
It includes an awesome library of over 1,500 instruments and 100 kits, providing top-notch, professional sounds covering a variety of dancefloor-friendly genres and stylings, ever-expandable with Arturia add-ons (like the Hip Hop Essentials and DubStep Essentials Expansion Packs). Software-wise, SparkLE makes use of the same full-featured Spark Engine software shipping with the original Spark. More musical still, TUNE mode permits playing sounds chromatically across those 16 step sequencer buttons or eight pads - try having the kick drum follow the bass root note for truly trouser-flapping lows, play a synth bass/lead sound, or transform percussion sounds into pitched instruments! Three assignable encoders ease writing automation and realtime sound control. Live performances are a breeze thanks to the advanced Looper and beat-slicing functions, while beats can be transformed on the fly with the touch-sensitive FX pad that features eight filter modes (including the famed Oberheim SEM V filter featured in Arturia’s Oberheim SEM V soft synth namesake) and seven Slicer modes. The slimline SparkLE hardware measures 1.6cm in depth and comes with a neoprene slipcase for easy portability.Īccording to Arturia…SparkLE Creative Drum Machine serves up classic ‘TR-style’ workflow via its brightly backlit step sequencer buttons, while a musical platter of bangin’ beats can quite literally be banged out using its eight velocity- and pressure-sensitive backlit pads.

Where Arturia’s SPARK Creative Drum Machine combined TAE® (True Analog Emulation) synthesis, sample playback (with multiple layering modes and post-processing), and physical modelling technologies with the intuitive workflow of a hardware drum machine today, SparkLE Creative Drum Machine takes this concept to the masses in an all-new, ultra-portable package priced at $299.00.
