Arturia V Collection 8
V Collection 8 introduces new instruments and completely reworks some old favourites.
In recent years, Arturia’s V Collection has grown into a substantial resource, with emulations of numerous monosynths, polysynths, samplers, pianos, organs and other keyboards, the original of any one of which (with the possible exception of the CZ1) would cost more than the whole collection. Today, V8 adds four new instruments as well as two upgraded ones, plus a new version of Analog Lab, new sound libraries and further enhancements including macros, improved housekeeping and integrated tutorials.
Before looking at the instruments themselves, I would like to discuss something that, in my opinion, Arturia never got right in the past. Introduced in the noughties, this was the company’s method of emulating the drift of analogue oscillators by applying a random offset to their initial phases when you played each note. If the synth in question used two oscillators per