Arturia V Collection

As a performer with over six hours of material ready to perform regularly in three or four different bands, it would be madness to attempt to rehearse and perform with three different rigs every week… so there’s only one solution.

For a while now, I’ve relied on Apple Mainstage with Studiologic controller keyboards and various software synthesisers to provide a totally flexible keyboard rig for multiple different bands.

Mainstage provides the control of layouts and assigns the sounds to the keyboard controllers – but from where do those classic sounds come?

The answer is most often an Arturia V Collection instrument.

I’m honoured this week to join other Arturia Artists such as Steve Porcaro, Jordan Rudess, Herbie Hancock and Jean-Michel Jarre in offically endorsing Arturia products. 

The new V Collection 7 provides me with authentic software emulations of just about every classic keyboard ever used in rock, prog and pop for the past 60 years. Everything from a Vox Continental Organ to a Yamaha DX7 synth, from a Mellotron to a Farilight CMI, from an EMS Synthi to a Sequential Prophet 5 – with Pianos, Electric Pianos, and Clavinet included.