Bobby Brooks — Studio
A Arturia

Sentient Agent™
2026

Voice-Controlled AI for the Arturia V Collection. A musician speaks. The right sound loads. Instantly. Edit any parameter in real time — brighten the attack, pull back the reverb, reshape the tone — all by voice.

Presented by Bobby Brooks

The Problem

Musicians think in sound,
not file names.

A musician does not think "load Bank 4, Preset 37." They think "give me that Bernie Worrell Parliament-Funkadelic bass" or "something like Jan Hammer's Miami Vice lead" or "that Stevie Wonder TONTO sound from Innervisions" or "a Wendy Carlos A Clockwork Orange texture" or "that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Downward Spiral sound." But every synthesizer on the market — hardware or software — forces them to browse, scroll, and search by name.

"The creative moment dies in the file browser."

The V Collection has thousands of world-class presets. Most of them never get heard because finding the right sound takes longer than playing it.

"The best sound is the one you can find in under three seconds."

Every one of these artists defined a sound — a sound that lives in the musician's memory and drives their creative decisions every session. The V Collection contains those sounds. Sentient Agent™ 2026 makes them instantly accessible by simply speaking the name.

Bernie Worrell
Parliament-Funkadelic
Herbie Hancock
Head Hunters
George Duke
The Aura Will Prevail
Chick Corea
Return to Forever
Joe Zawinul
Weather Report
Jan Hammer
Miami Vice
Hans Zimmer
Dune · Inception · The Dark Knight
Wendy Carlos
A Clockwork Orange · The Shining · Switched-On Bach
Daft Punk
Tron Legacy · Random Access Memories
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Nine Inch Nails · The Downward Spiral · Tron Legacy · The Social Network
Stevie Wonder
TONTO · Innervisions · Songs in the Key of Life
The Solution

You speak.
The synth responds.

Sentient Agent™ 2026 is a voice-controlled AI layer for the Arturia V Collection. The musician speaks naturally — a name, a reference, an era, a feeling — and the correct sound loads instantly. No screens. No menus. No interruption to creative flow.

It runs inside REAPER, Logic, Ableton, Cubase and Studio One, with Pro Tools coming soon. Once it hears you, the knobs move in milliseconds.

Beyond patch recall, the agent supports live natural language preset editing. A musician can say "brighten the attack," "add more warmth to the low end," or "take the reverb down" — and the synth responds instantly. Pure voice-to-synthesis or Sentient Synthitis™.

The Roadmap

Three levels.
Each one deeper.

01
Named Patch Recall
Speak a name, a reference, an artist, an era. The agent finds the closest match across the V Collection and it loads in under a second. Works across all 45 instruments simultaneously.
Live & Running
02
Reference Blend
No preset loads. The agent constructs a sound built entirely from the musician's own creative vocabulary — a sound that has never existed as a preset.
Live & Running
03
Personal Vocabulary
The system learns how you hear. Every session, the agent builds a deeper understanding of the musician's personal references, descriptions, and creative language. Over time, "give me something warm" means something specific to you — and only you.
The more it's used, the more musically sentient it becomes.
Sentient Synthitis™
Level 2 — The Paradigm Shift

Sounds that don't exist
in any library.

The musician plays, saves sounds they like, and describes them by voice into the system using their phone — "warm, fat, Parliament-Funkadelic, Bernie Worrell" or "dark cinematic, Hans Zimmer, Dune" or "TONTO, Stevie Wonder, Innervisions era." The system remembers. The musician never leaves the instrument.

When they later say "give me something like a Chick Corea Return to Forever sound" or "a Joe Zawinul Weather Report pad" or "that Daft Punk Tron Legacy tone," the agent does not search a preset library. It constructs a new sound from the musician's own creative vocabulary. No preset. Pure construction.

Every session makes the system more musically sentient. The personal library grows. The vocabulary deepens. After six months of use, a musician has a pantry that reflects their entire creative language — and that is not something they walk away from.

The Analog Lab Vision

A new category
of sound.

Analog Lab patches layer two V Collection instruments simultaneously. When a sentient sound draws from multiple patches — potentially referencing four different synths — it no longer belongs to any single instrument. It is something entirely new.

This requires a new visual language. When a preset loads, the UI shows the real instrument graphics. When a sound is constructed from a sentient process, the UI shows two generic synthesizer images — no specific branding, no preset name. The musician sees immediately: this is a constructed sound. It is theirs.

This is not a plugin feature. It is a new creative mode — Sentient Mode —

Generic synthesizer — Sentient Mode
Sentient Mode Visual
When a sound is constructed from a sentient process, the UI shows a generic synthesizer — no specific branding, no preset name. The musician sees immediately: this sound is theirs. It was built from their personal library. It has never existed before.
Preset Loaded
Real instrument graphics. Mini V4 + Juno-106 V. Musician knows exactly which synths are active. Standard Analog Lab UI. Clear origin, clear identity.
Sentient Mode — New
Two generic synthesizer images. No specific branding. The sound is constructed from the musician's mind. It is them. A new visual state that defines a new creative reality.
The Team

Built by Bobby Brooks and his exclusive secret agent team of world class musicians.

Bobby Brooks
Bobby Brooks
Concept & Architecture
Recording engineer, producer, and music educator with over 45 years of professional experience. Former staff engineer at Motown's Hitsville Studios, the legendary Universal Recording Corporation in Chicago, and Wonderland Studios. Bobby's artist credits include Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Whitney Houston, Quincy Jones, Bruce Swedien, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Rick James, Teena Marie, Eddie Murphy, Andre Cymone, Jody Watley, Ice-T & Body Count, Black Sabbath, P.O.D., Def Leppard, Motörhead, Sepultura, DeBarge, The Notorious B.I.G., The Fugees, Lazy & Crazy Bone, 2Pac, Maurice White, Mariah Carey, Stanley Clarke, Brandy, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Patrice Rushen, The Temptations, Third World, The Dazz Band, George Duke, Billy Preston, Chaka Khan, MC Hammer, Gerardo, Diana Ross, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie, Ray Parker Jr., Tina Turner, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Common, Baby, Dionne Warwick, Aaliyah, The Jacksons, Ray Charles, and many more. His credits include two Super Bowl halftime shows — Super Bowl XXVII with Michael Jackson (1993) and Super Bowl XXX with Diana Ross (1996) — and game audio on Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
45 Yrs Experience Motown / Universal 2× Super Bowl

The musician speaks.
The V Collection listens.

For the first time, a synthesizer library responds to how musicians actually think — in references, in feelings, in sound. This is not a feature. It is a new relationship between musician and instrument. And it is ready today.

Bobby Brooks  ·  Sentient Agent™ 2026