Just as we were about to go to print with our review of Collection 5, Arturia stopped us in our tracks by releasing Collection 6.

OVERALL RATING = 3.7 Stars, which earns it aģ.6 stars or better: Outstanding, WIHO AwardĢ stars or better: Suited to specific needs And with the expansion of the instrument collection came a digital recreation of the NED Synclavier, an ‘80s staple of the big studio that only a handful of top-tier keyboard players every had the opportunity to touch given its astronomical price tag.

And with each iteration of the product collection, Arturia has improved the sound, the interface, and the variety of synths in the collection.Īrturia V-Collection 5 is now an impressive collection of 17 synths/keyboards, with notable sonic and visual improvements over the previous collection. Though Arturia has unveiled quite a few hardware products over the last few years, they have never neglected their software roots. I'm considering going for Collection 8 instead which is also up on Audioz, but even then the download says 20GB but then capped at 999MB once you're through to one of the links.Arturia has been in the game of recreating classic synths virtually for nearly fifteen years, and some would argue that their outstanding virtual instruments are the standard against which others are judged. And I can't even get those 2 synths past the demo/trial phase with the Xdie patcher, and even if I did I'd still be missing 95% of the collection (although I've read with the patcher you can just go onto Arturia's website and download the demos from there and then run the patcher). I copped one of the downloads which seemed to have everything in it at around 23GB, but when you go through the Peeplinks you can only ever download 999MB worth of stuff, so the resulting download only had 2 synths in there instead of about 20-30. The latest upload relating to this is the Xdie patcher which I downloaded fine, but simply can't get my head around working, even after following all instructions. I've been looking for the Arturia V Collection 9 for Mac and can't seem to get anything solid, there are a few bits up on Audioz mainly but I feel like I might be doing something wrong.

Kind of a mixture between troubleshooting and also a Mac request.

Arturia v collection 5 will be 6