Arturia V-Collection 8 - Quick Demo + Review

[@0VRLNDR]

Came here for a review of the Behringer B-Collection 8.

[@BigJBeats]

Is it okay that Arturia’s foundation is emulating EVERYTHING they produce?? Asking for a friend.🤔

[@0VRLNDR]

@@BigJBeats Yes. They work with the owners of the original IP to get a blessing / license / partner on it. All parties involved have an interest in a quality final product and no one is surreptitiously copied. If Behringer approached Arturia and got a license / approval for a dead copy that they could make in order to sell their upcoming DAW, then the comparison would be fair, and so would Behringer's business practices.

[@ArguZ72]

@@att6915 Hold Uli's beer...they are coming out with their own DAW soon and you can bet your ass they also will sell 15$ versions of every effects ever build by UAD

[@mvsr990]

@@0VRLNDR There was some shadiness about their Synthi emulation and there are several that don't use trade dress because they didn't partner with the maker/rights holder. On something like the 2600 I don't particularly care - Korg got the ARP name and logo via ARP's bankruptcy, they have no real claim to it IMO.

[@cannedmusic]

@@mvsr990 "On something like the 2600, I don't particularly care..." Oh, come on, Atari's sound was rather good for its time. (yes, I know you're talking about a keyboard ARP/Korg)

[@TonyAndersonMusic]

Bro I’m dying. Your reference to Behringer.

[@saren6538]

well they are doing the same thing

[@Ben_______x]

Are you?

[@0Fdigital]

@@Ben_______x aren't we all?

[@Eidraify]

Cant wait for the arturia behringer video

[@OttosTheName]

@gridsleep I know this is supposed to be a joke, but didn't they add a bunch of Deepmind features to the Juno? And people always say the Deepind sounds quite Juno-esque...

[@OttosTheName]

@gridsleep no I mean that the DeepMind supposedly sounds like a Juno, but it had lots more features. Then Arturia came with the new Juno VST and they also added a bunch of extra features that are also in the DeepMind. Haven't compared the two myself though.

[@MartinStuertzer]

Ah, that is why they were selling me the V-Collection 7 so cheap a few days ago!

[@SyntheticFuture]

For the upsales, yup.

[@SyntheticFuture]

Still though the 50% discount + upgrade is still cheaper then V8 full price so... Fine.. =p

[@ibrahim47x]

You might be eligible for a free upgrade? Contact support and find out!

[@OhShootKid]

@@ibrahim47x If anyone finds out if that's possible, lmk! I just bought the V Collection 7 last week

[@ibrahim47x]

@@OhShootKid Will do!

[@definitelymiami7978]

I owned an Emulator II in the early 2000s. It was dead when i got it and had it restored at EARS in NYC. It had been owned previously by The Residents (!) and had a bunch of floppy discs from them.

[@gobblegobble831]

I've never seen him acknowledge it directly but Benn saying "they shut that shit DOWN" means he either really is aware that he looks like Negan or it's some wild universal synchronicity that has led to Benn being a synthesis genius and touring musician clone of the guy

[@soundmechanicssd]

It's so good to have access to these emulations, thinking about how much they cost back in their day.

[@soejrd24978]

The keystep still remains my favorite midi-controller. It's just so handy and plays really well with touch-sensitivity.

[@JoeyFTL]

I love your humor Benn.

[@mrburns366]

I usually think "shut up and play" when I watch reviews but this was a great balance of info and audio demos! subbed!

[@liquidmodernitytasteslikeu2855]

i love these kind of videos you do about software

[@st0rmchild]

Me too. I've watched the V Collection 6 video three times (and I've owned the collection since v4…I just enjoy the overview and history).

[@LeonTodd]

Just bought a Keystep so it was rad to watch you put these through their paces with it. Now to go learn Jump.

[@KordTaylor]

Great review. You’re a fan but don’t try to hide it. I am too. 😀 Their plugins are so practical, creative and useful. And I can’t wait to hit its update!

[@justlisa1599]

I LOVE my Keystep! Aftertouch. Perfect size for my setup. Arturia products all sound great and you can live off the presets forever. How they use less cpu than any of the others I have, is a great mystery you could maybe shed some light on. AND -- Arturia has fantastic customer service!!!! I have never been ignored or not helped and recently someone helped me above and beyond.

