Patterns are arranged into “songs” by chaining one pattern to another, then another. Like most hardware grooveboxes, Spark 2 uses a pattern-based sequencer. If you’re using Spark live, you’ll likely be entirely on this screen while playing it. Basic and even complex operations in Spark can be done using the controller and just this screen, so if you’re using Spark you’ll be spending a lot of time here.
This goes a long way toward reproducing that “groove machine” feel. Once the controller connects to either the standalone or plugin versions of the software, the main screen responds almost immediately to your actions on the controller, and things like the lit pads on the controller respond to your actions in the software. The main screen of the Spark software looks like an abbreviated version of the controller. So, I will occasionally mention some things that are of interest to Spark 1.x owners wondering if they should upgrade. So I had to wait for the release of Spark 2 with everyone else. I received the SparkLE with Spark 1.7, before Spark 2 was announced at Winter NAMM 2014. The Genre-focused versions of Spark contain a reduced sample set and reduced number of presets, and cannot use the expansion packs that are made for Spark, but are much cheaper. It is also available in pure software form without the controller, coming in the form of Spark 2 Drum Production Center, which is the full “kit” as it were with a more extensive sound set, Spark VDM (Vintage Drum Machines), Spark EDM, and Spark Dubstep.
When the SparkLE came out, I was glad to see a better price point. Add the SparkLE controller and you’ve got a groovy thing going.īeing a user of a couple different ‘groovebox’ type electronic musical instruments, and a user of Arturia softsynths, I was greatly excited when Arturia announced the original Spark. Spark is a groovebox-like pattern-based sequencer.
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