Arturia MatrixBrute - SonicLAB Review
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- We take a look at the Arturia MatrixBrute new analog monster mono. its BIG....
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this is a midlife crisis synth if ive ever seen one
mmm, no, quite cheap for that. A modal would be.
hahahaaa, yeah its more like hey i have got a teeny one but who cares? look at my synth :-)
when youve got a micro you need a matrix ;)
jamie munro ha ha ha! Yep! I have one........and own one! Ridiculously immense synth!!!
dukeofpearl it's lovely mate , bravo 👌🏻
Thanks for the great reviews, not only this one but across your channel! It has become my go-to for any gear I'm interested in. You sold me on this one, mine should be arriving in a few days!
Nick's keys playing is really nice
I have played/ programmed on it for 3 days now and a few things I would
love to see added. 1. LFO pan of sound 2. Option to set filter post fx 3
random patch. 4 expression sequencing. I dont mind the FX they are vintage-ish
sounding slightly dull but do have their place.
Yeah … the FX are analog … which sounds more vintage, by definition …
was very sceptical, but this review changed my mind. Makes me also looking forward to Arturia's first poly!
1:34 "Isn't flimsy in any way."
And the first thing that catches my eye is the misalinged fader of the ladder filter envelope generator (sustain, I believe).
Beauty machine. And that sequencer 😊 Tangerine dream Wicked
@5:40 Sweet Dreams Are Made of This? haha
Pretty close huh?! :P
Yes but changed the melody for copyright reasons.
That's gonna be a NO for me dog. :)
is it a Moog voyager XL on steroids?
This thing is set to takeoff in a big way! Brilliant kit!
"why would I get too health and safety on a synth" - Because it's a valid point and musicians generally tend to value their fingers.
Great video, just one remark: it is actually possible to live-record sequences. You simply need to have the sequence running and the record button lit, then it will overwright the sequence with the played notes.
Not at the time of the review, the firmware has been updated since then I believe
@@sonicstate Wow, that was a quick response, thanks for that. Yes, I did some research and it was part of firmware-update 1.1
The lack of this feature was actually my only doubt about the purchase but I made it anyways. It was a very pleasant surprise to find it implemented when I first fired it up.
What a beast, great review Nick!
Coming back to this review 2 and 1/2 years later, I'm blown away again! I want this synth! Oh... wait... I've had one for all that time, and I still want one - does that make sense? :-D
Trottelheimer
Totally understand
IM seriously considering this unit
I am getting one, no doubt.
I'd like to see a comparison and side-by-side review between ARTURIA MatrixBrute and ACCESS VIRUS TI2 Polar.
They are very different, one's a DSP based poly synth with digital FX....
Hi Nick, I'm really struggling to decide between the D1 and the Arturia Matrixbrute. Hard question I know but which one would you grab first?
your advice would be most appreciated
Yessss Finally! This is the one i've been waiting for! Thanks
The price maybe little bit high , 1500 euro will be ok ... But boiii i litterally love that noise mod on vco , awesome . +sonicstate are the noise sources analog ?
They are yes
definitely not cheap but $2000 for what it does is pretty reasonable I think. Not really my thing personally but super powerful synth for sure
It is a bargain for what it does
Other companies charge $3,500 for synths with less features.
Looks like an e-paper display as opposed to LCD. I guess you'd know for sure if you pulled the power cord and the patches still still listed on the display.
It sounds alive!!
I sure would like one of those. Just 4 times what I can afford.Man I want one though.
I genuinely believe Nick should have begun the review with the line at 1:10 ...
"LOOK AT MY SYNTH" :D
Great demo Nick as always.Just something I have been trying to find out,does this work as a polyphonic midi controller like the old Bass station used to ?
1:11 *LOOK AT MY SYNTH*
How do you automatic each knob If at all possible? Midi program or something?
Great interface, but its 2 grand for a paraphonic 3 VCO minibrute with a ladder filter. Not a fan of the sound.
Very new to synths… what amp is the matrixbrute pushed through?
Finally!
Since it has a paraphonic mode, is it possible to have 3 sequences running at the same time with different patches?
nope. its not sadly, nor two.one sequence for lower keyboard split
Darn. What an oversight. Could have easily done this in paraphonic like the Pro 2.
Nick said it does aggrssiv, it does smooth ... I would like to know if it does even moog.
e-ink displays require energy only when changing the image and therefore they generate less noise - something important on an analog synth.
