Setting up and included content

To set up the MiniLab Mk2 for Mac/Windows, go to the Arturia website, set up a user account, enter your serial number and unlock the content. The only thing I found tricky was installing UVI Grand Piano Model D as the link to the software itself and sound banks were initially hard to find, plus it requires iLok authorisation.

The quality of the included content is high. There’s Ableton Live Lite; then Arturia’s own Analog Lab Lite includes slimmed-down (but upgradable) versions of Arturia’s SEM, Wurli, Rhodes, B3, Modular, MiniMoog, Jupiter, Prophet and acoustic piano software instruments. The UVI piano sounds good (£79 on its own), though there are no drum instruments included.