Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 1 USER’S MANUAL
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 10 NOTICE • Use only the provided AC adapter, as specified by ARTURIA. • Read and underst
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 11 Register your Instrument Registering your instrument establishes your legal owner
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 12 Here is an overview of the MicroBrute synthesizer’s connectors: • Audio Input & Out
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 13 Warm-Up and General Tuning As with all true analog synthesizers, after being powered-on t
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 14 3 Quickstart This chapter provides the basic instruction that you will need to create you
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 15 Introducing The Oscillator The oscillator is the tone-generating center of the MicroBrute.
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 16 Introducing The Filter Now that you have been playing with the OSCILLATOR and are familiar
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 17 Now press a key and try turning the knob clockwise and listen to the result. You will hear
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 18 Figure 7 FILTER as an OSCILLATOR? As you may have found out in the last section, turning
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 19 Introducing The Envelope The ENVELOPE will allow you to shape the FILTER CUTOFF, the VCA(o
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 2 PRODUCT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT Glen T. DARCEY Bruno PILLET ELECTRONICS Yves USSON Bruno
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 20 ENVELOPE TO VCA The BASIC PATCH has the VCA (Voltage Control Amplifier) set to
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 21 Introducing The LFO Now let’s add some movement to the sound. LFO is short for Low Frequen
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 22 Introducing the Mod Matrix The MOD MATRIX allows you to route the modulation sources (ENVE
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 23 Introducing The Sequencer The SEQUENCER is a fun and musical addition to the MicroBrute. I
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 24 To create a pattern that has rests in it, simply press the TAP/REST button each time you w
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 25 4 Synthesis Basics Your MicroBrute is a true analog synthesizer, this means that all sound
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 26 Figure 19 The rate at which the oscillator oscillates creates the pitch. The o
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 27 The Pulse Width Modulator (or PWM) takes the square wave and changes the ratio between t
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 28 Filter What is a filter? In general, a filter follows the oscillator and signal modifier
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 29 In high-pass mode, partials above the cutoff frequency remain unchanged, while the par
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction ...
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 30 Voltage Controller Amplifier The VCA or voltage controlled amplifier generally follows t
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 31 Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO) An LFO is very much like a regular oscillator except that
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 32 Finally, the release stage starts upon releasing the key, and sets the amoun
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 33 5 Front Panel Features OSCILLATOR The oscillator and its signal mixer The oscillator
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 34 Triangle and Metalizer The level of the Triangle wave is controlled by the knob labeled
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 35 The Filter Filter Modes This selects among the three filter modes: LP (low-pass), BP
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 36 Brute Factor The Brute Factor feature drastically alters the filter characteristics so
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 37 KBD Tracking The filter cutoff frequency can also be keyboard-controlled. The KBD Tracki
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 38 sound. With the switch set to Env, you will then be able to control the level using the co
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 39 Wave Select The LFO offers several modulation waveforms that can be selected
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 4 The Filter...
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 40 Mod Wheel The Mod Wheel can be assigned to two different functions. The Mod Wheel swit
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 41 Mod Matrix The Mod Matrix allows for patching modulation sources to modulation destina
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 42 • Pitch – this controls the Pitch of the oscillator. By default, the LFO Output is patche
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 43 The Octave section transposes the MicroBrute keyboard over a wide pitch range. One LED am
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 44 Pattern This knob selects between the 8 patterns. Play Mode This selects between PLAY,
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 45 Tap / Rest The Tap /Rest button has two functions: 1. Tap Tempo 2. Inputting Rests when
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 46 6 Rear panel Power supply The Power button turns the power on/off. The DC connector
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 47 Audio In The Input Level potentiometer adjusts the amount of an external audio
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 48 The MicroBrute can also control other analog devices. The Pitch Out 1/8” jack provides th
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 49 7 Legal Notes No liability for consequential damages Neither ARTURIA nor anyone else i
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 5 1 Introduction Congratulations, and thank you for your purchase of the ARTURIA Mi
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 50 • If these corrective measures do not bring any satisfied results, please contact the loca
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 6 Overview of some of ARTURIA’s software, hardware and hybrid instruments After recreatin
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 7 2 http://yusynth.net Yves USSON and a couple of wired friends Combining ARTURIA’s acclai
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 8 We built the MicroBrute with the idea that many people need an easy to use synth for live a
Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 9 2 Installation Usage Precautions The MicroBrute uses an external power a
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