Arturia is superb at answering tech support questions. I just shot them the question and should get an answer soon.
You probably havenāt activated it in Arturia Software Center yet. Arturia manages its licenses there. Itās two step - you register on their web site, and activte in the desktop app.
Thanks @howard. I thought I had, but now Iām not sure. Iāll take another look at it. Hopefully Arturia support can shed some light on it also.
At least now I know itās supposed to be the full version and not just the demo version, based on yours and @sully s replies.
Yeah it should definitely be a full version!
Itās super cool, and would be worth the $200 even if you didnāt have it for free already. Lots of great sounds in there across all the V Collection synths. For me it was the best possible ad for V Collection ever - I sprung for that last month
One thing to note though - the free license for Analog Lab comes with and is tied to the keyboard. If you sold the keyboard to someone else itās possible they activated the free license. I donāt know what Arturia does for prior owners in this case. My guess is they will let both owners activate it in that case but I do not know for sure.
You bought the V collection? Is that the one that sells for like $250? Is it worth the money in your opinion?
$600. The synths are $150-200 each if you buy them separately, or $600 for all 28.
It does go on sale for half price (I pounced on that).
I do not think that for you it would be worth it - it only makes sense if you really want to program the synths. Most of the synth presets - which is most likely what you will want - are in Analog Lab. And Analog Lab does let you tweak some paramaters, just not fully program the synths to make new patches.
The latter was important to me (and I have been geeking out on it) but will likely be meaningless for you.
Good plan!
@PamPurrs I got the full version of Analogue Lab Lite with my little Arturia MiniLab Mk II
Thatās a good point @howard. I remember when I had the Arturia keyboard playing around with AL IV and AL V, but donāt recall it timing out after 20 minutes like it does now. It was only yesterday that I noticed it said āDemoā.
Now you have me wondering if they deactivated mine because someone else activated it on their end.
I guess Iāll find out for sure when I hear back from support. If they say Iām deactivated, Iāll think seriously about purchasing it because I really do like it.
Yeah Analog Lab is great. Probably best to wait for Black Friday for any serious music software purchase though
Thatās exactly what Iām thinking too. Thanks!
Well, I heard back from Arturia support and they walked me though deactivating and then reactivating AL VI and V, and now they are both fully functional.
I was fully prepared to purchase Analog V on Black Friday, but now I donāt have to. I feel as though I just saved at least $100, probably more.
So, using Trudy Logic, @PamPurrs, you have $100 to spend on gear now. Youāre welcome.
Not to worry. This bunch wonāt let that $100 give you pocketburn, @PamPurrs .
That $100 plus another $65 just went out the door. I signed up for another Ariane Cap study group which starts this Friday.
I wish I had time to do one of those.
This work thing is really getting in the way.
I hear ya. I keep wanting to unretire and go back to work, but music and woodworking gets in the way
Excellent!
Itās such a neat package of goodies. 6500 presets from almost 30 iconic keyboards.
Yeah, itās nice to be able to explore all the different sounds without it timing out every 20 minutes.