How Arturia Make Plugins: the Interview! | In the Box | Gear4music Synths & Tech

[@Gear4musicSynthsTech]

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[@MichelBelisle]

Such a cool interview ! My absolute favourite plug ins from Arturia is the Synthi V followed by the Buchla Easel V, both being weird and obscure... which is cause for the greatest discovery and experimentation processes 🙂

[@foolishandthewise]

this is a great interview. Thank you! I'd love to hear from more people at arturia and roland about the modeling and behavior of the analog circuitry in these emulations.

[@DerekPower]

Great interview. I have used Arturia since 2009 and it was because they took on the CS80. Since then … they’ve grown a bit 😉. As a whole, I’ve been spoiled by what Arturia has done. For the V Collection side, you have the ultimate synth museum for what is very much a steal compared to its original sale price. It’s similar with the FX Collection, but with the newer additions, you have “dream tools”. Pigments gets closer to a “personal dream synth” where you can mix and match various components to create something that’s both new and familiar. And finally, I love how they value and appreciate customer loyalty. So that initial 2009 investment has paid off for me very well and then some. Looking forward to what they come up with next =]

[@SwiftDreamer]

great interview!

[@PrAnG2000]

Very interesting interview. Thanks.

[@philippeschneider8869]

Such an interesting interview! Thank you Gear4music and Arturia!

[@sandrawilliams9812]

Such a great company. I have spent about $300 and have gotten thousands of dollars worth of tools. Super job guys. Thank you😁👏

[@chitlun]

That was a great insight and what a lovely fella Edouard is, I could listen to this guy talk about wallpaper and still be interested!

[@Gear4musicSynthsTech]

Strongly agree - Edouard was fantastic to chat to!

[@nookcyan]

Thanks for sharing!

[@hsigma]

Amazing stuff! Very, very insightful.

[@MPHORROCKS]

Adore my V-Collection. I think 9 is pretty amazing!

[@alexlouwekooijmans6821]

Awesome company. They are right in the stuff that has obsessed me ever since I was a young boy. Already own the V collection and pigments.. curious what is coming next. Great interview, and Edouard definitely has a dream job!

[@alexlouwekooijmans6821]

Oh, and after trying out many synths and sounds, the Jupiter 8 does start to float on top of the pack....at least for me. Such a warm sound.

[@jaco1368]

We should split comparision on two: -does the software sounds the same as original hardware? -which sound better? (better doesn't mean same as hardware gear)

[@obscuresoundz]

good interview so whats the secret synth they are currently working on? any guesses?

[@axs203]

I wonder if Arturia are going to get into VR? I bet everyone went right to the end to find out what is coming!

[@ivebeenplaces]

Edouard is a great interviewee! Are the blue/gray stuff on the ceiling acoustic treatment?

[@Gear4musicSynthsTech]

Strongly agree. And yes, they're acoustic tiles to help control reflections in the room! As Edouard mentions having good listening spaces has been so important to their plugin development, it's cool to see that in evidence.

[@ivebeenplaces]

@@Gear4musicSynthsTech the acoustic treatment is necessary but it’s a pity we couldn’t hear more about the modeling itself. Owning Jupiter 4, mks 80, Juno 60 etc I just find myself loading Arturia replicas instead of messing with the originals - the models are that good. Speed of converting musical thoughts to music far outweighs any advantages the actual hardware might have.

[@jefflogan334]

The SQ-80 V is amazing. I play with that thing for hours. Its very close but does so much more than the original hardware. I had the original. I wish they integrated the sequencer, though.

[@GeorgeLocke]

Good things to come? Things? That are good? What things? Tell me things!

[@Gear4musicSynthsTech]

👀

[@JDX22]

Arturia Emulator II V....The Best 😎✊

[@orphanfrequencyyeah1742]

Very nice interview! It's amazing how Arturia has developed over the last decade. A "simple" request to Arturia while I'm here; please introduce a "Mod" option like was added to the B3-V2 also to the Clavinet-V and the Wurli-V. It adds so many options for creating new sounds and patches. I think these three emulations are very underrated. Once you start using them deliberately not to sound like the originals you will discover many new and unexpected sounds.

[@nisios]

Well, I thought I would see someone talk about the actual development process, not the seling to the boss part...

[@exposada]

o well why not; the MAC Studio, magnificient beast. but i tried the same on a windows PC; 28 arturia synths, 27 of the V Collection 8 (don't have Analog Lab installed, or overlooked 1...), and the new free Augmented Strings Intro, well in Cubase Pro, but still that isn't known to be the most efficient DAW; 23% use, at 64 sample buffer size (48Khz).... all tracks record armed... beating the keyboard, because adding notes costs CPU, releasing also, overlapping notes etc. strange, because the MAC Studio must perform better, according to benchmarks.... this of course not very scientific, i don't which presets were used, etc. but mostly i loaded my own, and they are quite extensive. so the difference can also be caused by other presets; or; well the soundinterface you use... or are a factor... still... how can a self-built desktop with a proc from the year 2021 perform, let's say on par or even better (it seems better)

[@beetsjams8127]

*b o s s*

[@drrodopszin]

There's an obsession with laptops for music production. Then of course you will be crying about CPU usage but, hey, at least your neck and back can hurt as much as you like it. A working environment must be ergonomic and if you already have a good desk with a good monitor and a good chair why not just buy a good PC for about half the price of a shitty laptop?

[@pressorv]

I was shocked to hear you use critical listening to compare instead of taking measurements from multiple hardware copies of a synth to take differences into account (even look at rebuilt /replace caps that have dried up, common practice in repair) and compare measured differences against the software. (I'm still listening to it, I may edit my comment) by using measured differences you can specify the differences. Further, one thing might be to select age of synth to set randomized values. Similar to guitar modeling, wouldn't that provide superior results?

[@edouardarturia4680]

Everything is based around measurements, critical listening comes at the end to validate and adjust the last details. Dispersion is one of the consequences of aging, modelling aging could be fun, but I don't think it would be "superior".

[@kevinnolan3592]

Interesting point about Arturia sacrificing the ability for old presets not to work on new Engines. I love Arturia - but - this is a MASSIVE NO NO!!! It's down to this: if we've created a piece / project based on past Arturia Presets - and now that preset is not available in the new engine - it kills the project. That's _not_ just about 'a preset. It could be a MIDI edited line based on that preset in a DAW tack! So Arturia - there are MAJOR implications as to whether we can trust your products on our projects into the long term - and the answer to that is increasingly: No - we _cannot_ trust Arturia to maintain back-ward compatibility into the future. The key to solving this Arturia is for you to put more effort into backward compatibility with previous versions of your plugins - even when you reinvent it. You HAVE to develop your own in-house standards and protocols to enable presets from previous versions to be transferrable to new versions of the Plugins. I have used Arturia for years - but this moving from one version to the next without backward compatibility has now become a MAJOR issue for me - and I have already decided to start to back out of V-Collection for the future. In short - I can no longer trust it into the future on my projects. I hope you internalise this Arturia, and fix it. Kevin Nolan.

[@jonvincentmusic]

Give me one single example of an occasion when Arturia has launched a new version of a synth that wasn't backwards compatible with the previous version, and at the same time took the old one off you.