Arturia Sound Banks 2023-R2R

for your information, this presets can only be used with r2r releases (they are not unprotected for legit analog lab for example) and contains only official banks from Arturia.

Hello! So with this distribution, it wouldn't have, for example, the tribute presets to Pink Floyd, and other artists?

VR release banks unprotected and R2R must be used with their own release

I was very enthusiastic at first, but the NFO lacks far too much information, indeed.
We don't really know what it's all about, and no installation dir is indicated in case we want to do it manually, for example.

In my case, the .cmd file was unable to extract all the files and the installation was interrupted after a few seconds, which broke access to the presets and database of certain plugs, such as the entire Augmented series.

So I had to uninstall/reinstall the whole X bundle to solve the problem.
I reinstalled the December VR bundle on top of it and now everything's working properly again.

The only remaining problem is the broken GUI on the Clavinet and Mellotron that won't display but showing an error message instead (using Cakewalk by BandLab), but that can wait until the next update, I suppose.

Firstly, thanks to all involved. Its amazing to have so much choice.

Ok, so I've installed this and I don't think it shows all the sound banks correctly. For me in Analog Lab, when I looked under the soundbank tab, there's no new banks listed. Ive also tried loading a few different synths eg. like Jup-8v, when I chose the soundbank tab, the new banks are listed, but its missing the thumbnail pics/icons. Ive tried deleteing the db.db3 file located at C:\ProgramData\Arturia\Presets. But still the issues persist.
I never installed any other present banks from VR before, this was the first soundbank collection I installed. I had previously installed Arturia V Collection X v10.0.0-R2R, beforehand.
Has anyone any ideas how to fix this please?

This package gave me an additional 4800 presets that I didn't have after installing the VR banks. Always backup your presets, samples & shared folder under your Arturia folder.

So this is how I read the comment of R2R.

The official Arturia Collection X installer contains a flaw "because Arturia is using ANSI version of Inno Setup while its file name contains european multibytes characters".

When you use a Windows version that is using the European Multibyte character set (é, è, ë, ö, ò, ó, à, á and â for instance) the installer simply will not install these files (or maybe rename those files wrong) thus we'll get an incomplete list of default presets installed by the official Arturia Collection X installer that Arturia supplies to legit users, which R2R uses for their clean release policy.

So, this released is to rectify an issue Arturia made. R2R is so kind to fix this for us, Also for the legit users apparently. This release needs to be upvoted far more than those great Acustica plugins if you asl me.

You can take the gamble and hope that the V.R Soundbundle release also installs the factory presets with their Sound Banks release, someone can do a compare for instance to know for sure but I'm not taking the bet, or you follow the installation steps:

Arturia Collection X-R2R
Arturia Sound Banks 2023-R2R
Arturia Sound Banks V.R release.

And here's my opinion in regard to things not being clear. This is in no way a pun to the work of V.R but still... V.R is using a name convention for their Arturia Sound Banks release that is incorrect. Why?

V.R releases a Soundbank bundle that isn't known to Arturia. In their Arturia Soundbank Bundle they include the so called "Sound Explorers Collection 2" bundle known to Arturia and a massive load of 3rd party presents. Normally you would release that bundle and all the 3rd party presets one by one but hey, it's total madness of presets collection galore and downloading every single 3rd party soundbank would be resulting in instant depression. I can know because I'm a chronic depression patient and I went to a 3 month session at my psychologist directly after hoarding loads of Serum presets. So for that, I totally forgot to mention this, my thanks go out to V.R to make this bundle possible so I can keep my sanity in check.

So I'm installing everything R2R releases. After that I rename the Arturia folder to Arturia-R2R and install the V.R release. But know I'm going to do something different because I do not know if V.R used the faulty installer too without checking and I do not know if their Soundbank Bundle consists of all factory sounds.

So I will copy everything what's in the Arturi-R2R folder to the Arturia folder, replace everything and all is done. I also move the folder to my D-drive and create a symlink in %programdata% but that's another story.

