Looking for basic sounds

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#1

Hey All,

Looking for some basic instrument sounds that are playable in live settings. I’ve got the full V connection along with Analog Pro and so far I can’t find decent horn, Sax, Guitar, Strings and Latin drum sounds. The ones I’ve found are generally way overproduced and really only useful for production work, not live stage performance. It’s even been a struggle to find a good string patch that doesn’t seem to be full of artifacts or other strange artifacts.

I just need a good Solo Sax, lead guitar, strings, Conga and Bongo sounds. Any ideas?

#2

Hi @stuart.renes ,

It sound like you are looking for realistic sounding acoustic instruments? Is that correct understood?
If so how realistic and how detailed?

Can you please give examples of this? Name some presets and tell what’s wrong please.
Some music examples are also welcome.

Please keep in mind you can create and edit all parameters in the V-Collection instruments instruments, as you own V-Collections. You can remove effects and so on.

I want to get an idea of what you mean and what you expect from Arturias instruments.
Then i or someone else perhaps can help further.

#3

Thanks for the reply. I guess I’m used to the sampled sounds in my Montage M. I’ll have to look some more as I’ve got about 14125 presets available. Not easy finding the right sound. The presets all seem to have names that really don’t directly reflect the sound. For example, instead of something called say Bright Solo Tenor they’d instead call it Morning Glow. You get my drift.

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#4

If you are looking for a variety of “realistic” acoustic instrument type sounds, that’s not really what Arturia’s software does. Pigments and the Augmented series do have sample-based sounds, but most of Arturia’s offerings are synth-based.

That’s not to say that you may not be able to find or make patches that are good enough, but none of it will be as close as what you’d get from something using a sample library.

#5

If you write text in Analog Labs Browsers text search field, then that might help to search. This also search for example the comments text for the presets.
I have a feeling that you might not find what you are looking for among the factory presets. But i can’t tell for sure.

But keep in mind, that V-Collection have instruments that use samples. They have samples not used in presets. And you can also import your own samples. The Augmented instruments use internal samples.

It’s possible to create sampled acoustic instrument sounds with V-Collection.
You can also combine two sounds in Analog Lab.

The question is if that can do it for you.

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#6

Hi Stuart, yes this is something we are addressing for future updates!

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#7

Let me elaborate a bit on where I’m coming from, so to speak.

I’m transitioning all my keyboard performances (63 or so) from my Yamaha Montage M7 to an Astrolab 61. The primary reason is not musical but rather, physical. The weight of an M7 and any decent protective case is around 60 lbs. This gets very laborious when you get to my advancing age of 78 while still participating in regular live music performance.

The weight of an AstroLab 61 and decent case is less then 30 lbs, half that of the Yamaha. And this, in spite of the fact that the Astrolab is extremely well built, being mostly metal. It’s quite a stunning little instrument. Congratulations to Arturia for this. There’s frankly nothing else that comes close.

Advertised as a stage instrument, it really needs to have, as part of its repertoire, a set of basic emulated acoustic instruments like all the other mainstream keyboards (from Korg, Roland and Yamaha) I’ve used over the last 40 years. Keyboard players in live settings are often called upon to play more than just Piano and synth sounds. I’ve had the pleasure of playing harmonica, Saxophone, horn and string sections and even a little Latin percussion.

Both Pierre and now Lilly have assured me that the Astrolab will get there in future updates.

Regards to all,

Stuart.

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