Arturia MiniLab Hands-On
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Editor Stephen Fortner demos the MiniLab, a library of virtual analog soft synths from Arturia's V-Collection. It's bundled with a custom controller that pre-maps all knob assignments. All for $99.
Thanks! They're fun to make and I'm kind of a dork on camera, so I appreciate that you find them informative. Thanks for being a reader! -SF
I want one just because this guy's voice is awesome...
This guy could get a job voicing a Muppet no problem lol
i think he sounds midway between jesse ventura and alex jones
😂😂😂😂
MythicShot totally
MythicShot lol he kinda sounds like Alex Jones
mna mna
My own throat felt soar after watching this :P
I JUST grabbed one of these and loving it! And as someone who has been messing with synths since the 1980's...you KNOW I am loving hearing these voices ( again)!
ps- I was featured in your mag in 1987 under "discoveries" section...Interviewed by Titus Levi...LOVE the magazine...great video btw!
Thanks! This vid to no small degree (along with others, and numerous reviews) influenced me to order one of these today.
I can't wait to play with it!! :D
I've always loved Steve's videos with keyboard magazine, but the 2 uploads today have been outstanding! You pretty much have the only proper unbiased professional keyboard reviews on the interweb! Great stuff :)
I bought one after I watched this. 99 bucks is a bargain for the sounds you get. Thanks!
You sound like two Will Arnetts talking at once
normie twice removed LOL 🤣 nailed it. 🔨 Good video though.. 👊
I've been looking into getting a good, relatively cheap midi that has a good amount of fluctuation in it's abilities, & I definitely just found the one! As soon as I get my paycheck I'm going to order one, & I'm looking forward to seeing what it bestows. Definitely glad I watched this video & looked into it, thanks!
this is nuts....99bucks for this kind of synth power. and i had no idea Mr Fortner had such a husky voice. great demo.....ive always loved Keyboard Magazine...since 1983! all the other magazines are just late comer impersonations. THANKS STEVE. im buying one of these on your recommendation alone.
Yes, it does. You can click Edit right in the MiniLab software, and the full editing version will open right up.
damn the range of sounds and the quality for $99...you cant argue with that.
wow this guy is REALLY good at jamming on the keys. awesome video
sounds like that guy who runs the Daily Bugle in Spiderman
YOURE FIRED. Wait nevermind your unfired I need you come here
Your voice is intense, dude.
Nice overview.
thanks for this, I'm absolutely getting one of these. Also, you could be a Will Arnett voice double sir.
this looks super nice. think u helped me make my decision.
Imagine him speaking a trailer for some children action cartoon :D
Sounds like Hank from breaking bad
***** Sounds more like Mike
KInd of a mixture of the two now you say that
Good review, thanks!
Nice vid, I'm looking forward MiniLab. :)
Haha, "drinks for six when convincing sales people". Nice review - I can definitely see this being a runaway success for those looking for at-a-glance synth sounds
Finally! Someone does a practical, user based review of this. Thanks for actually using the pitch/mod ribbons. I was wondering how usable they were. Just starting out this is a good deal, plus portable enough to practice with during a lunch break. Will you be doing a video showing the layering and split functionality of the Analog Lab software?
Good review!
Love this guys reviews no crap no nonsense just flat out what is good and what is bad. Arturia usualy shit with a Midi dongle cable thingy wonder if this comes with one ?
Definitely buying
I'm probably gonna buy it.
This convinced me to buy one! :)
You sound like Alex Jones
My first thoughts on hearing him
Great video. Thank you!
damn, quit smoking Rick.
rock*
lets go boys, smokes
I have an idea to use it in production. On Windows you can use virtual audio cable to capture the audio directly from your sound card. I believe you can use flower sound or something like that for Mac. Only, you won't be able to have anything else playing sound through that card while you are recording the minilab sounds.
Excellent this will be my first synth gonna order one today .
Also I recently bought a 1977 Roland GS 500 guitar controller , im looking for a compatible synth unit
I'm looking to make ky own scores for my short films. This looks like it'd be a fun tool to do that with.
That's a bluesman's voice right there.
I want this guy to say "...with club sauce" after he describes every feature.
