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Well, yeah, Dealio!

Yeah if someone posts a rant with one big long run-on sentence with no consideration for grammar or punctuation I cannot be expected to read it...

It is integrated. You will get ALL of the V Collection presets available in Analog Lab, more presets than you would get from just Analog Lab by itself. Analog Lab makes an excellent front end for the V Collection, because it combines all of the presets from the collection into a single preset browser. You can then use the filter, tagging, and search system to locate the type of sounds from the entire collection that are needed at the moment. Plus you have access to the macro controls from Lab to tweak the sound in performance mode. Then if you wish, you can open up the full instrument GUI for advanced preset editing with one click.

The NKS sound previews are provided by Arturia to accompany their presets. They are actually hidden .ogg audio files installed along with the Arturia presets. When they are used in NKS compatible Komplete Kontrol, just clicking on the preset name in the KK browser lets you hear a few seconds of what the preset sounds like without having to actually load it into the instrument.

To answer the question, I don't recall seeing the individual V instruments going on sale. If you want to buy an Arturia synth, you may as well just buy the whole collection when on sale for nearly the same price. You may get a special discount based on Arturia products that you already own.

That was actually Cakewalk by Roland, from pre-Gibson days... ?

Luftrum is worth checking out! I have some gotten some excellent sound banks for U-he Repro, iZotope Iris, and Arturia Pigments here! Rarely a dud in the bunch! He has done many preset banks for Omnisphere, Diva, Zebra, Kontakt, Dune, Serum, and others.

Seems a bit too artsy-fartsy to me. ?

I tried the Abyss demo. The workflow just didn't click for me. But I did unbox my JV-1080 years ago!

v1.5.0 working good here! The NKS previews are pretty cool!

Still too spensiv...

Since I am not much on drum triggers or drum pads, I think my main interest with the pads would be for triggering scenes and clips in Ableton. Here is a tutorial video I found that shows you how to select rows of clips in multiple banks.

You are correct. An alternative to the instrument browser or Analog Lab for auditioning the V Collection presets is with Komplete Kontrol. The Arturia presets are NKS ready, so you can listen to the short previews of the presets without loading them first. And the search & tagging system works well to narrow down the list.

The full tour by Colt:

Did you read the "Fixed" items list?

It's hard to justify a purchase with that doubt in mind. There are plenty of well supported alternatives available.

Everything Bundle FTW!

I believe that the VST3 install path is a fixed standard location in Native Access, and many other installers.

I use the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (gen 3) and have very low latency with their factory ASIO. Highly recommend!

Here's the Eight Voice playing a preset from the Retro Wave Expansion by Xenos, "Cheerful Minor 2". Nothing fancy, just a sound demo. The sequencer and delay/reverb FX are all on-board the plugin. I just played 3 notes and let the delay play out between them. Eight Voice Retro Wave Sequence.mp3

The Arturia is a weak option, because it's only one SEM module. In this case I would have to say that Cherry Audio has a big edge with 8 modules in one rack!

And while this hot deal is still cooking, you may be interested in an Eight Voice Expansion by Xenos Soundworks, 'Retrowave' for Eight-Voice for $12. https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/presets/xenos-soundworks-retrowave-for-eight-voice-presets/ ‘Retrowave’ contains 90 brand new presets for Cherry Audio’s Eight-Voice synthesizer, with generous use of Eight-Voice’s interesting voicing capabilities to produce fat analog leads, thick layered sounds, wide polyphonic synths and more. Take your sound back to the 70s and 80s with the ‘Retrowave’ patch library. Pack Contents: 17 Basses 17 Leads 14 Keys and Polysynths 12 Pads 12 Plucks 6 Bells and Mallets 4 FX 3 Arps 3 Chord Hits 2 Brass Total Number Of Files: 90 221 KB Software Requirements: Cherry Audio Eight Voice 1.0+

The Cherry Audio Eight Voice is a great sounding synth! Very FAT!!! For $19 it's a definite no-brainer! I picked it up at release, plus the Cherry Audio Synthesizer Expander Module (SEM) bundle for their Voltage Modular synth. https://cherryaudio.com/news/synthesizer-expander-modules-for-voltage-modular-released It's a single module based on the Oberheim SEM that Cherry provides in mono and poly versions that you can mix or match as many modules as you can stuff into the virtual rack synth. That way you can build your own 2-voice, 4-voice, 8-voice. or whatever. Then you have access to any of the modules in Voltage Modular so that you can make a virtual super Oberheim like none that ever existed! Not that you really need to do all that. Just drop $19 as @bitflippersuggested and you are good to go!

Or you could upgrade to the Everything Bundle from SynthMaster 2 for $139, or from SynthMaster One for $149. Everything literally gets you everything: both synths, all expansions, any new expansions that are released, plus a free upgrade to SynthMaster 3 when it is released. Just something to consider... https://www.kv331audio.com/synthmastereverythingbundle.aspx You can probably find these Everything upgrades at JRRshop for slightly cheaper.

I'm seeing the Kontakt 6.7.1 VST3 here in Cakewalk and Studio One.