The new MicroBrute – little brother of the successful MiniBrute and shown for the first time at the Frankfurt Musikmesse (backstage!) – finally arrived. It costs a mere 299 Euros. A bargain considering what you get: a massive analog sound machine (with Steiner-Parker filter), a small (but useful!) CV-panel, a sequencer (!) plus MIDI and USB.
The features:
- Monophonic synthesizer
- 100% analog audio signal path
- Steiner-Parker multimode filter (LP, BP, HP)
- Voltage Controlled Oscillator with new overtone sub-osc
- Oscillator mixer (sub, sawtooth, square, triangle)
- LFO with 3 waveforms and destination attenuator
- Brute Factor™ delivering saturation and rich harmonics
- Ultrasaw generating shimmering sawtooth waveforms
- Metalizer bringing extreme triangle harmonics
- Fast envelope generator
- 25 note mini keyboard
- External analog audio input (level pot on rear)
- CV Inputs: pitch, filter, sub-mod, pulse, saw animator, metalizer, gate in.
- CV outputs: pitch, gate, env, LFO
- MIDI Inwith 5-Pin DIN connector
- USB MIDI In/Out
- 1/4” audio output and 1/8” headphone output
- Free editor software
- Step sequencer :
- 8 sequences stored on power down
- Rate control
- Sync to MIDI clock
- Multiple modes (via software editor)
- Tap tempo/rest insert
Further information see:
www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/microbrute/details.html