Arturia DRUMBRUTE IMPACT, User Manual

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Page 2: ...ll ARTURIA SA 2018 All rights reserved 11 Chemin de la Dhuy 38240 Meylan FRANCE www arturia com Information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commit...

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

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: ...egrate and synchronize with any computer system MIDI rig or vintage setup Main features of the DrumBrute Impact 10 instruments including an FM drum Completely analog signal generation and signal path...

Page 6: ...lock input output 17 1 5 2 MIDI input output 17 1 5 3 USB 17 1 5 4 Power 17 1 6 Rear panel part 2 18 1 6 1 Headphones 18 1 6 2 Mix Output 18 1 6 3 Individual Outs 19 2 Basic Operations 20 2 1 Working...

Page 7: ...Step Repeat feature 46 4 2 7 Shift timing of events 47 4 2 8 Copy a Drum Track 48 4 2 9 Erasing a Drum Track 50 4 2 10 Pattern Length 51 4 3 To Revert a Pattern or Bank 53 4 3 1 Revert a Pattern withi...

Page 8: ...Template 76 9 4 3 Send one pattern to DrumBrute Impact 77 9 5 Store To Recall From 78 9 5 1 The Store To button 78 9 5 2 Recall edited patterns from the DrumBrute Impact 78 9 5 3 Save Delete Import E...

Page 9: ...and its pads can used as input devices for various applications The free downloadable MIDI Control Center p 70 software allows you to specify which MIDI notes and commands will be transmitted by the...

Page 10: ...her 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...

Page 11: ...ow the tempo value in beats per minute BPM but it will also change temporarily to show the values of the Pattern Effects Random or Swing while they are being edited In Song mode it will display the Pa...

Page 12: ...which it was paused or restart from the beginning Use the MIDI Control Center p 70 to define the Play Pause behavior p 96 The DrumBrute Impact allows both quantized and unquantized recording Recordin...

Page 13: ...on p 68 section 1 2 6 Step buttons One main use for the sixteen Step buttons is to select patterns in Pattern mode But they serve many other purposes as well For example in Step mode they are used to...

Page 14: ...etail here p 59 1 2 7 1 Save button The Save button is used in conjunction with the Song Bank and Pattern mode buttons to preserve the patterns you have created Your new pattern data will be lost duri...

Page 15: ...ting this control can affect the entire pattern or only the current instrument track leaving the others untouched For more details on these features see the Swing p 42 Shift timing p 47 and Random p 4...

Page 16: ...ever there is an independent Drive effect for the Kick that can be added using the Color feature The Drive effect is available at the independent Kick output See the Color mode section p 34 for more i...

Page 17: ...t away which mode is active when you press the Shift button if Step button 9 is lit the Touch strip is in Roller mode If it is not lit it is in Looper mode This parameter p 97 can be set in the MIDI C...

Page 18: ...act is running Various timing values are available for the click from the front panel and in the MIDI Control Center p 70 See this section p 21 for more information The click level is controlled by th...

Page 19: ...lo buttons see this section p 40 1 3 3 Shift button The Shift button is used in conjunction with other controls to perform secondary functions such as Fine Tempo adjustment or clearing the Mute group...

Page 20: ...led an instrument channel Some instrument channels are shared by two instruments For example the cymbal and cowbell instruments are both found within the Cym Cow channel This is known as a shared chan...

Page 21: ...ated by the row of text below the pads For example the color parameter for the Kick is Drive while the color parameter for the Hi Low Toms is Decay There are some important variations to keep in mind...

Page 22: ...to send and receive MIDI note and clocking data between the DrumBrute Impact and MIDI compatible devices 1 5 3 USB This port provides the data connections to a computer In addition to synchronizing th...

Page 23: ...of all other connection options is the same for the headphones and the Mix Output When a cable is plugged into one of the individual outs that instrument channel s signal will be removed from both the...

Page 24: ...uments that share a channel such as the Closed and Open Hats both instruments will be removed from the Mix Output upon insertion of the cable The output level of each instrument channel is set by the...