[@ToreHansen]

Soo his weekend,finally got V Collection on a great offer, so happy happy joy joy, great video!

[@redmission1984]

Nice! I have a hardware Dave Smith OB-6, and can say that the OB-Xa pairs well and stands up decently with it. I've watched a lot of Oberheim videos, and Arturia's recreation seems accurate to me.

[@zachhaywood1564]

I'm new to the synth world, so please forgive me if I get some things wrong, but did Dave Smith buy out Oberheim and/or all of their designs/patents?

[@gordonmurphy4321]

@@zachhaywood1564 As I understand it, the OB-6 is collaboration between Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim. But as to who owns the patents - I don't know. Surely Dave would have to get permission to use the patents - however patents don't last for very long, so maybe the patents have already expired. I'm guessing the two are at least professional friends. They are both giants in the field of electronic music - that's for sure.

[@RayJuang]

Awesome review! I got a 50% discount from Arturia today and ended up going in to buy it after watching your video. Thanks for the review!

[@zenithparsec]

6:02 took me a couple of listens before I heard "in app tutorials", instead of "inept tutorials". I guess I'm used to really low bars.

[@summarity]

Interested to see the inside of _that_ B. Ehringer product. I was developing a hardware mod for the original keystep and got somewhat familiar with it's internals. I know the big B employed reverse engineering in the past, but it'll be interesting to see how blatant they actually are.

[@JC20XX]

That's very interesting. Can you elaborate?

[@fh404]

1:33 Omg the synth transition after the jingle was amazing o.o

[@jackspring7709]

Excellent vid! And thank you for not playing 'jump' when you were demonstrating the OB X!

[@m.i.stapes]

I'm a big fan of Arturia for sure !! I don't think I'll ever explore the full potential of this collection within my lifetime.

[@HGCProd]

Love your energy bro (and the behringer reference 🤣🤣🤣) subscribed.

[@craftedworkshop]

Well, this made me pull the trigger on the V Collection. Since I own the Keylab 61, it was discounted to $260 which seems like a bargain.

[@sliiiimjim]

How did you get this discount? Interested in they KeyLab but see no reference o a discount for V Collection. Thanks.

[@matthijsblomjous3671]

@@sliiiimjim if you're a customer you get extra discount. and now with black friday, V collection comes to €200

[@NathanChisholm041]

Im just renting it from Splice!

[@SR-ih1be]

Way to represent! Go Arturia!

[@oakdalewoodz]

Great video. Really cool chords. Thanks for the awesome review!

[@effievision]

EEK- Much love for "Orange" ! Released an EP of citrus themed songs using it back in the netlabel days~

[@JayTheLane]

The new synths in this are excellent..hands down a massive improvement. Analog Lab 5 which I got a free upgrade to is very much improved 👍🏼

[@DJSidhu24]

This is how u review a product amazing bro

[@mattskalicky]

Just snapped this up for $149 on special for Arturia users. I already own pigments 3.5. It was a no brainer.

[@stevenwheeler7999]

Same here. A steal!!

[@ThedjAwesome]

@@stevenwheeler7999 Is the deal still going on? How do you become an Arturia user?

[@stevenwheeler7999]

@@ThedjAwesome sorry bro. The sale ended about 2 weeks ago it’s back to $599. They always have discounts on various items and always after you make purchases. Trust me you can’t go wrong with Arturia.

[@Pandangus]

Staying tuned for the Behringer video :)

[@Milan____]

One unorthodox request: I would be very interested in you reviewing..... the book Voice Leading by David Huron. Just to be clear, it is not a classical/Western music theory book, but mostly talks about acoustic and auditory phenomena (which anyone who's seen an instrument under a spectrum analyser must have wondered about), and I think it's a wonderful reading material for anyone who's producing electronic music, where we can create instruments with any kind of spectral "footprint", unlike classical music, where this has to be done by orchestration. Anyway, at least for me that book was intensely interesting because it exactly answered the kind of questions I've always had.

[@noranygard]

Thanks for sharing this recommendation!

