User Manual

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