![]() Meanwhile, in the Mini and MicroBrute world, the company had been releasing special editions and differently coloured versions of the same synths, and this kept them in the public eye but illustrated that little else had changed in five years. In 2016, amid a growing range of low-cost MIDI controllers, soft synths and drum machines, Arturia’s next hardware synth marked a return to a price and a degree of complexity that meant that, while it would often be admired from afar, the MatrixBrute was unlikely to sell in huge quantities. The small, light, simple and affordable MiniBrute monosynth appeared in 2012 and was an immediate success, as was its smaller, lighter, simpler and even more affordable sibling, the MicroBrute, which was released the following year. So the company adopted a different approach. Despite having poured years of effort into their development, the two products - which allowed you to mix and match digital emulations of classic synths’ oscillators, filters, amplifiers and so on - were simply too esoteric for most players. ![]() However, I don’t think that the chaps at Arturia will mind too much when I say that neither the Origin (2009) nor the Origin Keyboard (2010) were huge sellers. ![]() By the time that they released their first hardware synth, the Origin, they were already well on their way to becoming part of the industry’s furniture (and I mean that as a compliment). The hugely successful MiniBrute has evolved into what Arturia describe as a synthesis ‘ecosystem’, but the MiniBrute 2 and 2S aren’t just updates - they’re completely new instruments.Īrturia first appeared on my radar in 2004 when they released the Minimoog V soft synth, soon following this with emulations of further classics such as the ARP 2600, Jupiter 8, CS80, Prophet 5 and VS, and more.
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