Arturia's MatrixBrute is an unashamed monster mono/paraphonic synth, its a big, bold beast of a synthesizer, with an impressive array of features. Up to now though its become somewhat delayed in its availability. The good news is that the MatrixBrute is now shipping. UK Price appears to be around £1700.

To coincide with this, Arturia have released a new performance video, featuring two MatrixBrutes used in tandem. Its a little out there - Jean-baptiste Arthus,  an Arturian sound designer and Eric Capone- they deserve a name check we think for such an energetic and interesting performance but really does show off a number of the features - which are...

• Analog Matrix Synthesizer
• 256 Preset memory locations
• 2 Analog Exponential VCO's:
• Saw + UltraSaw, Square +Pulse width, Triangle + Metalizer, Sub
• 1 Analog Linear VCO/LFO
• Saw, Square, Triangle, Sine waveforms; LFO time divisions; Key track
• VCO 2>1 Hard Sync
• Audio Mod:
• VCO1>2 ; VCO1 < VCO3> VCO2 ; VCF 1 < VCO3> VCF 2 ; VCF1 < Noise> VCF2
• Noise Generator:
• White ; Pink ; Red ; Blue noise types
• 5 input Audio Mixer with Filter routing
• Steiner Parker filter with 12+24 db per octave modes ;
• Drive ; Brute factor;
• Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Notch
• Ladder filter with 12+24 db per octave modes ;
• 2 LFO's Sine, Tri, Square, Ramp, Saw, Random, S&H
• 3 Envelope Generators
• 2 Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
• 1 Delay, Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
• External Audio In
• 16x16 Matrix modulation panel
• 64 step sequencer
• STEP enable, Slide, Accent, Modulation
• Save and recall sequence patterns on the fly
• Analog Effects
• Stereo delay, Delay, Flanger, Chorus, Analog Reverberator
• Arpeggiator
• 12 CV / Gate Inputs/Outputs
• Audio Input, Line or Instrument level
• Stereo audio output
• MIDI and USB I/O
• Pedal inputs for Expression and Sustain

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