Arturia DrumBrute, User Manual

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Page 2: ...thout notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Arturia The software described in this manual is provided under the terms of a license agreement or non disclosure agreement The softwar...

Page 3: ...e included supply or else the unit could be damaged The Quick Start Guide Be sure to register your DrumBrute as soon as possible There is a sticker on the bottom panel that contains the serial number...

Page 4: ...e instrument always remove the USB cable When cleaning use a soft and dry cloth Do not use gasoline alcohol acetone turpentine or any other organic solutions do not use a liquid cleaner spray or cloth...

Page 5: ...the future by incorporating the most advanced technological developments of the modern era And so it is able to integrate and synchronize with any computer system MIDI rig or vintage setup But most im...

Page 6: ...1 5 Metronome Mute Solo Shift 15 1 5 1 Metronome 15 1 5 2 Mute Solo buttons 15 1 5 3 Shift button 15 1 6 Rear panel part 1 16 1 6 1 Power 16 1 6 2 USB 16 1 6 3 MIDI input output 16 1 6 4 Clock input o...

Page 7: ...Bank to Bank 43 5 2 Copy Pattern to Pattern 44 5 2 1 Within a Bank 44 5 2 2 Between Banks pattern 44 5 3 Copy Drum to Drum 44 5 4 Erasing a Bank 45 5 5 Erasing a Pattern 45 5 6 Erasing a DrumTrack 45...

Page 8: ...7 Editing basics 60 8 7 1 Data entry 60 8 7 2 Selecting the tabs 60 8 7 3 Bank tabs 61 8 7 4 Device Settings tab 61 8 8 Pattern window 62 8 8 1 Navigation 62 8 8 2 Pattern level parameters 62 8 8 3 S...

Page 9: ...USB port and its pads can used as input devices for various applications The included MIDI Control Center software allows you to specify which MIDI notes and commands will be transmitted by the pads...

Page 10: ...drum machines and its own drum sounds may be played from a MIDI keyboard And of course it can send and receive MIDI data using the USB port of your computer 1 1 2 2 Clock sources destinations The Cloc...

Page 11: ...inute BPM but it will also change temporarily to show the values of the Pattern Effects Randomness or Swing while they are being edited In Song Mode it will display the Pattern number 1 2 2 Rate Fine...

Page 12: ...as well Use the MIDI Control Center to choose the PAUSE option Note Record mode allows both quantized and unquantized recording See section Recording a Pattern p 30 for more information 1 2 4 Synchro...

Page 13: ...pattern to a new location or erase it completely You can also copy sequence data from one instrument to another within the same pattern or erase all of the data for one instrument within a pattern The...

Page 14: ...rns you have created Your new pattern data will be lost during a power cycle unless you have used the Save button to store it to the DrumBrute internal memory There are three levels of the Save functi...

Page 15: ...a fun and expressive way to control the overall sound of the DrumBrute during performance Select the filter type with the HPF button Off LPF Low Pass Filter On HPF High Pass Filter You can sweep the f...

Page 16: ...pad See section p 17 for more information 1 3 3 Pattern effects Swing introduces a shuffle feel to the patterns It can affect the entire pattern all instruments at once or only the current instrument...

Page 17: ...ift Step 9 Step 9 lit up Roller Looper Just press the touch strip The size of the loop is determined by the time division selected within the touch strip area The start and end points of the loop are...

Page 18: ...p independently when the Polyrhythm feature is enabled This setting is stored separately for each pattern To enable this feature hold the Shift button and press step button 16 To learn more about the...

Page 19: ...tons These buttons toggle between the instruments in a shared channel Each instrument in a shared channel can be recorded independently into a pattern However as a general rule the instruments share t...

Page 20: ...nome see section p 17 1 5 2 Mute Solo buttons These buttons allow you to silence one or more instruments or isolate specific instruments while recording a pattern or playing it back For more informati...

Page 21: ...tion enables you to use the MIDI Control Center software to configure extra parameters and to update the DrumBrute software 1 6 3 MIDI input output Use standard MIDI cables to send and receive MIDI no...

Page 22: ...ront panel 1 7 2 Metronome Output The metronome has its own individual output because the metronome s output circuitry behaves in a slightly different manner than the other instruments See section p 1...

Page 23: ...om the Mix Output but will remain in the headphones until its individual output is used The behavior of all other connection options is the same for the headphones and the Mix Output including the met...

Page 24: ...itch between banks without the additional step of selecting a pattern See section p 71 to learn more about this feature 2 1 2 Select a pattern To select a pattern within the current bank simply press...

Page 25: ...the tempo on the master device For information about all of the Sync settings see section p 51 Note when external synced it is not guaranteed that the Drumbrute will work with tempi out of the range...

Page 26: ...u can enter Record mode on the fly while the pattern is looping by pressing the Record button Or if you prefer you can stop the pattern and then press Record Play to start from the beginning If you wa...

Page 27: ...the Output Filter controls are not saved with the pattern Select the filter type you want by toggling the HPF button When the button is dark i e off that means the Low Pass filter has been selected T...

