Nord User Forum

Hi

Having owned my Stage 2 for over a year now and having developed my interest in synth programming further, I wanted to broaden my synth collection.

However, for fear of running out of space in my home studio and the actual costs of buying a number of decent 'vintage' instruments my interest was intially drawn to the Arturia origin and then I spotted the V Collection 3.0 which I can buy for about £300.

Having never really been interested in VST instruments, I would appreciate any comments/advice people can give as to whether VST synths are worth considering.

It is not necessarilly my intention to use VST instruments in a live gig but perhaps to program the VST and sample the sounds to use on my Stage 2 in a live setting.

Any thoughts???

Geoff

I was to buy one of Arturia's keyboards, the 4 octave controller.
But I found that the "E licence key software" was very heavy.
And the "Laboratory / Factory" software I tried was not very stable on my systems.
The offer was to get 4 synth from the V collection for free when buying the keyboard.
IMHO : sounds very good, but not for me on the technical and stability side.
Give the demos a try if you have not already

If you're looking for that analog sound in a soft synth, you might also want to look at U-he Diva. I sold my Roland MKS-50 (rackmount version of the Roland Alpha Juno) when I heard it; it made the right sounds (and came with a lot of the MKS-50 presets) without all the buzzing of my MKS-50.

http://www.u-he.com/cms/diva