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Table Of Contents

User Manual
Special Thanks
- DIRECTION
- ENGINEERING
- MANUAL
- DESIGN
- Sound Design
- Beta testers
Thank you for purchasing the Arturia MiniBrute 2/2S!
Special Message Section
- Specifications Subject to Change:
- IMPORTANT:
- NOTICE:
- Precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:
Introduction
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Installation
- Usage Precautions
- WARNING
- Register your Instrument
- Connecting the MiniBrute 2 to the World
  - The rear panel connectors
  - Patch Bay
- Warm-Up and General Tuning
Quick start
- Create your first sound: the “basic patch”
- Add some vibrato
- Add a second oscillator
- Introduction to envelopes
  - The AD envelope
  - The ADSR envelope
- Get to know an LFO
- The Sequencer and Arpeggiator
  - The Sync button
  - The Mode switch
Hardware overview
- Main features
- The Control section
- Inputs and outputs
- Top panel
- The rear panel
The top panel
- The LFOs
- VCO 1
- VCO 2
- The Filter section
- The Amplifier section (AMP)
- The Osc Mixer
- Legato vs. Retrigger note response
- The Patch bay section
- Secondary Shift functions
Basics of synthesis
- Analog synthesizer architecture
The Patch bay
- General concepts
- The VCO 1 section
- The VCO 2 section
  - Pitch 2 input
  - VCO 2 Out
- The EXT IN section
  - Master
  - Ext
- The FILTER jacks
- The AMP section
- The INVERTER section
- The ADSR section
  - Trig
  - ADSR Out jack
- The AD section
- The LFO 1&2 section
  - LFO Out 1
  - LFO Out 2
- The VCA section
- The ATTENUATORS section
- The Sequencer section
- The MIDI section
  - KBD
  - Gate
  - Velo
  - Mod
Seq / Arp: shared features
- Mode selection
  - Mode switch
  - Seq / Arp Mode
- Timing controls
- Transport section
  - All Notes Off
- Playback functions
- Skip selections: Seq / Arp
- Skip selections: Time Division
- Restart Seq / Arp from beginning
- Synchronization
  - As Master
  - As Slave
    - Sync In/Out types
    - Clock connectors
The Sequencer
- Basic Operation
  - Select and play a sequence
- Transpose / Kbd Play
  - Transpose
  - Keyboard Play
- Creating a sequence
- Modifying a sequence
  - Append
  - Clear Last
- Saving sequences
The Arpeggiator
- What’s an arpeggiator?
- Arpeggiator features
- Basic operations
- Arpeggiator modes
- Build a multi-octave arpeggio
  - Add up to 16 notes
- Pausing an arpeggio
Introduction: the MIDI Control Center
- MCC basics
MIDI Control Center
- Template Browser
  - Building a library
- Device Memories
  - The Working Memory
- Local Templates
  - Drag and drop
- Store To/Recall From
- Import/Export Device Settings
- Data entry
- Device Settings
Shift functions
- SHIFT + Keys 1-5
- SHIFT + Keys 6-16
- SHIFT + Key 17
- SHIFT + Keys 18-19
- SHIFT + Oct down (Seq mode only)
- SHIFT + Oct up (Seq mode only)
- SHIFT + Play
- SHIFT + Rec (Seq mode only)
- SHIFT + Seq encoder
- SHIFT + Stop (Seq mode only)
- SHIFT + Sync
- SHIFT + Tap / Rest (Arp mode only)
- SHIFT + Time Div encoder
Declaration of Conformity

9.5. Saving sequences

MiniBrute 2 allows you to carry 8 sequences with you at all times. But you can store an

unlimited number of sequences using the MIDI Control Center. So be sure to back up your

hard work to your computer often.

And once the sequences are safely stored on your computer it is possible to hand-pick sets

of sequences that are aimed at particular audiences or sessions.

See the MIDI Control Center [p.109] chapter for more information about how to use that

software.

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