Arturia Synclavier V Tutorial Part 1

[@chrisstrobel3439]

If lovin a Synclavier is wrong I don't wanna be right! Yeah sure its decades later and the power of modern plugin VST's and computers decimate the old Synclavier, but for those of us who were young keyboards players in the 70's and 80's, it was just a pipe dream flipping through the pages of Contemporary Keyboard magazine every month and seeing those big Synclavier ads and knowing we'd never own one, so this Arturia Synclav is a nostalgic must have and a steal along with the other excellent classic Synths in the new V collection. Thankyou Arturia!

[@menacerisamir198]

what you are saying is exactly what happened to me.looking at the adds in the keyboard player in the early 80,s .oldies but goodies, .i just got the demo for the moment but it will be my next purchase.this synth sound so gooooooooooooooooodddddd.

[@stevenlebeau]

Complete with an awesome recreation of Dolby's "Flying North" underneath the intro. You guys are pretty awesome.

[@nicosuj]

Hi, I have an Arturia Minilab and the V Collection 5. Loving both of them, great value and great sound, and I am really liking the Modular V and the Synclavier V, my 2 favorite synths from the V collection. I really loved this tutorial, thanks for taking the time to explain some details that seemed criptic to me, specially when I still have a hard time working with FM synthesis. Thanks for reviving this synth, I love how it sounds and how it works. I will use it in my productions for a veeery long time

[@Fraeg]

I first read about the Synclavier in an interview with Zappa in the early 90s. He gushed about it and it simply sounded amazing. He then went on to say that unfortunately because it is so expensive "normal people" will never get a chance to use one and what a shame it is that something that is so revolutionary and powerful is going to be used to make TV commercial jingles instead or real art.... Or something along the lines of that. The point is that for a few decades now I have pondered about the Synclavier, and here now after all that time I have the ability to see what Frank was talking about. I have the Demo version loaded and have been playing with it with my Keylab 49 Essential. I am blown away.... between this and Neural DSP I am going to go into debt.

[@issiewizzie]

Seriously we need more to tutorials like this

[@functionform]

These synths are deep. Wow.

[@arsenioarcher1463]

"It's a sound you really cant beat." I see what you did there lol

[@mcshafty1]

Great intro tute. This synth seems pretty alien to a Moog mentality (like me) - and I think you nailed the main features of the gui. I'm getting a lot more out of my demo time on this plugin after watching this vid. Thanks

[@Miicrowahvei]

Really good, they even thought of the option to disable animations for faster work flow. Really good sounding software!

[@stevegalante]

Love the Timbre Normalize function !

[@rodrigocontreras1656]

Haha, you really can't "beat" that sound...I see what you did there :)

[@artao5]

you beat me to it. he might deserve to be slapped for that one LOL ;)

[@glenarturia241]

I would agree

[@dcplyr]

INCREDIBLE!

[@FullSpectrum312]

Great tutorial.

[@marcelbielawski640]

Such a cool guy, I wonder if he gets to run his own synth company one day

[@udiorockmeamadeus]

LOVE THAT THOMAS DO BY FLYING NORTH OPENING, DID HE USE A SYNCLAVIER FOR THAT?

[@liothomasart]

4:45 "Beat It" - Michael Jackson there you go! 🔥

[@cmath8577]

flying north-Thomas Dolby in the background intro

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

1:26 Can't "beat it"! No ya can't! Is the realtime editing a carry-over feature from the original S2, or is it an Arturia retrofit?

[@BRAMVMUSIC]

How do I install new presets

[@EverettDudgeon138]

Can you put splits and layers on the synth and perform in real time or can it be only one tambre at a time? Also in regards to looping a tambre. How does this work? Does it simply loop over and over as the key is held or can you have it latch on and loop until the key is pressed again? Also can you create your own arpeggios?

[@gastonbouchard9330]

0:43 Did he say "nomenclature"? I wonder how he says "temperature"!

[@yashjangid34]

Can someone tell me how to use pitch bends in leads like legato ???

[@klstay]

This is great, but when part 2?

[@alphabeets]

It will be a real Synclavier emulation when the factory sample library and user sampling is included.

[@010203109]

I dunno how much of it is in there but they added at least part of the og sample library. Also added user sampling, and resynthesis of samples for a vocoder like effect. It works pretty well.

[@paulmiano7029]

Question, for the 16 Slices Evolution setting is there any way to either get rid of or tame the percussive sound that it makes?

[@frederickheard7266]

Does this come as a app for the iPad

[@binsinc]

Now I just need a T8 to control the software.

[@mcmike100]

Do all controls have that ghost image when you turn them?

[@marshallkohlhaas80]

Can a piezo guitar play the synclavier 5 ?

[@ArturiaOfficial]

Hi Marshall, I don't know what a piezo guitar is but you can play with synclavier with anything as long as it send MIDI messages. I hope it helps

[@buttonsplaymusic4896]

How do you open it in ableton?

[@keithbarnhart6952]

(3:08) ?? "So on a sound thats additive it won't really do anything, but if its FM-based , it will." Correct me if Im wrong, but isn't FM additive?

[@SteveAstronaut]

No. Additive synthesis is where sine waves are added together to make timbres and frequency modulation is where sine waves are modulated by other waves. The amount of sine waves going into making a sound in an additive synth varies, I believe Linplug Spectral uses 256! Whereas I don't think the number of waves used in FM tends to get into double figures.

[@midiguy4u]

I agree with you 100%.Perhaps I was being to literal.In FM you are grouping (stacking) operators to either modulate or carry, but you are doing so with a pre-set waveform, and additive synth ( or say an organ) uses a set waveform too, while you can't usually multiply ones frequency ( or in the case of DX7- phase modulate) with another, you still need a starting point with FM. In addition, I can perform FM on my analog modular, and those are preset waveforms too.

[@norakat]

I think first one might have been used by Depeche Mode

[@dwaynecarroll6098]

Lost me at the MJ patch.

[@sevchyk]

Arturia, why do all of your synths sound like terible general midi?

[@davidbyourplanb]

Can't BEAT ... That's BAD