Page 25: ...ore about this feature 2 1 2 Select a pattern To select a pattern within the current bank simply press one of the Step buttons 1 16 If you are still in Bank mode you will need to press the Ptrn button...

Page 26: ...hen you must set the tempo on the master device Follow the link for information about the Sync p 68 settings When synced to an external device the DrumBrute Impact might not track properly with a temp...

Page 27: ...n 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 want to keep what you ve created be sure to save the...

Page 28: ...econdary features 2 2 1 Time Division options The first five Step buttons select the Time Division for the current pattern Options range from 1 8 to 1 32 and include triplet options Hold Shift and pre...

Page 29: ...ggle between these behaviors hold the Shift button and press Step button 14 If that button is lit when you press the Shift button that means the At End feature is active This setting also can be edite...

Page 30: ...is 50 and the maximum value is 75 This section p 42 covers everything about the Swing feature For example each instrument within a pattern can have its own Swing setting 2 3 2 Random feature Increasi...

Page 31: ...the Roller Looper p 97 section or it can be toggled from the front panel of the DrumBrute Impact using Shift Step button 9 Step 9 lit up Roller Looper enabled Press the Touch strip while the DrumBrute...

Page 32: ...MCC Device Settings p 93 section For full details about the MIDI behavior of the touch strip see the Roller Looper MIDI section p 97 of that chapter The Looper Roller sends and receives on the Global...

Page 33: ...me of each instrument Play an accented note and the decay time will increase sightly on both instruments Add the Color effect to the Closed Hat and its decay time will increase a bit more The Open Hat...

Page 34: ...locity Threshold increases the decay time and or timbre slightly depending on the instrument The Accent Velocity Threshold p 95 is the same for all instruments and is set using the MIDI Control Center...

Page 35: ...olume of the Snare 1 instrument Color Enable disable Body effect for the Snare 1 instrument 3 2 3 Snare 2 Parameter Description Decay Controls the length of the Snare 2 sound Tone Sweeps the filter fr...

Page 36: ...uments share a single analog voice channel and so only one can be heard at a time But there are some independent adjustments that can be made to each instrument 3 2 7 1 Closed Hat Parameter Descriptio...

Page 37: ...tor FM Amount Adjusts the impact the Modulator has upon the Carrier Decay Controls the length of the FM Drum instrument Carrier Pitch Changes the frequency of the Carrier Level Adjusts the volume of t...

Page 38: ...return it to the top of the range 3 Do the same thing with the Decay knob while playing the pad turn it all the way down and back up to hear how that affects the length of the Carrier sound 4 Very car...

Page 39: ...can be locked into Color Hold mode p 16 by holding Shift and pressing the Color button Before we dive into the details let s take a quick look at what Color mode means for each instrument 3 4 Color c...

Page 40: ...Tap the Kick drum pad until it turns dark Release the Color button Next start the experiment again trying each instrument The silkscreened labels under each pad will tell you what its dedicated Color...

Page 41: ...ber Normal Accent Color no Accent Color with Accent 1 x 5 x 9 x 13 x Here s a different view of the same track Step number Accent Color 1 No No 5 Yes No 9 No Yes 13 Yes Yes There s another important t...

Page 42: ...refer to the MIDI Control Center chapter specifically the Add remove Color events section p 85 It may provide additional insight into Color mode through visual aids 37 Arturia User Manual DrumBrute Im...

Page 43: ...t button To reset the fine tune value to zeroes turn the Rate Fine encoder 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...

Page 44: ...ording 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 then the recorded notes will quantize forward or backwar...

Page 45: ...t channel to access the other instrument 4 1 4 2 Clear the Group Rather than entering Mute Solo mode and de selecting each pad in the group you can clear the group immediately by holding the Shift but...

Page 46: ...1 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 97...

Page 47: ...um Swing values in musical notation 4 1 7 1 Current Track The Current Track button enables each instrument to have its own Swing setting After you press that button changes to the swing percentage wil...