I pressed the like button without even noticing I hit the like button already. I was like, let's like this video, but subconsciously I already liked the video! Oh my! Having said that..
NICK BATT FOR PRESIDENT!
AND THE MATRIXBRUTE IS MASSIVE! Huge respect for Arturia for pulling this off!
Previously I'd thought "The Matrix is more synth than I need" but now I'm thinking "I need more synth."
I know this won't happen but I would be interested in a polybrute Arturia....just saying
I'm dreaming a Polybrute one day 🤭🤭🤭
@@testohtoby or even a twinbrute (similar design to the microbrute but with one longer keyboard and two of everything else except things like the sequencer)
@@SorchaSublime we need a solid 2 vco 1 filter 2 lfo 2 adsr 1 loopable ad/r synth with maybe 6 or 8 voices (that won't cost a kidney...)
Amen !! What a beast that would be. Perhaps with some nice digital onboard fx. 🤪
Very powerful and fun to sample into my MPC and play polyphonically:)
This would be a great synth to have as a center piece learning tool…
If this was the first synth I ever saw or played, I would be a synth addict for life.
Tried it at the music store. Even if it's one of the most intimidating synth at first sight it's impressive how simple and fun it is to get into and how its workflow is so natural. I think Arturia has really become the king of delivering the best user interface. Or, better, the user interfaces that people actually want. The sound is incredible, it seems like a vintage synth but from another futuristic planet (if that makes sense). I've always seen myself spending the range of 2k for Moog/DSI only and this is the first exception for me. If I had the money I'd go buy it in a minute, it really got me more excited than the matriarch and the prophet 6. And god, I crave those synths.
Only con: it's built like a tank (20kg!) but the keybed didn't feel on par with the rest, way worse than the one on the sub37/grandmother
Yeah, the keybed receives a lot,of criticism … same with the Polybrute’s …
Fortunately, I don’t think much of its sound, either … so that’s that … !!
This chap nails concisely and eloquently within the first five minutes, what all other YT videos of the MatrixBrute fail miserably to do. As a result, this is certainly is on my wishlist.
Same here. This bloke knows what he's doing and how to really show off what is of interest and what needs to be known.
Ive got one, and I tell you what, there are a lot of sweet spots, you just got to search for them, yes it can sound huge, bloody huge!!!!
Just stopped by for a moment... I never watch other demonstrations of synths I'm going to demonstrate before I demonstrate them... but I did stay long enough... with envy... for the opening melody you played... and I think it says everything. Absolutely exquisite.
I'll watch yours after I've done mine... but I don't have it yet!
AutomaticGainsay I look forward to the breakdown you'll do and the awesome sounds you'll make with it!
Thanks, Kevin!
Some nice youtube hours to look forward to =)
+AutomaticGainsay Thanks Marc, looking forward to yours....
Just your intro is the best I've heard it sound so far.
MySugarWallz sounded like he tweaked main synth melody from Roygbiv by boards of canada
Go watch the videos by yusynthman, they're by far the best ones on this synth, and literally the only ones on YT that really showcase the sound design capabilities of this synth.
Mmmmm. Some nice deep analogue goodness. It almost seemed like detune was coming from aftertouch.
"this is a midlife crisis synth if ive ever seen one"
No it absolutely not.
It's a synth we wanted for a long time because of modern technology. It should have been made years ago.
Its cheap, its big, its good. Finally, a synth that's fuses a lot off ideas together its about time
"It's cheap"
€2299
A Deep Mind 12 is cheap. This is professional money.
@@benanderson89 Cheap and affordable are not the same thing. If you could find Ferrari 458 for 10000€ it would be cheap, but still not affordable. This thing is pretty cheap for what it is.
Who cares how many features it has, if its sound has no character?!
The only health and safety warning this synthesizer needs, is the fact it will drain hours of your life away in sound sculpting and tweaking. I dont think i can think of a synth that has as much as much tweakability !!
I saw hundereds of Matrixbrute videos and most of them let the Matrixbrute burb and fart. Two days ago i saw this vido and today i bought one of these beasts.
Thank you Nick !
No sequencer outs?! This thing has some great features, but that really is a shame.
yeah that really surprised me, for the matrix and sequencer being essentially the selling point for this synth I am flabbergasted that it does not offer external sequencing.
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments: There are VCO 1 and VCO 2 pitch CV outputs. The sequencer mod can also be routed to one or more of the CV outputs. I'd assume the gate output runs from the sequencer too, being tied to the envelopes.
