I’m starting with SQ80 V because Ensoniq’s classic 80s hybrid synthesizer has been on my wishlist since… forever. Let’s take a closer look at the new Arturia V Collection 9 instruments first. Arturia included four brand new instruments, four improved versions of old V Collection classics, and fourteen exclusive soundbanks. V Collection 9 brings enough fresh material to whet any synth aficionado’s gear appetite. Note: both of my above examples were done in real-time* in my studio and could certainly be done live on stage.Arturia releases V Collection 9, the latest iteration of their flagship virtual instrument collection, containing 32 plugins. Here is a long example of experiments using an arpeggiator module (Club Of The Knobs C915) and a mix of modular and MIDI synths. If you go to Soundcloud there is a description of the patch. Then at about 2:14 I start playing chords on the keyboard which makes it a bit tricky to control the sequence transposition since the MIDI to CV converter was set to grab the last note played so I had to make sure the root of the chords was the last key hit, at least by a fraction of a second. At about 1:30 I just mix in a Mellotron M4000D that is also controlled by the same keyboard.

At about 0:24 seconds in I start transposing it from a keyboard (MIDI keyboard to MIDI To CV module that creates CV to transpose the sequencer) by just playing single notes. This is an example of a somewhat more complex example, 4 voice modular sequence (Synth Tech MOTM voices and Moon Modular sequencers) transposed from a keyboard. Or you can just use a real time arpeggiator like a lot of keyboards have built in to perform complex and changing arps or use modular synth arpeggiator modules etc. This is easy to do with complex sequences if the chord changes in the song are all major or all minor etc but if there is say a mix of major and minor it might work better to keep the sequence simple and only use root and 5th notes, unless it happens to work out well for all key signatures used (like maybe switching between C major and A minor etc)

How does this work?In a situation like that what is likely happening is that there is a pre-programmed sequence of notes playing automatically and then the single notes played manually on a keyboard are transposing the sequence up and down. In the clips I've seen live, she plays a single note for each bar.

Arturia analog lab arpeggiator