Dat Matrixbrute

[D.o.S.]

It's like guitars dude. What works for one person doesn't work for another.

[01010111]

Yeah, I really like the filter and oscillator on the microbrute. The brute factor made it real easy to drive the filter. Something that's still hard to do on most synths. I still need to try doing that with a splitter cable and the minilogue....

All those high-end synths don't really have the same kind of performance flexibility. Presets with that matrix gives you the ability to do the equivalent of changing the way you have your entire modular patched by pressing a button. It also looks like a great way to edit/make sequences.

If I had that kind of money, I'd be all over this! I agree about the keyboard. I'd rather have pressure plates or something. Or at least a desktop or rackmount version. I don't want to deal with a full size keyboard on a synthesizer. It's a synthesizer, not a piano.

[Strange Tales]

If I had this kind of money to drop at once I'd get anything else. This thing is so god damn big and unwieldy and just looks like a pain in the ass to use.

[askashrub]

its a great way of getting from point a to point f very quickly, but I dont like it enough to pay 2k for it.

Yeah.
That's where I'm at with it.

I am really intrigued though, as someone reluctant to get into modular.
I like the thought of it as a self-contained experiment device (with a lot of places to save patches).

I think I have a fear of cables.

[D.o.S.]

I just realized that beyond your demos I have no idea what kind of gear you actually use.

[askashrub]

I just realized that beyond your demos I have no idea what kind of gear you actually use.

It's probably not what you would expect.
I've a pretty sparse gear collection.

Until recently I lived abroad, moving every 6 months to a year.
Couldn't get much in a lot of places, and no sense keeping any of it.
I wound up playing a lot of acoustic guitar.

Needless to say the pedals have piled up of late, but I've only started branching out to other things within the past year or so.

[D.o.S.]

BUT WHAT DO YOU HAVE.

And why are you not in the ILF secret santa?

[jrfox92]

And why are you not in the ILF secret santa?

[askashrub]

And why are you not in the ILF secret santa?

Cause I'm a dumb dumb?

I'll scope.

[sergiomunoz74]

Meh I looked at it, didn't even try it at knobcon. It was just too much for me, it looked too busy, and extremely heavy. If you want features for price, I'm sure its great but arturia gear often comes with issues or develops many issues and tech support is hard to deal with. For something with that many things going on, I'd pass. Although I do have a small MU modular that weighs similarly and building some serge. Im not willing to pay more than my modular for a monophonic keyboard synth anymore. I'm sure it will be cool to those that enjoyed the mini/microbrute though.

[Televator]

Whoa! Very cool synth, though for me it's just another candidate for the probably-never-even-try-let-alone-own list.

[jrfox92]

Anyone following Automatic Gainsay's series?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFubMQ3Jh4[/youtube]

[actual]

I am now.