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Reviewed By HoTRocK [all]
August 31st, 2004
Version reviewed: MMV2 on Windows
It looks great, in keeping with the original.It feels great, in keeping with all moogs and it sounds...like a Mooooooooog! And thats why you pay your bucks... and considering an original would set you back over £5000 its damn good value. You get all the digital advantages including polyphonic, instant loading and saving (If you didn't have a polaroid you had a lot of drawing to do if you ever wanted to get the same sound again) and you can have as many as your computer can cope with. What more can a guy ask for. This is truly a big boys toy! (Sorry girls but you know what I mean)
Heavy on cpu and you do have to be careful what you're doing while you're twiddling knobs if you want to keep your speaker cones but thats true of every synth:The trick is to change things slowly, these things can do some really slow and deep sweeps that go through a hell of a lot of frequencies that can sneek up on you unawares, be warned: even the nasty's resemble the real thing.
Running a P4 3200,1gig mem, I have used 11 instances of MMV2 plus battery plus Crystal and several fx before cubase SX2 crashes.Then I simply recorded all onto seperate VST tracks and started again.
The size of MMV2 is quite something. Just about everything can be controlled with a cc (SX2 can start to get pretty confusing, trust me) although there are still some things you can't...which of course are the things I want to control i.e. the link buttons etc on the sequencer section (Although this thing is so big It may be I simply haven't found out how yet)
The MMV is a truly awesome bit of programming and Arturia deserve to win awards for it. The update to v2 is free to registered users which include 6 new modules - all of which were on the 'wish list' on the users forum as well as GUI improvements we asked for. There are a still few minor irritants that could do with ironing out, most of which has already been said by others here so I won't reiterate.
Arturia are now asking what other classic synths we want emulated. This is a company that LISTENS!
Many company's would do well to follow Arturia's example in customer service and attention to detail. Lets face it, the MMV got BOB MOOGs blessing...and deservedly so. The MMV2 is a truly AWESOME soft synth.
Rob Benn. A very happy user.
(As soon as I get a web page up I'll post the tunes I've done with it to date.)Read Review
Heavy on cpu and you do have to be careful what you're doing while you're twiddling knobs if you want to keep your speaker cones but thats true of every synth:The trick is to change things slowly, these things can do some really slow and deep sweeps that go through a hell of a lot of frequencies that can sneek up on you unawares, be warned: even the nasty's resemble the real thing.
Running a P4 3200,1gig mem, I have used 11 instances of MMV2 plus battery plus Crystal and several fx before cubase SX2 crashes.Then I simply recorded all onto seperate VST tracks and started again.
The size of MMV2 is quite something. Just about everything can be controlled with a cc (SX2 can start to get pretty confusing, trust me) although there are still some things you can't...which of course are the things I want to control i.e. the link buttons etc on the sequencer section (Although this thing is so big It may be I simply haven't found out how yet)
The MMV is a truly awesome bit of programming and Arturia deserve to win awards for it. The update to v2 is free to registered users which include 6 new modules - all of which were on the 'wish list' on the users forum as well as GUI improvements we asked for. There are a still few minor irritants that could do with ironing out, most of which has already been said by others here so I won't reiterate.
Arturia are now asking what other classic synths we want emulated. This is a company that LISTENS!
Many company's would do well to follow Arturia's example in customer service and attention to detail. Lets face it, the MMV got BOB MOOGs blessing...and deservedly so. The MMV2 is a truly AWESOME soft synth.
Rob Benn. A very happy user.
(As soon as I get a web page up I'll post the tunes I've done with it to date.)Read Review