[@MLaurence]

I'm looking at this because ProAudioStar has got these older licenses for $50, probably because they're pushing the V Collection 9 now. Can't wait to dig in!

[@rdean150]

V collection is great. Can't wait to try 8

[@christopherecatalano]

That Vocoder actually sounds great. Up until hearing this, I have pretty much despised all of them. That Arturia Mellotron wins the mellotron race, as being able to convincingly "mellotronize" your own sounds is a pretty incredible sound design trick. Props for mentioning it, it is brilliant. I believe my V8 upgrade for $99 ships tomorrow! After hearing your demos, I am pretty excited about getting some new VSTs for the first time in quite a while. You chose great sounds and music to share. Beautifully musical clips! Thank you!

[@museeking]

That OB-Xa sounds DOPE!

[@devesongs]

every musician who made hits from Prince to Van Halen used it and lots of musicians still use it

[@TerenceKearns]

This collection seems to me to be the most lovingly crafted, artfully executed bit of plugin engineering. If you have the money, I believe it is worth every cent. I was lucky to grab the 75% off sale which was offered to Pigment owners (ending April 3, 2022). I bought pigment for half price a while back so I'm really lucky. I couldn't really afford it but I grabbed it anyway. So glad I did. The sounds are divine.

[@MrFkinel]

Ditto!

[@stevenwheeler7999]

Ditto! 149 +69 instead of 599 +199 Jackpot!😀

[@BecomingProductions]

I didnt even know the V8 collection was announced.

[@JoeyFTL]

Maybe because it was announced exactly a minute after you wrote this comment

[@BecomingProductions]

@@JoeyFTL That would explain it alright.

[@SyntheticFuture]

I haven't even gotten a mail about it and I own V7 😂

[@sammadden5540]

I only know bc mylar melodies accidentally said it in a live stream

[@krispybowgod9656]

@@SyntheticFuture yeah cuz they wanted to push their 50% off v 7 sale for Black Friday and the moment after that ended they dropped v 8 lol

[@HondoFelder]

Love your vids man. That OBX gives me inspiration every time I pull it up!

[@MichelBelisle]

Synthi and Vocoder are my favs in this collection

[@Ilikemakingstuff]

What a beautiful patch for the first OB-XA demonstration. Was that a Factory patch?

[@da1onlynickvicious]

The mellotron is fucking amazing. I cant escape it lol.. I keep going back to it song after song

[@KlemenKotar]

Not comapred to GForce's Mello. But - more Mello can't be bad whichever you choose :)

[@_B_E_A_D_G_C]

Just had to stop the video and say how hilarious you are ! The “B” company was clutch 😂

[@iamantoniofernandez]

Helpful and informative! Thank you.

[@ShawnStack1]

Really enjoyed that. Thanks.

[@Frozen_Smoke1972]

Great video, as always, but I'm really looking forward to hearing your slap down of the company that begins with the letter B.

[@jondis]

wow these sound really good

[@Pablo668]

I like them. Ouchy price! I have an unreasonable amount of love for my Keystep. Great for a beginner like me.

[@CinematicLaboratory]

Hey, I love that 'swing' clone from Arturia. Let's hope Behringer doesn't sue them - edit - wow, I am not the only one having that association. Definitely time to upgrade my V-collection.

[@youtubeii434]

old jingle YEAH

[@zackwatson755]

Thanks I just got this with a 60% off deal

[@drill2.087]

Love VH jump.

[@curcapsicum]

Wow, on the wishlist this collection goes! I don't see myself ever being able to afford $600 literally ever, but maybe! One day! There's still a lot of free stuff I can use!

[@OttosTheName]

Oh yeah check out the MG-1 for a vintage Moogy synth and the new Vital is insanely powerful.

[@stevier3613]

Nice work, you have a new follower for sure! 👍🏻

[@delscoville]

I just picked it up for $150, a discount for already having Pigments. But what a great purchase. Imagine getting a $600 synth for $150.... no that never happens.

