This thing is flipping awesome!

[Tausendberg]

That's all I have to say right now, I'm just amazed by Synclavier V and the history of the original Synclavier.

Cheers for making this beast. I heard that the original Synclavier cost 150,000 dollars and now we're so privileged that we get to have what reviews are saying is a great reproduction for a few hundred.

[LBH]

Told you   

Synclavier give new sounds to VC.

[Tausendberg]

For sure, it definitely seems like a very different way of making sound than something like the Modular V.

[Kevin R]

All by itself it's worth the price of the whole new V Collection. Version 5 is making me fall in love with these Arturia soft synths all over again.

[MatthewJohn]

The Synclavier V really sounds good (didn't see the whole V Collection -- would have done that).   I use mostly analog synths, and this complements them very well.  It's really beautiful - I haven't been so excited about a software synth before.

[George Ware]

I love this synth!

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I'm barely scratching the surface, but I love what I've found so far.

[Karamba]

yep, I'm in luuuvv too!
I feel bad, I was faithful to the Arp 2600 and Modular but now this new beauty shows up and I'm going to have to cheat on them old girlfriends

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I'm not ready to ditch the Arp 2600 or the Mini yet, but I'm digging the Synclavier so far!

They're all unique tools in the V-Collection tool box.

They each have their application for specific songs/parts.

[Era]

That's all I have to say right now, I'm just amazed by Synclavier V and the history of the original Synclavier.

Cheers for making this beast. I heard that the original Synclavier cost 150,000 dollars and now we're so privileged that we get to have what reviews are saying is a great reproduction for a few hundred.

TOTALLY AGREE!! Frekkin' awesome

[JanPB]

The Synclavier V really sounds good (didn't see the whole V Collection -- would have done that).   I use mostly analog synths, and this complements them very well.  It's really beautiful - I haven't been so excited about a software synth before.

Just to credit where the credit is due: the Arturia Synclavier is NOT a "soft synth", i.e. it's not a "software model" of something existing "physically" before. The Arturia Synclavier IS the Synclavier - the original instrument. The Arturia version is a faithful digital clone of the equally digital original, down to preserving certain imperfections to maintain the integrity of the original presets.

For example, you may have noticed that the amplitude envelopes do not always reflect the sound perfectly along the time axis. This happens if you click and drag an envelope peak - it will likely go very slightly out of sync with respect to the other envelopes, even if your drag motion was straight up. From what I hear this was present in the original (it's not a bug) due to hardware constraints at the time.