Arturia launched a brand new model of its flagship results suite, FX Assortment, which incorporates two new plugins, EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-910. FX Assortment 6 additionally marks the introduction of an Intro model with a number of six results protecting the fundamentals for $99. That pales compared to the 39 results within the full FX Assortment Professional, however that additionally prices $499.
Pitch Shifter-910 relies on the enduring Eventide H910 Harmonizer from 1974, an early digital pitchshifter and delay with a really distinctive character. Arturia does an admirable job preserving its glitchy quirks. Pitch Shifter-910 shouldn’t be a clear impact that permits you to create natural-sounding harmonies with your self. As a substitute, it relishes in its weirdness, delivering chipmunk vocals on the greater ranges. There may be additionally a extra trendy mode that cleans up some artifacts whereas preserving what makes the 910 so particular. Although when you ask me, it additionally takes among the enjoyable and unpredictability out.
EFX Ambient is the opposite new addition to Arturia’s lineup, and it’s a bizarre one. Whereas it does what it says on the tin, it doesn’t all the time do it in predictable methods. Certain, there’s loads of large ethereal reverbs and shimmer, however there’s additionally resonators, glitch processing, and reverse delays. It has six distinct modes with distinctive traits, which it feeds by means of an enormous washy reverb. And there’s an X/Y management within the center for including motion to your sound.
Neither of the brand-new results made the lower for the Intro model. FX Assortment 6 Intro contains Efx Motions, Efx Fragments, Combine Drums, Tape Mello-Fi, Rev Plate-140, and Delay Tape-201. That gives wonderful versatility protecting delay, reverb, tape-like lo-fi, modulation, and even granular processing. Primarily, what you miss out on are among the saturation and mixing results like bus and compression, in addition to the extra specialty flavors of delay and reverb like Rev LX-24, primarily based on the Lexicon 224 from 1978.
$499 for the total FX Assortment 6 Professional may appear steep, however as the corporate has grown the lineup from 15 results in 2020 to 39 in 2026, it’s turn out to be a extra enticing worth proposition. And, whereas it’s not fairly as extremely thought to be Arturia’s V Assortment of sentimental synths, it’s constructing a repute for high-quality results.