Trottelheimer There is no way to sequencer an external synth, right?
+MrSNEAKFREAK96 Yes, there is. As mentioned above, the sequencer drives the synth and it in turn outputs CV for VCO 1 and VCO 2, a gate output, sequencer mod out (if you assign it to a matrix output) as well as MIDI out. While the sequencer can't be entirely decoupled from the synth voice (which was Nick's objection), in the Duo Split mode the sequencer will only control the lower part of the split, and you can play the upper part manually, so you can get half way there using that.
A lot of criticisms from Nick, but somehow I found all of them to be simply "quirks" of the synth; Good to know going into it, but nothing that I would consider a deal-breaker. That being said, despite how much this gets me excited, I can't picture getting one unless I had a roadie to move it and set it up at gigs. The thing is a monster! Very unique sound as well, and sure to go down as one of the notorious mega-synths. Good job, Arturia.
This looks and sounds incredible synthesiser would take some time to get your head around it all
@CO.AG Music That’s what I love about instruments like this. That you can spend years (if not a lifetime) getting your head around it. Sort of the antithesis of a kazoo.
@@therealborischang No kazoos here
I have finally come to the conclusion that I will never have bought my last synth? there is always another one that comes along that you have to buy......well here it is! Pull out my wallet and put another hole in my bank account, I am going to order this by next paycheck.
wow, what an impressive feature set! I'm liking the sound of as well. What a bold machine.
Nice layout. Emphasises how cramped most Euro is in knob spacing.
I got my Virus TI and got my Nord Lead 4 and loads of vst's, and now I got this beast. But still wondering what the hell i'm going to do with it. It sounds so very different then the digital stuff. A single osc will destroy my speakers and that of my neighbors. Yet still, it creates wonderfull sounds just with tinkering, especially the mod matrix. I don't mind clipping a finger off for this one.
My jaw! It's on the floor! Also, 5:50 Silent Hill/Akira Yamaoka patch. o_o
I would like to hear a side by side comparison of the matrixbrute and the MFB Dominion-1. I know that there are quite a few differences, but both have amazing modulation possibilities.
Thank you very much for the clear review, loved it!
Bas Verhage I own a Dominion 1. It has much more of a vintage sound than the Arturia, which sounds similar to the minibrute: kind of harsh and metallic. The Dominion can do harsh and brutal, but it can also do a wide range of juicy vintage sounds.
I've never heard a metallic sound from any MatrixBrute demo. The ladder filter can sound pretty much exactly the same as a Moog Subphatty, there is a video from Flux302 that compares the two side by side, and not only they sound the same, the waveforms through an oscilloscope are almost identical, showing that the Brute can output the nearly same sounds as the Moog.
@@InXLsisDeo🤣😂😅🥲☺️
-Weak Sauce Filters
-Crooked Sliders (already)
-Can’t sequence external gear
-Not stereo splitting
-Not Polyphonic aftertouch
-This should’ve been a Poly synth
-Cheap knobs
-Meh sound
Is your TV on fire at 29.10?!
caught vaping again hehe
LOL
lol, who would notice that
29:10, actual replay button.
Good eyes bloody hell!
The problem with the MatrixBrute, it didn't come out before I got married.
Pete Urbann I feel you on this one...
I must have picked the right one, I got my wife one for Christmas
Fuck sports cars or watches. I need one of these to soothe my empty soul. :)
What a beast!
loved this review!! thank you for the wonderful and clear explanation tour around this amazing and complex synth!
Great review as always Nick! Some impressive sounds coming out of it in your capable hands, big and warm for almost any kind of genre and application. Not much to dislike at all.
I really wanted to love it, but I went for the Voyager XL instead. Less features, but a sonic monster. I would love to see a review of the Voyager even though it's more or less end-of-life.
Well the Voyager better be a sonic monster considering how much it costs.
You made the right choice. These Arturias sound like industrial-sounding, soviet-bloc garbage. If they call that a characterful sound, they can keep it!! The mod matrix implementation is cool, but worth nothing if the sound sucks …
amazing... i did try the filter tracking on the unit they had on display at Synthfest last year and indeed it was tracking poorly
hardly a deal breaker on such a powerful beast, but still a shame
Don't know where I would put something like this. Could probably get rid of a sofa.
At one time, you just have to get rid of the living room and make it a studio.
step aside moog. i am sold on matrix brute
WANT! I remember when the Andromeda (I think that's the name) came out, this reminds me of that Bigly synth.
