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Controllers => MiniLab MKII => Topic started by: DJSky on September 06, 2022, 02:30:47 am
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After I got my Arturia Mini Lab MK2 set up I explored the Aturia site and saw they had free sound packs. I downloaded a bunch of them. Some of them had set up file you could run and it would set up. The others just downloaded and I was wondering how to set those up? Instructions kind of confusing. Please advise. I save the files in the computer download.
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Welcome.
I think there is a communication / terminology boundary here, that we're doing to have to break through to understand each other.
First of all the MiniLab is a MIDI controller. All it will do is play sounds in audio software on your PC, Mac, iOS or Android device. You cannot install or download 'soundpacks' to it.
As a new purchaser of MiniLab, you will be entitled to the free download of:
- Analog Lab Intro, which is a 'crippleware' version of the Arturia Analog Lab software for Mac/PC
- Ableton Live Lite, which is again a 'crippleware' version of the popular DAW recording software for Mac/PC.
Analog Lab includes a Sound Store: an official marketplace where you can download new sounds which creators have uploaded for commercial distribution. Maybe this is what you mean by Sound Packs. But these self-install into Analog Lab.
Other than that there are demos of other V Collection instruments on the main Arturia website, but these need to be manually installed, as per the usual method of installing software in your computer, and are not sound packs.
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I am coming from the Akai MPK Mini World, and they call their sounds you can purchase expansion packs. Here is the website I am referring to https://www.arturia.com/sounds. Some of them are marked as free. You can download them, and they have a Install file or .exe file. Some do not. How do you handle the ones that don't have an exe file which is about half of the free ones. Please advise.
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Hopefully this will help you:
https://support.arturia.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409624180882-How-to-install-my-sound-banks-#:~:text=Go%20to%20the%20product%20section,related%20to%20your%20sound%20bank. (https://support.arturia.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409624180882-How-to-install-my-sound-banks-#:~:text=Go%20to%20the%20product%20section,related%20to%20your%20sound%20bank.)