Minibrute!

[Paul Maddox]

Thanks for the review, I've been wondering about the build quality and
sound.
Let us know when you've got some demo up somewhere, most of the ones I've
seen I've not liked the sounds in the demo, but that's more likely my
personal preference than the thing not sounding any good.

On 29 December 2012 03:04, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I got a minibrute.  Basically, a friend of mine had a preorder from
> NovaMusik but couldn't afford it.  Being both of us have good relationships
> going years back with that retailer, they let me take his spot.  Being Nova
> is only just a 3 hour drive form here, free UPS ground turns into overnight
> and I got it this afternoon.
>
> Initial thoughts:  This thing is awesome:  Simple, straight forward to use
> but with a wide parameter space.  You can find the filters sweet spot in
> about 5 minutes.  Some people have been already calling it the SH101 of our
> time and Ill agree with that assessment.  It *feels* like I am working with
> an old vintage beast, but with out the scratchy pots, intermittent outputs,
> or years of dust, beer and cigarette smoke built up on the keys.
>
> About the only negative so far was that when I received it, I was
> initially scared to death by a rattling sound in unit.  Apparently, one of
> the weights glued under the bottom of the keys to counter weight the spring
> action had been poorly glued and fallen off and then into the keybed.  I
> took a gamble and popped the unit open to see if I could get it out.  It
> was fortunately in a place where it couldn't have gotten into the area with
> the circuit boards and was easily extracted.
>
> One note about disassembly:  It was very easy.  I wonder if Arturia
> designed it with the expectation that modders will get in there.  If anyone
> wants, Ill pop it back open and take some pictures of its guts.
>
> Right now, I have its arpeggiator pulsing in the background of a drone
> from the modular.  I've got my piston honda oscillator feeding the aux
> audio input and the arpeggiator is stepping the Doepfer DarkTime sequencer
> which in turn is hitting the filter CV.  Did I mention this thing was
> awesome?  Ill record it if I can stop twiddling with it long enough to hit
> record.
>
> Tony
>
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