Played one at a local music store. Great keybed, solid controls, and it definitely has a flexible sound. It's a bit like a voyager meets a pro 2.
I’d go with that. I have a pro-2 and love it but this has a different sound and the interface is totally different.
Compared at Pro 2 and overall Sub 37 (that i own), very distintictive and beatifully sonding , for me Matrixbrute lacks personality, it has an unconvincing sound , common.. Beatifully sinth but now not few person sell out it .. overall Arturia is born producing software version of vintage old big sinths.. I dream of Moog or ,Dave Smith or Oberheim that realize an hardware like Matrixbrute but with their sounds and filters (probably more expansive).
The keybed receives a lot of criticism … same with the Polybrute’s …
@@marcopulega7036 Agreed. If it has a character, it’s some kind of dirty, grainy, industrial sound. So, unless I become a hardcore German techno artist, or something, there are about 1,000 synths, higher up on my list … Which is fine: whatever distracts others from buying the synths I want … 😉
Having bought and played on many of the classic synths during the 90's Xpander, CS80, Prophet5, Jupiter8 etc and not really been interested in "keyboard synths" anymore, I am huge into Buchla, euro etc, This is really going to be a future classic synth. Such a huge sound and so much sound sculpting options. Like a Minimoog meets a VCS3 and much more! Only Nick could do such an in depth review. Well done Nick and well done Arturia!
Yeah i think so too. ESPECIALLY for the massive routing matrix. I don't think i have seen THAT amount of routing freedom so far on a analog monophonic keyboard synth. The only other keyboards that come into my mind would be the classic Alesis Andromeda A6 and Behringer's DeepMind 6/12, even though both are polyphonic analog synths. And yes, Nick really made me drool for the Matrix Brute while most other folks who showed it off made me look at it like "Yeah it's quite nice but.. do i really need one?". I might sell my Roland Gaia to make room and also get back some of the investment for this bad boy here. Even though i'm not a fan of Arturia's Filters and Oscillators, this thing here sounds way more like what i want while the Gaia (as much fun as it is) sounds just a little too thin and the digital filters are just wayyyyy too prone to clipping.
Nick cut his fingers off a week later....
You listen to this and then listen to the system 8 review and realise that the system 8 has no bass whatsoever. Gorgeous first few patches btw
the system 8 is not analog that’s why
Great demo as always! Thank you! Seems like the Matrixbrute got some curious limitations thuogh among all its capabilities. I could almost hear you were superimpressed? I've tested it a couple of times my self and is quite ambivalent.
What I would love to see is someone take this idea of a programmable patchbay and use it to make an updated EMS Synthi-A with LEDs instead of a pin patchbay so you could save the sounds, a delay instead of a spring reverb, retaining the joystick and retailing it for about £500.
astrophonix standby... Behringer are working it right now..
Yep - time to flash the B signal into the sky …
I wish i was rich so i could buy shit like this.
Avoid kids, cars, expensive clothes and eating out, save
No need to be rich just save a certain amount of money a week/month and you will right on your way :)
+John Smith Exactly! In fact i was just looking at the synth through sweetwater and they have a wonderful plan of $56 a month for 36 months. That's pretty easy on the wallet if you manage your money right.
In Canada, you have to ($2 800) :-(
Lots of music shops offer financing at reasonable rates. Be careful though, financing can be a rabbit hole of racking up consumer debt... there's no better feeling than truly owning something and having it paid off.
wow. that's a massive review for a massive synth. congrats for the amazing work again, nick! i got very intersted in the mod routing. the example you did really got me curious. could you show a little more? perhaps some strange patches?
I guess the real time sequencer should be possible to implement with some firmware upgrades.
Also, as of the MIDI in, can you control all the same things you can control using all the knobs on it? It looks it might be the case, because all the knobs can already be controlled via the routing / mod matrix, so the knobs arent actually hard wired to the audio blocks, but are probably digitized and then put back as analog to vco,vcf,etc. What about the envelope sliders? Can these be controlled via matrix or MIDI in too? If so, then this is a really awesome hybrid beast. And if that is the case, then I can save the full patch digitally and recall it, without touching the knobs or sliders?
Edit: Never mind, found it in the manual. All the knobs and sliders are actually digital (they are encoders for the knobs probably, and potentiometers for the sliders), and can be fully saved and recalled to presets and via MIDI. After recalling, they will not do anything, until you move them through the set position from the preset, so it is easy to restore the preset, as well start tweaking the patch, immediately after recalling, even if all the knobs and sliders are in the "wrong" positions.
