Arturia FX Collection 5

[Burillo]

I have v2 and the upgrade is 49 for me as well. to be completely fair, v5 doesn't have a lot over v2 that I would be interested in, which is why I never upgraded to either v3, v4 or v5. but for 49 I'll take a couple of distortion boxes and a new reverb, as well as recent enough FX collection version to qualify for discounts in the future

”have v2 and the upgrade is 49 for me as well. to be completely fair”

One seldom meets such a nobel honesty.

well, I was being fair in the sense of admitting that I wouldn't have upgraded if it wasn't for the price, because the newer additions to FX collection aren't particularly valuable to me. reading this back I realize I perhaps should've went with "honest" and not "fair", as that would've conveyed my intentions better.

it sure is extremely fair for Arturia to offer me such an upgrade price and it's highly appreciated that they treat their customers that way (IK take hint you dolts!).

[Harry_HH]

Processing a looped sequence played with a Piantoeq 8 guitar pluck with Arturia Efx Motions, video starts dry, later some drums join the party.

I preferred the nice uneffected guitar plucking.

Party pooper!

Well, this is my honest (see above) opinion. Sorry if you taste poop.

[martinjuenke]

Processing a looped sequence played with a Piantoeq 8 guitar pluck with Arturia Efx Motions, video starts dry, later some drums join the party.

I preferred the nice uneffected guitar plucking.

Party pooper!

Well, this is my honest (see above) opinion. Sorry if you taste poop.

I wasn't even invited to that party.

[nanostream]

So I just bought the upgrade, it’s just 50 bucks, which is more than fair. Worst that can happen is that I’ll use Motions only sporadically. And who knows, it doesn’t hurt to own another high quality clipper and limiter. Rev LX-24 looks tasty as well.

I'll take a couple of distortion boxes

Obviously I don’t know what you need, what you already own etc. But I can’t recommend Coldfire enough. It’s my favorite distortion plugin, from subtle thickening to far out modulation there’s almost nothing it can’t do. Love it.

Tube-Culture is also brilliant, I’m not sure if it was included in v2.

[Burillo]

Tube Culture was not in v2, and that's perhaps the main thing I was referring to as a "distortion box". I don't really use a lot of distortion, but from marketing materials Coldfire sounded more like a creative destruction box. I'm happy that it can be used for "subtle thickening", I'll definitely try it out.

[nanostream]

Yeah, that’s how they market it, and it’s perfectly fine. But try to route the Tape module into Tube, both somewhere between 11 and 1 o‘clock, maybe in parallel. It’s lovely imho.

Tube Culture (subtle and in parallel) is on every bass track of mine, it adds so much depth I can’t find anywhere else.

[chagzuki]

I haven't needed to pay much attention to CPU load with Arturia plugins as I've found they run well on a Mac M1, and actually were fine on an Intel Mac. I used to run a lot of instances of Pigments without trouble.

However, Bus Peak set to Mastering mode is showing 20% with just the clipper enabled, and 26% with clipper and limiter active. The Logic CPU meter confirms that there appears to be a huge load spread across multiple cores. In 'mixing' mode it still uses 10% with clipper and limiter on, and 7% with just the clipper.
StandardClip with oversampling at 4x appears to use a negligible amount of CPU. The manual for Bus Peak doesn't seem to explain oversampling levels, so I don't know what option is adequate, plus there's no offline render quality setting.

The interface is good, in many ways better than StandardClip. Will I use it? Nope, no way. The limiter is basic, so for mastering I'd have a way better option with something as cheap as Tokyo Dawn Limiter 6 GE, which also happens to be less CPU-demanding despite have loads of features. And on a drum bus I'm not going to use something which eats 7% CPU, and which has no offline oversampling control.


Edit: Actually this does sound surprisingly transparent for mastering. I take back what I said about the limiter, so this could be useful when CPU load doesn't matter.

[dastewart]

FFS! I had no interest in FX 5 because although I rate Arturia highly as developers, there's nothing really in FX-5 that I haven't got already in some form or another.

