On the other hand, the Compact on which Arturia modelled Farfisa V must have had a louder key click than any Farfisa that I’ve ever played because (in my view) Farfisa V has a bit too much. Elsewhere, the 2-2/3 tab in the Boost section is rather louder in Farfisa V than on my Compact Deluxe, whereas the overall tone of the original - especially when using the Multi-Tone Booster tabs - is more aggressive, as I had expected it to be. For example, stepping through the treble-section tabs one at a time and comparing like with like across the whole range of the keyboard resulted in sounds that I would classify as very similar, but just slightly brighter/warmer/louder/softer (delete as appropriate on a tab-by-tab basis). Sure, there were differences, but I was happy to find that most of these lay within acceptable bounds. Switching off all of the software’s extra features and restricting it to a simple emulation of the original, my first impressions were rather favourable.
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Consequently, I was keen to get my hands on Farfisa V, which the company claim is modelled on the Compact Deluxe, but is actually a hybrid of the Deluxe and the later Duos.Īs soon as I received Farfisa V, I placed my Mac and an Arturia AE controller keyboard next to my Compact Deluxe to see how well Arturia’s engineers had done. I’ve also had the opportunity to review other keyboards that offer Farfisa emulations, and none of these have ever fully captured the tone and presence of the originals, nor have they offered all of the necessary features - things such as the repeat function introduced on the later Compact Duos - without which no paean to psychedelia is ever going to sound quite right. I’ve tried on many synths and workstations but, at best, I’ve arrived at sounds that I would describe as useable without them ever achieving authenticity. Unfortunately, they’re not the easiest instruments to synthesise, either. Organismīoth of my Farfisas (a single-manual Deluxe and a dual-manual Duo) have faults, and they’re not the easiest instruments to maintain in perfect working order so, some years ago, I pretty much gave up. In this review I’m going to focus on just one of these, the Farfisa V, which aims, in Arturia’s words, to “recreate every nuance of the Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Duo combo organs”. These were far from trivial additions so, for those who might not feel the need to own everything in what is now a heavyweight family of synthesizer and keyboard emulators, all of the new products were also made available individually.
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Arturia have updated their V Collection, and one of the stand-out instruments is a recreation of Farfisa’s classic combo organs.Įarlier this year, Arturia gave their V Collection of software instruments a mighty revamp, upgrading existing products from v1 to v2 or from v2 to v3 (as appropriate), and adding five further instruments to the existing 12.
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