[@jacobbrown1690]

me too

[@VCMsoundvision]

Great video. You know, if you pay full-price for the V-Collection, yes, it does seem like a lot of money, but like you say, you get instruments that are very well developed. I bought in on V-Collection 3 and skipped 4, bought 5, skipped 6 and bought 7, each time with a price break from Arturia at the time of introduction. They DO have sales annually and at other random times as well, it seems. If you can get it on one of their sale times, it's certainly worth the money-you won't find ANY of the represented instruments in real life for anywhere near the money you will pay for the Arturia product, and their emulations are amazing. Couple them with some good production plugs on your DAW and you can create amazing tracks for not a lot of money. Black Friday Sales rule. I also just got the Lindell 80 Neve channel strip and the CLA 76 compressor on sale. Running the CS-80 V into that signal chain is tremendous. But yeah, Arturia does a great job-worth the money, I think. Again, great video-thank you for posting!

[@NathanChisholm041]

Just rent it from Splice you pay it off!

[@arthurcrime]

Pretty useful review, cheers.

[@edwardferry8247]

Jun 6-V sounds beautiful

[@MrGoldzilla]

really funny to see the giant keystep in front of the tiny Oberheim x))

[@andre.1984]

6:10 onwards, so very Vangelis in Blade Runner.

[@mvsr990]

When Synapse released their OB-Xa plugin, I saw arguments about whether Arturia or Synapse could do a better "Jump." It was baffling.

[@mrburns366]

why would anybody care? lol "Jump" has been done and.. i don't need to do it again... or want to

[@marcusdekker]

Price during black Friday 2021; 199 Euro's. Bought it and it's installing as we speak 😎

[@mrfuzztone]

The GForce M-Tron Pro is quite a good Mellotron VST. I also have the Arturia Mellotron. I bought extra presets from Virtual. Synth Pads Both sound great.

[@gatorgoforth3097]

The Chambertron is fun because they use the original master tape. They were recorded in America as opposed to Mellotron recorded in the UK. Different vibes.

[@busywl69]

it's a steal.

[@vimster]

Skipped V7 update but tempted by updating to V8 due to the Juno 6 V.

[@marcomaureira]

I was hooked on the collection 8 when the Juno vst was able to follow a yazoo don't go sounds tutorial

[@wlaaaaaaaaaa123]

I love there effects, just as much as my UAD or plug-in alliance stuff. I love there 1176. I think imma try this bundle out, thanks for the vid :)

[@GingerDrums]

I make a living producing music, V-Collection is a no brainer.

[@michelnassarofficial]

Awesome ❤️ !!!

[@joelkulesha8284]

I loved the very very very subtle jab at behringer there. Really nice touch! Lol, seriously though fuck bear ringer.

[@deltaray3]

1:33 Ah yeah, this is what I came here for.

[@mr_mr]

Thanks!

[@tracerx6324]

Your video is not helpful to prevent me from buying this collection. 😄 Love it!

[@GiorgioBertuccelli]

loved my orange vocoder

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

5:09 "When you're cold , fire burns the earth, and everyone gets burned - like meeee)))"

[@howardanderson3061]

Shit sounds amazing, price is steep but it really is a fair price.

[@masonarcher2998]

In addition to what Benn said about Arturia having sales (which they do very often compared to other soft synth companies), if you have a registered Arturia product and have an account with them, you often get a special offer that is separate from the sales they have. I have like 7 Arturia products and just checked my price; 399. Worth checking out. Also, they just had the V collection on sale for 250 which is an absolute steal.

[@stackerman2800]

would love to see a v collection 9 and fx collection review!

[@dignafelicisima]

I got the VII at black friday for half price :) just loving it!

[@raymondjones4390]

Great video! Maybe someone has mentioned it, but the Emulator II was not $30K when it came out, the II plus was a cool 10K. 1984 dollars! Still hella expensive!

[@cardpuller17]

Probably be over 50k in today's U.S. dollar.

[@Chilipinoy]

Damn, your V6 video is my favorite video of yours, and that Laura Brannigan commentary part was what made me subscribe. 🤣

[@shahruzmoshtael]

Jump was actually recorded on an OB-X, but he played an OB-Xa in the music video

[@theboofin]

No evidence of that. I have Ed in print saying it was an OBXa. And OB8 on tour.

[@anzatzi]

Orange Vocoder reference!

