Came here for a review of the Behringer B-Collection 8.

@BigJBeats

3 жыл бұрын

Is it okay that Arturia’s foundation is emulating EVERYTHING they produce?? Asking for a friend.🤔

@0VRLNDR

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigJBeats Yes. They work with the owners of the original IP to get a blessing / license / partner on it. All parties involved have an interest in a quality final product and no one is surreptitiously copied. If Behringer approached Arturia and got a license / approval for a dead copy that they could make in order to sell their upcoming DAW, then the comparison would be fair, and so would Behringer's business practices.

@ArguZ72

3 жыл бұрын

@@att6915 Hold Uli's beer...they are coming out with their own DAW soon and you can bet your ass they also will sell 15$ versions of every effects ever build by UAD

@mvsr990

3 жыл бұрын

@@0VRLNDR There was some shadiness about their Synthi emulation and there are several that don't use trade dress because they didn't partner with the maker/rights holder. On something like the 2600 I don't particularly care - Korg got the ARP name and logo via ARP's bankruptcy, they have no real claim to it IMO.

@cannedmusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@mvsr990 "On something like the 2600, I don't particularly care..." Oh, come on, Atari's sound was rather good for its time. (yes, I know you're talking about a keyboard ARP/Korg)

Bro I’m dying. Your reference to Behringer.

@saren6538

3 жыл бұрын

well they are doing the same thing

@Ben_______x

3 жыл бұрын

Are you?

@0Fdigital

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ben_______x aren't we all?

Cant wait for the arturia behringer video

@OttosTheName

3 жыл бұрын

@gridsleep I know this is supposed to be a joke, but didn't they add a bunch of Deepmind features to the Juno? And people always say the Deepind sounds quite Juno-esque...

@OttosTheName

3 жыл бұрын

@gridsleep no I mean that the DeepMind supposedly sounds like a Juno, but it had lots more features. Then Arturia came with the new Juno VST and they also added a bunch of extra features that are also in the DeepMind. Haven't compared the two myself though.

Ah, that is why they were selling me the V-Collection 7 so cheap a few days ago!

@SyntheticFuture

3 жыл бұрын

For the upsales, yup.

@SyntheticFuture

3 жыл бұрын

Still though the 50% discount + upgrade is still cheaper then V8 full price so... Fine.. =p

@ibrahim47x

3 жыл бұрын

You might be eligible for a free upgrade? Contact support and find out!

@OhShootKid

3 жыл бұрын

@@ibrahim47x If anyone finds out if that's possible, lmk! I just bought the V Collection 7 last week

@ibrahim47x

3 жыл бұрын

@@OhShootKid Will do!

Great video. Really cool chords. Thanks for the awesome review!

Love your vids man. That OBX gives me inspiration every time I pull it up!

Excellent vid! And thank you for not playing 'jump' when you were demonstrating the OB X!

Soo his weekend,finally got V Collection on a great offer, so happy happy joy joy, great video!

I usually think "shut up and play" when I watch reviews but this was a great balance of info and audio demos! subbed!

Helpful and informative! Thank you.

I love your humor Benn.

Great review. You’re a fan but don’t try to hide it. I am too. 😀 Their plugins are so practical, creative and useful. And I can’t wait to hit its update!

Just bought a Keystep so it was rad to watch you put these through their paces with it. Now to go learn Jump.

Awesome review! I got a 50% discount from Arturia today and ended up going in to buy it after watching your video. Thanks for the review!

Really enjoyed that. Thanks.

i love these kind of videos you do about software

@st0rmchild

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I've watched the V Collection 6 video three times (and I've owned the collection since v4…I just enjoy the overview and history).

I LOVE my Keystep! Aftertouch. Perfect size for my setup. Arturia products all sound great and you can live off the presets forever. How they use less cpu than any of the others I have, is a great mystery you could maybe shed some light on. AND -- Arturia has fantastic customer service!!!! I have never been ignored or not helped and recently someone helped me above and beyond.

The keystep still remains my favorite midi-controller. It's just so handy and plays really well with touch-sensitivity.

Way to represent! Go Arturia!

Love your energy bro (and the behringer reference 🤣🤣🤣) subscribed.

I'm a big fan of Arturia for sure !! I don't think I'll ever explore the full potential of this collection within my lifetime.

