Arturia V Collection 11 - April 24, 2025

[Echoes in the Attic]

So is pure lofi anything more than pigments repackaged and simplified? Mostly about the sample content? I feel like they should have made the augmented series and pure lofi as pigments preset packs.

[marchellner]

Pure Lofi is all about the degradation options and combinations. Pigments can get there in a way, but not nearly with the same results. I would liken it to Pigments running into two Generation Loss pedals. For the music / sound design i make, it's the best software that Arturia have made. I don't recall making as many sample based presets as quickly and with such success with any non hardware synth.

[Echoes in the Attic]

Pure Lofi is all about the degradation options and combinations. Pigments can get there in a way, but not nearly with the same results. I would liken it to Pigments running into two Generation Loss pedals. For the music / sound design i make, it's the best software that Arturia have made. I don't recall making as many sample based presets as quickly and with such success with any non hardware synth.

What's creative about the "creative sampler" osc? Timestretch or something?

[marchellner]

I don't think very much is "creative" about it. You can assign multiple samples and play them round robin or randomly. I primarily use the Osmose with my software instruments, so admittedly a lot of the enjoyment i'm getting is by making MPE controlled sounds. I was all hardware before i got the Osmose. I might be in the long term honeymoon phase due to the amount of interesting instruments currently available to use with MPE.

Here is what the manual says about the creative sampler:
"A sound preset in the creative sampler consists of up to five separate samples. You
can then edit the sound and behavior of each, including tuning, looping, forward vs.
backward playback, gain, and stereo pan position. Then, you can determine how the engine
triggers each sample when you play successive notes: in round-robin fashion, randomly,
or voicing only the currently selected sample. This allows for a great deal of variation and
expressiveness."

[Echoes in the Attic]

I don't think very much is "creative" about it. You can assign multiple samples and play them round robin or randomly. I primarily use the Osmose with my software instruments, so admittedly a lot of the enjoyment i'm getting is by making MPE controlled sounds. I was all hardware before i got the Osmose. I might be in the long term honeymoon phase due to the amount of interesting instruments currently available to use with MPE.

Here is what the manual says about the creative sampler:
"A sound preset in the creative sampler consists of up to five separate samples. You
can then edit the sound and behavior of each, including tuning, looping, forward vs.
backward playback, gain, and stereo pan position. Then, you can determine how the engine
triggers each sample when you play successive notes: in round-robin fashion, randomly,
or voicing only the currently selected sample. This allows for a great deal of variation and
expressiveness."

Strange. It’s like they took the basic sample playback capability from pigments without the granular.

Is it possible to load all the pure Lo-fi samples into pigments?

[IvyBirds]

Pure Lofi is all about the degradation options and combinations. Pigments can get there in a way, but not nearly with the same results. I would liken it to Pigments running into two Generation Loss pedals. For the music / sound design i make, it's the best software that Arturia have made. I don't recall making as many sample based presets as quickly and with such success with any non hardware synth.

If you have Pigments or any other sampler already you should try a plugin called LO-FI-AF. It takes any incoming audio from anything and then has a whole bunch of very cool and diverse things that makes them Lofi AF. My favorite is the "Zero Shift" control which takes your audio and uses a really Lofi pitch shifting algorithm like from a really crappy sampler and shifts the pitch either up or down by an amount you set and then shifts it back so that it doesn't actually change pitch it just introduces weird and subtle errors. Right next to it is an iterate knob that allows you set how many times this repeats. One time is pretty subtle, 12 is insane and you can do it anywhere in between

There is all the usual things like tape emulations but also other digital things like MP3 data compression that can be very subtle or extreme like you downloaded a crappy MP3 from dial up in 1998

Anyway if you are into that kind of thing I think you would dig it

[marchellner]

Great recommendation, thanks @ivybirds! I haven't heard of this one. I currently have a tonal chain for soft synths that help to make them feel more appealing to my ears which includes Pre 1973, UAD Verve, Mello-Fi and Tape 73. Now that i have this sounding good, i can't turn it off regardless of the synth in use.

BWT i'm pretty new this this forum and it's become integral to helping me navigate through software options and decisions.

[aMUSEd]

Pure Lofi is all about the degradation options and combinations. Pigments can get there in a way, but not nearly with the same results. I would liken it to Pigments running into two Generation Loss pedals. For the music / sound design i make, it's the best software that Arturia have made. I don't recall making as many sample based presets as quickly and with such success with any non hardware synth.

I'm really loving Pure LoFi - just has so much character

[martiu]

just use tal dac chained with Aberrant DSP SketchCassette II and you can have pure lo fi with any of your synths

[Korg Supporter]

just use tal dac chained with Aberrant DSP SketchCassette II and you can have pure lo fi with any of your synths

It's not just the fx. The oscillators have their own dac modes! There is even a bitcrushing per-voice filter!

[chagzuki]

Anyone here still using the Jup 8000v, or did the novelty wear off quickly?
I'm debating upgrading to 11, and most likely the only justification is that the fixed architecture of the plugins will force a novel workflow (which keeps things fresh).

[telecharge]

Anyone here still using the Jup 8000v, or did the novelty wear off quickly?
I'm debating upgrading to 11, and most likely the only justification is that the fixed architecture of the plugins will force a novel workflow (which keeps things fresh).

Are you fighting a bout of GAS?

I finally caved and got it today. If you don't want to be tempted, then don't search for reviews on V Collection 11.

The nice thing is that this sale will most likely come back around again -- just as good or better.

Also, check this out, if you haven't already...
The Usual Suspects Announce Roland JP-8080 Emulator (The Real Deal) - viewtopic.php?t=624283

[EsmileZ]

I just want a decent emulation of the korg monopoly. The korg one is not a good one

[chagzuki]

Are you fighting a bout of GAS?

Yeah, of course. As always.

[felis]

Are you fighting a bout of GAS?
....I finally caved and got it today.....

I just got it too after a little hem hawing around.
I know from experience there's stuff I won't use,
but I also know that the amount of stuff I will use by going from VC8 to VC11 will make it well worth
the price.
I also knew after skipping the last couple updates that I would update at some point.
That point is now. Even though it's certain that VC12 is just around the corner.
Hopefully VC12 won't have something hard to resist.