Table Of Contents - Arturia Microbrute User Manual

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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