Apparently Arturia left off the sampling and when I posted about that on their forum one of their sound testers came back and said the Synclavier 2 didn't have sampling but that the 9600 did. It can do everything Ciani, Carlos, Zappa and others did on it and more. Now we come to the Synclavier2 - nice! A lot of what I remember of the machine from back in the day decades ago. The Farfisa emulation is pretty good and can't wait to try the full version to see what it can do outside some of the cheesy patches in AL2. I'm not knocking modeled pianos but these are horrendous. The modeled acoustic pianos aren't even worth listening to without a healthy dose of Maalox or Pepto-Bismol. Certainly not enough to make anyone give up Lounge Lizard or whatever other Rhodes emulation they have. Granted some rockers might not care about that but don't tell that to Steve Winwood - he still plays those pedals even when there's a bass player in the group. Oh yeah - there's no 25 note bass pedal board that I can find. There's just no heft or guts to the sound. The B3 emulation leaves a lot to be desired and doesn't begin to touch sound-wise existing B3 emulations whether from NI (Vintage Organs in Kontakt 5 or B4-II) or UVI or anyone else. What I am not thankful for is what Arturia provided in the new instruments. Note that again any existing installs of Arturia product are not touched. I like that one can work with the 5 new instruments as well as the 'upgraded' existing synths. Installation went fine and the original Analog Laboratory install was not touched so you can have both together on the same machine at the same time. But that's neither here nor there for this bit. Took well over an hour even on Verizon FIOS. Well I downloaded the upgraded Analog Laboratory 2 through the Arturia Service Center on my daw Mac. This is a collection of my thoughts/experiences so far. Rather than pile on the existing threads on the Arturia V Collection 5 (VC5) and Analog Laboratory 2 (AL2) I'm starting one here because amongst it doesn't have anything to directly do with DP the program.
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