PS. The knobs are actually potentiometers, 270 deg, not digital encoders with limits. Feels a bit more expensive than encoders, but adds a bit of extra resolution and nice friction feel to them. :)
Awesome.
Great review as always Nick. Out of my price range but I think that it`s a hell of a piece of hardware and would prob cost another £1000 or more if anyone else had made it !
Oh definitely. This thing being under 2 grand is quite a fair price. Out of my range too but still considerable once i can justify the expenses.
what?!no click-click-click mechanism??
this is outrageous.
But I'm saving for a Minimoog Nick! Dammit!
Earmonkey Music I was too... I'm going with this though I think.
i wonder if this is the reason their customer support sucks so bad; they were too busy building this. frankly i wouldn't spend this much money on anything arturia.
has more I/O than a Voyager XL at a fraction of the cost... gets ridiculed for not having more I/O ? hmmm other than that I agree. nice review.
+Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com Ridiculed? Hardly. :-)
ah well it was kinda presented as a negative aspect in the review. maybe ridiculed is a harsh but thats the way it sounded in the review. regardless very nice review. I am preparing to do a lil side by side of the Matrixbrute to some well known synths now to kinda show them in similar patch settings... there seems to be a lot of misconceptions in the comments here.
Best review I've found so far. Thank you! You really cover pretty much everything :)
This thing is a beast.. speechless!!
Is this Arturia's 2600? Serious question.
Sounds as good as any Moog.
Just got this and wow- what a massive beast!
A beautiful synth & review. not sure if I want to trade in my MFB Dominion1 to get it though.
3:58 Not LCD this an E-ink display.
Can this be used to play a real song?
you are joking? lol
When you have gas for one of these....and then you realize you have played with your micro brute maybe 10 times over the 3 years you've owned it.....:(
When your gas is quite ok cz you've dreamed of the microbrute since 2013 and now that you own it you use to play it like 7172277171 times everyday #microbrutedaily
@@testohtoby right i play my microbrute a lot, i even use it in songs the tone is excellent for gnarly basses.
this is pretty cool i liek alot pls send me one my england ios pretty bad hel;p
a pissing contest synth. a yeah my girlfriend IS fat and I love her synth. a I bought it because it's huge and had lots of pretty buttons synth. any one else has one. I love this guy.i came just to watch him nerve out trying to sell this gorilla of a synth
Fifth time I have watched this video ------ you do a great job presenting and dissecting synths. Thanks. It helps me use my synths better.
As always, you do great videos. I have had mine for about a week. What a solid piece of work. Excellent quality control. Mine is flawless. The sound is beautiful. So many possibilities.
Nick,
They should have given you one of these to create some presets for them. Great job!
I think this should have been a 6-12 voice poly tbh, very beautiful synth and with a nice matrix but just mono, nah so tired of all monos coming out lately. I think we have that side covered now with all monos that arrived last years.
That's true, they have to start somewhere but they also had some monos from before even if they were more basic. The new Behringer is my new aim though, I really liked the sound of that and then 12 voices, nice effects built in and also deep modulation possibilities and a lot cheaper than the Matrixbrute so I don't really see the need for this. I think this matrixbrute would be a nice fit for techno or experimental music. It has a bit more industrial metallic tone to it, nothing bad just different and I enjoy all kinds of sounds and always excited at new synths.
I was shocked when I found out it was mono, this seems like massive overkill for a monosynth
Thanks for the fine review, Nick. While there are some limitations, the timbral and modulation possibilities are pretty outstanding. The fact the the instrument is of high-quality build-wise is also a very good thing. I just picked mine up yesterday, and am chomping at the bit to finish my soundtrack work so I can really dig into this super mono!
This is like Reason Thor in hardware mode. I think I love it. Gotta try it.
Wonder if you could do Tangerine Dream Phaedra on it - ua-cam.com/video/LRoqZyNMa8E/v-deo.html
Great review, many thanks. Very inspiring, fantastic patches. Would be great to look inside them :-)
finally!!! someone got 2 grand spare for me?
Lol you had a year and a half to save for it XD
If it’s nothing else…it certainly looks impressive…
“Do you think [they’re] compensating for something?! 😏”
So you're saying that they aren't "real simulated wood grain sides"?
I was hoping for fine Corinthian leather.
It’s analogue wood as opposed to digital.
what a beast