It has a rate range of and can be locked to the Arpeggiator, which in turn can be locked to external MIDI clock. Six waveforms - sine, tri, saw up, Square, random step, random smooth.
In addition, we have the Brute Factor - a knob which controls the amount of feedback drive - think Minimoog headphone out back in to the external input, from subtle to extreme clipping drive, it adds another extra dimension to the sound. It is possible to ‘play’ the filter at full resonance, though the keyboard tracking was a bit tricky to setup for meaningful octave spreads. Triangle has Metalizer - which warps the plain Tri wave into a metalic sounding wave - this too can be modulated via LFO or envelope.Īnother aspect which makes the Minibrute that bit different is the filter - a multi-mode Steiner-Parker filter (Low Pass, Hi Pass, Notch and Band Reject) with full resonance it's got a really driven, almost unstable quality to it - I must say I do like, although it would perhaps have been nice to be able to back off the drive a bit more. But there’s more to it than that - each wave has a little twist to it which gives you more to play with, in the case of the Square, it's just the pulse-width - but as well as the LFO mod you can use the envelope, the Saw has Ultrasaw - a wave clone and modulation unction - think mini hypersaw with it's own separate rate control.
These waves sound fine - and give plenty of weight or fizz. There’s a dedicated VCA envelope (ADSR type) plus a modulation envelope for the filter and a few other destinations. We also have a Sub Oscillator at -1 or -2 octaves switchable between Sine and Square waves for extra beef. Yves has has had a lot of input into the design of this synthesizer's actual electronics, with the fabrication experts translating his design into something that can be economically mass-produced.įirst up - the Minibrute is a monophonic analog subtractive synth, it's architecture will be familiar to users of the Roland SH-101, a single VCO with Saw, Square, Triangle and Noise sources, blendable via dedicated faders. The Minibrute is a monophonic synth with pure analog at it's heart, with a lot of input from French synth DIYer Yves Usson who has a passion for modular synthesizers and the in particular it seems the Steiner-Parker filter - an alternative to the usual Ladder filter types. There’s been a wave of anticipation behind the release of Arturia’s first analog synthesizer - for a company built on it’s software emulation prowess, it's something of a major change of order.
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