The blue backlit buttons are the only possible source of uncertainty, being slightly spongy, but they're only slightly more so than those of my Korg ESX1, which have lasted for years. With a footprint that's smaller than a sheet of A4 paper and without the ungainly plastic legs of the original, the SparkLE is compact and robust. Seeking to trim off that 'almost' and to lighten shelves and laptop bags everywhere, Arturia have combined the same wide resource of beats and percussion with a cheaper and more petite controller.

Its size represented either the spacious, ergonomic drum controller of your dreams or a challenge to squeeze in somewhere, but, sonically, the cool collection of modelled and sample-based kits was almost irresistible. The Spark was large, knobby and brought tactile performance to the purely software environment. Having already given the world a range of modelled analogue synthesizers, adding a drum machine to the family made perfect sense for Arturia.

In many ways, Arturia's Spark 'Creative Drum Machine' was a logical extension of previous controller/software partnerships. It's cheaper and more compact - but does the Spark spirit remain? This can be placed anywhere on your partitions and holds data for apps that you had installed only for this dedicated user, not for all users.Arturia have pared down their hybrid drum controller. Phillip, you know that there are different Library directories on your mac? Normally there are 2 at minimum, one under the root path ('/') and one for at less one user in the user directory. Good thing is that Spark 1.6.1.1 does not have any error messages upon startup and is running smooth ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :D 8) :PĪ strange discovery for me for sure that they were there ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :o ::) :o ::) :o ::) :o Maybe when I installed an earlier version of Spark and directed the installer to install Spark Library in this location it installed Audio and Application Support folders with Spark.vst, ponent and Spark.dpm within them. How an Audio folder and Application Support folder got installed there in the first place I don't know. Partition: Library/Arturia Spark Libraries/Library/Arturia/Spark/Spark Library is the path to my Spark Library that I have installed on hard drive that is not my boot system hard drive. This partition named Library is not on my primary boot drive that OS X 10.6.8 is installed on. You see on one of the internal hard drives on my computer I have a partition named Library.

I know much better than that Kevin ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :o

Arturia spark 1.6.1.1