Arturia adds proper sound design tools to its AstroLab synths

What happened

Arturia adds proper sound design tools to its AstroLab synths, according to The Verge. They essentially put the company's AnalogLab suite of vintage synth emulations, sampled pianos, and original instrument plugins into playable hardware. But they were ultimately glorified preset browsers.

The AstroLab is very difficult to play in this position. You could lightly tweak patches using the four macro controls, or dial in some effects, but you couldn't do any real sound design.