Alex from Sonic Sense Pro Audio demos and discusses the new Arturia SparkLE.
Arturia calls SparkLE a ‘hybrid instrument’, combining software and a hardware controller.
Features:
- Full featured Spark Software
- 3 synthesis engines: Virtual analog, Physical Modeling, Sample playback
- Works Standalone & as a plug-in (VST, VST3, AU, RTAS)
- Backlit velocity and pressure sensitive Pads
- Touch sensitive FX pad
- Mode selector – Bank, Pattern, Seq, Tune
- Bus powered, class compliant USB input
- User assignable encoders
- Advanced Looper Divide/Move function
- Classic ?TR style? programming
- Real-time programming from the pads
- Protective travel sleeve
- Small, Portable, Solid construction
- MIDI mode for use as a controller with any software
Arturia SparkLE is priced at US $299 / EURO 249. See the Arturia site for details.
via SonicSenseProAudio:
Smart move, I like.
M8 do u even compress?
You can really dial in your sound with….that dial…
Myeh… very pretty. Minibrute was awesome, but groove boxes that need a computer to work feel like a step backwards. Hopefully we’ll see a Spark standalone along the lines of origin some day.
Spark LE or “Sparkle” haha
Lemme get this right…
You can
* trig single-shot sounds.
* “add & subtract” – whatever that means
and you can also
* mute and solo tracks
And this all together makes for “endless possibilities”
I guess so, if all your basslines and melodies consist of a single tone in some rhythm…
Now *why* is that old bullshit detector back in the garage humming and blinking n fuzzin?