Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. It's a killer collection of plug-ins for anyone composing with synthesizers, including for film scoring and video games, as well as for live performance with programs like Apple MainStage. But that's exactly what you get with Arturia V Collection 4 ($399), a comprehensive suite of virtual synthesizers that mimics some of the greatest models ever to grace the studio and stage in the 1970s and 1980s. To think that today, you can get over a dozen classic synths and other instruments in a single software package, and create as many instances of them as your computer's processor allows, is mind boggling. And if you could get a hold of a real analog synth or two -say, a JUNO 106 and a Minimoog -the sky was the limit with what you could create. Say, a Korg Trinity or Roland XP-60, plus a digital virtual analog synth that was available at the time. Some of the plug-ins are processor intensive.Īround 15 or 20 years ago, people would tell you when building a home MIDI studio that you needed at least one workstation keyboard for bread-and-butter sounds, and that if you could add a couple of specialty synths, you would be golden and could take on any project.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.

Arturia v collection 5 v5.0.0..review