New gear

[Ibi Sum]

Great to hear you’re getting some music juices flowing, Peter.

And yeah I’ve been very happy with Arturia lately - the MicroFreak is amazing fun. 

The MiniLab I have, however,  has had major problems with the potentiometers - Arturia shipped me a free set of replacement parts once they’d confirmed I could do the replacement work myself. That’s pretty cool...

V Collection is full of fun things too...

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seclorum 

> On 28.12.2020, at 20:58, deeplfo <deeplfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good for  you :-)  I've been on an Arturia buying spree lately, and of course I've had and love both Pigments and Analog Lab.
> 
> cheers,
> mohsen
> 
> On Monday, December 28, 2020, 06:12:51 AM PST, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes, really. About time, too.
> 
> Some of you may already have seen it on Facebook. For Christmas, I got 
> myself an Arturia KeyLab 61 mkII. I got it in pristine white.
> 
> This is quite an interesting keyboard. It has 61 keys, obviously. It's 
> semi-weighted and has a nice feel to it. But the case is made of metal, 
> and even the mod and pitch bend wheels, which look like they're plastic 
> sprayed to look like metal, are, in fact, metal. The sides appear to be 
> made of wood inlay, unless they made plastic with a grain.
> 
> It has 9 knobs, with 9 faders underneath, and 9 buttons underneath that. 
> It has a small backlit screen, a big pressable knob and four buttons for 
> patch selection. It has six buttons for things like record, play, 
> rewind, etc, plus 10 buttons that can be used by a DAW. You get thee 
> flexible overlay templates for Reaper, Studio One, Ableton Live, Cubase, 
> Pro Tools and Logic. They're magnetic, so they stay in place and don't 
> get lost. There are some more buttons to change the mode (Analog Lab, 
> DAW, user) and for octave up and down.All buttons are backlit, although 
> most of them without the text. Finally, there are 16 pressure-sensitive 
> MPC-style pads with multicoloured LEDs.
> 
> On the back, you'll find plenty of connections. It's normally used via a 
> single USB cable, but you can also power it via a 9V adapter, it has 
> MIDI in and out (no thru), you can connect a volume pedal and four other 
> pedals for things like sustain, and it even has CV inputs and outputs 
> for analogue/modular gear.
> 
> It comes with some software, including a Lite version of Live, and had 
> –obviously– integration with other Arturia products such as the V 
> Collection and Pigments.
> 
> It's hard to overstate how much you get for €500. I bought it locally, 
> for the same price as it is listed on the Arturia site. You can get it 
> for €485 at Thomann, but good luck shipping this metal box for less then 
> €14. It's a lovely piece of kit, still quite compact, and very well built.
> 
> Now, don't expect my musical output to explode. It's going to be a long 
> haul, this entire process, but I'm seeing this as a first step. Who knows.
> 
> - Peter
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