Arturia Acid V Corrosive bassline machine

Acid V channels the cult-classic bass synth that pushed the underground into overdrive. Pump your mixes full of reactive ever-evolving bass grooves, unleash mutated sequences fizzing with distortion, and experiment with extra features for revitalized rave energy.

Enter the rave reactor
The abrasive, hypnotic sound that gets synapses firing and feet tapping unlike anything else. Give your bass the acidic treatment and set off a sonic chain reaction that’ll heat up your mix to lethal levels.

Unleashing sonic chemistry
Discover a raw, biting, in-your-face analog sound that never stops moving.
Fusing the 303 sound with a cocktail of creative and experimental features, Acid V is all about launching a sequence and tweaking, mutating, evolving. Spark note changes, drop in slides and accents, and – of course – making that abrasive resonant filter

The origins of acid
Many of history’s most iconic and sought-after instruments were not necessarily popular at the time of their introduction; often intended for one thing but transformed by users into something else entirely, ushering entire movements into existence.
When the TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer was released in 1981, it was meant to be a substitute for bass guitars. Its sound was subsequently deemed unrealistic by users, and it was discontinued 3 years later – but when it found its way into the hands of electronic music producers in the late ‘80s, the 303 emerged as something entirely different.

What we added
This is no ordinary 303 clone. Acid V has been deliberately mutated with fresh and experimental features designed with explosive sonic reactions in mind.

A bigger, better voice
Get deeper and more deranged bassline sounds with a 2-octave range sub oscillator and vibrato that goes from slow detune to audio rate.

Distortion
The 303 sound is so synonymous with distortion that you can’t have one without the other. We included 14 algorithms to satisfy every crunchy craving.

An evolved sequencer
Acid V features the fast, musical, advanced sequencer 303 fans have always wanted; you can even bounce its unique patterns to MIDI for use with clips and other instruments.

Scales & Transmutation
Alter your sequence’s DNA and create fresh patterns in one click with Transmutation, and lock into musical scales specially curated with modern styles in mind.

Under the hatch
Crack open Acid V’s virtual panel to uncover detailed analog fine-tuning, letting you emulate the specific pitchy, drifty, noisy quirks of genuine vintage units.

Modulation & effects
Create evolving movements & vivid sonic coloration without leaving Acid V’s interface; 3 modulators, 4 FX slots, and 17 FX algorithms for next-gen acid sound.

Main Features

• Enhanced software emulation of classic TB-303 bass synth.
• Virtual Instrument playable in a DAW (Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro…) or standalone with a MIDI keyboard.
• Analog oscillator with Square and Triangle waveforms
• Sub oscillator with 2-octave range and 3 waveforms
• Resonant low-pass filter
• Built-in distortion module with 14 algorithms
• Added vibrato feature
• Advanced polymetric sequencer & arpeggiator
• Up to 64 steps
• Slide, accent, octave shifting
• Transmutation (Sequence generation & alteration)
• Built-in scales
• Shift sequence in 4 directions
• Drag and drop patterns into MIDI blocks
• Over 350 sequence presets
• Hidden hatch for fine-tuning & customizing analog components
• 3 multi-mode function generators for flexible modulation
• 4 FX slots with 17 FX to choose from
• MTS-ESP microtuning compatibility
• Over 150 factory presets