I've never seen him acknowledge it directly but Benn saying "they shut that shit DOWN" means he either really is aware that he looks like Negan or it's some wild universal synchronicity that has led to Benn being a synthesis genius and touring musician clone of the guy

I owned an Emulator II in the early 2000s. It was dead when i got it and had it restored at EARS in NYC. It had been owned previously by The Residents (!) and had a bunch of floppy discs from them.

The new synths in this are excellent..hands down a massive improvement. Analog Lab 5 which I got a free upgrade to is very much improved 👍🏼

1:33 Omg the synth transition after the jingle was amazing o.o

V collection is great. Can't wait to try 8

Just had to stop the video and say how hilarious you are ! The “B” company was clutch 😂

That Vocoder actually sounds great. Up until hearing this, I have pretty much despised all of them. That Arturia Mellotron wins the mellotron race, as being able to convincingly "mellotronize" your own sounds is a pretty incredible sound design trick. Props for mentioning it, it is brilliant. I believe my V8 upgrade for $99 ships tomorrow! After hearing your demos, I am pretty excited about getting some new VSTs for the first time in quite a while. You chose great sounds and music to share. Beautifully musical clips! Thank you!

It's so good to have access to these emulations, thinking about how much they cost back in their day.

wow these sound really good

Damn, your V6 video is my favorite video of yours, and that Laura Brannigan commentary part was what made me subscribe. 🤣

Nice work, you have a new follower for sure! 👍🏻

Awesome ❤️ !!!

Pretty useful review, cheers.

This is how u review a product amazing bro

6:02 took me a couple of listens before I heard "in app tutorials", instead of "inept tutorials". I guess I'm used to really low bars.

EEK- Much love for "Orange" ! Released an EP of citrus themed songs using it back in the netlabel days~

Thanks!

Nice! I have a hardware Dave Smith OB-6, and can say that the OB-Xa pairs well and stands up decently with it. I've watched a lot of Oberheim videos, and Arturia's recreation seems accurate to me.

@zachhaywood1564

2 жыл бұрын

I'm new to the synth world, so please forgive me if I get some things wrong, but did Dave Smith buy out Oberheim and/or all of their designs/patents?

@gordonmurphy4321

2 жыл бұрын

@@zachhaywood1564 As I understand it, the OB-6 is collaboration between Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim. But as to who owns the patents - I don't know. Surely Dave would have to get permission to use the patents - however patents don't last for very long, so maybe the patents have already expired. I'm guessing the two are at least professional friends. They are both giants in the field of electronic music - that's for sure.

Synthi and Vocoder are my favs in this collection

I love there effects, just as much as my UAD or plug-in alliance stuff. I love there 1176. I think imma try this bundle out, thanks for the vid :)

Interested to see the inside of _that_ B. Ehringer product. I was developing a hardware mod for the original keystep and got somewhat familiar with it's internals. I know the big B employed reverse engineering in the past, but it'll be interesting to see how blatant they actually are.

@JC20XX

3 жыл бұрын

That's very interesting. Can you elaborate?

Staying tuned for the Behringer video :)

Thanks I just got this with a 60% off deal

That OB-Xa sounds DOPE!

@devesongs

3 жыл бұрын

every musician who made hits from Prince to Van Halen used it and lots of musicians still use it

What a beautiful patch for the first OB-XA demonstration. Was that a Factory patch?

Love VH jump.

I got the VII at black friday for half price :) just loving it!

I was hooked on the collection 8 when the Juno vst was able to follow a yazoo don't go sounds tutorial

I like them. Ouchy price! I have an unreasonable amount of love for my Keystep. Great for a beginner like me.

Thanks

Great video, as always, but I'm really looking forward to hearing your slap down of the company that begins with the letter B.

Just snapped this up for $149 on special for Arturia users. I already own pigments 3.5. It was a no brainer.

@stevenwheeler7999

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. A steal!!

@ThedjAwesome

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenwheeler7999 Is the deal still going on? How do you become an Arturia user?

@stevenwheeler7999

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThedjAwesome sorry bro. The sale ended about 2 weeks ago it’s back to $599. They always have discounts on various items and always after you make purchases. Trust me you can’t go wrong with Arturia.

