I am new to working in the box. Used to always just use my MPC to make beats and would bounce stems to mix but always used native plugins and never bought soft synths. I recently purchased Arturias FX collection and was blown away by the quality. so I checked out their soft synth collection and good lord! Their recreations of analogs sound amazing! if anyone is looking to broaden their sound pallet and doesn’t mind using software, look into this collection. I still get to work out of the box thanks to Elektron’s OB which is amazing and the new MPC I have I can use as a controller that functions just like an MPC but I get access to all these new instruments right on the MPC. a seamless hybrid setup I never thought was possible. no latency. just real-time goodness. run Arturia’s synths through Analog Heat and they are super legit, but on their own, with Arturia’s FX, they sound so good. worth checking out for anyone needing a collection of tools for a good price. I never thought I would use a soft synth but am very happy with this arrangement. sample fodder for days. That’s all. just wanted to share in case it helps anyone’s musical journey.
Good read. Always always nice to listen to another persons flow…. Wait, or does that where GAS comes from!!! 
Arturia’s stuff is excellent.
If you buy any of their products you get a couple of free plugins which sound really great.
I’m tempted to pick up the whole FX pack some time when it’s on sale.
I did not know this. I have a Microfreak but need to register it. Good to know
V Collection + Serum and you basically have all the synth sounds you’ll ever need
I bought a Keystep 37 and then I got an offer on the FX collection 3 + Dist Coldfire for only €149. They give really great offers to their costumers!
Is there any obvious or clever out of the box way to centralize all presets that you like from DIFFERENT Arturia instruments ? I’d love to see them all in one place a bit like analog lab.
Komplete kontrol from native instruments… you can get it free with komplete start, all the Arturia stuff is nks compatible, also with komplete kontrol you can make multis etc, just like analog lab…
Wow, exactly what i needed. Already saved presets for 5 instruments. Gonna take some time browsing them all and saving the ones i like but so worth it.
You’re awesome
You’re welcome 
Black Friday sale is on. I can get the V collection for €149, which seems like an amazing deal (usually €599).
I assume you already own a load of Arturia stuff as it’s £299 on the website.
Nice one. Time to get the V Collection 
crazy deal they extended me:
I own V Collection 9 and my sale offer is $299 
Showing as 99 for me. Very tempting
I think the FX are worth having at a good price, but are a tier lower than Soundtoys and Fabfilter
The Synths I find quite uninspiring compared to U-He or Synapse, but it’s worth having for the Pianos, Clavs, Organs, Mellotrons and weird things you get with the collection. If you are looking for a Moog or a Juno I’d go elsewhere.
I have a Keylab mkII, which must be why.
I upgraded to FX4.
Just tried the LX-24 Reverb and it’s not as nice sounding as Pro R2 (Which now does algorithmic reverb) and uses waaay more CPU so I don’t see me using it again. Always seems to be the case with Arturia.
Practically yeah I think I’m with you on that. For sounds in a mix, they give you this weird sortof semi digital semi analogue vibe, which can work. And the layering is v cool. So as a secondary group of synths to play with I do like them. Nice to have if you preset surf but less so for sound design.
As a lead instrument I’d lean on Diva or Repro all day though.
I’ve got a great deal during black friday and snag the whole FX Collection 4 as I remember trying some of them some years ago and liking them.
I had experience with a pretty large UAD collection years ago, and I have to say the Arturia ones are among those rare plugins that give me the reassuring feeling I had when using UAD (hard to describe).
The thing that makes special to me is the fact that they are clearly fine-tuned for creative work and experimentation.
It seems to me that rather than emulating every aspect of the hardware machines they focused on recreating the “mojo” of such machines and maximizing usefulness in a creative scenario.
Their original plugins such as Fragments and Coldfire are a breath of fresh air, they are pure experimentation tools!