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mrjason « Vintage synths »
Published on 10/31/12 at 23:53The Arturia Origin Keyboard is a 61 key synthesizer, it comes loaded with some really good vintage sounds. The first thing that I notice with the Arturia Origin is how many actual sounds are own it. You will be using these sounds for a long time because it gives you so many of them. It has some of the most classic synths in it like the CS-80, Prophet VS, and Modular (there are a few others that I cannot remember). It has a built in 16 and 32 step sequencer. There are up to 32 voices and it has MIDI in , MIDI out, and MIDI thru.
UTILIZATION
The Arturia Origin does have an arpeggiator on it and a total of 9 outputs. You can have 1 foot pedal (footswitch) and 1 foot controller plugged in to the Arturia Origin. There are about 10 different effects on this synth. I do wish there were more effects built into it because for the price I would expect to have a lot more. The Arturia Origin is very expensive, I do not own it but I use it at the studio all the time and the effects are the only downfall of the Arturia Origin. The ones it has are very good, but there should be a lot more. They spent a lot of time developing the sounds to model classic synths, but they did not spend time adding effects.
SOUNDS
The sounds and presets are great, if you are into vintage sounds then this is a must have because you are getting the sounds from some really good synths. You are getting sounds from boards that cost more than this does.
OVERALL OPINION
If you went out and purchased those boards individually you would be spending about 3 times what this keyboard cost. So you can have those vintage synths all in this synth for one decent price.
UTILIZATION
The Arturia Origin does have an arpeggiator on it and a total of 9 outputs. You can have 1 foot pedal (footswitch) and 1 foot controller plugged in to the Arturia Origin. There are about 10 different effects on this synth. I do wish there were more effects built into it because for the price I would expect to have a lot more. The Arturia Origin is very expensive, I do not own it but I use it at the studio all the time and the effects are the only downfall of the Arturia Origin. The ones it has are very good, but there should be a lot more. They spent a lot of time developing the sounds to model classic synths, but they did not spend time adding effects.
SOUNDS
The sounds and presets are great, if you are into vintage sounds then this is a must have because you are getting the sounds from some really good synths. You are getting sounds from boards that cost more than this does.
OVERALL OPINION
If you went out and purchased those boards individually you would be spending about 3 times what this keyboard cost. So you can have those vintage synths all in this synth for one decent price.