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Arturia Astro Lab?
Arturia celebrating 25 year anniversary tomorrow with an announcement… I’ve read that Astro Lab will be a hardware keyboard version of Analog Lab 🧐 what are your thoughts/speculations?
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Oh? Yum
I still fantasize about a SuperFreak
All synth engines including Pigments, 16-note polyphony, analog filters, touch screen, MPE playing surface…
I can see something like NI Kontrol series maybe, and the MPE thing would be welcome, but I don’t think they would bring all of their synth engines on board at the risk of cannibalizing their own sales. Would be cool, though.
They might sell individual engines as add-ons.
Please let it have aftertouch as well.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/astrolab-connect/id6471487067
App already available
From the app
A single sound bank 29.99$
They go on sale 50% off a couple times a year, but you're pretty set already with AnalogLab already I would say.
This is kinda niche, but a cool idea for some. If I were a stage performer, or practiced with others and already invested with Arturia, I can see being interested in this so that I could leave the laptop at home.
I love Arturia. Nobody's perfect, but they seem to get right the things that matter most.
This seems pretty awesome. Sort of like Arturia's answer to Roland's Galaxias but in a more compact/acccessible form factor. https://www.arturia.com/products/hardware-synths/astrolab-61/details
The keyboard is really cool and it contains these 34 "instruments". I wonder what would be a price equivalent of a good midi Controller and iPad apps.
BTW, it's funny. So you need an extra iOS hardware with software to browse software (presets) on your arturia hardware 😂
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I wonder what the mini version will cost, maybe 999. Still to expensive but maybe in 4 years it cost only 599. 😃. So then it could compare to a microkorg. And it has Vocoder V much better than any Vocoder from Korg, Roland or Yamaha....
This is definitely a performance keyboard, not necessarily for everyone, but it opens up possibilities for other types of products that might be more applicable to the majority. Just the beginning, concept becomes reality vibes - expensive beta.
Imagine Arturia’s smaller controllers with Astro Lab abilities 🤯
But it looks like for it to really take flight, you need Astro Lab Pro linense on top. Overall a bit expensive, don't you think?
Synthmaster 2 alone has more than 3000. Just saying
But SM2 isn't standalone which is the goal of Astro Lab
Maybe expensive for the average noodler, but worth it for keyboard players. I feel this is just the beginning of Astro Lab and will get tweaked over time to appeal to more. I personally like it, although surprised it doesn’t have poly AT, seems like a HUGE miss especially with Pigments onboard.
I’m probably biased being an Arturia fanboy, almost owning all their hardware and all their software. Not to mention, I’ve recently steered more towards hardware recently so the idea of having access to my V Collection presets sans a laptop is intriguing!
Player’s perspective:
At least it has channel aftertouch, right? (Same as the Keystep 37)
Poly AT would definitely be preferable, but most keyboards don't have any aftertouch at all these days, so even channel AT is a welcome sight imo and still really useful.
Hopefully it means they will make a come back to iOS. I love isem and iMini.
Good point, love my KeyStep 37 for this, amongst other things
THIS is an interesting premise at THIS time.
Hmm… makes me wonder what the future looks like. I feel like we might be headed beyond iPad. Especially with Apple Vision Pro, Roli resurgence (which has always been ahead of time) and rest of MPE devices becoming more normal. Immersive experiences are at the forefront, whether it is virtual or tactile or both.
Personally I’m more creative without a screen.
Good looking keyboard, clean design, looks like they possibly took design ideas for the screen from a Google Nest thermostat, seems to work.
You know, this didn’t do it for me.
Too much hooking it to a computer to fully edit things for licensed plug ins, and not much editing for non licensed plug ins.
This makes sense for a performer on stage though!
Not for me in the studio so much.
It’s a lot to buy for this to be cool, and then it’s not so smooth yet.
You probably already know, but for others here - non of the above app you mention is developed by Arturia staff - iSem is developed by Rolf Wöhrmann temporarily hired to do just that, and, iMini, wasn't that also another small company that made iMini as a job to Arturia?
iMini (Moog MiniMoog) is nowadays obsolete, now we can use the real stuff from Moog company, the app ModelD...
KorgKeystage is midi2.0 and poly after touch