But, I just logged on to my account to check and it's $69 to purchase (probably because I have Pigments and some other free stuff). $69. For all these great plugins. That I don't need. But, that's just ridiculously cheap for what you get.

Stop it Arturia, you're killing me!

[boxofsparklers]

Edit: Actually this does sound surprisingly transparent for mastering. I take back what I said about the limiter, so this could be useful when CPU load doesn't matter.

I use Bus Peak for mastering almost exclusively since a few months, to me it's leaning towards "plugin of the year". It's not completely *transparent* (it sort of puts the low end back a tiny bit) but it takes a proper beating to make it pump or distort, and the workflow has put all contenders behind.

[chagzuki]

I use Bus Peak for mastering almost exclusively since a few months, to me it's leaning towards "plugin of the year". It's not completely *transparent* (it sort of puts the low end back a tiny bit) but it takes a proper beating to make it pump or distort, and the workflow has put all contenders behind.

Do you use the tone controls, i.e. is that the part that's affecting bass, or is it the main limiter?

[PieBerger]

FFS! I had no interest in FX 5 because although I rate Arturia highly as developers, there's nothing really in FX-5 that I haven't got already in some form or another.

But, I just logged on to my account to check and it's $69 to purchase (probably because I have Pigments and some other free stuff). $69. For all these great plugins. That I don't need. But, that's just ridiculously cheap for what you get.

Stop it Arturia, you're killing me!

That's a good deal! I already own FX5, Pigments and V8 and they want 99e from me for FX5 99e is not quite no-brainer, open wallet now offer for me to upgrade from V8 to V10 though, especially as I just dropped an ungodly amount on some final modules to "complete" (and other lies I tell myself) my Eurorack system

[dastewart]

FFS! I had no interest in FX 5 because although I rate Arturia highly as developers, there's nothing really in FX-5 that I haven't got already in some form or another.

But, I just logged on to my account to check and it's $69 to purchase (probably because I have Pigments and some other free stuff). $69. For all these great plugins. That I don't need. But, that's just ridiculously cheap for what you get.

Stop it Arturia, you're killing me!

That's a good deal! I already own FX5, Pigments and V8 and they want 99e from me for FX5 99e is not quite no-brainer, open wallet now offer for me to upgrade from V8 to V10 though, especially as I just dropped an ungodly amount on some final modules to "complete" (and other lies I tell myself) my Eurorack system

That's weird because the only thing from them I paid money for is Pigments. All the rest of the stuff I have from them was either free at the time (MS-20, Mello-Fi, refract) or free with my DAW (analog labs intro).

[PieBerger]

FFS! I had no interest in FX 5 because although I rate Arturia highly as developers, there's nothing really in FX-5 that I haven't got already in some form or another.

But, I just logged on to my account to check and it's $69 to purchase (probably because I have Pigments and some other free stuff). $69. For all these great plugins. That I don't need. But, that's just ridiculously cheap for what you get.

Stop it Arturia, you're killing me!

That's a good deal! I already own FX5, Pigments and V8 and they want 99e from me for FX5 99e is not quite no-brainer, open wallet now offer for me to upgrade from V8 to V10 though, especially as I just dropped an ungodly amount on some final modules to "complete" (and other lies I tell myself) my Eurorack system

That's weird because the only thing from them I paid money for is Pigments. All the rest of the stuff I have from them was either free at the time (MS-20, Mello-Fi, refract) or free with my DAW (analog labs intro).

They have a peculiar way of rewarding loyalty, whereby if you are heavily invested you don't get quite as good a deal as customers in a wider orbit... It makes a certain kind of sense though, loyal customers are already loyal so are more likely to buy again, as long as the cost is reasonable, but outliers might need more convincing with greater discount to attract them in. That's my take on their strategy in any case!

[felis]

I just updated FX2 to FX5. To get the $49 price, it said it was a crossgrade and now it says it can't be sold.
I wouldn't sell it anyways, but still...........

[melody_lm1]

I just updated FX2 to FX5. To get the $49 price, it said it was a crossgrade and now it says it can't be sold.
I wouldn't sell it anyways, but still...........

wow! Didn't know Arturia did this.