Page 28: ...n the right Control Change will activate 1 8 Touching the strip on 1 8 will send value 25 Channel used is the the Global MIDI Channel of the Drumbrute 2 2 4 1 Looper Features Loop length The length of...

Page 29: ...layback of the pattern from the current position See section p 71 to learn more about these MIDI Control Center settings 2 3 All Notes Off It s possible for a MIDI message to be interrupted for some r...

Page 30: ...d they could change between patterns They will be reset to their individual Pattern Mode values when the song loops or is restarted 3 2 Selecting a Song To select a song press the Song Mode button and...

Page 31: ...rns within the new bank You can enter up to 16 patterns including the ones you repeated When you have finished building your song press the Record button to drop out of Song writing mode Press the Pla...

Page 32: ...y with the Cutoff knob To toggle the filter on and off press the Bypass button 3 6 1 2 The Looper Roller Strip While using the Looper Roller strip the Song continues to play in background so when you...

Page 33: ...5 After this every song and pattern in the DrumBrute will play at the same tempo which you may then set to whichever value you like as described in section p 29 3 6 2 2 Swing Randomness These features...

Page 34: ...without holding the Shift button 4 1 1 2 Tap tempo You can set the tempo of your Song using the Tap Tempo button All you have to do is tap the button at the desired rate and the tempo will change to m...

Page 35: ...p 20 4 1 3 2 Quantize Record By default when you are recording in real time the notes will be quantized according to the time division you have selected For example if 1 16 is the time division value...

Page 36: ...r a few minutes Press the Solo button to enter Solo mode When it is lit the Solo group is active Tap the Kick 2 Closed Hat and Open Hat pads When lit they are part of the group To toggle the Solo grou...

Page 37: ...4 the Roller output will be off by an eighth note after that bar The touchstrip also sends and responds to CC You can activate deactivate this option in the MCC see MCC Device Settings section p 72 4...

Page 38: ...ge will affect only the current instrument Then you can select the other instruments and edit their Swing settings also If the current instrument does not have its Current Track button lit and the Swi...

Page 39: ...n the pattern will be entirely random To put it bluntly the pattern will become increasingly disturbed as you increase the Randomness values You never know what you ll get but that s exactly the point...

Page 40: ...n the pattern Use the Step buttons to toggle events on and off as needed Events that you toggle from Off to On within Step mode will always be blue 4 2 2 Accent Mode Accent mode is a quick way to incr...

Page 41: ...new event Off Red Blue Red Off Red Red Off Red Off 4 2 4 Selecting a Drum 4 2 4 1 while paused To select an instrument track for individual editing simply tap a pad When the pad is lit solid that mea...

Page 42: ...ving to change the time division for the entire pattern Here are a couple of screen shots from the MIDI Control Center that should help illustrate the concept Step repeat events subdivide a step Step...

Page 43: ...ckwise The display will begin to show negative numbers from 1 to 50 The selected event is being shifted so it will play slightly earlier in the pattern as you will hear the next time the pattern loops...

Page 44: ...he pads will flash Press the Closed Hat pad This is the track that will be copied Press the instrument select button for the Maracas Tamb shared channel until the Tambourine LED is lit Tap the Maracas...

Page 45: ...ep buttons Press the Ptrn button Select the target pattern by pressing one of the Step buttons Tap the Closed Hat pad It will flash quickly so you will know the process is complete To copy the Closed...

Page 46: ...particular sections of the pattern 4 2 9 2 Lengths 16 steps To make your pattern longer than 16 steps will involve the Last Step button the buttons the Step Group LEDs and the Step buttons For exampl...

Page 47: ...ill flash quickly to indicate that your pattern has been saved to the internal memory 4 4 Copy a Pattern There may be times when you would like to have a pattern become the basis for another section w...

Page 48: ...tton Lots of buttons and pads will flash Press the Bank button again Step button 3 will flash which means it is the bank being copied Select bank D by pressing Step button 4 That button will flash rap...

Page 49: ...ween Banks pattern The following procedure will allow you to copy a single pattern from one bank into a different bank Let s say you d like to copy pattern 7 from Bank A to pattern location 15 in Bank...

Page 50: ...u know which pattern you want to erase This process cannot be undone Press the Erase button Lots of buttons and pads will flash Press the Ptrn button The Step button for the currently selected pattern...

Page 51: ...making the pattern 32 steps long Here are some rules to keep in mind If the pattern has 16 or more steps only the first 16 steps are copied and appended to the end If the pattern is shorter than 16 st...

Page 52: ...lding the Last Step button press Step button 16 It will turn blue which means the pattern is now 48 steps long If you want the pattern to be even shorter start over and press the button until the prop...

Page 53: ...ure of time signatures Instrument Kick 1 Kick 2 Snare Clap Rim Time signature 3 16 1 4 5 16 3 8 4 4 The Rim track is the longest so we ll use that as the timing reference for our discussion Here s how...