I'm a firm believer that Cats are cats and dogs are dogs and the two are rarely compatible.
Seems a lot of work for something that ends up being practically the same results. Many, many thanks to V.R. and R2R for all their excellent work over the years. Love you guys.

i think there is something not working well here...at least for me...tried 2 times...clean installation (never installed V.R. Arturias stuff), if i delete db.db3 file the (in)famous file where arturia stocks preset database) Analog Lab regenerate it with 11407 total presets and you can edit the corresponding plugin directly from its window, but next time i open Analog LAb there are 2583 total presets and no possibility to edit/open the synth like before....any other feedback about it?

I have a legit Analog Lab V installed (came with the hardware). I then installed Arturia.V.Collection.X.v10.0.0-R2R and Arturia.Sound.Banks.2023-R2R but I am finding a lot of the presets have a padlock on them with the option to buy them in Analog Lab V. Do I need to ditch the legit version and go with the version in Arturia.V.Collection.X.v10.0.0-R2R or will the VR preset bundle work with my legit analog lab V.

quote by lunii think there is something not working well here...at least for me...tried 2 times...clean installation (never installed V.R. Arturias stuff), if i delete db.db3 file the (in)famous file where arturia stocks preset database) Analog Lab regenerate it with 11407 total presets and you can edit the corresponding plugin directly from its window, but next time i open Analog LAb there are 2583 total presets and no possibility to edit/open the synth like before....any other feedback about it?

it's something related to ASCEMU2.exe and AcLayers.dll as i can see from windows event viewer...

https://i.imgur.com/EGZIeU4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nSvJJ7y.jpg

quote by luni

quote by lunii think there is something not working well here...at least for me...tried 2 times...clean installation (never installed V.R. Arturias stuff), if i delete db.db3 file the (in)famous file where arturia stocks preset database) Analog Lab regenerate it with 11407 total presets and you can edit the corresponding plugin directly from its window, but next time i open Analog LAb there are 2583 total presets and no possibility to edit/open the synth like before....any other feedback about it?

it's something related to ASCEMU2.exe and AcLayers.dll as i can see from windows event viewer...

https://i.imgur.com/EGZIeU4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nSvJJ7y.jpg

I am noticing almost the same both with the disappearing presets and the ASCEMU2.exe application errors. If i delete the DB3 file i get 11,000+ factory presets and some of the other sound banks showing (not all and not the same ones each go). However if I then restart Analog Lab V without deleting the DB3 file It then only shows the factory bank and with only 2500+ presets in it.

thanks, then we must wait a REV from R2R ^^ ... or not

I usually favor R2R releases, but I in the present case, having tested both installations thoroughly, I think the VR version is clearly better. A few details:
1. R2R release creates dozens of new folders - one for each instrument - inside ProgramData, instead of placing them all under the Arturia folder. VR release creates a single Arturia folder with all instruments inside, and this folder can live either inside ProgramData or anywhere else through a symlink.
2. R2R release has around 20k presets; VR version has +43k presets plus 15k user presets. It must be taken into account, however, that over one third of these presets are from Pigments, which is NOT installed with the VR release and must be downloaded and installed separately.

just to understand... is there anyone who has installed v collection and sound banks by r2r and inside analog lab (opening it 2 times) sees around 11k presets? Thank you

I extracted everything, all the presets are there. But Arturia doesn't recognise the files...

Can't import them to their designated synths. Seems the type of file is just ".file" and not anything Arturia can read.

Anyone else experience this?

I'm also experiencing the presets issue with both R2R installations on V Collection X And Sound Banks 2023

How do you get these presets to show up ? pigments has none of the 3rd party preset packs, what do i do with these bin Files? is there a secret to get the presets to show up everyone knows but me?

so
i've installed Arturia instruments from R2R
Does this pack include sound banks that aren't the stock one? like idk future bass?