I love it! Nice work Arturia!

[Jive Talking Robot]

Just wanted to post and say that I am loving the Lab Exp so far.   While there are a few niggles (wish it were 64 bit and that the sliders were a bit smoother), all in all this is a tremendous value for the money. The controller is built like a tank - solid metal and great wooden endcaps.  It looks sharp as well - nice work on the design!  It's nice to see a company actually care that something should look good AND be functional... can't have ugly gear messing up my little home studio.  It blends in well with my "real" synths.

And the product works like advertised... been having a blast going through every preset and building my favorites list.  I am using a CI2+ Steinberg BOB and Yamaha HS 80 monitors, and it sounds fantastic through my setup.  My first VA was a Nord Lead way back in the 90s... you only needed a touch of FX to make it sound lights out.  I find the same to be true for your soft synths.  Thank God they are not drenched in FX... just a touch of reverb and compression and a hint of EQ makes a good sounding patch an amazing sounding patch.  Well done.

Guess I will be getting my preorder in for Spark soon as well... will Spark be able to "host" the Lab?  Would love to be able to use Spark as a stand alone product and sequence the Lab with it....

[Koshdukai]

will Spark be able to "host" the Lab?  Would love to be able to use Spark as a stand alone product and sequence the Lab with it....

eh, that's acctually not a bad idea (feature suggestion) 

[Sean W]

Thanks for the kind words, Robot.

will Spark be able to "host" the Lab?  Would love to be able to use Spark as a stand alone product and sequence the Lab with it....

Just to be clear, Spark is not a stand-alone drum machine.
It is a hybrid system, just like the Analog Experience series.
It is a the combination of a hardware USB/MIDI controller and a sofware instrument.

The included Spark software library comes preloaded with 480 drum instruments, combining Analog Synthesis, Physical Modelling and multi-layered Sampling. It also includes an Analog Modelled Synth Bass instrument.

As a drum machine, Spark software also features a dedicated pattern-based sequencer (each Project can store 64 patterns, up to 64 steps each), but in the first version, this sequencer can only play the Spark instruments.

[Jive Talking Robot]

I understand how Spark works - I was hoping you could use it like NI's Mashine, in the sense you can drop a VST in it and sequence it.  It would be a blast to sequence other VSTs with Spark... (like sequencing gear with an Elektron box).  Yes, I run the latest full version of Cubase and yes a software sequencer has a million more options than a step sequencer, but some times using a "real" step sequencer (or "hybrid") is faster and more fun.

[Phillip]

I love it! Nice work Arturia! 

Even though some niggles need to be ironed out ! 

I was just hoping that it was closer to Origin in software functionality ! 

One Love.

God Bless.

Phillip,
Learning for a lifetime. ;~|

[Phillip]

Yes ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 

Origin as a software standalone and plugin instrument ! ! ! ! ! ! !