![]() So what you get is really ideal – the ability to drop an ARP plug-in (or standalone) into any production workflow, including that all-important audio input so you can use the 2600 as an effects processor or an audio input as a control signal. They’ve also nicely updated the original typography for readability while staying true in spirit to the vintage gear. And their display is custom-configurable – zoom levels, patch cable customization, and three attractive color themes (black/orange, gray, and blue). It’s easy on my eyes at 100% zoom, which is a problem with a lot of other software recreations. Almost every control is in its original location – with a handful of sliders moved to vertical positions (pulse width, for instance) to save space, but all easy to locate. It’s like they could have been there from the beginning. Where there are new features, like multiple filter types, distortion and delay, an extra plate reverb, and so on, they fit neatly onto the main panel and they’re implemented in a way that feels idiomatic. So you get everything on one screen, and all the sounds and features of the original are there. What I especially like in the Cherry Audio version is, it’s exceptionally well balanced between original features and additions. CA’s ARP is especially easy on the eyes – and fits on one screen, which is essential in software. That same ease applies to any bleep or bloop you may have in mind. The ARP 2600 makes it uniquely easy to do extreme filter modulation and to patch in signal (like the voice) – all the stuff that made R2D2 speak. So yeah, it is the “R2D2 synth” – but even that is revealing. That’s useful to experts, but – once you know what all those labels mean, nice for synth beginners, too. Tons of features are available normalled (without patching), including fairly exotic modulation – but most options can be patched, too. Faders instead of knobs make it easier to see where parameters are set. ![]() The 2600 has a uniquely “flattened” design – there’s just a ton of stuff right there in front of you. The product – Mac/Windows AU, VST, VST3, AAX, and standalone $25 intro price then $39 regularly: Cherry Audio has a killer ARP 2600 recreation – and it costs only US$25 (intro price). I know they're hardly even out if they are, but.This could be the easiest and most inexpensive way to put the epic 1971 semi-modular synth in your rig. Maybe I'm insane, but I don't understand why you'd go to the trouble of recording a 'jazz grand' and 'jazz upright' and then not just sit someone down in front of it to play some standards? Why talk to me about how 'powerful' your concert piano is if you aren't going to let me hear someone bash out the opening of the Pathetique? Why do you talk about nine piano models, with adjustable mechanical configurations, room space interaction, and microphone configurations, if all that shows it off is (on the instrument page) an ugly MIDI performance on a sterile upright, a sterile grand, and a 'marimba piano?' And then the demos are appalling - the one on the V-Collection main page is literally just a few mid-register chords cycled around. They seem to be doing a non-sample-based (given the 2gb install size) physical-modeling take on piano. The Rhodes sounds decent enough - in a way that makes me think I won't be putting Jamal's Neo-Soul Keys away any time soon. Can we all just agree that a Hammond VI needs at least one 'real jazz organ' demo? And that it should at least try to nail that sound? Watching the walkthrough where he's 'showing off' the patches, I felt like he must have been bored beyond belief. The new vanilla offerings just didn't do it for me at all - there's the B3, whose demos sound just bland and uninspiring to me. ![]() The Synclavier looks pretty darn interesting to me since the original programmer was involved - and the demos on the Synclavier sound pretty sweet. It looks like the new additions are filling in the gaps in the keyboard collection, with the relatively-not-unexpected B3, Rhodes and Pianos and the Synclavier. I got the JRR newsletter and noticed something newish looking from Arturia, and sure enough - the V Collection 5 is out.or is about to be out, I'm not sure.
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