brute
Raw analog synthesizers
Raw, powerful, organic. No matter how we call it, No matter how we define it. You just have to feel it. Exploring the machine, searching for the tactile, electric and vital sound of real analog synthesis. This rare moment, of pure creation just at your fingertips... Welcome to the world of Brute.
Powerful analog
synthesizers & drum machines
The Brute range encompasses analog synthesizers and machines designed to forge rhythm, melody, and texture out of pure electrical voltage. Explore coveted analog sound with cutting-edge and experimental functions for wild and inspiring sonic results.
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100% Analog power
These instruments create sound by controlling and manipulating electricity. The Brute range lets you shape electricity into audio signals, with every component adding its own flavor to the tone.
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Brute factors
Every one of these synthesizers has unique features that make them truly irreplaceable: Steiner-Parker filters, master bus distortion, Brute Factor feedback, and rewirable architecture.
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Hands-on workflow
No drop-down menus, no hidden options, these instruments are all about the tactile, instinctive experience of playing; letting the signal go straight from your brain to the speaker.
The exploration of sound matter
Harnessing the raw, powerful, organic nature of analog synthesis, the Brute range is the sound of voltage unleashed. From semi-modular keyboards, to Eurorack cases, to pumping analog drum machines, this is the exploration of sonic matter itself. Seismic bass, airy leads, and chewy sawtooth pads galvanized with heaps of electrifying character.
Choose
your Brute
From monophonic sinewave purity to wildly expressive multidimensional polyphony, find any flavor of analog with the Brutes.
Jake Miller
Drumbrute: an experience in itself
Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Jake Miller has spent the last few years based in London, UK, acting as an engineer and producer for some of the world’s top pop, rock, and electronic artists.
Lire le récitWhere the
story starts
Fast forward to 2011, and digital was dominating. Software instruments were all the rage, and every popular hardware synth was digital in nature.
[...] when, at NAMM 2012, Arturia announced their first analog keyboard, the MiniBrute, armed with great sound and a price less than half that of its competition. Arturia had the foresight to recognize and inspire a coming trend: the re-emergence and eventual dominance of analog synthesis. Their timing couldn’t have been better.
Geary Yelton, Founding Editor at Synth and Software
PressClippings
MusicTech
On Origin Desktop
“It may have been a long time coming, but Origin is a bold first step into hardware for Arturia. Huge-sounding and accessible but with great depth, this is a tremendous synth. -MusicTech Choice Award-”
Future Music
On Origin Desktop
“It sounds fantastic and sets a new high in contemporary synth design. Put it on your shopping list.”
Music Radar
On Origin Desktop
“It's with great pleasure that I can tell you that the Origin sounds amazing and well worth the effort that Arturia has put into programming it. It's everything you would expect and more and should keep you occupied for many years.”
Audio Technology
On Origin Desktop
“The Origin has an unashamedly large, lush sound and quite unlike what you'd expect from software synths - and rightly so as this isn't a software synth. This is dedicated DSP, designed strictly for the creation of huge analogue-sounding synth patches. All the usual adjectives spring to mind: syrupy, smooth, fat, etc. In short, it sounds quite amazing, with a lot fo the "hybrid" patches screaming "Oberheim®" to me. Plus, it really has a very hands-on synthesis engine thrown into the bargain- easy to program and edit, and lots of fun to use.”
Sound On Sound
On Origin Desktop
“The Origin is a unique instrument, combining modular virtual analogue synthesis derived from imitative soft synths with modern features such as splits, layers and truly multitimbral effects. It sounds excellent and, if you can afford it, you should take a close look, because there's nothing else that does quite the same thing.”
Keyboard Magazine
On Origin Desktop
“The Synth Freak's Dream Realizer. Monstrously huge sound. Lots of knobs. Interactive step sequencer. Highly patchable, quite like a modular synth. Four-part multitimbral with aux outs. Numerous modules emulate vintage synth components.”
Electronic Musician
On Origin Desktop
“Terrific, animated sounds. Generous supply of modules. Powerful modulation capabilities with flexible routing. Brilliant user interface with intuitive controls, navigation, and display. Versatile mixer options. Writing for EM, I've witnessed many evaluations of products based on whether they are evolutionary or revolutionary. With its innovative coupling of classic synthesis and contemporary musical-instrument technology and design, the Origin manages to satisfy both criteria easily. This is the first hardware synth I've wanted to buy in nearly a decade; need I say more?”
