Arturia Spark (v Maschine)

[Andrew Tarpinian]

I have looked at it, it appealed to me for the same reasons it does to you. Does it sound good? It's taking 2 hours to download the demo on my 44Mbps connection :(

On Jul 16, 2012, at 6:22 PM, punkdISCO wrote:

> So, just been playing with the demo for a few hours.  They synthesis is very
> strong but if anything, too strong..  On the 888 you have 1 synth engine for
> each instrument (eg kick, snare etc).  With Spark you have tons of synth
> engines, even just looking at a kick you have a choice of 4 synth engines
> (plus two forms of sample playback and I don’t understand why there are the
> 2 forms).  The synthesis is a bit like the MonoMachine where you only get a
> dozen parameters but these are very well chosen, producing a massive range
> of results.
> 
> So, its pretty powerful even just from the VST demo, without the hardware.
> 
> I can get a new one for £300 delivered so at this stage, im pretty tempted.
> Maybe I could run it next to Maschine and my 888 before deciding which
> one(s) to sell on..
> 
> No one got any experience with Spark?