I'm looking at this because ProAudioStar has got these older licenses for $50, probably because they're pushing the V Collection 9 now. Can't wait to dig in!

always great stuff...have you played with the new equator 2?

really funny to see the giant keystep in front of the tiny Oberheim x))

it's a steal.

Jun 6-V sounds beautiful

Can this Arturia emulator II load the OMI universe of sound libraries?

While these are great - I’m torn between this and the UVI vintage vault 3.. Are Arturia VSTs CPU heavy like the Roland Cloud VSTs? I know UVI are samples so I’m leaning more towards them (plus they have an MKS-80 Super Jupiter VST - or as they call it - Mercury 80), than having to upgrade my MacBook yet again. Also, any word on UVI having a vintage vault 4? I think they usually come out with their VST packages at the beginning of the year and vintage vault 3 is 11 months old.

I'm really interested in what you'd make of korg gadget... It costs less, looks simple, but weirdly can be crazy deep if you approach it with a modular mindset; like each gadget as a module attached to a sequencer with strong parameter automation. I've been digging it, and it has a bunch of adorable bootleg korg versions of obxa, casio, mpc, moog, and some others that are like hybrids of synths.

Nice review, I wonder if someone want this legendary software 🧐

Well, this made me pull the trigger on the V Collection. Since I own the Keylab 61, it was discounted to $260 which seems like a bargain.

@sliiiimjim

2 жыл бұрын

How did you get this discount? Interested in they KeyLab but see no reference o a discount for V Collection. Thanks.

@matthijsblomjous3671

2 жыл бұрын

@@sliiiimjim if you're a customer you get extra discount. and now with black friday, V collection comes to €200

@NathanChisholm041

2 жыл бұрын

Im just renting it from Splice!

old jingle YEAH

Hey Benn, are you thinking of doing a video on the strymon Nightsky? I figured it might be right up your alley

The mellotron is fucking amazing. I cant escape it lol.. I keep going back to it song after song

@KlemenKotar

3 жыл бұрын

Not comapred to GForce's Mello. But - more Mello can't be bad whichever you choose :)

How did you record the screen of the V-Collection?

Hi, Benn. can you please make a few shots of Swing's internal pcb's and test SysEx transmission to/from PC? Hope they don't share the same hardware and firmware with crippled MIDI specs and routing.

Would you be willing to review the IK Multimedia Syntronik & Roland Cloud collections and compare them to Arturia’s V collection?

so do I get all of Arturia's I-7 collection as well ?

Skipped V7 update but tempted by updating to V8 due to the Juno 6 V.

Amazing how does that little box do all that.

Just out of curiosity how is the vcollection on CPU?

This collection seems to me to be the most lovingly crafted, artfully executed bit of plugin engineering. If you have the money, I believe it is worth every cent. I was lucky to grab the 75% off sale which was offered to Pigment owners (ending April 3, 2022). I bought pigment for half price a while back so I'm really lucky. I couldn't really afford it but I grabbed it anyway. So glad I did. The sounds are divine.

@MrFkinel

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@stevenwheeler7999

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto! 149 +69 instead of 599 +199 Jackpot!😀

Hey, I love that 'swing' clone from Arturia. Let's hope Behringer doesn't sue them - edit - wow, I am not the only one having that association. Definitely time to upgrade my V-collection.

Nice.

Wow, on the wishlist this collection goes! I don't see myself ever being able to afford $600 literally ever, but maybe! One day! There's still a lot of free stuff I can use!

@OttosTheName

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah check out the MG-1 for a vintage Moogy synth and the new Vital is insanely powerful.

would love to see a v collection 9 and fx collection review!

One unorthodox request: I would be very interested in you reviewing..... the book Voice Leading by David Huron. Just to be clear, it is not a classical/Western music theory book, but mostly talks about acoustic and auditory phenomena (which anyone who's seen an instrument under a spectrum analyser must have wondered about), and I think it's a wonderful reading material for anyone who's producing electronic music, where we can create instruments with any kind of spectral "footprint", unlike classical music, where this has to be done by orchestration. Anyway, at least for me that book was intensely interesting because it exactly answered the kind of questions I've always had.

@noranygard

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this recommendation!

