Best of 2015: We asked and you voted, choosing Spectrasonics Omnisphere – by a wide margin – as the Best New Desktop Software Synth Of 2015. Omnisphere was already an extremely powerful synth. But with Omnisphere 2, Spectrasonics amps up everything, bringing new synthesis capabilities, an improved interface, a better arpeggiator, 25 new effects and a massive… Read More The Best New Desktop Software Synths Of 2015
Arturia has released an update to its iSEM for iOS, adding Audio Unit Extension support.
Arturia has released a free update to the BeatStep Pro that adds user-requested features, making it, according to the company, ‘more powerful than ever’: The sequencer has been enhanced with quantized pattern launch and pattern chains; Parameters can now be edited for all steps at once; and An improved song position algorithm keeps BeatStep Pro synchronized at… Read More BeatStep Pro Updated With ‘Wait To Load Pattern’, Pattern Chaining & More
This video, via midierror, demos one of Arturia MiniBrute designer Yves Usson’s Five Mods That Will Totally Void Your Warranty.
Developers Tempo Rubato, who handled the porting of Arturia SEM V to iOS, shared this sneak preview of iSEM running as an Audio Unit in GarageBand on an iPad Pro.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via ollilaboratories, explores the sound of the Arturia Microbrute synthesizer.
This video, by Diego Pinzón of Man On The Living Road, demonstrates how to mod an Arturia MiniBrute into a MiniBrute SE.
French synth guru Yves Usson, above, knows his way around the insides of the MiniBrute and MicroBrute synthesizers – he collaborated with Arturia to design them. He’s shared a series of mods and hacks for the MiniBrute and MicroBrute at his site. He notes that making any of these mods to your synth ‘will immediately… Read More Five Arturia MiniBrute & MicroBrute Mods That Will Totally Void Your Warranty
Arturia has introduced new versions of its KeyLab controller/software bundles, the KeyLab 49 Black Edition and the KeyLab 61 Black Edition. The new versions offer updated styling and an expanded software package, including: Solina V string machine; Prophet V synthesizer; and UVI Grand Piano Model D. Here’s the official intro video:
Arturia has released a series of videos, embedded below, that offer a hands-on look at getting started with their new BeatStep Pro step sequencer and MIDI controller. In the video below, Glen Darcey, Arturia VP Product Management, takes you through the drum sequencer of the BeatStep Pro:
