Basically, it's just easier to use the mouse most of the time, the physical controls are more useful for automation and performance really. Btw, it's actually not that convenient because the actual physical controls, unless they're endless encoders (or mechanized faders, and your controller works well with your DAW and plugins, and they might not), they won't physically move when you change the presets. It's not something to be worried about, it should work with any midi controller and nearly every plugin. In general, most knobs, faders, buttons that you see in plugins can be easily mapped to your keyboard's physical controls. With Analog Lab you can just map the knobs and faders to your controller (if it has them). I also really like DUNE 3, Phase Plant, and Spire.Įven though I also own two Arturia Keyboards, the KeyLab Essential 61 and MiniLab MkII, which have tight integration with Analog Lab, I still find I use those other mentioned synths far more.When I google controllers that are great for both these plug-ins Personally, I find that I use my U-He synth collection (Zebra, Diva, Hive, Repro-1&5) far more often than Arturia's synths, as I prefer the sound and functionality of U-He's synths. The previous version had more flexibility to use multiple instruments simultaneously (but that version is no longer available to buy). Plus, they changed the multi-instrument split-keyboard functionality from Analog Lab 4 to V. Some of the cons are that Arturia plugins are a generally tad slower to load than many other plugins (probably due to their heavily bitmap-centric GUI design (even on an SSD) and they also have to communicate with the separate Arturia Software Centre licence manager).Īrturia's synths can be quite CPU-hungry too. The pros are that there are loads of very usable sounds in Analog Lab. As an owner of Arturia Pigments and Arturia V Collection 7 & 8 (which include Analog Lab 4 and Analog Lab V).

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