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Limited-time Offer!Get V-Collection2 for free!Between May 1 and June 30, 2012, purchase Arturia's Spark Creative Drum Machine from Sweetwater and receive V-Collection2 FREE via download when your register your product on Arturia's website. A $549 value!Arturia Spark Creative Drum MachineItem ID: SparkDrumSoftware Drum Machine with 480 Instruments and 30 Kits with a 64-step Sequencer, 8 Pads, Effects Pad, and 16-track Mixer 
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From Our Research Team:The Musician's Ultimate Drum Machine!When you're at the helm of Arturia's Spark drum machine, you've got massively flexible amazing-sounding drums ready for you to cruise in any musical direction. Thanks to its combination of analog-modeled synthesis, physical modeling, and samples, Spark covers the sonic spectrum of drum needs. You'll find classic 808 and 909-style sounds in here, as well as authentic-sounding acoustic kits. Dub to techno, house to hip hop to R&B, Spark is ready for it. And thanks to its smart and intuitive layout, you'll be making great grooves with Arturia's Spark in no time.Arturia Spark Drum Machine At a Glance:
Powerful Combination of Hardware and Software: Arturia's Spark gives you the hands-on experience of a hardware drum machine, with the unlimited processing power of software groove production. You'll love how easy it is to create sequences, arrange patterns, and tweak effects on the fly - without ever touching your mouse, or even looking at the computer monitor! Fast Groove Creation: The intuitive layout of the Spark drum machine makes it fast and easy to take a moment of inspiration and turn it into a powerful musical masterpiece. And don't let the term "drum machine" fool you - Spark has tons of Arturia's synth sounds and instrument samples to add the icing on your groovy cake. Tons of Sounds: Spark gives you 30 drum kits and 480 instrument and synth sounds that cover everything from well-behaved acoustic sounds to mind-bending electronic weirdness. Whatever kind of music you make, Spark has the sounds you want plus new ones to inspire you. Arturia Spark Features:
Get your hands on Arturia Spark and you'll be ready to groove in any sonic direction! Spark Creative Drum Machine Image Gallery
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by Scott Sundberg from Spring Arbor, MI USA
A lot has been written about Spark, but little has been said about how much fun this machine is. As a fan of old Roland and Korg drum machines, I've found this to be a terrific writing tool and a loa... read more [+]d of inspiration. It's easy to get around on and sounds great. May 26, 2012 Music Background: Mr. Muckabout What it isn't is a substitute for Maschine. It is a DRUM MACHINE; albeit one that's software based with a hardware controller (which is obviously why so many people want to make the comparison). Having used Maschine for a long time, I have to say that Spark is much easier to get up and running on. It doesn't try to be everything to every one and that's its strength! While I miss some of my old machines (and have attempted to replace them with samples, etc.), Spark gives me sounds as close as can be, but with a fun, intuitive way to program and play. I really dig it! close [-] GREAT Hands on control
by Reek Havok from Bellevue, Wa
I was excited to get my hands on Spark and. As a heavy user of drum machines from the mid 80's, I've missed having a cool drum machine to play with for quite some time. As we get more and more into vi... read more [+]rtual instruments and away from hardware, the hands on experience is always sorely missed which sometimes leads to a far more more static performance. Arturia's Spark gives me a great drum machine with a surprisingly rich feature set and a hardware layout that is not only incredibly well designed, but brings unprecedented usability and intuitive control right out of the box.September 12, 2011 Music Background: Composer, drummer, sound designer Real time control of preassigned controls like pitch, decay, freq shift are always available and a fast assign mode provides you more in-depth parameters for aux sends, cut off, resonance, panning and volume. On the fly pattern select and sound swapping is fast and simple. I’ve been a fan of the Korg Kaoss pad for a long time and the built in X-Y touch pad on the Spark controller is very reminiscent of that. Quick access to Filter, Roll and Slicer make Spark very dynamic and playable instrument and provides the ability for some great creative patterns. The hardware controller is beefy, rugged and feels great. I’m a drummer and so the way a pad plays is very critical for me and the Spark hardware controller does not disappoint. 8 illuminated and very playable/assignable pads are on the front and the heavy control itself help keep it in place regardless of the real-time beating. Another cool feature is the pattern loop section. A simple button push jumps you into a mode where you can cut your pattern in 1/2, 1/4, 18th. 16th or 32nd and the move knob lets you move that selection all around the pattern making the pattern dance around creating all kinds of wild permutations of a pattern without ever switching away from that pattern. It’s easy to and fun to hit the on/off button of the loop mode to pop in and out of this mode. I can sit and play with Spark for hours and have so much fun. Bringing back the tactile feel of a drum machine that’s been missing from my arsenal for so long, but adding features that are very cleverly thought out and making them easy to get to. Spark ships with a great array of sounds and as I mentioned, it’s easy to change banks or individual sounds within a bank and add your own sounds. Probably the most amazing thing about Spark is the price. I had to look a couple of times to realize that at $599 retail, the hardware controller comes with Spark. How Arturia does this with such a great piece of hardware is nothing short of incredible. close [-] My first drum machine, a unique one!
