Arturia - Live in 3 Days

[chk071]

"A new era awaits, and you're invited to witness its dawn" sounds more like a new line of products or a new service rather than a single new synth

It's MIDI 2.0

MIDI 2.0 is bidirectional this means that controllers can not only talk to your plugins and DAW, but your plugins and DAW can talk to your controllers

Meaning MIDI 2.0 standards allow controllers to self configure themselves to work with the active plugin

So Arturia can make all the software MIDI 2.0 compatible and make a new line of controllers using MIDI 2.0

Sounds good to me.

[Teksonik]

I think it'll be a sub model.

If so I hope Arturia is stocking up on asbestos suits and fire extinguishers.

[mholloway]

Definitely time to get the popcorn out, and LOTS of it.

[IvyBirds]

I don't know if you have inside info or are just speculating but that sounds as legitimate and makes as much sense as anything else I've read.

The following sounds more like something along those lines or some financial move as opposed to new plugins or hardware synths:

"A new era awaits, and you're invited to witness its dawn".

I'm just speculating but the whole "new era awaits" thing just screams MIDI 2.0 to me

The challenge for MIDI 2.0 is that you really need hardware and software working together to pull it off. Meaning you need a fully functional controller ecosystem and a fully fleshed out VST system, or you get the chicken and the egg problem. Arturia is kind of uniquely positioned to do both

NI used to be but they have become a shadow of their former self lately

Steinberg/Yamaha I think will also do it at some point over the summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and will support it with Cubase 13.5, HALion version 7.5 or version 8, and the new Montage plugin. There already is some MIDI 2 support in Cubase 13

MIDI 2 will definitely change the way we work with plugins and controllers. Having tens of thousands of available CC#s, significantly higher resolution fir controls, hundreds of MIDI channels, and bidirectional communication all in a standard protocol will be amazing

[Teksonik]

I'm just speculating but the whole "new era awaits" thing just screams MIDI 2.0 to me

Well I can't fault your reasoning and logic. It seems quite solid. We'll know in a few days.

MIDI 2 will definitely change the way we work with plugins and controllers.

Providing of course we can afford said controllers and the plugins we use are compatible.

I'm interested to see how MIDI 2.0 is implemented going forward but it's not something I'm all that excited about if I'm being honest. I don't perform live anymore and my modulation needs are pretty basic. Programming patches with a mouse on VST synths has become so second nature and blazing fast for me that programming them from various knobs and sliders on my controller doesn't really hold much appeal. I could do that to a degree now as my controller keyboard has 24 knobs and 24 sliders in 3 banks of 8 but never do. A knob to filter cutoff or a slider to layer volume etc is about as fancy as I need to get so MIDI 2.0 might be overkill for the way I work. I went through my hardware days and honestly don't miss the workflow at all.

But like I said we'll see what happens. I will definitely be keeping an eye on the implementation of MIDI 2.O as time goes on and perhaps my opinion will change.

I certainly hope that Arturia's big announcement is something along the lines of MIDI 2.0 rather than a subscription plan....for their sake.

[liquidsound]

It is probably something to do with AI.

Like, a controller with the wrong number of black keys and knobs all over the place? I'd buy that.

--
Marco

I meant "Artificial Idiocy"

[kevhuman]

Loot boxes

[Arashi]

They already made a DAW (sort of). Does anyone remember Arturia Storm? It was like a knockoff of Reason, but worse in every way. You had to choose your modules up front and “build” your studio (some kind of slow Java compilation process), and the result was ugly, unpleasant to use, and crash prone. They were spectacularly bad at software.

I would have never guessed I’d eventually become a big fan, own all of their software, and a couple pieces of hardware…but that’s what happened. Great company!

[DCrown]

I am really curious how their guitar amp suite will compare to tonex or amplitube, they had a lot of time to learn from other devs.

[crayola_ferrari]

Looks like it will be called “Astro Lab” and cost $1600…

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[chk071]

If you Google for that, there is a site (which I don't want to visit...), which describes this as...

AstroLab stands alone as a flexible and powerful keyboard instrument. AstroLab is a hardware synthesizer version of Arturia Analog Lab V software.

Sounds like nonsense to me though.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

That site looks like it's got something to do with the Bluetooth certification of the instrument, which they was registered in July 2023. So seems likely.

sounds like it's an 88-key standalone Analog Lab synthesizer. Could be useful for gigging keyboard players who need synths, electric pianos, pianos in a portable workstation like package without hauling computers to gigs.

[SLiC]

If you Google for that, there is a site (which I don't want to visit...), which describes this as...

AstroLab stands alone as a flexible and powerful keyboard instrument. AstroLab is a hardware synthesizer version of Arturia Analog Lab V software.

Sounds like nonsense to me though.

That was my guess on the first page (a modern version of the Arturia Origin) which used to have Arturia plugin inside

''AstroLab 88 AstroLab stands alone as a flexible and powerful keyboard instrument. AstroLab is a hardware synthesizer version of Arturia Analog Lab V software.''

Mystery solved I guess, maybe cool if you play live, not something I need.

[db3]

AstroLab could be the hardware synth in the background of the leaked Polybrute 16 video. It was very minimalistic looking with possibly a Nest-like round screen.

[jamcat]

I like the MIDI 2.0 speculation better…