Benn roasts Behringer harder than Thanksgiving turkey XD love it. I have 4 Behringer products - the UMC202HD, 2x B2301a speakers, and Xenyx X1222 mixer for shows. Love all four pieces despite hating the company's ethical position or lack thereof. However, I have recently became a fanboy of Arturia and got me a Studio interface and now wait for the Limited Edition Minilab MKII Orange to come out.

@jacobbrown1690

2 жыл бұрын

benn will probably buy a ubxa hardware synth when they ship

CAN YOU RECORD AUTOMATION TWEAKS IN FL STUDIO USING A KEYLAB? I CANNOT!

The GForce M-Tron Pro is quite a good Mellotron VST. I also have the Arturia Mellotron. I bought extra presets from Virtual. Synth Pads Both sound great.

@gatorgoforth3097

3 жыл бұрын

The Chambertron is fun because they use the original master tape. They were recorded in America as opposed to Mellotron recorded in the UK. Different vibes.

I think I prefer the Casio vs FM after tested the new patches in Analog Lab V

Could you put the link to Arturia in the description?

are you able to upgrade the V7 collection to the V8?

I didnt even know the V8 collection was announced.

@JoeyFTL

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe because it was announced exactly a minute after you wrote this comment

@BecomingProductions

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoeyFTL That would explain it alright.

@SyntheticFuture

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't even gotten a mail about it and I own V7 😂

@sammadden5540

3 жыл бұрын

I only know bc mylar melodies accidentally said it in a live stream

@krispybowgod9656

3 жыл бұрын

@@SyntheticFuture yeah cuz they wanted to push their 50% off v 7 sale for Black Friday and the moment after that ended they dropped v 8 lol

6:10 onwards, so very Vangelis in Blade Runner.

Your video is not helpful to prevent me from buying this collection. 😄 Love it!

isnt the emulator 2 a sampler? How is it different from any other sampler that you need a VST to recreate it? Excuse my lack of understanding

It would be nice if you could get the new synths at a discount if you own the previous version.or do they and someone can point me in the right direction.

1:37 That's M83, right? Not heard that in aaages!

Great video. You know, if you pay full-price for the V-Collection, yes, it does seem like a lot of money, but like you say, you get instruments that are very well developed. I bought in on V-Collection 3 and skipped 4, bought 5, skipped 6 and bought 7, each time with a price break from Arturia at the time of introduction. They DO have sales annually and at other random times as well, it seems. If you can get it on one of their sale times, it's certainly worth the money-you won't find ANY of the represented instruments in real life for anywhere near the money you will pay for the Arturia product, and their emulations are amazing. Couple them with some good production plugs on your DAW and you can create amazing tracks for not a lot of money. Black Friday Sales rule. I also just got the Lindell 80 Neve channel strip and the CLA 76 compressor on sale. Running the CS-80 V into that signal chain is tremendous. But yeah, Arturia does a great job-worth the money, I think. Again, great video-thank you for posting!

@NathanChisholm041

2 жыл бұрын

Just rent it from Splice you pay it off!

Arturia!

Great video! Maybe someone has mentioned it, but the Emulator II was not $30K when it came out, the II plus was a cool 10K. 1984 dollars! Still hella expensive!

@cardpuller17

2 жыл бұрын

Probably be over 50k in today's U.S. dollar.

I wonder what Benn's opinion is on Vaporwave.

Orange Vocoder reference!

I loved the very very very subtle jab at behringer there. Really nice touch! Lol, seriously though fuck bear ringer.

Price during black Friday 2021; 199 Euro's. Bought it and it's installing as we speak 😎

What's the main difference in using Arturia VST's with the keylab and other controllers?, i'm looking to change my keylab but i'm still using the Analog Lab library

@masonarcher2998

3 жыл бұрын

I have a keylab essential, keystep and keystep pro and it seems that the connectivity is effortless. If you use an Arturia controller with their VST’s it sets itself up and maps everything automatically whereas if you use a non-Arturia controller (but why?) you’re going to have to map everything yourself. Arturia is the industry standard and imo they really are the best controllers out there.

@scottadams7820

3 жыл бұрын

I mapped the 8 knobs on my mpk mkii to arturias dx7 last night in literal seconds.

I just picked it up for $150, a discount for already having Pigments. But what a great purchase. Imagine getting a $600 synth for $150.... no that never happens.

@jacobbrown1690

2 жыл бұрын

me too