Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman got plenty of groupies Probably Greg Allman and Jon Lord too. 
Not so sure about the rest. I will say back in the decadent 80s the girls that were into me were almost certainly the most… interesting ones…
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Yeah…remember the thread of “Good, Bad, and Ugly” about a year ago? We were all voicing how bad some plugins were on resources. I really like many of the Arturia plugs, but they don’t play well with my laptop. But, recently, I went back to Arturia Analog Lab…great on resources, less programming capabilities. At least I get to use some good Prophet 5 presets.
Well hell…I certainly had my share, and I’m an ugly muh. 
@FredProgGH You left out Liberace and Barry Manilow 
Also: Jerry Lee Lewis, Felix Cavaliere, Mozart, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Gary Brooker, Duke Ellington, Elton John, and on…and on…
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My God that was funny! People can hear me laughing in my office!
Oh, and I should be working right now.
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Sorry…couldn’t help myself. I did enjoy my own humor when picking out all those emojis.
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I just visited the website. I have found another financial black hole. I want all those synths. $500. The Vox and Farfisa sound amazing. These are low RAM use as they are modeled instruments.
Blue 3 has replaced my beloved VB3 becuase of you, and now my classic synths are on the chopping block for Arturia.
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My son bought me an Arturia Mini Lab, which, at the time, included Analog Lab. It is not a full blown version of the V Collection, but it has a lot of presets that will cover most anything I need. So, if you don’t want to dish out $500, and don’t plan to do some excessive programming, and need to keep resources low, it sells for $149, and you can demo it as well. Included:
* Updated with sounds from the V Collection 6
* Over 6500 sounds from some of the best sound designers in the industry
* Presets are carefully selected from our V Collection 6 (ARP 2600 V, B-3 V, CS-80 V, Farfisa V, Jup-8 V, Matrix-12 V, Mini V, Modular V, Prophet V, Prophet VS, SEM V, Solina V, Stage-73 V, Synclavier V, Piano V2, Vox Continental V, Wurli V, Buchla Easel V, Clavinet V, DX7 V and CMI V)
It’s really all I need, but M1 and Xpand! still fill out many other sounds.
IMHO the Piano, and B3 sucks, and the Wurli and Stage-73 are…ok. Everything else is pretty good.
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Very cool find Humphrey!
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I am literally teetering on buying this for $250. That is too good. Thanks humphrey!! I have 3 days to figure out a way to conceal it from my wife. “No…no…honey. Arturia is the new name of our utility provider.”
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… I usually manage this by telling my wife all of the advantages of the product in deep detail. After 3 minutes I usually have a „go for it but shut up please!“…
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I’ve been dealing w/ NI installs all night. Dunderhead I am, I installed the libraries in the wrong place.
Sigh …
Machine build starts tomorrow.
And I am only responsible to myself, but I wonder if myself is lying to me. 
Although my bank account will nag the hell out of me.
Well…we managed to destroy another thread. I often wish we had a live feed here…it would really get crazy then.
Yes, the discussion has gone south, but according to the Hopi tribes, North is the direction of evil.
Speaking of evil. I am taking the money I have on hold for the Mixface by studiologic (which was supposed to come out August, then Sept, then Oct. now maybe Jan 2019 or who knows when) and I am buying the special Arturia suggested by humphrey.
Another great idea!
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The V collection is very good in places and awful in parts (B3 esp). But Arturia do have a reputation of getting there over several releases. The Mini, Prophet and Matrix 12 are my favourites.
And CPU load is good. I am messing about with a Cantabile song that has all of the sounds needed for Floyd’s “Welcome to the Machine” which is one instance of Mini for the lead and about 5 instances of Modular (Moog) for the effects (coming from a Floyd pack I purchased from the Artutia store). Overall Cantabile load of those six instances on my gig pc (Core i7 3.5GHz, 32G RAM, 512GB SSD) is about 25%.
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The good thing about download only soft synths, is that you have an easier job of sneaking them into the studio, compared to a bulky SY99 type behemoth… 
And I do the accounts! 
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Got the V collection, and have to say, holy crap! (won’t use bad language). Wow. The DX7, Matrix 12 was what I had as my mainstay in a funk band I was in. Did some Paula Abdul covers and the Matrix 12 was the go to. The Jupiter 8, as well (but I had a Juno 106). What a trip down memory lane, and they sound great. B3 sucks as did the piano, suitcase, but the Vox killed it, too. Too much more to talk about. Enough said. I am impressed! CPU load is negligible. Prefer the LL and NI Wurli and Mark I/II. But the V collection is amazing. Still need to dive more into it, but programming was a breeze, just like the original synths, I was able to immediately get the sounds I used to use in the DX7 and Matrix 12. Very happy. Mixface will have to wait.
Thanks for the heads up!
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Not destroyed in the least. I enjoy the banter. 
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Believe it or not, I’m starting to use the Arturia piano. It has a quality that’s pretty cool in a mix, especially the so-called jazz piano- great character. It’s that “crap pianos are good in a mix” thing. Obviously, for doing classical piano solos, not so much. I’m 50/50 on the synths vs.Diva, depending on what it might be. I LOVE the Synclavier, the Matrix, the combo organs… all the synths are good, just maybe not quite as good as other alternatives. The Hammond is of course an abomination
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DIVA still remains a favourite monster, as does ZEBRA…
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