Arturia V Collection: Tips & Tricks

Synth expert Thomas Cochran presents a series of video tutorials on the Arturia V Collection! If you want to know how to get the most out of your Arturia V Collection of classic keyboards and synths, this is the course to watch. Thomas takes you through a series of tutorials dedicated to creating new and inspired sounds in various categories, such as pads, bass, leads, drums, and more. These videos are designed for those that are familiar with the Arturia V Collection.

Bass

• Heavy DX-7 Bass (14:29) - Learn how to make a modern DnB-inspired bass using the DX7 synthesizer. This patch introduces the course and shows how to use the V collection to make creative patches.

• Sampled Vocoder Bass (09:21) - Discover how to take the Arturia vocoder and create a patch using a one-shot stab to create a hybrid vocoder bass.

Keys & Pads

• Resampled Juno Pad (12:26) - Thomas shows how to take a Juno patch and resample it into the CMI sampler for added texture.

• Time Stretched Pad Pt. 1 (10:13) - Learn how to make a synth pad using the Emulator II to pitch shift an audio sample from the SEM synth.

• Time Stretched Pad Pt. 2 (08:10) - This video wraps up the discussion on the Emulator II patch and shows some final tweaks to the sound.

• Modern Layered Pad Pt. 1 (08:36) - Discover how to take multiple synths from the V collection and layer them together to create complex sounds that are not possible with the original hardware units. The example shown here is an evolving layered synth pad using a Juno 60 and Jupiter 8.

• Modern Layered Pad Pt. 2 (08:12) - This video wraps up the discussion on the synth pad and shows some final tweaks to the sound.

• Resampled Keys (13:21) - Learn how a one-shot stab can be resampled from the Arturia Prophet V into the CMI sampler for an interesting textured keys sound. This sound makes use of the vibrato and effects sections of the sampler to create an evolving sound.

• CMI Lead Synth (10:55) - See how to make an interesting textured lead synth using the time synth mode on the CMI. This synth engine allows for interesting waveform generation that can create all sorts of interesting, modern sounds.

Drums

• Textured Drums with Emulator II (13:55) - This video shows how to take a simple 707 drum kit and transform it into a thick, textured kit using the Emulator II plugin.

• Processing Loops & One Shots (12:07) - Building off the techniques shown in the last video, Thomas shows how to take a percussion loop and vari-speed the sound using the Emulator II plugin for ultra-textured loops. This video also demonstrates how to process some simple house drums to make them more interesting.