With the Analog Factory Experience, Arturia have taken their Analog Factory plug-in and built a keyboard that replicates the on-screen controls almost exactly, providing the clearest possible integration between the physical and virtual worlds. Thus Novation's Automap 2.0, NI's Kore, and now Arturia's Analog Factory Experience, constrain and organise controls within an on-screen layout that is mirrored in the accompanying hardware. The solution offered by various recent products is to present a unified hardware and software interface, with the physical controls laid out in the same positions as their software counterparts. The immediacy of hands-on control is disrupted by the mental gymnastics required to remember which controls are linked to which parameters. Using hardware controllers with software instruments is often a disappointing experience. Is this the way forward for hardware/software integration? Arturia's 'hybrid instrument' teams a custom keyboard with their massive synth patch-library plug-in.
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