Arturia announces the MicroBrute

Announced at a price of 299€, the MicroBrute is, just like the MiniBrute, an analog monophonic synth but it is more compact that the Mini version with a 2-octave mini-keyboard. It also retains from the older brother the famous Brute Factor, Metalizer and Ultrasaw, as well as the Steiner-Parker multimode filter.

But the MicroBrute is now just a Micro-copy of the MiniBrute, Arturia replaced the arpeggiator with a step sequencer and the modulation matrix now features a physical 8-connector patch section on the front panel.

Main features:

• Monophonic analog synthesizer
• 25 mini-keys
• Octave Up and Down transposition button
• LFO with three waves: saw, triangle and square
• New Overtone oscillator that generates additional harmonic content (from one octave down to fifth above the base oscillator pitch)
• Ability to mix the four waveforms (square, saw, triangle and Overtone)
• Ultrasaw, Pulse and Metalizer waveshapers
• Steiner Parker multimode filters with low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, bipolar envelope amount control and keyboard tracking
• Brute Factor
• ADSR Envelope
• VCA with Gate and Envelope modes
• Pitch bender
• Modulation wheel to control the filter cutoff or the LFO amount
• Modulation matrix (1V/Octave) with 8 mini-jacks: Envelope and LFO outputs ; Ultrasaw, Pulse width modulation, Metalizer, Overtone/Sub, Cutoff and Pitch inputs
• Step sequencer with Play and Record modes, external MIDI clock sync and ability to store up to 8 sequences
• CV/Gate interface with Gate input and output and Pitch output
• External audio input with dedicated level control
• 1/8" headphone output
• 1/4" audio output
• MIDI input
• USB/MIDI interface on USB 2.0 type B port
• Dimensions: 325 × 221 × 60mm
• Weight: 1750g

The MicroBrute will be available on November 1st. Our worldwide famous Synthwalker had the very exclusive opportunity to try the MicroBrute before its official introduction, with a well-deserved Quality/Price Award. Click here to read his review!