Piano engine is a way better, I don’t have glitch and cuts anymore. Thats the only thing I notice except the new presets. Polyphony on Pigments is always very limited.
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Will the polyphony of the DX7 be increased to 16 voices (to match the original hardware) in a future update?
here same requests.
Increase poliphony where possible please
part mute option
possibility to locate, move or delete preset sounds
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Still missing the possibility to control master volume with a pedal.
What’s your opinion?
Controlling the Master Volume with the Expression pedal is possible, but it’s not a global setting.
It can be assigned at the preset level in Analog Lab, in the “Keyb. Settings”. There you can assign Expression for the current preset to any parameter of the “Edit Preset” page (mostly volumes and effects). Then save the preset with the new Expression assignment.
That’s not what I’m after. I need the possibility to adjust main volume on the fly independently from any patch and as the volume knob on the far left end of the keyboard isn’t too convenient for this task, I would love to have a foot controller for this task, preferably one of the aux pedals that are intended to support continuous controllers as well as switch and should be assignable to global volume.
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… far right end of course
I am facing first note missing issue for some presets like Autumn Spirit (Synclavier). I am running on 1.3. Is there any solution or workaround for this?
And wait…the best still has to come… LOL
There are notes missing everywhere, and the only way to fix it is to sell and get a decent Synth.
I decided to keep mine because i am not even able to sell it for 1000 euros, i still feel like it’s wasted money and there will be no future for this, except if Arturia will send to their customers an upgrade board to swap with the original one, with decent storage and RAM speed and an enough powerful CPU.
Just try to send a BT audio file and use the first piano patch in the keyboard: if you apply reverb within and play a little fast, audio will become a crack-pop-freeze-o-rama.
They should change the name from Astrolab to Astrocrap … ok Arturia, you got my money once with Origin, then twice with this, but i won’t get fooled again, and get only your software.
So sad and upset!
HI @Spargiulo
If your AstroLab is as bad as you’re describing it, then really you should return it to the retailer you purchased it from for a full refund as it’s still under warranty, you do no have to keep it or sell it for less than you paid for it.
HTH!
i think that a complain based upon real facts should warn other potential customers, and can be useful. I don’t quote “it’s bad because of the color” but report, as a paying customer, the flaws of an item. Prove me i’m wrong and i will apologize.
If i could send it back for refund i’ve already did it, but 30 days return policy (Kytary.cz) passed and i missed it, waiting with hope that Arturia fixed the major problems.
If you check italian used marketplaces, the price dropped to 1350 euros for the new, i weren’t able to sell at 1000 even if i paid 1590 for the new - i got it ad “day one” so i decided to keep it.
I still hope that Arturia will do the miracle, but the message i want to send is: buy a laptop, Arturia plugins and a Keylab MK3 and you will be happy, spending the same amount.
Arturia invested a lot in marketing, i am sure, because every youtube presentation shows the same “good things” but not the elephant in the room, that is huge… Be honest - and i say it as an happy Arturia product user -i’ve got really plenty of your products (just to mention all v-collection from 6 to now) and that’s why i bought Astrolab with hope and joy; this project feels like a demo, or having an obsolete laptop running an overwheight plugin, note truncations, loading times, cracks and pops if you play something fast…
Maybe it will be fixed and i hope it, i’d be the most happy and proud owner shouting “that’s ASTONISHING, great sounds (true), flawless workflow, stylish(true), easy, realiable and fast for every live gig”
But for now i’m struggling to have the volume pedal working on every preset, wihout modifyng every single sound, or play upon a BT wave without cracking and pop sounds if i apply reverb.
Again, prove me i’m wrong and i will apologize and change my mind.
I’m not angry, just sad @matjones , and i thank you for your understanding
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For my part, thanks to everyone for posting. I was considering an Arturia board, but these Astrolab defects, along with those of the Keylabs, have convinced me to look elsewhere.
despite the latest firmware and no matter how long I wait after a preset change, the first note is always missing on some presets. Horror! Arturia, at least that has to be fixed immediately! Is there at least any workaround?
Unfortunately, this is a known issue that affects specific instruments:
- Korg MS-20
- Synclavier
- Vocoder
- CMI
I understand that Arturia has been working on fixing those. Not sure when the firmware will include those fixes.
