Along with the updated Jup-8 V and Stage-73 V, there are all the instruments from VC7, the Buchla Easel V, Mini V, Matrix-12 V, Solina V, SEM V, ARP2600 V, CS-80 V, Prophet V, Modular V, Synthi V, Piano V, Clavinet V, Farfisa V, Wurli V, VOX Continental V, Mellotron V, B-3 V, CMI V, DX7 V, Synclavier V and CZ V. New instruments in VC8 are the Vocoder V, Emulator II V, Jun-6 V, and the new-this-year OB-Xa V. See the link at the end of this V Collection 8 review for more on the latest Analog Lab. Some of the new Analog Lab V screen views. I found 11,158 presets! I wasn’t able to listen to every one so far (!), but all I listened to were excellent as I would expect. However, if you have the full V Collection 8, your Analog Lab V will provide access to the 2000-plus curated presets described above, and all presets from the V Collection 8 itself, with the ability to access all the controls on individual instruments. However, the tweaks you can make provide a wide range of sound variations. You'll be able to tweak some parameters of each preset in the Stage & Studio views, but will not have access to individual instruments and all their parameters. If you buy only the Analog Lab V package, you'll have access to over 2000 presets curated for Analog Lab V which are taken from the V Collection 8. There is a Studio view, a Library view and a Stage view with various options for each. The new Analog Lab V has been re-visioned and has several main views and various sub-views available. VC8 includes 27 instruments plus the Analog Lab V which, as you may recall, accesses a subset of the controls for all 27 instruments. In addition to this, all the instruments in VC8 have had an upgrade to their user interface which adds four 4 new macro controls, a new preset browser, built-in step-by-step integrated tutorials (not online links!), and many additional of sounds. Version 8 (VC8) adds the new Analog Lab V (changing the Arabic number 5 to a Roman numeral this time!), four new classic instruments (one more than VC7 added), and a major update to two previous instruments, the Roland Jupiter 8 and the Fender Rhodes Stage 73 electric piano. V Collection 8, as before, is a bundle of synth and keyboard plug-ins, all of which are truly excellent sounding. When Arturia introduced the OB-Xa earlier this year as a single standalone/plug-in recreation of the famous Oberheim OB-Xa, it was likely on many people’s minds, “when will we see this as part of the next V Collection”? It has been over a year and a half since V.Collection 7 was released (see my 2019 review below this V.Collection 8 review), so one might expect a holiday surprise from Arturia. Arturia V Collection 8 – Even More Keyboard Legends!
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