Electronic Musician
On Origin Desktop
“I highly recommend the Origin Keyboard. It's an inspiring piece of well-designed gear at a fair price. It isn't cheap, but you get a tremendous amount of sound engine for your money. Although the Origin has lots of useful and interesting factory programs, it's one of those synthesizers obviously designed with programmers in mind. If you like to build sounds from scratch, you could spend many happy hours and years exploring and programming the Origin Keyboard. If live performance is your gig, it could very effectively take the place of half a dozen vintage keyboards onstage. I was especially impressed by the well-thought-out versatility of the ribbon controller, which may be reason enough to prefer the keyboard model over the module.”
Future Music
On Origin Desktop
“This is a fantastic and rewarding instrument with a sound that is unrivalled in the emulation stakes.”
Music Radar
On Origin Desktop
“Superb analogue synth emulation. Large ribbon controller. Seemingly limitless modular combinations.”
Ask Audio
On MicroBrute
“Getting creative with the routing is what makes the Microbrute so much fun—and ensures its usefulness in the studio for years to come. The MicroBrute is an amazing deal that meets all needs with savage style.”
Future Music
On MiniBrute
“MiniBrute offers you a good value quality - price on its options”
Future Music
On MiniBrute
“A great little synth, which manages to pack a lot of punch into its modest frame. The final word on MiniBrute is that we're seriously considering buying one - though we might have to wait for the 'PolyBrute' should Arturia decide to make one!”
Meet Music Magazine
On MicroBrute
“This synthesizer has a whole bunch of new characteristics as interesting as unique”
Beatport
On MiniBrute
“The MiniBrute combines 21st-century amenities like USB MIDI and the festival-friendly Ultrasaw waveform with vintage tools like the Steiner-Parker multimode filter, arpeggiator, and a thoroughly nasty feedback circuit in its signal path”
Electronic Musician
On MiniBrute
“Are we crazy for giving a monosynth an Editors’ Choice Award in the 21st century? We’d be crazy not to, because the MiniBrute is packed with features, built like a tank and, most importantly, sounds fantastic.”
Electronic Musician
On MicroBrute
“An inexpensive monophonic instrument with flexible modulation routing and a Steiner-Parker multimode filter that provides vintages tones without sounding like an ARP, Mg or Oberheim®”
Estrada Studio
On MicroBrute
“The MicroBrute - with its own characteristic sound - is one of our favorites.”
Keyboard US
On MiniBrute
“This real analog monosynth looks and plays like the love child of an ARP Axxe and an Octave Cat. The filter from the rare Steiner-Parker Synthacon has an aggressive sound you won't find elsewhere and the arpeggiator is wicked decent. Be warned: if you use the MiniBrute just for Dubstep, we will find you.”
Keyboard Magazine
On MicroBrute
“If you’re an analog head, the Arturia MicroBrute is definitely the way to go.”
Keyboard Magazine
On MicroBrute
“The sound is anything but “pretty” compared to other contemporary analog synths, but that aggressive character is what makes it essential to my sounds. This synth is meaty and macho like nothing else. If you don’t already own a ’Brute, it’s clear that you will. At this price, practically everyone will.”
KRHome Studio
On MiniBrute
“More fun that a SH-101, equipped with a filter that surpasses more expensive vintage models, available at a very reasonable price, the MiniBrute should meet with success that will be very well deserved.”
Music & Musicians
On MiniBrute
“Between its brilliant simplicity and modest price tag, the Arturia MiniBrute is one of the most accessible pure analog synthesizers available”
Music Radar
On MicroBrute
“you get plenty of synth for not a great deal of money”
MusicTech
On MicroBrute
“MicroBrute should be the first synth students use to learn the basics of analogue synthesis. Thi synth can probably go to more places than any other single-oscillator machine out there”
Brute
the artists' perspective
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Technology
Anatomy of the Brute
The technology that sets the Brute range apart, setting the standard for analog music making.
Brute oscillator : An original analog oscillator that combines multiple waveforms, complex wavefolding, and built-in Brute Factor feedback for intense feedback.
Steiner-parker filter : A legendary multimode filter introduced in the \'70s, remade and enhanced, and approved by Nyle Steiner himself. Crunchy, biting, velvety smooth, and everything in between.
Patching : The Brutes possess the ability to rewire and reroute your audio signal and voltages, from semi-modular CV connectivity to the intricate Modulation Matrix.
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