save by holding off. But $29 for the rotary isn't bad either. But there's no need for FOMO, they'll just eventually release FX Collection 5 with all this stuff plus more for a low upgrade price and you may get more bang for the buck waiting.

I feel like Arturia is one of the best when it comes to upgrade models.

Exactly. I’ll survive without the rotary and reverb plugins. They seem nice, but it’s just not worth the 50 bucks to me, even if it’s a fair price. If they release something interesting in the ballpark of Coldfire or Fragments before FX Collection 5 comes out I’ll probably get it right away. If not, I’ll just wait for the next bundle upgrade.

octaveup · Post by **octaveup** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:24 am

Updating from FX Collection 3 to 4 using Arturia Software Center...

Had to run *30 separate installers*!?!

misterpatrick · Post by **misterpatrick** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:58 am

I already own FX3 and purchased Coldfire (which is awesome) and also have the free give aways so the only new things would be the Rotary and the reverb. My upgrade is $49 which isn’t worth it for me for just those two I probably won’t use. I did just run the updater and am curious if it installed the new presets. Anyone check that out?

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:58 am

LX-24 is worth the $49 alone.

adl · Post by **adl** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 3:15 am

octaveup wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:24 am Updating from FX Collection 3 to 4 using Arturia Software Center...

Had to run *30 separate installers*!?!

You can use the "update all" option and it will install everything by itself, but yeah, it needs to install every single one after another.

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:11 am

I think the moral of the story here is 'don't buy the plugins in between collection releases' if you want the best deal (€49 for me to go from 3 to 4 with no post 3 plugins bought).

adl · Post by **adl** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:55 am

lnikj wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:11 am I think the moral of the story here is 'don't buy the plugins in between collection releases' if you want the best deal (€49 for me to go from 3 to 4 with no post 3 plugins bought).

I didn't buy anything in between either but I can upgrade for 69€. Got the V Collection too. No idea why I have to pay 20 more than you.

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Fri Jun 02, 2023 7:37 am

adl wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:55 am
lnikj wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:11 am I think the moral of the story here is 'don't buy the plugins in between collection releases' if you want the best deal (€49 for me to go from 3 to 4 with no post 3 plugins bought).
I didn't buy anything in between either but I can upgrade for 69€. Got the V Collection too. No idea why I have to pay 20 more than you.

Strange. My V Collection is not the latest, but I do have Pigments too?

Arturia FX Collection 4 out now!