Workaround? Play a first “ghost note” just after loading any preset of those 4 instruments.
Sorry I don’t have a better solution at the moment.
thank you so much for your fast answer, I really appreciate that. And I also really hope FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, that Arturia fixes this bug(s) asap … Because like this it is a big “no no” for live …
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Besides fixing bugs,
I just want to say
+1 on allowing mapping of the expression pedal to Macro, or other parameters.
I would want to be able to, for example, control the knee lever function on the Farfisa with an expression pedal, if possible.
Same here… really need option to globally control volume with foot pedal… so I don’t have to have a hand free to adjust vol when switching presets live.
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(hope this is the right place)
After a year or so, I really love this machine, it sounds great, and does almost everything right.
Just one request that would make it close to perfect: shift press one of the preset keys to store the current preset in the current Playlist/Song. Just this one wish, pretty pretty please 
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I’ll second this smart request
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Hi Arturia, thank you already for this incredible synth! We want to take it really far and sometimes little things get stuck. Here are some cases that I have noted:
(I am more comfortable in French than in English, so sorry if the sentences are not all correct).
1 - The communication between Keyboard and Software is not fluid when editing a sound of the Keyboard from the Software while both are connected via USB. I end up building the sounds on software before transferring them to the keyboard.
If I edit the split between two stacked sounds, I sometimes have note or octave errors in the distribution.
Same in case of split if I play a note it sometimes ends up playing two octaves at the same time in the software, impossible to set its octaves and its split correctly from the software, I end up editing them from the keyboard.
Sometimes the “Octave transpose” do not follow between Keyboard and Software.
In all these cases I checked the octaves, the midi parameters, tried with another independent MIDI keyboard etc… nothing helps, when there are Split or “Transpose Octave” on stacked sounds, there are often problems.
2 - Really too bad not to have a MID parametric EQ on the 3-band EQ of the master. I am often forced to sacrifice an FX to add an EQ.
3 - I tried to assign from the software the rotary buttons to different parameters to make my sounds live while playing. No problem on software but some assignments do not work once the Preset is transferred to the Keyboard.
4 - In the different types of Delay offered, some do not follow their quantization. Ex: if I choose 1/16 I hear 1/8. If I choose 1/8 I hear exactly the same thing, that is 1/8….
Also the Analog Delay sometimes refuses to have two different values e.g.: L 1/8 + R 1/16, it will choose to play one or the other.
5 - In CHORD mode, you can record a custom chord, however the keyboard does not memorize the order of the recorded notes. This means that you cannot build an inverted chord since it necessarily considers the lowest note as the fundamental. Too bad the keyboard does not remember the order of the notes when you record this sequence, considering the first as the foundation of the Chord.
6 - PIGMENT: Super practical for using a sample and giving it life in Pigment. However, big problem on my side: each time I click on a Preset with samples the software asks me again for the access path of each of the samples, independently!!!
why does the software not memorize the access path? Should I put it in a specific folder?
why not just be able to choose a “folder” in which the synth would find the missing samples by itself?
7 - Managing presets and playlists is complicated, sometimes even a bit obscure:
you can have a Preset and save it under the same name without it overwriting the previous one despite the fact that I have the choice between “save” and “save as”.
When I enter a preset on the Keyboard, it is impossible to know where it really is if I do not put it in a playlist. So I think I can have duplicates without knowing it…
ex: I import a sound from the Keyboard to the Software. I delete it from the keyboard. I modify it and rename it in the software then put it back in the keyboard = my preset will automatically take back its old name, as if the Keyboard had remembered that it already existed before, or rather as if the sound had only been deleted from its playlist but not from its memory.
It would be great to have an overall view of the Presets in the keyboard, like a general folder of all Presets, and to be able to assign them to Banks, Playlists, Liked Presets, instrument types, etc. just to classify them and access them via its organization shortcuts.
Impossible to drag or save an entire playlist from the Keyboard to the Software
Impossible to create a Bank in the software from the Bank menu, you have to save a sound and create a new Bank. Overall, we would like to be able to classify and organize our sounds more easily than saving sounds by sounds.
8 - the central rotary button on the keyboard is not practical, especially when you have to click to validate, it often happens that the button turns rather than clicks.
Hoping that all this helps unlock the astrolab’s abilities