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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