Page 54: ...hould now be only 3 steps long If so stop the pattern 8 Tap the Kick 2 pad to select it 9 Hold the Last Step button and press Step button 4 Kick 2 now has a 4 step loop 10 Press Step button 1 to add a...

Page 55: ...olyrhythm mode for the pattern Pad Choose current Drum to edit without triggering the sound Rate Fine Increments or decrements the tempo to the 100th decimal place Swing Shift all the active step of t...

Page 56: ...u ve selected Note The Sync setting cannot be changed while DrumBrute is playing a pattern 7 1 As Master DrumBrute is the master clock when the INT button is lit When this is the case The transport se...

Page 57: ...e one of the following clock signals at the Clock input and output connectors 1step one pulse per step or pps 2PPQ Korg Volca standard 24PPQ standard DIN sync 48PPQ The default rate is 24PPQ Note it i...

Page 58: ...Center features that are unique to DrumBrute 8 1 1 System requirements PC 2 GB RAM CPU 2 GHz Windows 7 or higher Mac 2 GB RAM CPU 2 GHz OS X 10 7 or higher 8 1 2 Installation and location After downl...

Page 59: ...Hub cable or you will have some Failed to open the device popup 8 1 4 Back up your sequences If you want to make a quick backup of your DrumBrute memory click the Recall From button This will grab wh...

Page 60: ...ed to the DrumBrute memory But edits made to patterns inside the MCC do not edit the patterns inside the DrumBrute IMPORTANT When you make a change in the Seq Editor window an asterisk will appear nex...

Page 61: ...p 59 Here s an expanded view of the banks inside a Template named Analog Forum with a secondary view of the patterns inside Bank A User Templates click to expand or collapse Template view 8 4 1 Build...

Page 62: ...d Template from the Local Templates window and drop it on the Working Memory or press the Store To button see section p 58 8 4 3 Send one pattern to DrumBrute Important The following process will send...

Page 63: ...ow To load a template into the DrumBrute memory you will need to use the Store To button to transmit it The process is simple Select the desired Template as shown below Click the Store To button at th...

Page 64: ...will see two buttons on the upper right labeled Import and Export The function of these buttons is to manage files containing only the Device Settings They are different from the buttons described in...

Page 65: ...nob value To edit a parameter such as Pause Mode click its pull down menu and make a selection Selecting a pull down menu option 8 7 2 Selecting the tabs The middle window of the MIDI Control Center h...

Page 66: ...is pattern It is also possible to edit the velocity timing shift and Step Repeat of individual notes You can also add and delete notes and more We ll go through each of the pattern editing features in...

Page 67: ...he window to reposition the pattern view Scroll bar location 8 8 1 2 Zoom To zoom in and out of the horizontal view place the cursor in the pattern field Then press Command Mac or Control Windows and...

Page 68: ...ea These steps can contain data but they will not play unless the pattern length is changed to include them The steps are numbered along the bottom of the window The pattern length may be changed by d...

Page 69: ...event already exists at the new location it will be replaced by the event you are moving It s also possible to move several events at the same time To do this first drag a box around the events with...

Page 70: ...d the Shift key on your computer keyboard and then click on an event Drag the cursor left and right to change the time shift value of that event The range is from 50 A small window will appear and sho...

Page 71: ...cursor left and right to change the Step Repeat value of that event to a value between 1 and 4 Four different Step Repeat values are available When all four Step Repeat values are used in the same tra...

Page 72: ...in the section p 33 Note In order for these settings to take effect you must enable the Current Track button for the same tracks on the DrumBrute 8 8 5 1 Swing Click and drag inside the left track wi...

Page 73: ...the white line at the end of the pattern length boundary and drag it left or right for any track independently Extending the length of a single Polyrhythm track In the image above the Tambourine trac...

Page 74: ...your working style Each time you connect the Drumbrute the device settings are automatically send from device to Midi Control Center When you change a setting on the mcc with a device plugged the cha...

Page 75: ...a signal from the front panel Sync selection 8 10 2 3 Tap Tempo Choose whether it will take 2 3 or 4 taps to set the Tempo 8 10 2 4 Global BPM This parameter allows you to override the independent Te...

Page 76: ...r levels it also can generate Step Repeats where none existed before 8 10 2 12 Vegas mode When this setting is active the DrumBrute front panel will begin to flash its buttons and pads if no activity...

Page 77: ...s 8 10 3 1 Roller Looper Mode When the Drumbrute is playing and record is disabled the touchstrip can have two different but exclusive behaviors Roller or Looper This option allow you to change this b...

Page 78: ...s MIDI Real Time messages while playing thus it will always remotely start a gear or a DAW which is in Slave mode and listening to MIDI Real Time messages 8 10 5 Drum Map The drum map settings The set...

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Page 80: ...apply to you All programs and accompanying materials are provided as is without warranty of any kind The complete risk as to the quality and performance of the programs is with you Should the program...

Page 81: ...in all the installations If this product is found to be the source of interferences witch can be determined by turning the unit OFF and ON please try to eliminate the problem by using one of the foll...