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9 rolls through the filters on the left, while 1 scrolls through the filtered list on the right, and pressing them activates the currently selected filter or loads the currently selected preset.

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While rotary 1 controlled the master volume and knob 9 scrolled through presets in the original Analog Lab, loading your selection after a brief pause, in Analog Lab Lite (and, indeed, the full Analog Lab 2) both are instead used to navigate the browser.

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The pads are now pressure- as well as velocity-sensitive and RGB backlit, with colours editable in the free MIDI Control Center mapping editor and rotary encoders 1 and 9 double as push buttons and serve a different role in Analog Lab Lite. MiniLab MkII’s functional enhancements are few but significant. It all comes together to give the whole thing a more concise, airtight, aesthetically coherent appearance. The unit as a whole also looks a bit more modern, mostly thanks to the switch from ‘diving board’- to piano-style mini-keys, the switch from black to white touchstrips, and the dramatic reduction of the faux wooden end cheeks down to inlays (they might as well just get rid of them altogether, when it comes to the crunch).

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The upgrade has brought with it a 50% increase in weight (up to 1.5kg from 1.03kg), but we’re quite happy to trade a bit of shoulder ache for such tank-like construction. It might be all-plastic apart from the base, but there’s none of the creak and flex that controllers in this price range all too frequently exhibit - this is the level of quality we generally expect in keyboards costing three times as much. A handful of Multis layer or split two sounds in a single preset, with the encoders switchable between controlling either one, or serving as macros, governing multiple parameters from both.Īrturia states that MiniLab MkII has been comprehensively beefed up in every material department, and we can confirm that its already admirable solidity has only been improved.

Loading sounds is done by selecting synths in a virtual studio-style GUI or navigating the tagged browser, and the keyboard’s rotary encoders are automatically assigned to the most relevant parameters for the loaded preset (filter cutoff, LFO depth, envelope time, etc), with reassignment to a handful of alternative made possible in the software.

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Enter the serial number and unlock code on the base of the MiniLab MkII to activate the software and you’re all set. Getting up and running with Analog Lab Lite is a quick and painless process thanks to the perfectly amenable Arturia Software Center, which acts as a hub for registering, downloading, updating and activating all your Arturia stuff. Nonetheless, it’s still a worthy inclusion, comprising 500 sounds from Arturia’s 17-strong roster of classic and vintage synth emulations - Minimoog, Prophet 5, CS-80, Jupiter 8, ARP 2600 et al. In a nutshell, you gain access to a phenomenal range of effects and atmospherics piano sounds.While owners of MiniLab v1 can continue to enjoy the 5300-odd V Collection-derived presets of Analog Lab 2 (last year’s free upgrade to Analog Lab, introducing a new look, improved browser and extra presets), investors in MkII only get a tenth that number in Analog Lab Lite (VST/AU/ AAX/standalone). It’s an inspiring set of sounds that range from beautifully recorded traditional piano to new, eclectic and avant-garde tones ready to breathe life into your music by taking the sound of the piano further than it’s ever been. Overall there are 24 unusual ways this piano was recorded in. The 1909 Pleyel was played with a bow, picked like a guitar, with Una Corda pedal pressed, screws placed between the strings or plucked with fingers. all recorded and based on a 1909 Pleyel grand piano which was used in a different way.

Prepared pianos and especially when recorded and served in more than 20 preparations. You register the new piano with the provided codes at UVI directly, activate it in your iLok account and you are ready to use the instrument in UVI’s Falcon or Workstation. UVI did send a review copy with no strings attached. If you wonder what a prepared piano is? This is an instrument where the piano sound has been altered by putting objects between or on the strings or playing the strings not with the hammer in the piano.