Arturia MATRIXBRUTE

[AnX]

0/10v

http://forum.moogmusic.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16200

[SJ_Digriz]

hmmm, thanks for those links. I have no idea why I thought the minibrute was 0/5v and was having issues working with MU 0/10v or -5/+5v. I was sure there was a Muffwigglers thread about it, but can't find it now.

[Frantz]

Transcript from the Arturia Meeting

Employee 1: "What are we going to do with all these buttons that we decided not to use on the sequencers? We should do something with them."

Employee 2: "Let's build a synth! We could have one button per preset!"

Employee 1: "Nah. That's stupid."

Employee 2: "They could be multi-purpose, not just for presets. They could control a sequencer or maybe even a mod-matrix!"

Employee 1: "Hmmm... That's interesting."

[VariKusBrainZ]

http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and ... sizer/1GH1

£1,539.00 seems a decent price

[aMUSEd]

Amazing price

[ghettosynth]

This video is just hideous xD Who do they think will buy this synth.. Kids? Not for a serious synth user obviously *roflmao*

I'd buy that synth... it's maybe the most compelling offering of the entire NAMM show

I would too, if I was in a place where I felt that buying new synths made sense. I think that the use of the grid of buttons as both routing and a sequencer is really quite innovative.

[zerocrossing]

Those bemoaning lack of polyphony know nothing about modulars Im guessing

Tell that to Korg

They have a polyphonic analog modular?

System 1m... Well it pretends to be analog.

[DJ Warmonger]

Those bemoaning lack of polyphony know nothing about modulars Im guessing

Tell that to Korg

They have a polyphonic analog modular?

System 1m... Well it pretends to be analog.

System 1-M is Rolands and plays polyphonic only if modular I/O is disabled

[AnX]

http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and ... sizer/1GH1

£1,539.00 seems a decent price

Thats affordable in a shorter time than i had anticipated...

[werp]

still waiting for an Aussie to start advertising it. It's all TBA here

[Daags]

Blessed are the early-adopters, for theirs is the kingdom of bugs & fixes.

[ghettosynth]

Those bemoaning lack of polyphony know nothing about modulars Im guessing

Tell that to Korg

They have a polyphonic analog modular?

System 1m... Well it pretends to be analog.

Indeed, but coincidentally, and potentially ironically, Korg does (did) have a polyphonic modular, a whole line of them, in fact.



http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/ps3300.php

[JCJR]

Indeed, but coincidentally, and potentially ironically, Korg does (did) have a polyphonic modular, a whole line of them, in fact.
http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/ps3300.php

Wow, thanks ghettosynth.

I don't recall ever seeing one of those. 48 oscillators! Googling youtube demos, maybe it can make fat sounds, though the demos I saw were thin weedy sounds like you might want to use in old Godzilla movies.

Some of the demos show it playing polyphonically with each note APPEARING to have its own independent filter envelope triggering.

So, if you know, what the heck did those patch points do? The patch points would make sense with monophonic or paraphonic, but what could simple hardware patch points do on a true-poly synth? Many interesting patches would need a different patch cable for every voice? Or big fat polyphonic patch cables with multi-pin connectors on each patch point?

[zerocrossing]

Those bemoaning lack of polyphony know nothing about modulars Im guessing

Tell that to Korg

They have a polyphonic analog modular?

System 1m... Well it pretends to be analog.

System 1-M is Rolands and plays polyphonic only if modular I/O is disabled

Oh, really? I did not know that. I was thinking about picking one up because I thought it might be a cool way to get my feet a bit wet in the world of modulars and be able to so some polyphonic stuff as well. I'm not sure that totally changes my mind, but if you can't even do something like use an oscillator to modulate filter cutoff in poly mode, I'll just go back to my software modulars for such things.

Anyway, the Matrixbrute does look beautiful and the price sure seems right. I can't see myself affording one any time soon but it is interesting.

[ghettosynth]

Indeed, but coincidentally, and potentially ironically, Korg does (did) have a polyphonic modular, a whole line of them, in fact.
http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/ps3300.php

Wow, thanks ghettosynth.

I don't recall ever seeing one of those. 48 oscillators! Googling youtube demos, maybe it can make fat sounds, though the demos I saw were thin weedy sounds like you might want to use in old Godzilla movies.

Some of the demos show it playing polyphonically with each note APPEARING to have its own independent filter envelope triggering.

So, if you know, what the heck did those patch points do? The patch points would make sense with monophonic or paraphonic, but what could simple hardware patch points do on a true-poly synth? Many interesting patches would need a different patch cable for every voice? Or big fat polyphonic patch cables with multi-pin connectors on each patch point?

Yes, because of the design, a lot of compromises were made in the individual circuits to keep the cost under control. It's basically 48 simple monosynths and it's really more of a semi-modular with some modular aspects to modulation. There's some discussion of the circuit limitations on the late Jurgen Haible's PS series clone site.

http://www.oldcrows.net/~jhaible/polyko ... clone.html


Someone, and I don't remember who, I thought JH, but I can't find the reference, had another fully modular DIY poly that used five pin DIN cables for patches. This allowed five voices and pretty much a standard modular style workflow.