In the video, Arturia Product Manager Pierre offers a deep dive into AstroLab, their new stage keyboard.
The Arturia AstroLab is a new stage keyboard that brings the company’s massive line of virtual instruments to standalone hardware.
AstroLab features 10 sound engines, 34 instruments and over 1300 presets, letting you cover a huge range of sounds using a single instrument.
Watch the video and share your thoughts in the comments!
Host Ziv Eliraz – in his latest loopop video, offers an in-depth review of the new Elektron Digitakt II sampling drum machine and sequencer.
The Digitakt II is a major update to the original design, offering more sample memory, more internal storage, 16 tracks, support for stereo samples, longer sequences, new FLTR machine options, 3 LFOs per track, new effects, and more.
“The Digitakt II improves on the original in almost every way possible,” says Eliraz.
Watch the video and share your thoughts on the new Digitakt II in the comments!
Topics covered:
0:00 Intro
1:10 New pages
1:45 KB button
2:10 Preset/Kit
2:40 128 steps
3:00 Overbridge?
3:40 16 audio tracks
4:40 Stereo
4:50 Storage
5:40 Sample pool x8
6:40 Kits
7:00 Perform kit
8:25 Stretch machine
9:55 Filter machines
11:40 Comb filter
12:30 Euclidean seq
14:10 Trig modes
16:20 Page loops
17:10 Prepare mutes
17:55 New FX
19:00 Bypass compress
19:55 Control almost all
21:00 Glide/glissando
21:25 Expression mods
22:10 MIDI learn
23:10 Name CCs
22:45 New LFOs, env
24:00 Trig conditions
25:00 Chains & misc
25:35 Pros and cons
29:00 Factory patterns
This video, via XNB, offers a complete guide to the Arturia MiniFreak synthesizer.
Part 1 covers each aspect of the synthesizer, in depth, including synthesis capabilities, filters, matrix, LFO’s, envelopes, and more. Subsequent parts will cover OSC Types, and the Sequencer & Arp.
Topics covered:
0:00 – Intro
0:47 – Navigation
05:59 – Oscillators
11:20 – Audio processors
17:21 – Filter
23:22 – ADSR 101
29:08 – Envelope
36:37 – Polyphony and voices
46:33 – Mod Matrix
54:43 – MOD assignment
01:06:48 – Velocity and Aftertouch
01:10:55 – Cycling Envelope
01:22:03 – LFO
01:31:19 – Macros
01:38:30 – Mod Quantize
01:42:12 – Chord and Scales
01:45:52 – Effects
