Comments on: Review: Arturia Prophet V Digital/Analog Hybrid Soft Synth

By: Selona

Selona — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:42:26 +0000

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By: jadecreature

jadecreature — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:44:13 +0000

Re to dongle or not to dongle-I hate dongles-another firm piggy backing-releasing fear-no usb ports left-Give me the challenge response system it is really no bother and much more personal- I like many others don’t like hassle and dongles are hassle-are you going to knock them getting around the back while patching in bad light!-the hassles are endless really-I didn’t purchase waves goods for that reason.

By: Semtek

Semtek — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:09:33 +0000

There is a simple solution which dongle manufacturers should adopt: allow the dongle to function as a usb port in its own right (i remember there was a nes game which used to do thjis… micromachines i think…) that way you could have the dongle, but not lose a usb port.

By: Lee Sherman

Lee Sherman — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:48:14 +0000

The Prophet V doesn’t do Mellotron sounds. For that, check out the GForce M-Tron (and make sure to pick up the additional sound libraries.

By: rhythmrhymer

rhythmrhymer — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:30:13 +0000

Damned right I’d buy it, if it does what a couple of people told me it ‘might’, but no one seems to really know… After seemingly endless searching for a monster mellotron palette, I’ve heard, “have you heard the Prophet V? I hear it’s pretty good…” Where are the virtual Mellotrons? Are they here? Arturia! Do like Ruby says. Even the guy at Long & McQuade doesn’t know, because there’s no demo!!!

By: Ruby

Ruby — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:07:46 +0000

Arturia are being far too negative by choosing to use dongles, could also be considered unprofessional, they’re losing many customers.

I’m a moderator on a large keyboard forum and on a recent poll 100 keyboard players gave a big thumbs down for arturia, only one had tested this new softsynth, others had already lost interest.

Could it be greed or negativity that made arturia turn to dongles?

For the record, from a business point of view arturia maybe should not concern themselves with cracked copies. Makes more sense to have musicians making and sharing music with arturia software rather than just a few with a dongle.

Just think, someone makes music with a demo or a crack and another musician likes the sounds and goes onto purchase the full program, not everyone uses cracks but lots of us hate dongles and PACE.

Funny thing is, the cracked version of the latest arturia synths are already available with crack to get around the dongle, but why bother? posting this is about all i’m prepared to do and i’m the one who got some of the software makers to stop using noise bursts in their demos. C’mon arturia, stop being so negative, get a demo for all out.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:47:13 +0000

Because Software companies won’t get together on a standard, the customer suffers. I am seeing this trend with virtual instruments now along with CD burning/downloading software. I am almost out of ports on my laptop. I hope that I can put all of the copyright protection on one key as mentioned but I have yet to try this solution. Where is the standards manual?

By: b from the d

b from the d — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:25:46 +0000

i see this as sort of a now in situation for Arturia. either they use a dongle protection system and lose out on potential buyers because they can’t try out the demo without getting that silly usb key from iLok (oh how i hate the letter “i” in front of words and product). if they don’t use the dongle protection then they risk more people cracking and stealing their software.

still, Cubase SX requres a dongle and i have heard of cracked copies out there, so maybe the dongle doesn’t keep people from cracking and stealing their software. i dunno.

but the fact that i can’t try the demo without paying $40 first is definitely keeping me from giving this VSTi a serious look.

By: tunepoet

tunepoet — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:56:04 +0000

The dongle thing ruined it for me too.

I have never purchased a Stienberg product cause i could never demo any of them. Same symptom, different disease. Now, I don’t have anything against the dongle premise, but only if they are cross compatible so you only need to own 1. I just had to purchase my first iLok for Waves, and I really do not feel like purchasing another.

Almost every software purchase I have made came as a result of the emmediate emotional buzz produced by the demo. Sorry Arturia. No demo, no buzz, no buy.

Blessings,
Damon

By: Jim B

Jim B — Tue, 09 May 2006 15:16:28 +0000

If you already have the Korg Legacy, then you can just install the Prophet license onto the Korg dongle. I understand why dongles need to exist, and I’m willing to tolerate them – I prefer them infinitely to the old “key disk” methods of protection – finding that dang CD at the most inopportune moments…

I certainly wouldn’t rule out a good instrument because of the dongle, any more than I’d rule out a hardware synth because it had a wall-wart PSU rather than an internal.

But as the Dongle-istas from KVR have proven, it’s certainly an emotional issue, and one people seem to bring up to no freaking END.