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Arturia V Collection 7.2 Update

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ARTURIA RELEASES V COLLECTION 7.2
A FREE UPDATE FOR V COLLECTION
The development team took the time to listen to feedback from users – Arturia’s passionate community of Sound Explorers – and improved V Collection 7 to meet their needs. With this update, V Collection 7 is more efficient, more inspiring and more streamlined than ever.
What’s new in the Performance Update?
Faster preset changes
The time it takes to change presets has been dramatically cut. Find the perfect sound faster or instantly recall your favourite patches.
Smaller patch installs
If you already have an instrument installed, any future patch update files will be much smaller. This makes Arturia Software Center updates easier and quicker to install.
Custom resources path
All instrument resources can be moved to a folder of your choice. This is useful if you’re working with multiple drives/devices or limited internal storage.
Various Bug fixes
V Collection 7.2 also addresses a number of other performance issues – it’s now simply more stable, efficient, and easy to use.
Improved graphic performance
All instruments in V Collection have had their animations and visuals streamlined. This provides a smoother appearance and ensures less strain on your CPU.

Arturia KeyStep Pro Firmware Update

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ARTURIA RELEASES KEYSTEP PRO 1.2.6 FIRMWARE UPDATE
It’s Arturia’s job to make sure that the products they bring users perform at their best capacity, so users can enjoy the smoothest workflow. That’s why Arturia constantly works on firmware updates for their products: exciting improvements such as new features, improvements and bug fixes.

The teams have worked on analysing feedback on their latest controller, KeyStep Pro, and delivering a firmware update.

The update includes workflow improvements and bug fixes for the most part.

WHAT’S NEW IN KEYSTEP PRO 1.2.6?

– Reworked MIDI In implementation
– Notes sent to the track’s input MIDI channels are now processed as if these were played on the KeyStep Pro keyboard and transmitted to the MIDI and CV Outputs.
– More recording flexibility with the count in
– When recording in real time, notes played prior to the recording are maintained after the start and are now recorded as well.
– Record several patterns on the fly
– Patterns can now be changed while record is ON. This lets you build several patterns at one time leaving more room for your creative flow when jamming.
– Drum track time division per pattern
– The drum track time division is now stored in each drum pattern and recalled when changing from one pattern to another.
– Sync Auto mode improvement
– KeyStep Pro is now able to jump back to its internal clock after having been synced to an external source.
– Sync handling improvements
– Synchronization accuracy has been improved and now supports all clock rate formats.
– New screen feedback messages
– For some actions, new screen messages have been added to make the workflow more intuitive
– Bug fixes
– The update also comes with various bug fixes and workflow improvements. For more details, check out the release notes.

HOW TO INSTALL THE UPDATE

Connect KeyStep Pro to your computer with a USB cable
Open the Arturia MIDI Control Center software
Select ‘KeyStep Pro’ from the dropdown menu
Select ‘Firmware Revision’ and then ‘Update’

Download link

Arturia MiniLab Inverted Released

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New ‘all-black’ version will turn some heads

Arturia love a good colour variant of their keyboards, and today sees them release the inverted version of their MiniLab Mk II. For what it’s worth, I love the look of this and am mightily tempted. My only concern is how easy it will be to see under lower stage lighting – maybe that’ll force me to play by feel a little more!

What do you think?

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