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#Arturia spark 2 review portable
Spark is bigger and less portable but does have dedicated control knobs for each of the drum pads, whereas in Sparkle you need to share one set of parameter knobs for all your instruments. It should be noted the Sparkle has a bigger brother version called Spark – which I’m not sure Arturia is selling anymore but you can probably find used. In this review I focus on Sparkle or Spark LE.
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Now, I get the allure of a standalone digital or analog drum machine, but being standalone is only one factor when considering a drum machine – price, sound and user interface are other important things to consider, and that’s where Sparkle does quite an impressive job. This is a hardware-software combo – sort of like Maschine from Native Instruments, but focused on making beats rather than an entire production environment. Now first – when looking at the pros and cons of this – obviously, it’s not a standalone drum machine. And when I saw you could get the hardware controller for Spark used on Reverb for around $100 and new for around $200, I decided to check it out. I was scouring the web for good drum plugin with plenty of sounds, downloaded a demo of this and was impressed with how good it sounded. The Arturia Spark LE – or Sparkle has been around for quite some time, but I only came across it when I needed drum sounds for a clip I made a few weeks ago.