But if someone had told the younger me that in 2019 it would be possible to buy a bundle containing much enhanced equivalents of the ARP 2600, the Buchla Music Easel, the Casio CZ1, the EMS Synthi AKS, the Fairlight CMI/IIx, the Hohner Clavinet D6, the Mellotron M400, Moog Minimoog and Modular systems, the Oberheim Matrix 12 and SEM (and, by extension 4-Voice and 8-Voice), the Roland Jupiter 8, the Sequential Prophet 5 and VS, the Solina String Synth, the Synclavier, the Yamaha CS80 and DX7, Rhodes 73 and Wurlitzer EP200 e-pianos, Hammond B3, Farfisa Compact Duo and Vox Continental 300 organs, plus a selection of acoustic pianos, all for less than £20 per instrument, I would have been stunned. In the intervening years soft synths have come on in leaps and bounds, taking full advantage of the power that modern computers can offer. Running on just 64MB of RAM on a Mac G4, it was a recreation of the ARP Odyssey and, even then, it captured much of the essence of the original synth. Having avoided them in their infancy, I reviewed my first soft synth 16 years ago this month. The results in Augmented Voices are a little less compelling if you ask me, but it’s still great to see Arturia try something new and bring something other than emulations of vintage synths to the V Collection.Now in its seventh incarnation and offering three new instruments, Arturia's V Collection just keeps getting bigger and better. Choirs and soloists get processed and smashed up against various synth engines to create everything from ‘80s-inflected synthpop arpeggios to guttural wails for your next Hans Zimmer tribute. The twist is that, instead of using string and orchestral sound, Augmented Voices uses, well, voices. If your whole thing is cinematic sound design, the Augmented series will probably pique your interest.Īugmented Voices follows the same basic formula as Strings: Combine four layers (two sample and two synth) to create unique blends of acoustic and artificial textures.
You can swap in samples or synth engines, dial in separate envelopes for each of the four layers, and choose whatever effects you want. The core UI and sounds are all the same, but the addition of an Advanced tab give you complete control over the instrument. But the one included in the V Collection is far more robust. We already got a taste of Strings a few weeks ago when Arturia launched the Intro version for free. The biggest additions to the family, though, are definitely the Augmented Voices and Augmented Strings.
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