Arturia Microbrute User’s Manual 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 5
2 Installation.......................................................................................................................... 9
Usage Precautions..........................................................................................................................9
Register your Instrument ..............................................................................................................11
Connecting the MicroBrute to the World ...................................................................................11
Warm-Up and General Tuning ....................................................................................................13
3 Quickstart......................................................................................................................... 14
Create your first sound: the “basic patch” ................................................................................14
Introducing The Oscillator ...........................................................................................................15
More Oscillator options ................................................................................................................15
Combine sounds ...........................................................................................................................15
Introducing The Filter ....................................................................................................................16
Low Pass Filtering ...........................................................................................................................16
High Pass Filtering ..........................................................................................................................16
Band Pass Filtering.........................................................................................................................17
Filter Resonance ............................................................................................................................17
FILTER as an OSCILLATOR? ...........................................................................................................18
Brute Factor....................................................................................................................................18
Introducing The Envelope............................................................................................................19
ENVELOPE TO VCA........................................................................................................................20
Introducing The LFO......................................................................................................................21
Introducing the Mod Matrix.........................................................................................................22
Introducing The Sequencer .........................................................................................................23
Recording A Basic Pattern...........................................................................................................23
Inserting Rests .................................................................................................................................23
Moving On.....................................................................................................................................24
4 Synthesis Basics ...............................................................................................................25
Analog synthesizer architecture .................................................................................................25
Oscillators......................................................................................................................................25
Signal Modifiers.............................................................................................................................26
The Ultrasaw ...................................................................................................................................26
The Pulse Width Modulator..........................................................................................................27
The Metalizer ..................................................................................................................................27
Filter................................................................................................................................................28
What is a filter?...............................................................................................................................28
Filter types on MicroBrute: Low-pass, Band-pass, and High-pass .........................................28
Resonance or emphasis...............................................................................................................29
Voltage Controller Amplifier........................................................................................................30
Modulators ....................................................................................................................................30
Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO)..................................................................................................31
Envelope Generator.....................................................................................................................31
Human Interface ...........................................................................................................................32
5 Front Panel Features........................................................................................................ 33
OSCILLATOR...................................................................................................................................33
The oscillator and its signal mixer................................................................................................33
Saw and Ultrasaw..........................................................................................................................33
Square and Pulse Width...............................................................................................................33
Triangle and Metalizer ..................................................................................................................34
The Overtone oscillator ................................................................................................................34
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