![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The depth of action is nice, and the keys feel solid and strong, not cheap or brittle. In general, I feel that Arturia has been doing a great job with their keyboards, and this is no exception. The keyboard on the MiniBrute 2 feels great. It’s a great filter that sounds fantastic, and is “vary-capable” (a word I just made up, which means to have lot of color and variety). The filter will easily self-oscillate when pushed high enough, which means that it can be used as another tone if set up correctly. Let’s talk about that, shall we? People have written about the Steiner-Parker filter in many articles, but if you don’t know what that means, then here: unlike a Moog filter, it doesn’t lose its bite when you start cranking the resonance. And if patching cables is not your thing (though it very well may be after a couple of sessions with these synths), then you can still accomplish amazing results with just the provided knobs and faders, and of course, modulation. One of the reasons these synths are so great for beginners is because you can do so much with them without even inserting a single cable a lot of the fun comes from exploring that right-hand patch cable wonderland. There is also an external input for twisting sounds from the outside world. In the first oscillator, along with the level mixer, the Square waveform has a dedicated Pulse-Width knob, with an attached Pulse-Width Modulation Amount knob, just to get freaky with. The second oscillator has three switchable waveforms: Sine, Sawtooth, and Square. The levels of these waveforms are adjusted using faders for each one. The MiniBrute 2 is a beast of a synth with two oscillators, one of which has an assortment of waveforms: Sawtooth, Square, Triangle, and Noise. Otherwise, the two units are exactly the same. The main difference between the MiniBrute 2 and 2S is the sequencer on the 2S and the keyboard on the 2. Now let’s dive in and see what they’re all about. For most of this review, we will treat the MiniBrute 2 and MiniBrute 2S as one synth, only separating them when features call for it. ![]() Both synths are built upon the same engine, and the differences don’t emerge until you get deeper into exploring their performance and playing capabilities. ![]()
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