In a lot of ways the SparkLE is a more efficient and familiar design than its slightly awkward and cumbersome looking brother. The main muscle comes from the Spark drum machine software, which can act as a stand-alone program or be wired into DAWs such as Logic Studio, Pro-Tools or Ableton Live. The redesigned face has done away with a lot of dedicated knobs in favour of a more efficient layout, though there are still eight pads with the same loop functions, XY pad, global and instrument FX, volume and tempo controls, as well as the large push encoder for browsing, and the all-important step sequence buttons, only this time there are only three assignable knobs. In this light edition of their flagship hybrid, Arturia have slimmed the unit’s profile down by doing away with the MIDI I/O ports and using a single USB connection to supply bus power. Despite the already competitive price point of the original unit, Arturia have now released a stripped down version of the Spark, named, appropriately enough, the SparkLE. Released in 2011, Arturia’s Spark drum machine took Arturia’s longstanding experience as a soft synth developer and combined it with a hardware controller, giving all the tactile control of a traditional beat box but with the added power and flexibility delivered through your computer. With hybrid software/hardware beat production solutions riding high in popularity, Arturia present their recently streamlined package.
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