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Key Features
Arturia Spark2 is an all-encompassing drum production plug-in. Jam-packed with features and sounds, Spark2 lets you do everything from design sounds, create sequences, perform live with its 16 built-in MIDI-mappable performance pads, create modular signal paths and mix your sounds with studio-quality sounds, all without ever leaving the plug-in. Combining the power of analog synthesis, physical modelling and premium-quality samples, Spark2 houses over 1,900+ unique drum sounds, spanning well-known and rare drum machines to new, unique sounds. You'll never need to trawl lists of samples or combine multiple instruments to find the sounds you want ever again.
Excelling not only in sound but in functionality and flexibility, Spark2 has been designed with ease of use in mind. Incorporating a 16-step sequencer and eight velocity-sensitive touch pads allows you to freely create grooves and beats from the ground up, exploring your creativity with complete freedom. Truly offering everything under one roof, Spark2 will quickly become your one-stop-shop for all things drum production, streamlining your production process for faster, better and more professional-sounding drum tracks.
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More than any traditional drum machine you've seen, Spark2 goes much further than samples and a sequencer, it's an entire drum instrument. At the heart of Spark2 are the sounds, developed using Arturia's proprietary TAE analog emulation and Phi physical modelling technologies, it encompasses both samples from vintage hardware machines and new synthesized sounds. This gives Spark 2 a whole new method of sound creation that no other drum machine can offer. This melding of two worlds combines to create an all-in-one solution for virtually any performance style your music needs!
Drag your sequences into your DAW as MIDI files. Drag your whole loop into your project as a WAV file. Sync it to your song and expand your DAWs drum capabilities. With update 2.4, Spark has been optimized to work beautifully on the latest systems and cutting-edge DAWs, with stable, robust performance to keep you focussed on the music. Want to get hands-on? Pair it up with the Arturia SparkLE controller for a seamless hardware/software hybrid.
Instantly familiar to drum machine lovers, the main page of Spark2 features 16 performance pads which can be mapped to any instrument in your collection. Perfect for live performance, Spark2's home page also includes a 16-step sequencer which can be edited further in the dedicated window, with loop controls, sequencer positioning and direction among more. A global X/Y pad offers creative control over a mapped parameter and can be used to shape your sound with an EQ, alter the level filter level, resonance control or more.
More than just samples and instruments, Spark2 is a fully encompassed drum production solution and this includes the onboard sequencer page. Here, you can chain sequences together with variations for depth and progression in your tracks. With 32 steps per instrument, you can go much more than the traditional 8-bar drum loop you're used to. Not only can you build the foundations of your beat with the sequencer, but it can also be used to trigger automation parameters for the onboard modules, effects, controls and more. Both X/Y pads and automation lanes are included and allow automation of up to 15 parameters per instrument! This will be your hub for all creative decisions, whether that's live on stage or in the studio.
The studio page gives you deep access to a variety of studio-quality sound-shaping tools. 14 unique professional processors are included, notably compression, reverb, bit crushing, multi-band EQ, chorus, delay, distortion, phasing, plates, flanger, panning, limiting and sub-enhancement. With such a vast suite of tools, you can use these to either trim, sculpt and shape Spark2 to your mix or use them for creative effects on dropout sections to add impact to a drop. For a more dynamic and authentic tone, each of these studio processors can be automated throughout your track with your DAW automation, giving more movement to your processing depending on your composition.
Unique to Spark2, the Modular section gives you virtual access to an expansive patch bay, connecting a variety of modules in series, parallel or whichever routing you choose to offer exciting modulation in your drum tones. Showing just how deep the rabbit hole can go, the modular possibilities are virtually endless and encompasses nine variable state analog-modelled oscillators, four multi-mode filters, six envelopes, two LFOs, four mixers, two ring modulators, two CV modulators, two Karplus-Strong filters, one stereo filter and one Spring Mass physical modelling engine. With all of this power and flexibility at your disposal, keeping control over your parameters is made easy with six assignable Macros. Control multiple parameters of your modular design simultaneously and assign four parameters from any of the modules within a patch all in real time.
Balance each individual piece of your drum kit with a simple yet effective mixer. Arranged familiarly to what you may be used to with your DAW or digital mixer, you can adjust the volumes across your instruments, alter send levels, panning and engage global effects across each channel independently. What's more, each of these parameters inside your mixer can be automated using your DAW to create a lively mix that moves with your music, placing more importance on selected instruments at certain sections for more focus and impact.
Load in your own samples, deconstruct drum libraries and organise your sounds with the onboard Library. Utilising Banks and Style tagging, it's quick and easy to arrange your drum tones into kits and instruments to come back to your favourite sounds again and again.
An essential and understated aspect of Spark2 is the preferences menu. Here you can create customised settings for the myriad of functions it's capable of, letting you control the basic and advanced settings which run in the menus or behind the scenes. Detailed preferences for the Sequencer, Interface, file management and MIDI compatibility are all included to create a customised experience for you.
With over 1,800 sounds onboard, Spark2 has something for every kind of producer and genre. Should you want to expand your horizons even further, Arturia offers additional sound packs to download. Available as both single "fragment" packs or as part of a larger preset pack, you can explore dozens of new drum textures and sounds which can be used to enhance and augment your existing tones for a more unique sound.
An indispensable tool for live performers on the stage or in the studio, Spark2 can be used with your Arturia SparkLE controller to offer tactile control over your drum sound design on the fly. Designed specifically to map together, you can get up and running instantly without the need for any special MIDI mapping unless of course, you want to!
"I love the easy and quick ways to get results using Spark2. The possibility to build up your own kit mixed with your own samples is very cool. " - Trentemoller (DJ / Producer)
"I used Spark2 in the studio to create some drum sounds in my recent tracks and I will continue to use it for some time. I like the quality of the samples and that it's really user-friendly. This is a very useful product." - Umek (DJ / Producer)
"I've been using Spark throughout all my tracks this summer/ My recent tracks "The Drug" and "22.22" feature Spark2 heavily. I love how it adds an authentic dimension to my beats but all very simply." - Yousef (DJ / Producer)
"The layout of Spark2 is so intuitive and allows for instant creative control. The pads react like playing an acoustic instrument. Your beats will immediately have a new level of depth the first time you get your hands on Spark2." - Isaac Carpenter (Awolnation)
