Saturday Synth Porn: In this video, Keyboard magazine Editor In Chief Stephen Fortner pays a visit to the office of Arturia, in Grenoble, France, and checks out their sweet collection of vintage synths.
Arturia’s collection isn’t massive, but it features some exceptional vintage synthesizers. These are synths that they’ve studied to recreate in software, including the Sequential Circuits Prophet V, the Oberheim SEM and the Yamaha CS-80.
Arturia opened up their headquarters as part of their 15th anniversary celebration.
Smart.
So they have one of everything they have emulated, and one of everything they have made!
many “Origins” lying around…
yeah, origins looked pretty sexy around 2006 or whatever, haven’t really taken the world by storm have they? anyone on here an aficionado of them?
I think the Arturia Origins unit is the future for sure for other software/hardware synth manufactures as well, the Roland Aira systems are basically the same idea but the consumer supply’s the CPU unlike Arturia’s Origin that is an all in one system. In my opinion Arturia’s Origin is suffering from being ahead of its time meaning all the pains that come with producing groundbreaking products.
No Brutes ?!
well I think the Origin was way too expensive.
Last I checked Arturia hadn’t done an OB-8 emulation though, maybe that’s something coming?
I have two Origins, both desktop and keyboard version. Having many other synths and used to have some real anologs too, I must say Origin is perhaps my all time favorite. I just wish Arturia would have finished their flagship product: it still has some annoying bugs and build quality isn’t the best part of it.
Arturia’s Origin was not only their flagship model yet had it been more remotely successful it was to spawn a series of more affordable synths based in part on the Origin. Yet the premature launch, subpar build quality and ensuing financial drain stunted the development. Thus they immediately reroute their resources into more affordable products that proved highly successful. Sadly the resurgence of all things analog also reshifted Arturia’s philosophy as a company.
The abandoned OS of Origin however is and remains a serious error in management. Whilst they have not officially stated anything substantive about Origin’s further development they have also not released any significant updates. I’m told that their is some internal debate about resolving some of the most egregious OS bugs, yet no timetable for the release.
please, what are the major annoying bugs? I am about to get one