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Harware Legacy versions => Analog Laboratory => Analog Laboratory Users Community => Topic started by: Jive Talking Robot on April 20, 2011, 10:14:01 pm
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Just wanted to post and say that I am loving the Lab Exp so far. While there are a few niggles (wish it were 64 bit and that the sliders were a bit smoother), all in all this is a tremendous value for the money. The controller is built like a tank - solid metal and great wooden endcaps. It looks sharp as well - nice work on the design! It's nice to see a company actually care that something should look good AND be functional... can't have ugly gear messing up my little home studio. :) It blends in well with my "real" synths.
And the product works like advertised... been having a blast going through every preset and building my favorites list. I am using a CI2+ Steinberg BOB and Yamaha HS 80 monitors, and it sounds fantastic through my setup. My first VA was a Nord Lead way back in the 90s... you only needed a touch of FX to make it sound lights out. I find the same to be true for your soft synths. Thank God they are not drenched in FX... just a touch of reverb and compression and a hint of EQ makes a good sounding patch an amazing sounding patch. Well done.
Guess I will be getting my preorder in for Spark soon as well... will Spark be able to "host" the Lab? Would love to be able to use Spark as a stand alone product and sequence the Lab with it....
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will Spark be able to "host" the Lab? Would love to be able to use Spark as a stand alone product and sequence the Lab with it....
eh, that's acctually not a bad idea (feature suggestion) ;)
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Thanks for the kind words, Robot.
will Spark be able to "host" the Lab? Would love to be able to use Spark as a stand alone product and sequence the Lab with it....
Just to be clear, Spark is not a stand-alone drum machine.
It is a hybrid system, just like the Analog Experience series.
It is a the combination of a hardware USB/MIDI controller and a sofware instrument.
The included Spark software library comes preloaded with 480 drum instruments, combining Analog Synthesis, Physical Modelling and multi-layered Sampling. It also includes an Analog Modelled Synth Bass instrument.
As a drum machine, Spark software also features a dedicated pattern-based sequencer (each Project can store 64 patterns, up to 64 steps each), but in the first version, this sequencer can only play the Spark instruments.
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I understand how Spark works - I was hoping you could use it like NI's Mashine, in the sense you can drop a VST in it and sequence it. It would be a blast to sequence other VSTs with Spark... (like sequencing gear with an Elektron box). Yes, I run the latest full version of Cubase and yes a software sequencer has a million more options than a step sequencer, but some times using a "real" step sequencer (or "hybrid") is faster and more fun.
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I love it! Nice work Arturia! ;)
Even though some niggles need to be ironed out ! :o
I was just hoping that it was closer to Origin in software functionality ! ::)
One Love.
God Bless.
Phillip,
Learning for a lifetime. ;~|
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Yes ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :o
Origin as a software standalone and plugin instrument ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :o