Arturia PolyBrute Analog Morphing Matrix Synthesizer

Arturia PolyBrute Overview

Musician’s, producers, and sound designers looking for a polyphonic synthesizer with advanced controls should look no further than the gray-blue Arturia PolyBrute , a powerful 6-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer with powerful morphing capabilities and multi-axis performance controls for next-generation musical expression. Highlights include the morph function, which allows a sound to exist in two states (A and B) within a single preset, with seamless morphing between them. Coupled with the Morphee three-dimensional performance touchpad, and you’ve got intricate morphing expression right at your fingertips. Manipulate any facet of PolyBrute’s sound, from delicate morphing to extreme dynamic shifts, across the X, Y, and Z axis in an instant.

Arturia PolyBrute Main Features

• Analog Morphing Synthesizer
  • 6 voices of Polyphony
  • Mono, Unison, Poly voicing
  • Single, Split, Layer modes
• 61-keys with Velocity and Aftertouch
• Pitch Bend, Mod Wheel, Ribbon controllers
• Morphée touch and pressure sensitive 3D controller
• Sound Morphing capability, part A and B for each preset
• Two Analog VCO’s
  • Saw
  • Triangle + Metalizer
  • Square + Pulse Width
  • Sub
  • Linear FM
  • Hard Sync
• Noise Generator
• Continuous tone from rumble noise to white noise—Osc and Noise Mixer with Filter routing
• 12 dB/Oct Steiner Parker Filter
  • Continuous LP>Notch>HP>BP morphing
  • Cutoff, Resonance, Brute Factor
• 24 dB/Oct Ladder Filter with Distortion
• Three Envelopes—Looping capability
• Three LFOs
  • LFO1 and LFO2 with waveform selection
  • LFO3 with waveform shaping using Shape and Symmetry
  • Rate control and Tempo Sync
  • Various retrig options
• Three stereo digital effects
  • Modulation FX: Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Ring Modulation
  • Delay: 9 algorithms including BBD, Digital Delay
  • Reverb: 9 algorithms including Hall, Plate, Spring, Shimmer
• 768 preset slots
• 12×32 Modulation Matrix
• 64 step polyphonic sequencer
  • Notes, Accent, Slide per step
  • 3 tracks of automation
• Arpeggiator and Matrix Arpeggiator
• Stereo audio output
• MIDI and USB I/O + analog clock I/O
• 2 expression and 1 sustain pedal inputs

The Arturia PolyBrute rear panel offers stereo 1/4″ outputs, two TRS 1/4″ expression pedal inputs, a sustain pedal with a polarity switch, and 3.5mm sync in and sync out for connecting to analog drum machines and sequencers. Dedicated MIDI In, Out, and Thru are available via 5-pin DIN connectors, while the USB-B port connects to your computer and offers MIDI I/O as well as a connection to the PolyBrute Editor software, which provides bidirectional control over the entire synth engine. It even doubles as a VST instrument, allowing you to easily integrate the Arturia PolyBrute into your favorite DAW setup with automated control over all parameters. The PolyBrute ships with a power cord.

Like No Other Synth

• Arturia PolyBrute goes against the grain to provide something entirely new—and not just a new sound—a new feel and a new design.
• The raw energy of Brute oscillators stacked six-voices high, shaped by the versatility of dual enhanced classic filters. But with Arturia PolyBrute, a patch isn’t just a single sound, it’s an entire spectrum of sonic color that can be traversed at the touch of a single control. Attain the unattainable.
• With such sonic depth comes the need for tactility. Playing Arturia PolyBrute is like suddenly being able to play several instruments at once; a multifaceted tool for musical expression. From the classic ribbon strip to the state-of-the-art Morphée controller, each component is designed to respond to your every musical nuance.
• Sound complicated? Not a chance. PolyBrute’s intuitive function-per-knob interface and the tactile elegance of the Matrix puts next-generation sound comfortably within reach.

Morphing Technology

Seamless transitioning of multiple parameters from one state to another, and everything in between. Morphing combined with the Morphée and PolyBrute’s uniquely eloquent inventory, pave the way for endless patch evolution and expressivity.

Advanced Sound Shaping Capabilities

• PolyBrute’s seismic sound begins with two analog VCOs sharing much of the same sonic architecture that has made MatrixBrute and the rest of the Brute family famous.
• Each oscillator generates sawtooth, triangle, and square waves simultaneously, and you can mix between them to waveshape just the right initial timbre.
• Dial in VCO 1’s Metalizer wavefolding to escalate from pure to rude. Bring in VCO 2’s sub-oscillator to add an extra lower octave to really rattle some teeth.
• Dial in edgy FM effects by modulating VCO 1’s frequency with VCO 2, or subtly alter a continuous range of harmonics with soft or hard sync.

Two Filters Are Better Than One

Tame the rawness of the Arturia PolyBrute oscillators with not one, but two filters at your disposal—time-tested classics fused with thrilling enhancements.

VCF 1 Steiner

• A 2-pole 12 dB/octave Steiner filter design with continuous sweepable slope types, as seen across the Brute range. The addition of the proprietary Brute Factor feedback control lets you add anything from subtle warmth to a raunchy growl.

VCF 2 Ladder

• Inspired by Dr. Bob Moog’s legendary 4-pole 24 dB/octave ladder design. A low-pass classic, with added gain compensation and asymmetrical distortion to add upfront grit to your polyphonic patches.

Filter Modes

• Series: Combine the strengths of both designs forming a single unique filter exhibiting two different slopes.
• Continuous: In addition to assigning each sound source discretely to the filter of your choice, you can also determine whether the filters run in series, parallel, or a delicious mix of both.
• Parallel: Route the two different filters separately for discrete stereo synthesis, where the left and right channels can have different evolving sounds.

Modern Modulation Sources

Arturia PolyBrute weaves a web of envelopes and LFOs that’s intricate and unpredictable in equal measure—the sound of motion itself.

Three Envelope Generators

• Arturia PolyBrute VCF and VCA have velocity-sensitive ADSR envelopes hardwired outside the Matrix for instant gratification. The third Envelope Generator features a delay stage (DADSR) and can be assigned to sculpt any Matrix modulation targets. Use the various repeat and loop modes to add complex movement to your patches.

Three LFOs

• Arturia PolyBrute three syncable LFOs span an extremely wide range facilitating anything from beautiful evolving soundscapes to clangorous audio-rate modulation. Options for waveshaping, polarity, and retriggering let you take your sound way outside the box. Experiment with Matrix routing and tempo/MIDI sync for hyper-rhythmic effects.

Enter the Matrix

The flexibility of Arturia PolyBrute modular patching combined with digital precision and analog richness makes for a transcendent polysynth experience.

• 32 target parameters, 64 connections in total. Rearrange PolyBrute’s signal chain with the touch of a single button. Dial in positive or negative amounts, intuitively assign one or more destinations via any relevant controls, instantly route PolyBrute’s array of performance controllers and advanced modulation sources to influence just about anything in the instrument’s chain – all without the spaghetti nest of wires.
• But the Matrix doesn’t just take care of PolyBrute’s all-encompassing modulation routing – it’s the centerpiece of every aspect of its architecture. In Presets mode, use the Matrix to select any of the 768 patch memory locations. Morph mode accesses advanced morph state editing. Sequencer mode transforms the Matrix into an intuitive visual pattern editor.

Animate and Automate Your Sound

When you want to set your sound in motion, there’s no faster way than engaging Arturia PolyBrute Sequencer/Arpeggiator section, instantly accessible via the Transport section, Matrix, and keybed. Trigger patterns from the keyboard, or use the Hold mode to latch the keys you touch, freeing your hands to grab controllers, tweak parameters, and/or play along. It’s the closest thing you can get to flying without leaving the ground.32-Step Arpeggiator

• Arturia has taken the arpeggiator way beyond the expected, giving you inspiring new modes ranging from predictable to delightfully random. When you hear something you like, the push of a button can even convert it to a sequence to preserve the magic of the moment (further editing and refinement optional).

64-Step Polyphonic Sequencer

• A tactile visual interface with everything you need to create dynamic polyphonic sequences, arpeggios, parameter motion recording and more.
• You can play along live with your sequences via split and layer modes. Use controllers to change timbre and other PolyBrute parameters during playback, great for bringing nuance, character, and dynamics to your sequence-aided performances. You can even record changes from up to three different controllers into a sequence to automate textural changes.
• Go for solid predictability, or dial in the degree of random probability you want, to continually shake things up.
• Imagine the possibilities of doing that with just about any PolyBrute control. You can optionally set playback speed from 1/8 to 8x what you performed, and even loop playback for repetitive effects.

Motion Recorder

• As if there aren’t enough ways to animate your PolyBrute patches, the Motion Recorder instantly captures your movement of almost any knob or controller, and then automatically plays back that motion back with every triggered note.

Matrix Arpeggiator

• If standard arpeggiation isn’t your game, the Matrix Arpeggiator mode combines the best of PolyBrute’s arpeggiator and sequencer into yet another innovative creative resource. Map up to six held notes that will sound for each step, with mutes, octave transpose, slides, and even modulation tracks. Then that same pattern will apply to any notes you hold—craft melodies and ostinatos intelligently and intuitively.

Integrated Digital Effects

• Arturia PolyBrute incorporates built-in professional-grade digital effects into every patch, with parameters that can be modulated to no end—rounding off an all-encompassing palette worthy of any stage, studio, or soundtrack.
• These effects are no mere afterthoughts, either—we’ve even included favorite algorithms from our critically acclaimed FX Collection. Choose between 3 types of effect—Modulation, Delay, Reverb—and unlock all manner of immersive textures from chorus to bitcrusher and karplus to BBD delay, plate to dreamy reverb.
• PolyBrute’s effects are specially designed to take advantage of its complex stereo architecture, you even have the option of inserting them all inline before the output or configuring delay and reverb as a side-chain send.

Modulation

• Flanger
• Phaser 12p
• RingMod
• BitCrusher
• Soft Flanger
• Phase Flanger
• DownSampler

Delay

• Stereo Delay
• Long Delay
• BBD PingPong
• Karplus
• Stereo Spread
• Parallel
• BBD Spread

Reverb

• Bright Plate
• Room
• Dreamy
• Spring
• Delayed Plate

World-Class Presets

These stunning presets come readily installed, spanning a multitude of genres and musical timbres, and designed by experts in every sonic field. But these are no ordinary presets, each one is a gateway to a new sonic domain, composed of two distinct states, and infinite points in between, ready to be explored via a plethora of expressive elements. PolyBrute is a full-tilt vehicle of sonic exploration before you touch a single button.

Flagship Design

Not only is its layout logical and intuitive, but its striking design combines the best of vintage synth heritage and cutting-edge modernity. Timeless angles, smooth surfaces, and sleek appointments that’ll stand out on any stage. A calculated and rugged metal frame worthy of luxury interior design.

Arturia PolyBrute is a synthesizer years in the making. It’s undergone rigorous testing to ensure a build quality of the finest calibre. Controls, buttons, and expressive components that are a delight to use time after time. Its pristine metal chassis is embellished with luxurious dark walnut appointments for a timeless aesthetic, with a sleek, modern flare that sets it apart from the crowd.

Arturia PolyBrute is something unmistakably new, while remaining firmly rooted in synth-design heritage.

Wooden legs—PolyBrute’s chassis is fully compatible with Arturia’s wooden legs (sold separately). The wooden legs offer a professional ergonomic solution with a timeless beechwood construction, built for studio and stage that’s as reliable as it is stylish. Enjoy an unhindered performing experience with class.

PolyBrute Connect

Combining the tactility of analog hardware with the convenience of virtual instrument flexibility, PolyBrute’s entire front panel, replicated as a standalone Mac/PC app and a plugin for all major DAWs. Organize your patch library and enjoy bidirectional visual editing between software and hardware—anything changed on PolyBrute will reflect onscreen, and vice versa. You can even control every PolyBrute parameter with MIDI tracks in your DAW—analog power meets an unhindered virtual workflow.

Craft sound—Explore the depths of PolyBrute’s advanced features with a like-for-like virtual interface.

Manage your patches—Organize your favorite sounds, and easily import new presets and sound banks.

Control in real-time—Every parameter change, either on synth or software, is mirrored by the other.

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