[@vewilli]

I would probably buy it if the Roland JX 8P would be part of it. But that isn’t the case. Super review.

[@masonarcher2998]

Correct me if I’m wrong (and totally could be) but isn’t the JX 8P really similar to the JX-3P and hence the Juno 6? I see the JX line as almost preset versions of the Juno 6/60s but that’s based on reviews I’ve seen. I was considering looking into getting a JX-3P for this very reason so if they are vastly different I may reconsider.

[@vewilli]

@@masonarcher2998 I don‘t know as I only had the JX8P. The JX3P is the cheaper version of the 8P, as far as 8 know.

[@andreasnewitsch59]

Amazing how does that little box do all that.

[@bauhnguefyische667]

Arturia!

[@vidark.6301]

Black Friday ape-mode initiated!

[@MrFkinel]

Thanks

[@ohheyitskevinc]

While these are great - I’m torn between this and the UVI vintage vault 3.. Are Arturia VSTs CPU heavy like the Roland Cloud VSTs? I know UVI are samples so I’m leaning more towards them (plus they have an MKS-80 Super Jupiter VST - or as they call it - Mercury 80), than having to upgrade my MacBook yet again. Also, any word on UVI having a vintage vault 4? I think they usually come out with their VST packages at the beginning of the year and vintage vault 3 is 11 months old.

[@herrati7375]

Nice review, I wonder if someone want this legendary software 🧐

[@costak7679]

Benn roasts Behringer harder than Thanksgiving turkey XD love it. I have 4 Behringer products - the UMC202HD, 2x B2301a speakers, and Xenyx X1222 mixer for shows. Love all four pieces despite hating the company's ethical position or lack thereof. However, I have recently became a fanboy of Arturia and got me a Studio interface and now wait for the Limited Edition Minilab MKII Orange to come out.

[@jacobbrown1690]

benn will probably buy a ubxa hardware synth when they ship

[@mikeedmonston3209]

You forgot about the revamped Jupiter 8. It is really impressive now!

[@OttosTheName]

He did mention it and the Rhodes got an update, but he didn't delve in to it. Does it sound much different?

[@mikeedmonston3209]

OttoNL honestly, it sounds fuller now. I really liked the old Jupiter, so this is a bonus lol. What I really like though, is the new patch interface for all the instruments. More streamlined and easier to add patches as favorites. All in all, I am really happy with this update.

[@avace917]

I know the OB-XA for Prince, actually. 1999, Let's Go Crazy, etc

[@SilkJester]

My problem with the Swing is not that the big-B ripped off the keystep 1:1. I have an issue with the fact that they didn't bother to improve it in any way. I have the keystep and boy do i wish it had an effing screen so I know the bloody tempo I'm setting when it's my main keybord. Good luck dialing an exact tempo with the knob and no screen. inb4 Keystep37, I shouldn't have to buy a new keyboard for such a small quality of life improvement. Also, ironic how we're throwing shade at a manufacturer about cloning a product in a video about a collection of cloned instruments.

[@cmd_f5]

Nice.

[@ejmikk]

Great review, and I agree with everything else except that they "run really efficiently". Some Arturia plugins use ~15 times more cpu per voice than others without seemingly any reason for it, the low cpu ones don't sound any worse than the cpu hogs. Some are efficient, some are not. The CZ, ARP2600, SEM and CS-80 for example take a LOT less cpu than Synthi, Matrix-12 or the Clavinet. All on simple template sounds without fx. The ones that are not efficient, I would not use in a live performance...

[@jdssurf]

Not gonna lie, I love the Behringer Neutron.

[@micindir4213]

Orange Vocoder reference did actually hurt...

[@FakeGlasses]

I'm really struggling between going omnisphere and arturia V. Wish these things were $300-400.

[@V-A]

my current dilemma! what did you end up going for?

[@FakeGlasses]

@@V-A I went Arturia V. The Mellotron m, emu, and minimoog vsts sold me

[@V-A]

@@FakeGlasses thanks very much Sam!

[@christophertodman8254]

always great stuff...have you played with the new equator 2?

[@SomeDud-lm1mi]

Waiting for them to finally make Alesis A6 Andromeda emulation