You just made my decision to buy this as an early morning Christmas present for myself, thanks!

I’ve been waiting for this! I’ve wanted the v-collection for a while now and I’ve been waiting for 8 before I dropped my loot! Thanks for this video, I’m off to spend my holiday money now hahaha

Very good job Mike! Great review and video design as always. I am a new subscriber from Athens and I' been surprised by the superior level and remarkable quality of your videos. I' m a Cakewalk user for about twenty years and I find your tutorials really helpful. Over one month of lockdown here and you 've been my buddy during this period! And of course you will be for the future videos to come as long as you keep the same high quality. Keep surprising us, thank you for all! Waiting for the next video!

One of the greatest purchases I’ve ever made.

Combining the Juno 6 with the TAL Chorus is instant heaven for me.

Love the new look and feel, looks really good, I love that they've changed the look and made it fresh. 😅

Great video - thank you! Already a fan of V Collection 7 - my favourite synths being Synclavier V, Mellotron V and Solina V - but the new OB Xa V looks very interesting.

For me, the V Collection is hands-down the best investment I've made as far as VST instruments are concerned. I only have this plus Pigments for all my synth/piano/organ needs. I can't wait to get my hands on version 8.

Vocoder, Mellotron and Modular are my favorites!

I absolutely fell in love with the Mellotron!!

...and there I was thinking it must be time for another Mike video and at the very same moment this arrived in my email! :-)

Very good and useful presentation !

2 Years ago I bought Analog lab and was already very happy for what you get. Great presets. You get to know all the cool synths BUT you can't change them to your liking. This issue kinda makes you wann have the v collection ( good marketing there hands down ) I waited two years to get it 50% off on Pluginboutique when I can afford it but 300 Euros is still a lot. But what you get is a playground of first class synths you can get anywhere else. Pants down their sound is supreme. Don't regret it.

Great review - I think the graphics are even better than the sounds! Though tempting I won't be indulging as I'm still working through all the content in the IK Total Max 2 package and also picked up Rob Papen Go2 for a very reasonable price at Time & Space - about half way through it's 1,000 presets so far.....

Well done review!

Oh man... Gotta start saving again. 😁

Remarkable how you can make a Rhodes sound like a Wurly. Wow!

The Synclavier this is my favorite softsynth

Thanks for your video, I just upgraded to V8 yesterday and so your video is very helpful. I was wondering how you were able to get the video screenshots of the various keyboards, I have been trying myself without success.

The ARP2600, just got it, it's great

I think the Ob is short for Oberheim Synthesizer Model XA 5, an expensive state of the art synth in the 1980's. I loved the sound , but could never afford one! Thanks for the great videos!

I've just bought bloody v7... Grrr

I bought the V7 collection about a year ago and I love it! Just to let you know, with Analog Lab you can go to the original VSTi synth an do deep editing, you are not only limited to basic editing. What I do is look for my sounds in Analog Lab, when I find something close I go to the original VSTi (I don't remember exactly what button you press but I think it is something near the image of the synth) edit and then save. Regarding V8, the vocoder looks great! I am very happy with V7, personally I think the quality of sounds are incredible, but I'm not sure if I need to upgrade because V7 already has so much! Depends on what the upgrade price is I guess. As usual your video was top notch, thanks for producing such great content! Cheers.

Thanks, Mikey! Still the best. But I still want my 30 seconds back. 😛

Hi I’m a big fan of the V7 package and use it all the time. Do you confirm the upgrade price is $299.00 Great channel Thanks, Mike

Cheers Mike...Hope you are keeping well...I am just finished with the well anticipated Covid 19 virus haha!

Hey, did you get the 'creative bass' in the DX7 from a different preset pack? I didn't find it in their presets :(

I’m pleasantly amused at the unfamiliarity of the pronunciation of one the greatest synths of all time…. The OBeeExayyyy😂. Great video though!

This is a helpful video. But I'm still recovering from the time you were "helpful" about Komplete 13. :)

What I must buy the v collection or analog lab or keyboard and piano v collection? What's the best and what's the main difference? Thank you for your content 💪🎶

If I didn't already have alternatives (some multiple) to most if not all of these instruments, I'd be all over this.

Hey Mike, I had a video suggestion for you - How to add chords to your vocals. I have amde some vicals but i always struggle to know what chords to put under it. It would help out a lot if you tell us how to do that for free in cakewalk. Other services like cubase have ways easier than this. It would be really helpful if you tell explain that. Thank you i've been watching your videos for a long time.

Nothing about NKS compatibility? Is it fully compatible with the Komplete Kontrol? This is important. I couldn't find that info.

Are they the full vat or Lite versions

coool

wow , have you done any review especially for arturia piano v2 , its that good , if not I think you are missing out on that 😀but still , keep the good work up

I'm watching this now since I have the V-Collection 8, but of course, now 9 is out. And for four new instruments we have to pay half of the new price... I'll wait for the sale of upgrades. Or 10. Or both. Or 11. Anyhow, I'll update my V-Collection one day, but certainly not for that upgrade price, Arturia! ... But I guess Arturia understands this: if you're at V-Collection 5 or such you can upgrade to 9 for the same price and probably get twice the instruments you have now.

As a beginner, I still think that it was not wise to buy the V collection. Not because it was bad, but because it's overwhelming with lots of good sounds. I start out trying to make a song and end up tinkering around with the presets 🤣

Does it erase the former version or does it come on top off ? I have version 7 and risk to have SSD capacity issue if it does not replace the former corresponding vst's Thx a lot A go-to buy stuff, no doubt

I would buy the V Collection 8 right now, if I knew that they didn't charge for future updates... But they do.. For $200 :/ A bit much in my opinion... But jeez these just sound so good!

Every single preset is usable. All I got to say.

Was that in the big box Mike?

Although I spent a bundle on Native Instruments and am pleased with the products I wouldn't purchase Arturia. I've been collecting free VST synths for over fifteen years and have a collection of hundreds and also a large number of VST FX. All of the synth emulations in Arturia are available for free. They may not all have the fancy interfaces that the Arturia versions have but many are of excellent quality. I also created my own virtual catalog in PDF format of all the VST's with both listings and a dedicated page for each with a picture of the GUI and a brief description. I use Cakewalk by Bandlab and have custom plugin menus containing the entire collection. On a somewhat related subject: I've definitively determined that while Cakewalk supports VST synths and FX it does not support VST MIDI FX, only DirectX MIDI FX, of which there are very few third party examples. For Cakewalk to be improved to support VST MIDI FX would be a welcome upgrade. I have a number of them with some interesting capabilities but they are unusable.

could you do a demo of the emulator sounds everyone seems to do modern sounds this synth is famous for being used by depesh mode etc a modern sound is of no interest.

The Rhodes sounds more like a Wurly.

I find funny that no one can make a UI that makes FM synthesis easy to learn.

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Strange.......the whole video is black on my iPad.

Hello my friend!

Do you know your web site is down? creativesauce.net

Doesn't work on Linux. Oh well. One year since I left the Windows 10 nightmare and I am never leaving Ubuntu Studio. I suppose that these companies just don't want my money. Shrug.

The Arturia Rhodes is terrible. Possibly the worse Rhodes in th e market. It sounds like a nano Wurlitzer.