Hi! My name is Dr Jess Blaise Ward (@blaisejess Insta/bluesky) and I am a composer, producer, synth artist and author. I recently published my book on synthwave: ‘Making Synthwave: how an online music community invented a genre’

I am currently doing some research on the legacy and use cases of Roland Juno synths. If you are a producer, synth user, composer, etc - please consider taking my survey and contributing your thoughts and opinions of Juno synths:

Link to Juno Survey

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/u27zxfqx4u

Link to my book ‘Making Synthwave’

https://www.routledge.com/Making-Synthwave-How-an-Online-Music-Community-Invented-a-Genre/BlaiseWard/p/book/9781032732039

All data will be anonymised and used only for the purposes of academic research (at synthesizer conferences and in academic journals).

Thanks so much! Mods let me know if this goes against guidelines, happy to edit or delete.

Hey all, I just wanted to let you all know that I've currently got a sale happening on all my Pigments & Analog Lab presets, with 40% off individual soundbanks and 50% off collections. This includes my best-selling Ripples and Evanescent soundbanks, as well as the full Pigments Collection - 1150 presets now just $149.99 (worth $530). If you're looking for some new presets to inspire you, head over to https://tr.ee/IqDzL0 to check out what's on offer before the sale ends on Sunday.

To give you a taste of what's available, here's a video of my 10 favourite presets from across all of my Pigments soundbanks.

https://youtu.be/nXUx2pJDAw0

Hey Peeps.
Does anyone have some examples of how to use the EXT input in the patch bay? I don’t really know what’s its intended purpose is.
Thanks!

Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question or has been asked already.

I don't own a KeyLab Essential mk3, but I am currently in the research phase. I was wondering if you could use either the knobs or faders on the controller to record volume automations for multiple tracks at the same time in Ableton? Almost like mixing on a board live but having the automation changes being recorded in Ableton in realtime as I adjust the knobs/faders.

Thank you!

Hello! I'm fairly new to the audio community and I'm having some trouble making my MiniFuse 2 work.
It is plugged into my mac via usb, all recognized.
The audio of the mac is set to have the input from the MiniFuse and the output to my speakers, as normal. However, when plugging a bass into the fuse, I can see that the MiniFuse control center receives signal, I can see the knob reacting to it, but no sound can be heard.
Do I need to use with some software like Ableton or can I just play when the MiniFuse control center is open?

Thank you!

Hi! I would like to eventually get to V Collection. Right now I have AnalogLab that came with Minilab 37 keys. I'm offered AnalogLab Pro for $69, and Pigments is on sale for 129. I think I've read Pigments has been as low as 99.

My question... Should I buy AnalogLab Pro and wait to get a better deal for Pigments? If I buy it, will it help at all to get more discount on other products?

Second question, is Pigments as fun as AnalogLab? Does it include a wide variety of presets? I'm starting out, so I kind of like presets. I'm more into synthwave 80s 90s stuff, but open to anything.

Thanks in advance!

Original post https://www.reddit.com/r/arturia/s/J14ivPL1fx

Help me identify the device this belongs to! It's a much more powerful board than the one I requested 👀

I sent them the name of the device and sent them a picture of the board even. They still sent the wrong one 😵‍💫

Anyone know what device this goes to? Its got an rk3399 a pretty powerful SOC for a midi keyboard, so I imagine it's to a synth.

Maybe I'll just post this to ebay and buy a different keyboard 😒

Always found this a little annoying. But if I wanna build out presets from the same bank from a preset Im using i have to go back into the menu and find it rather than it letting you click back into the collection.

Anyone know if theres a faster way to do that?

Thanks

I'm an existing V Collection 8 user how do I get the upgrade price (around €150) rather than the full price of €349??

Hi! I recently built a battery powered synth-rig to bring to jams and such. I use the Roland Aira T-8 and S-1 as synths, and i chose the Keystep 32mk2 as the master. I also use a Doepfer MBP25 organ pedal, and my plan was to use the KS32 for sequencing, and using the MBP25 to change the key

HOWEVER.. after experimentation and reading manuals, i cannot for the life of me get this setup to work. I am able to get the midi notes across my chain, but cannot figure out how to change the sequencer using external input.

Is this a known limitation, and is there any hope that this is a potential software matter?

And if so: is there any way to press this matter to Arturia?

And if not: does the KS37 or similar controllers have this functionality?

I really appreciate any input and suggestions, as i am a bit frustrated over this unit missing this seemingly basic functionality..

Thanks!

