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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

5.3.3. Range

The Range switch sets VCO 2 to one of three tuning ranges:

• Fine: a full turn of the knob covers a range of more than an octave above and

below the center frequency

• All: a full turn of the knob will sweep VCO2 through the entire frequency range

of the MiniBrute 2

• LFO: VCO2 can be used as an additional LFO with a wide frequency range (1Hz

to audio range). This is handy if you're already using LFOs 1 and 2 for other

modulations through the patch bay, for example.

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