So How Does It Sound? Plugin Boutique or its Suppliers do not accept any liability in relation to the content of the product or the accuracy of the description. The sounds of the other simple waves were somewhat closer to one another, although the differences were always clear. So, for example, the hammer attacks of electric pianos were slightly softer on Prophet V, as were heavily modulated and sync'ed sounds. If you are preparing yourself for an adventure you can and learn the fundamental concept of a modular synth you will discover the enormous opportunities of sound. And it was Arturia which led the way back in the soft day with its V-Collection, the sixth incarnation of which is on test here.
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Working with the MatrixBrute is a lot like using a modular synthesizer in that you can connect almost any function to almost any other function. As luck would have it, I just happen to have a Prophet 10 to hand! Unlike the original, which merely offered a button to select oscillator A, B, C, or D, the soft synth shows all four simultaneously on screen, with the wave number and coarse and fine frequencies permanently visible for each. The screen shot below shows the Prophet instrument brought up within Analog Lab. The last I saw, it had crashed through the Nyquist limit of my analyser and was heading upward toward 30kHz without pausing for breath. On top of that, Analog Lab has been updated to V3.
Areas of improvement: Spark 2 a drum machine is no longer included and should be added back into the next version. And there's hybrid mode too! Even if they do, history suggests that there will be an update in a few months that will sort out many of the problems. But it's not as good as the original. To start with, these sounded a million miles away from the respective patches on the soft synth, but by adjusting the parameters on the Prophet 10 to match Prophet V, or vice versa, I could get the two instruments to the point that — although they were not identical — it would have been churlish to deny that the soft synth was emulating the original. In an improvement on the original, Arturia have placed these in a single section with a helpful graphic display of the envelope itself.
. Value: This soft synth is worth every penny. To start using the you may spend your time in the included presets. Starting with wave 32, the sine wave, I set up a simple patch with no filtering, modulation, or effects, and listened to both instruments. A smattering of talented programmers devised plenty of presets for all three synth modes.
Most noticeable of all, however, are the problems with the band-pass filter, revealed by passing white noise through the filter in band-pass mode with the resonance set to maximum. As for what it sounds like? Matrix-12 V is Arturia attempt in modeling the Oberheim Matrix 12 which has been known for his fattest, and roundest sounds. Musician's Friend is a registered trademark of Musician's Friend, Inc. Opening the filters fully on both synths using both the cut-off-frequency knob and the filter envelope , defeating any modulation, and selecting the sawtooth wave on Oscillator A on both the soft synth and the Upper synth of my Prophet 10, I played middle 'C' on both, and expected to hear an all-but-identical sound. In other cases, the audibility of an effect may depend on another factor. More precisely, Piano V 38 presets offers three upright piano models and seven grands, modelled on everything between traditional construction and the fanciful glass body, for example.
Arturia is a team of passionate people was founded in Grenoble, France and specializes in the development of music software and hardware for professional and amateur musicians. Arturia have, however, been pretty good at responding to such issues with updates. Sound: In replicating the sound of a real vintage synth, the Prophet V has done an excellent job. Let's face it — the ability to pass the Prophet 5's oscillators along two separate signal paths, one with a multi-mode filter, is not to be dismissed lightly. Nothing feels too weighty, either. Overall you have access to Classical Upright, Concert Grand, Glass Grand, Intimate Grand, Jazz Upright, Metal Grand, Piano-bar Upright, Pop Grand, and Pop Upright. In practice, it was combined with Moog and other keyboards, not just Oberheim instruments.
The Hammond B3 is the ubiquitous tone-wheel organ that has been around for about 80 years. Works in stand-alone mode or as a plug-in. Once a sound is selected, the main action will be with the macro controls. The interface is dominated by the upper Preset Manager window and the lower Virtual Keyboard window, while an information strip runs along the very top of the main display. This may make it a 'better' synth in an objective sense, but it is not true to the original, so you'll have to decide if this is important to you. These include instrument-specific tools like arpeggiators, modulators, motion recorders, effects and other things not included in the original hardware.