With a simple press on the grid you can create all sorts of sonic routings you’d need oodles of patch cables to do before. The heart of this beast is the stunning 16×16 touchpad matrix grid. That’s the workflow that Arturia managed to bring into the modern synth world.

Remember the EMS Synthi? Some tend to forget it, but it introduced an inspiring sonic workflow that would be nice to see other companies explore. The MatrixBrute seems to be taking cues from the less heralded, but much more intuitive, matrix synthesizers of their day. When the quest for the sound of classic analog synthesizers seems to inundate you with heady nostalgia for days of patchbays, it’s good to see other companies try a different approach. The Arturia MatrixBrute truly is its own new thing. When their BeatStep Pro continued this push to step away from the computer to create melodies and sequences on the spot, that’s when many began to realize Arturia was in fact serious about this market. The MicroBrute’s compact footprint housed brilliant little things like a patch matrix, CV/gate connections, and a step sequencer, added great streams of expression that allowed its base - a Steiner-Parker filter and its powerful-sounding single oscillator - to do things that should be unheard of for people just getting their feet wet in the synth world. With the lessons they’d learned creating inspired virtual-software recreations of past-time synthesizers like the Minimoog and Oberheim SEM, Arturia dreamed up and then brought to life what many had trouble building: a genuinely rich-sounding, affordable, analog synthesizer. ARTURIA INTRODUCES THE MATRIXBRUTE:įrench-based Arturia recently made waves in the analog synthesizer world with two key products: the MicroBrute and the BeatStep Pro.

How did Arturia come out of nowhere with something truly unexpected? NAMM jaws were dropped this week with the introduction of Arturia’s first full-fledged matrix-style synthesizer: the MatrixBrute. The MatrixBrute’s product description opens up with plenty of questions: When was the last time you felt your heart beating faster? When was the last time you heard sounds you had never heard before? When was the last time you met an instrument that truly inspired pleasure and creativity? The only question I have is how.

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