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ARTURIA DRUMBRUTE IMPACT Analogue Drum Machine

There was a time when Arturia was steadfastly a software manufacturer, producing some of the finest virtual reincarnations of history’s greatest analogue instruments. Arturia’s V-Collection kicked off with classic models like the Yamaha CS80, Roland Jupiter-8, and MiniMoog, growing it into the collection of 21 vintage synths and keyboards it is today. The V-Collection, for me and countless others, was the turning point for selling off various hardware units. Founded in 1999, it took around 10 years before the innovative French outfit moved into the world of hardware synthesis, touting its Origin hardware synthesiser as the mother of all synths — and rightly so, there wasn’t much you couldn’t pull off with the Origin.

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