Features

Spark and SparkLE consist of a hardware controller and software you install on your computer. Available for both Mac and PC, you will need at least 2GB of RAM and at least a 2GHz Intel computer, running Mac OS X 10.5 or later, or Windows XP/Vista/7. Some of the included features, as per Arturia’s website, are:

• Multiple sound engines including TAE analog synthesis, physical modeling, and multi-layered samples
• 1,620 instruments, 110 kits (extended in the new 1.5 library) comprised of: Vintage drum machine emulations: TR-808, TR-909, TR-606, Simmons SDS-V, Linn Drum, Drumtraks, DMX, Drumulator
• Ten new emulations: CR-78, Mini Pops 7, Ace Tone FR-2L, Yamaha MR 10, Maestro Rhythm King MRK2, Boss DR-55, E-mu-SP-12, Roland DR-727, Roland R-8, Casio VL-Tone and SK-1
• Electronic kits for styles including: EDM, Dubstep, Hip Hop, RnB, Pop
• Acoustic drum kits mixing physical modeling and samples
• Sixteen key, 64-step sequencer
• Eight velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads (SparkLE’s are smaller)
• Touch-sensitive FX pad with Repeat, Tape, Reverse, Strobe, Pan, Mix, Bit Crusher, three-mode Filter, and Roller
• Sixteen-channel mixer with fourteen effects: multi-band compressor, bit crusher, multiband EQ, chorus, delay, reverb, distortion, phaser, plate reverb, destroyer, flanger, space pan, limiter, sub generator
• Oberheim filter
• MIDI clock output to synchronize your hardware instruments