![]() ![]() ![]() At 36 by 27cm, it took up a huge chunk of desktop studio space. However, the original Spark controller was quite a large beast. The best of both worlds in many ways: the breadth of software synthesis and recall combined with a drum machine-style controller. Spark is a hybrid design consisting of a tactile control surface tethered to computer-based sound generation and programming software. Arturia is one manufacturer that’s acutely aware of this avenue of beat production, and served the electronica community handsomely with the Spark ‘beat production centre’ in 2011. ![]() In some ways this was a shame, as hands-on rhythm programming can be an incredibly immediate tool in its own right. Yet come the 21st century, the drum machine faded into obscurity as computer-based DAWs and plug-ins took over. During the 1980s and ’90s, these devices were a mainstay of all electronic musicians’ equipment lists. The format has fallen in and out of mainstream favour over the last couple of decades. Arturia trims the excess off Spark to let the good stuff shine through in SparkLE. ![]()
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