Arturia Ten Year Suite Synthmania
By Paul Dakeyne
| Posted in Music Technology
Not to be outdone by the N.I. boys, French binary twiddlers Arturia are celebrating a full decade of developing and join this weeks contender list for ‘software deal of the century’. Now available is their Ten Year Anniversary Suite, resplendent in a lush gold box with a whacking 8 manuals, 8 DVD roms and one Syncrosoft key. This splits down to 7 legendary synth emulations, the highly prop’d compendium tool, Analog Factory and the scarily realistic ‘Brass‘ virtual instrument.
Since 1999, Arturia’s core technology TAE (True Analog Emulation) has helped them accurately create and stabilize some of the greatest vintage synth models and musical environment emulations ever known. I own quite a few of these and they certainly add to my personal audio palette of preferred sound sources. Being fortunate enough to have used 6 out of the 7 (Moog Modular excluded) pedigree hardware synth originals throughout the 80′s/90′s [Roland Jupiter 8, ARP 2600, Minimoog, Sequential Prophet 5/VS and the 'humongous' Yamaha CS80] I can add my voice to the countless synth masters who have already vouched for Arturia’s individual instrument accuracy and authenticity.
Arturia’s previous V-Collection bundles the 7 above individual synths, and now a free Korg NanoKey, but doesn’t include the Analog Factory and Brass instruments. So for an extra £30 or so, you can bag the new Anniversary Suite, dive into the massive ‘best of’ sound pool that is ‘Analog Factory’ and start gettig all Earth Wind & Fire on yo’ ass with ‘Brass’!!
As a PS, if you prefer to bag your selection the individual Arturia synths (with the exception of the Minimoog V2), they’re half price currently too – strewth…
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Tags: 10 year anniversary suite, analog factory, APR 2600 V, arturia, Jupiter 8V, Korg NanoKey, prophet v, Yamaha CS80 V