Have Microbrute....now what?

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Re: Have Microbrute....now what?

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I'll give you a little hint to get you going on chipy glitchy sounds with the brute (once the power supply arrives :S)

First sound.
http://bradyjacobsen.com/microbrute/?id=2515

Turn off all the waves except the Triangle have it around 1-3 o'clock. Max out the Brute Factor and the Resonance on the filter in Low Pass (LP) mode. Set the VCA to Gate for max volume all the time. Hold a high note and SLOWLY adjust the filter cutoff; the sweep will find neat feedback loops that glitch out like crazy. After you find a sweet spot. try droning notes and slowly using the pitch bend to hear it also glitch out in a different way.

Second sound.
http://bradyjacobsen.com/microbrute/?id=2516

From the first sound turn down the triangle wave and put in the Pulse wave (square wave). Add PWM from the LFO (patch one of the cables from LFO into the PWM slot. Set the Control for the wave (the knob above the volume for Pulse wave) to about 12 o'clock. Crank the LFO amount and keep the rate super slow. Hold a high note again and listen to the sound of a space bug eating you.

Third Sound
http://bradyjacobsen.com/microbrute/?id=1894

This is just a good Kick Drum sound you could sample it and have a nice fat 909 style analog kick. :)
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Re: Have Microbrute....now what?

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One more word of advice when first getting started (once you get your power supply): if the sequencer doesn't work as it should, you may need to plug the 'brute into your computer and do some stuff. I just scored one of these used a few weeks ago, and I was pretty devastated when the seq wouldn't make sounds. I downloaded an updater thing from Arturia, plugged it in, restored the default sequences, and updated the firmware. It only took a few minutes, and it was up and running.
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Re: Have Microbrute....now what?

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ifeellikeatourist wrote:One more word of advice when first getting started (once you get your power supply): if the sequencer doesn't work as it should, you may need to plug the 'brute into your computer and do some stuff. I just scored one of these used a few weeks ago, and I was pretty devastated when the seq wouldn't make sounds. I downloaded an updater thing from Arturia, plugged it in, restored the default sequences, and updated the firmware. It only took a few minutes, and it was up and running.
Was the issue that you had to hold a key to make it play the sequence? Because I've been having the same one and I was wondering if there was a fix for it.
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