Maybe I'm insane, but I don't understand why you'd go to the trouble of recording a 'jazz grand' and 'jazz upright' and then not just sit someone down in front of it to play some standards? Why talk to me about how 'powerful' your concert piano is if you aren't going to let me hear someone bash out the opening of the Pathetique? Why do you talk about nine piano models, with adjustable mechanical configurations, room space interaction, and microphone configurations, if all that shows it off is (on the instrument page) an ugly MIDI performance on a sterile upright, a sterile grand, and a 'marimba piano?' And then the demos are appalling - the one on the V-Collection main page is literally just a few mid-register chords cycled around. They seem to be doing a non-sample-based (given the 2gb install size) physical-modeling take on piano. The Rhodes sounds decent enough - in a way that makes me think I won't be putting Jamal's Neo-Soul Keys away any time soon.
Can we all just agree that a Hammond VI needs at least one 'real jazz organ' demo? And that it should at least try to nail that sound? Watching the walkthrough where he's 'showing off' the patches, I felt like he must have been bored beyond belief.
The new vanilla offerings just didn't do it for me at all - there's the B3, whose demos sound just bland and uninspiring to me. The Synclavier looks pretty darn interesting to me since the original programmer was involved - and the demos on the Synclavier sound pretty sweet. It looks like the new additions are filling in the gaps in the keyboard collection, with the relatively-not-unexpected B3, Rhodes and Pianos and the Synclavier. I got the JRR newsletter and noticed something newish looking from Arturia, and sure enough - the V Collection 5 is out.or is about to be out, I'm not sure.
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