Have you considered just getting Vital for free or $25 and then getting some effects on sale to make it more lofi? For example, Decimort2 bitcrusher ($33 on sale), Fuse Audio Virtual Pedal Board ($10 right now), a bunch of free effects right now with the $20 off coupon from Plugin Alliance today (they have a lot for $20 and less and you can use the coupon over and over - at least I was able to earlier). But much of what it contains certainly isn't considered to be the best on the market (for example, their Prophet emulation is poor compared to U-He Repro). V Collection is hard to beat for the money, which means it has a lot going for it on that front.

But you should demo a lot of the things in it to be sure. Normally, I'd say 'no' to this question, but, given that you're just looking for a lot of presets, it might be worthwhile. With these informations, what do you think? Is it worth it to buy now the v collection? I'm not a sound design guy, I mainly work from presets, altough I usually tweak the parameters, but I don't make presets from scratch. I also own an arturia minilab mk2, so the midi control integrity would be perfect. For this vintage lofi sound, I think this collection would be very suitable. I know, that there is omnisphere and keyscape, which are perfect for hiphop, but idk, somehow for me the v collection seems to be more unique, maybe it's just the marketing. I mainly do lofi hiphop, chill ambient music, sometimes, hiphop. This would be my first purchase for a VST Plugin, maybe that's why I'm overcomplicating this.

(I know that there is the splice rent-to own deal, with less monthly sum but that's 600 dollars) The price is a bit too much for me, but on the other hand it's 27 vintage keyboards/synths, so the average price is 14 dollars, which is insane.

I'm considering to buy the Arturia V Collection 8, which is on sale for 400 dollars, for arturia users.

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