Hello Mr. Fortner,
I am having a bit of a problem with the Analog Lab 2 in playing with Ableton Live Suite 9 and was hoping if you could help me on this or may have encountered this problem and found a solution for it. (I am using a Arturia Minilab Black Edition 25 Keys) at first it was going good. Until I had problems with the sound of any presets from Analog Lab 2 on Ableton. I have to keep restarting or reopen ableton to hear the exact sound I hear in the stand alone app. I am not getting the fact that it sounds like a can or a distorted sound or sometimes it doesn't even play the bass of a preset and just a low quality key sound. I hope you get my query as I do not know any other way of explaining this problem. Problem # 2 with it with ableton is, when I turn the knobs (ex. volume) Isn't it when we turn it to the right the volume should go up? In the Analog lab via Ableton it does reverse (Volume up is when I turn knob to left and vice versa) then it doesn't go very smooth rather that rate of (ex. Volume) volumes up very smoothly (ex.. 1..2..3..4... and so on) the volume just turns up very abruptly (ex. from no sound which is example at 0 it goes up like to 25% of the volume to 50% to 75% then to 100%) I hope you really get my query huhuhu. As I would like to perform with the Analog live on Ableton very soon and not with the stand alone app because I would like to record it live while playing esp. I also have my drum tracks assigned to my pads with stand alone app I cannot do this. Please help me if you can, If not then it is still fine but I hope somebody would know a solution to this. :(
Is it possible to transpose all keys down a half step from the midi control center so that everytime I play the keyboard, no matter what program, it will sound that way? My guitars are tuned to eb so the keyboard needs to be a half step down as well. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!!
Good video. Btw Mister, i know its already too late, but,, can this type of arturia (first gen of minilab, not mk ii) connect to android device (via OTG cable) ? I want to buy it since its very aesthetic and i want to try some editing in android's DAW like Caustic 3, fl studio and so on
Excellent walk through. Cheers one questions does the mini controller have a midi port so that you can piggy back another controller with bigger keys?
So my question's this: This or the KeyLab 25? Keylab worth the extra? Or is the AnalogLab with a keyboard at this price too good a deal to refuse?
Hello, I'm about to get a MiniLab but is this going to work for me to produce electro beats like house/minimal/techno or whatever?
i just bought this for like 100 bux, im waiting for it to be delivered...so will i be able to use all 5000 sounds that comes with the software?
Great review thanks!! have a question: Will it work with any DAW ? meaning is MIDI compatible? Also the sounds that you tweak in Analog Lab, can you export them to a DAW like ableton? Thanks in advance. - Rishi
Thank You
Hi and how could I mate those sounds with my voice? It's possible with the same program?
$99 is totally twisted. From someone who has spect in the hundreds of thousands on keyboards over my life I can say this is heaven and hell. Heaven because Nobody can afford not to have this but hell because no matter how cool Stephen says all of the options are 90% of the people will pull up the presets,play them and never do anything else. We are making this too easy for everybody
i cant get it to make a sound, virtual keyboard worked , but now not, completely overwhelmed. midi app cant find mini lab, what midi settings supposed to e to make it work? how come it cant be seen in lab app? audio
crackles on Mobile pre . i had this working at first out of box, now ? nothing
Is there much latency? Also, does it have a MIDI input? Could I using another MIDI keyboard to control it & use it sort of like a sound module?
How does the keyboard compare to Akai LPK25 or Korg microKEY 25, Alesis Q25 or other similar competitors? By the way, Chinese have cloned this board and it's available under brand name Worlde :D
anyone knows what sound/synth module I can buy to connect it via midi to my electric piano, and without internet or a computer make it work? Thanks!
You guys know if I can use this in GarargeBand and Maschine software?? If so how
The volume control is confusing. I turn it and it does nothing.
can it be played with my huawei honor 6x with android 6.0 OS? thanks in advance!
curious does it mix and record what you createe or do you have to have another program?
HELP : When i tap my pads sometimes it triggers the sound more than once, and it's very annoying. Tried solving it with the MCC app, without success so far.
I am waiting on the "microlab" with just one octave and fits in the palm of your hand.
which is the best;
launchkey 25
minilab
keylab25?
what do you think about?
thanks
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Can you link this up to the Arturia Spark Le?
Random question, I realise ... but is this little controller pure white or sort of off white color?
can you use all of these sounds in other DAW programs like Cubase?
This guy sounds a lot like Keaton in Beetlejuice. Lol
He sounds like beetle juice 😂👍🏻
He damn sure does 😂
can someone tell me what program i can use this mini lab to make beats on?
can this be used on stage at a gig to play live? how would i be able to press the buttons so it came out of a speaker on stage? thank you!!
Cloe Corpse , absolutely you can.....I have had more exactly a year now and the assortment of sounds and synths are awesome.....
Does this work as a general midi controller as well?I myself don't give a damn about using their presets. I just need an affordable cheap midi controller to supplement what I already have. In particular I need a few more controls for Ableton Live. Will someone let me know if this could work for that. Thanks.
can I record a track on this and use it on my Studio one v2 daw?