by Stephen Wiley from Murfreesboro, TN
The spark is a great forward thinking idea put forth by Arturia. I wasn't sure what to expect considering this was Arturia's first walk in the park with a drum type machine and it was to be my first ... read more [+]drum machine, but I have been very happy with the results. At this price point, I am very pleased with my purchase. The spark boasts some big time features as well as emulations of the famed 808, 909, and more. I wasn't expecting much from the content that came with the machine, since I already have so many sample drum packs, but I was floored by the quality of the included samples. The 30 kits with the Spark are of pristine, highly crafted character. I really wish they would have made more kits even though 30 is plenty. The quality of the samples caught me off guard. The interface looks a bit tricky and confusing at first, but within minutes I was jamming. The way everything integrates is very easy to understand which was a concern of mine. Spark is a unique instrument and approach to building drums but it is also a very straight forward and easy to understand instrument. Basically, you can create up to 16 tracks, each with up to 64 steps. These tracks are numbered 1-16 and placed in a circle. Each track contains sounds selected from a preset or custom built sound bank, and can contain up to 64 steps. Each sound bank consists of 16 samples that can be modified using onboard FX (which are surprisingly very high quality, and I'm a UAD fanboy) and time based envelope editors (attack, decay, etc) until you get the sample sounding just how you want it. After that, you lay it all out on up to 16 different tracks with up to 64 steps for each track. That may sound simple, and it is, but there are a ton of features along the way to edit so you can get everything sounding and sitting perfectly in your mix. The only reason this doesn't receive five stars is because of some confirmed bugs that rarely pop up that make the machine start showing random letters and numbers and also causes chaos regarding all editing abilities, requiring a reboot of the system. Dennis with Arturia has acknowledged this and it will almost certainly be fixed by the time you read this. This is a must have for anyone in need of "drum help" as well as professionals looking to bang out productions in a quick and high quality manner. Big thanks to Mike Hammond who steered me towards buying this puppy!! close [-]
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by Andrew Van Es from Melbourne, Australia
Spark is a nice and refreshing alternative to the other beatboxes/ groovethangz on the market. Its build quality is excellent and software very intuitive. Physical modelling and great sounds complimen... read more [+]t the machine. Step sequencing ala 808/909 is cool. I think this will evolve nicely over time.. Midi it up yo my analogue Laboratory is fantastic. I get all the moog, jupiter emulations to go. FX touch pad is a nice touch.May 23, 2011 Music Background: musician I feel the luckiest dude in my country as they weren't getting Spark for another month or two. Once again my sales engineer Dennis Konicki got it to me in world record time . Come on !!!! 2 days from Fort Wayne Indiana to Melbourne Australia via priority Fedex is incredible. That's why I keep coming back to Sweetwater. I put my faith in there service and they just keep on delivering. Cheers close [-] The Analog drum Maschine is back and fun again!
by Teacee from USA
Right out the box the Spark brings back the sound of the 80's and 90"s vintage drum sounds. It also has a fast learning curve, nice feeling big pads. Even though there are only 8 pads, you have 1-8 an... read more [+]d 9-16 so you have 16 drum sounds to sequence your beats. Drag and drop your own samples to the on screen pads and easily build your own kits. I also like the large jog wheel which allows you to scroll through you kits and/or individual drum sounds. Very solid and durable as a midi controller for DJ's, producer and playing live. close [-]
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