Arturia’s FX Collection 2 is an all-encompassing suite of plugins combining the analog warmth of vintage effects with the creative flexibility of modern audio enhancers, putting exceptional studio-quality sound in the hands of musicians and producers of all styles and abilities.
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In a short span of time, Arturia has built up their stable of effects into an imposing all-in-one package – now with seven new tools and a bunch of updates. It’s a bit like someone took a list of gear from a high-rent studio and crammed it on your computer.
The FX Collection 2 takes the original 15 plugins — three each of filters, delays, reverbs, preamps and compressors — then adds four modulation effects, including the Chorus Jun-6, and three bus effects, including one based on the iconically crunchy Neve stereo compressor and one based on the ‘70s Siemens broadcast console.
The effects themselves are all excellent. And if you’ve ever used any of Arturia’s meticulous software emulations, you’ll know what to expect. The hardware that inspired each plugin is faithfully recreated and then quietly expanded on with controls hidden under an “advanced” panel. But the aesthetic is consistent. If you’re not a huge fan of skeuomorphic design you probably won’t love the look of these FX. But don’t worry, the sounds will probably win you over.
New in this version:
7 new effects. Up to 22 from 15 offerings. New in this one: Bus FORCE, Comp DIODE-609, and EQ SITRAL-295 are totally new. Plus Phaser BI-TRON, Chorus JUN-6, Flanger BL-20, and Chorus DIMENSION-D all get added to the full bundle (previously introduced separately).
TAPE-201 gets a new preamp. The Space Echo recreation gets a critical feature – now there’s the option of the Germanium preamp for some unique crunch, in addition to a clean input or a model of the RE-201.
Walkthrough tutorials. These are actually pretty nice – now when you load an effect, you get an option to step through features one at a time with some tips and tutorials. It’s handy, actually, because there are some non-obvious extras in a lot of these tools (sometimes tucked behind an “advanced” button). As usual, Arturia gets the emulation right but then adds some creative extras.
A better preset browser. This was a long time coming; Arturia now has adopted the improved preset browser / filter / savint from their V Collection.
More presets. 200 new preset additions. There’s some nice stuff in there for experimentation.
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