Synth designer Yves Usson – one of the designers of Arturia’s Brute series of synthesizer – shared this series of videos, exploring the sound possibilities of the new MatrixBrute synthesizer.

Here’s his summary for the first video, above:

First test : 3 oscillators sawtooth waveform, successive test of the Lowpass Steiner filter in 12dB then 24dB; of the Lowpass Ladder filter in 12dB then 24dB. I am no musician therefore show leniency for my bad playing and lack of inspiration.

This is direct recording (no effect) with a Tascam Portastudio 2488 MkII that I tried to synchronize the best I could with the video.

The next video explores Berlin School style sequencing with the Arturia MatrixBrute:

Usson describes the next video as “Unstructured soundscape, just having fun tweaking knobs…”:

The next video is a demonstration of the Split Mode: the keyboard is divided in two halves, the left side is used to transpose the arpeggiator, while the right is used to play leads.

This is direct recording, internal BBD stereo echo, no post-processing:

The next video is a demonstration of the Split Mode: the keyboard is divided in two halves, the left side is used to transpose the sequencer while the right is used to play leads.

This is direct recording, internal BBD stereo echo, no post-processing:

You can see more of Usson’s work at his site, Yusynth.

Pricing and Availability

The Arturia MatrixBrute is available for pre-order with a street price of about US $2,000. See the Arturia site for more info.