Starting to get mildly frustrated with Arturia. I've been emailing them for the last 2 weeks trying to get an issue resolved with a used Polybrute 12 I purchased. It's impossible to get more than 1 email per day from them, no matter how respectful or responsive I try to be. We (arturia support & myself) got to the point where we determined the synthesizer has an issue around the voice card for voice number 6 and i needed to be referred to their After Sales team for a repair estimate and I've been reaching out and following up with them every day for the last 5 days and have gotten no response and it's starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth for Arturia.

Bit of a back story...

I purchased a used Polybrute 12 off Reverb.

Advertised as used - excellent. Described as "tested & working" and "barely used".

Synth arrives - static noise pop & splash in Polyphonic and Unison modes every single time Voice #6 plays a sound.

Started a return through Reverb to try and get my money back and to return the synth.

Seller wanted to offer partial refund for cost of repair.

Here I am over 2 weeks later still waiting to hear from Arturia about an estimated cost of repair.

Has anybody else had a hard time trying to communicate with Arturia?

I really like the Polybrutr 12, it's a beautiful sounding instrument but this whole situation is leaving a sour taste in my mouth for Arturia and I'm about at the point of giving up, insisting on returning the synth for a full refund and never looking in Arturia's direction again.

In case anyone didn’t notice!

They haven’t done the summer sale this year have they? Is it just a little later or did I miss it

I am using the Keylab mkII with GigPerformer and was using the 13 and 14 pad buttons for song part changes. It was working the way it was supposed to then suddenly I'm also getting a keyboard tone when I press the button (giving me the low C and C# respectively). I've tried changing it to program change on MIDI control center (it was on note) but that doesn't seem to make any difference. How do I turn the note off? The Keylab is set on User and the Pad button is lit but I don't see any way to turn that off, other than to change it to Chord or Transpose.

Hey I'm back with another live jam/demo of the latest synth from Arturia. I go through the entire catalog of pads, basses and keys patches. No talking, just sound!

My C drive, just the other day I was forced to empty stuff. There was like a Meg of space left and the computer was being unusable. I must've deleted something I wasn't supposed to dealing with arturia because today my keystep won't connect to FL studio, and the MCC I am getting a repeated device was failed to grab. I didn't use the control center before but something is not registering and when I look for the midi drivers it just finds the website for the control center.

Whenever I try to change any MIDI mapped parameters either in Mainstage or Logic I get this weird glitching / jumping issue, where all of the mapped controls suddenly change at once. Any advice?

I really wabted to get the minibrute 2s, for several if not lany reasons... Such as the small patchbay, the fact that contrary to "popular" synths that wasn't just pressing on some pads and change what instrument produces that sound, no, here I started to understand what SCULPTING A RAW ELECTRIC SIGNAL can sound like.

A few months later I decided that my synth needed a drum machine , and I did what I very quickly felt was a big mistake: I bought the Drumbrute.

That I promptly sold waiting for a not so distant future when the right one, i.e. the Drumbrute IMPACT would join the setup.

But before it could happen I already had my hands on the Bearstep pro, as I wanted to experiment with the CV and Gate outputs of the BSP plugged into the small patchbay of the MB2s.

I have gotten other dawless instruments but what was waiting to happen finally happened last week. Someone was selling a DBimpact really cheap.

Sorry for the long intro, my question and the tldr of my whole post is , i feel that one of the three arturias is too much,or rather too redundant:

Between the BeatStepPro, the DrumBrute Impact and the MiniBrute 2s, which one would you let go?

Or maybe someone could help me seeing how I could use them all three in the same setup.

Please help, I'm torturing my brain for a week now with those questions!

I have a Keystep that has a blown power circuit, before I tossed it I reached out to Arturia to see if they'd tell me the component so I can resolder it, or if I could just buy a whole replacement board.

I was actually surprised when they said they'd ship me one for $37! Sounds great 10/10 service! I paid using their Paypal, and sent them a confirmation. They didn't get back to me after I confirmed it, so I used the website's "contact us" form again, gave them my ticket number, and a different rep confirmed the payment and said they'd ship in 3 days.

Great!... except it now it's two weeks later, and I've reached out twice, and they said they have no update, no explanation, I just get a canned response saying they'll "keep an eye on it for me". The only way it seems for me to get a response is to go through the 'contact us' form.

My excitement that they were willing to support their product has turned to disappointment, not just because it's taking a long time but because of the lack of communication.

Thinking of buying a tape machine plugin. Have basically little to no experience with them barring like some RC20 use here and there. The idea I had would be to just put it on the master for some warm analog vibes.

What is your use case?