Does it come with a step sequencer or is it used as a plug in?
How program You use in your computer in this vídeo?
the arturia minilab its most big than Launchkey mini?
yo voice is hypnotic! :) one of those Godfather type voices
does the software come with it?
would you use this for a live show
Is it possible to take the sounds included in analog lab and import them into a DAW? I love my minilab but the synths in analog are amazing.
+Tre Blodgett I have been trying to get this to go into garageband and logic forever now, and I just had to give up. It doesn't work and it's easy to google how problematic this thing is with just about everyone that wants to use it in any DAW.
***** yeah, I couldn't find anything on how to get that to work either, still a pretty solid midi-keyboard for the price though~ thanks for answering my comment.
hello! i bought this piece of equipment of some days. back .though i researched well and bought this primarily only for the great count of synths and sound that come with it. though when i took the step wise installation , it seems to have installed the analog lab along with the midi controller, on the application board, yet when i open the application folder and go to the arturia folder. it only shows two components in it. the analog lab & the midi controller. is it not supposed to have all the synths mentioned separately. coz in ableton live, it becomes cumbersome since i have to put the entire lap instead of an individual synth to the channel, is it like that with anyone here on the list ???
can i delete all components and get a re download em since i have 4 validations still left with me for the product?
please help
thanks
thanks Graham Harrington
Picked up the Oxygen 25 MKIII by M-AUDIO, kinda wishing I got this one. Did I make a good choice, or should I get the Arturia?
Nice picture! And yes, with the library that this thing comes with, it's way over the Oxygenes' head!
Jizz Attack
Thanks mate, appreciate it!
How can I use the sounds in the software on GB??
Does it come with your voice pack???
I use FL Studio and im in a metal band but i need something for live shows instead of backtracks will this work live and with FL Studio?
It sure will!!!
How could you record any playings? And is it possible to use the recorded playings in for example FL studio?
Hi i have the same question but didnt find a good answer :/
I think you need some additional software to record playings. For me it sounds like Analog Lab only creates the sound out of the signal from your controller.
But it should work recording the playings in FL studio but I'm not sure.
If you find an answer please share it with me because this is quite important for me deciding if i should buy the minilab or not ^^
Do you need to connect it to a computer to make it work?
Yes. It's a midi controller, the software generates all the sound.
Robert Garvan Snyder
Thank you
okay next question does it work with audacity
Everyone saying his voice sounds like Alex Jones, Keaton from Beetlejuice etc.
Dude, he sounds like an absolute Rick from Rick&Morty haha!
can u use this in cubase as a vst
does it come with program?
Does anyone know how i could record what i play on the minilab?
Hello, I have a question. Does this MiniLab midi controller compartible with other virtual instrument software or is this work only with analoglab software?
+byungwuk chun www.arturia.com/minilab/details "Use with Analog Lab or with any other MIDI software."
+UniQue WerkX Thank you and have a Merry Christmas~ ^^
+byungwuk chun you're quite welcome! Merry Christmas to you too!
Drivers for this Arturia miniLab????? thanks
this synth is very cool , but what have you with youre voice????
is it possible to associate my own sounds with arturia's keys?
sure, with a daw
Does this software come with the Minilab and does it work on windows?
Can you use these sounds on garageband?
Does this work with cubase 8.5?
Stupid question: i can still use this as an instrument in logic right? Like as a hardware instrument?
Also, is there a pitch pend on the controller?
Thank you!
Yes, and yes.
If I want to access analog lab from my daw what is the path to the vst?
That's what I'm wondering. I'm new to recording and I am absolutely clueless. I use REAPER as my DAW and I'm wondering if all that he is doing can be carried over into REAPER or if you can only use REAPER's settings.
How did you accomplish that?
Can I use this with GarageBand or another software available on Mac Os ?
Mahina Laurent Yes
do you know how to sync it with ableton live 9 ? I've tried everything. help!
+kelly neville Check the website I think I read something about a script for some other apps to sync...
+kelly neville I cannot use mine in Garageband or Logic... and it promotes itself as Mac compatible lol. I had to give up. Oh, and Arturia has absolutely NO customer support whatsoever. They have avoided all of my problems that I've notified them about.
Hi, does it come with a software cd for laptop? How do I access the library?
I believe if you order it, it will. If not, on arturia's website you have full access to all the software you need, as long as you have the serial number of your product. Hope this helped!
+FlapJacks thanks man
timelanguid No problem!
Cool
Nice voice, dude! :D