Additionally, two other synths that were present in previous versions of the Collection have been upgraded to new versions: the Jup-8 V4, and the Stage 73 V2. They are: Jun-6 V, Emulator II V, Vocoder V, and the OB-Xa V. There are four new synths in V Collection 8 that were not present in V Collection 7.

OVERALL RATING = 3.6 Stars, which earns it aģ.6 stars or better: Outstanding, WIHO AwardĢ stars or better: Suited to specific needs For this review, we will focus primarily on what’s new in V Collection 8. This collection features 28 software instruments (four new additions since the previous release) and a number of workflow improvements and updates.

For details about the new keyboards added to that collection, check out our V Collection 7 review here.Īs far as our keyboard editors are concerned, the V Collection is basically a must-have for synth lovers thanks to the variety and quality of its vintage digital and analog synth re-creations, and in many cases with additional features the original hardware never had.Īs usual for Arturia, they have upped the ante with their latest release, V Collection 8.

Since then, Arturia has grown their virtual synth collection massively, and our last review of the collection, V Collection 7, came out just a little bit over a year ago. We have been covering Arturia products from the very beginning, starting with the JP-8V 1.0 in 2007, which was (and still is) a great virtual incarnation of the Roland Jupiter-8 synth, more than a decade before Roland got around to releasing their own version.

Analog lab v collection 7