They're modelled to look like the real instrument, so you'll be messing around with knobs, cables and so on. That being said, all Arturia synths look incredible. The Arturia V Collection consists of awesome synths, but you'll have to fiddle around with the controls to design the sound you want. You simply have less to worry and think about when loading up a patch, or creating a new one with Keyscape – everything is pre-configured for you! V Collection focuses on modelling the old hardware, which can be difficult to understand for producers from a digital synth background at first. The interface is much cleaner and easier to understand. Keyscape would win in terms of usability. They're smooth, clean and easy to understand.

The UI in both V Collection and Keyscape is great. Each does different things and it's best you get both. However, as we said above, it's not really a competition between the two plugins. You get a range of effects as found in the original units, effects to add on top of those, and a copy of Analog Lab included. Despite the higher price tag, V Collection sounds incredible and the emulations of the synths provided with it are amazing.

With V Collection, you're getting much less with only 24 keyboard instruments (some presets emulate pianos), and at a higher price of $599. These effects are incredibly useful and using the echo, vari-speed and tone shift elements, you can make some wild, dissonant sounding parts that twist and turn. You get 36 different instruments and along with all the incredible sounds, you also get built-in effects with Keyscape such as Reverb, Delay, Echo, Timbre & tone shift capability, EQ, Compression and more.

(Keyscape sounds more realistic that most Kontakt Pianos, but it's not worth the extra $399).īut, if you're looking for realistic sounds for Grand Pianos, Rhodes, Clavinets, Celestes & more, then Keyscape is a stellar pick. So, Arturia V Collection would be a fantastic choice. If you already have something like Kontakt, and a good Piano instrument with it, then there wouldn't be much use in Keyscape. Arturia V Collection has a few E-Piano sounds and is aimed at hardware synth emulations, including 20GB of content and a wider range of more ethereal sounding instruments. Keyscape is better than Arturia when it comes to Piano, with over 80GB of content.

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