Arturia Spark - my impressions

[Andrew Tarpinian]

I have to say spark sounds very very good, I am a big digital drum fan and all those sound really nice, linn, DMX etc... and I have been looking at your posts Paul, in the arturia forums. Mapping midi note to pattern for working in the live timeline seems to be working out for me. One thing is I have to put the midi/pattern note a step or two before the point in time I want the change made, I'm guessing this is normal.

Going to try hooking it up to my novation zero


On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:46 AM, punkdISCO <forums at punkdisco.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi Andrew
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>>> I'm sure it has to do with the interface not being labeled and them
>> wanting to
>>> have parameters that were always standard.
>> 
>> Maybe but, Spark's strength over the competition is in synthesis yet, this
>> is the area that the controller puts in second place.  Also, the controller
>> has 6 knobs dedicated to mixer settings for the current sound;
>> co-incidentally, each drum synth has 6 editable params so a perfect match.
>> Just a shame there is no option to toggle these 6 knobs from Mixer to Synth
>> mode..
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> for some reason they like to focus on the pre-set user - it's in all their marketing/videos, having like 3 version of the freking analog factory keyboard... in the new v-collection video they talk about the synths as presets that you can tweak…
> 
> anywho they did mention something like this in the SOS review so hopefully they do it.
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