You see everything that you can control and nothing that you don’t want to accidentally control in a live setting. It makes for a nice one-stop-shopping experience. I find that it’s best to kind of neuter the direct MIDI input to the plugins and to do everything in GP. At that point, things start to break up or get weird, while you dig into the snow quickly to get back on the safe side of the mountain. On the EMS, the feeling is like just going a bit past the limit of the circuit - like barely going over the top of a crest on skis. (Note that I have quite limited experience with real Hammonds and zero with EMS products, so what do I know?) It’s little things, like pressing two keys on the Hammond result in some “breath” that you don’t get with either key alone. There are little non-linearities in the simulations that feel totally believable.

Personally, I feel like the M-Audio Hammer 88 really compliments V Collection best because it’s one of the few USB/MIDI keyboard controllers that have an expression pedal input.So far, I’ve dug into the Hammond B3 and the EMS Synthi of the Arturia V-Collection. It’s also really easy to assign different parameters to your USB/MIDI controller. That’s because each instrument in V Collection is truly unique. You’ll have much more flexibility that way. However, I usually use this as a starting point and then proceed to load the instrument as its own software instrument.

It makes it effortless to find the sound(s) I’m looking for without digging into dozens (if not HUNDREDS) of software instruments. This is probably one of my favourite features of V Collection… Instead of loading each different instrument, you have them all-in-one (including the presets). It’s basically a massive software instrument and search engine that includes all 28 instruments in V Collection. You’ll even save some time and resources by using Analog Lab. It might require more CPU power (instead of HDD/SSD speed), but the results are worth it!Īctually, I’ve still managed to run V Collection on some pretty outdated machines! Each sound you make with the keyboards/synths in the V Collection are 100% accurate emulations of the original. The “secret ingredients” to V Collection are True Analog Emulation (TAE) and Phi.Īs I already said, you’re not working with sampled instruments here.

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