Page 48: ...tep on off The velocity of note events Accent on off The Random encoder has a range of 0 100 with 0 having no effect on the music But at 100 the rhythm velocity and even the existence of note data wit...

Page 49: ...e also visible as red steps within Step mode Use the Step buttons to enter Accent events Events that you toggle from Off to On within Accent mode will always be red Events that are blue indicate that...

Page 50: ...event Off Red Blue Red Off Red Red Off Red Off 4 2 5 Selecting a Drum 4 2 5 1 while paused To select an instrument track for individual editing simply tap a pad When the pad is lit solid that means t...

Page 51: ...Ds will activate While recording or playing back a pattern the position of your finger will trigger loops or drum rolls and divide the beat by halves cut 1 4 in half and you get 1 8 cut 1 8 in half an...

Page 52: ...e beat it can increase the sense of urgency in the music The DrumBrute Impact allows you to shift the timing of any step forward or backward by up to 50 of the pattern s timing value It s easy to do C...

Page 53: ...nt to a different instrument in any pattern even the same pattern the Color information will not be copied For example If you copy Snare 1 from pattern 2 and paste that to the Cymbal track on pattern...

Page 54: ...e Closed Hat pad 4 2 8 4 Between banks same instrument The process of copying an instrument track between patterns in different banks is almost identical to the procedures described above We ll only c...

Page 55: ...release the Erase button The Erase Bank and Ptrn buttons and all of the pads will flash If you need to erase the track for only one instrument from a shared channel be sure to use the instrument selec...

Page 56: ...e pressed at the same time their LEDs will toggle off and on This takes the DrumBrute Impact into and out of Pattern Follow mode When this mode is active during a 32 step pattern the Step Group LEDs a...

Page 57: ...LED over 32 Steps 17 32 dark LED over 16 Pink LED over 32 White Red The Red LED indicates the current Step Group within the pattern The White LED means that the last step in the pattern is in that Ste...

Page 58: ...the Step buttons to select the pattern you want to revert Hold the Shift button Press the Ptrn mode button 4 3 2 Revert the current Bank Hold the Shift button Press the Bank mode button 4 4 Save the...

Page 59: ...buttons will flash to indicate you are in Copy mode Step button 1 should be lit solid which means it is the pattern being copied You want to copy a pattern not a bank so press the Ptrn button The Copy...

Page 60: ...ossible but these are not global edits and they could change between patterns 5 2 Selecting a Song To select a song press the Song Mode button and then press the Step button that corresponds to the nu...

Page 61: ...t the Songs It is possible to restore a song to the last version that was most recently saved to the Flash memory But you must do this before saving copying or erasing any of the other songs in Song m...

Page 62: ...the Song continues to play in the background so when you release the Touch strip it will jump to the place it would have been in the music if the Looper Roller hadn t been activated The Looper strip w...

Page 63: ...ter detail in the Pattern Mode chapter p 38 When using them in Song mode keep in mind that any edits you make with the Swing and Random encoders could reset to the Pattern mode values when a pattern b...

Page 64: ...the Copy button 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 wi...

Page 65: ...buttons will go dark except one for the original source button Just before selecting the destination you can see whether a pattern is empty or not Patterns that are not empty will be lit red but empty...

Page 66: ...you want to erase It will flash rapidly for about a second When the flashing stops the process is complete 6 5 Erasing a Pattern To erase one of the patterns in a bank Be sure you know which pattern...

Page 67: ...t Step Here are some rules to keep in mind If the pattern has more than 32 steps this process will copy append as many steps as possible until the maximum number of steps is reached 64 If the pattern...

Page 68: ...ast 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 proper Step Gro...

Page 69: ...e signature such as 4 4 or 12 8 For example with a single measure of 4 4 there are sixteen 16th notes and if a drum only plays on the downbeat it must wait another 15 steps before it plays again But w...

Page 70: ...bar And during the second bar The second loop Snare 1 is highlighted as a rhythmic reference It plays on quarter notes 1 2 3 and 4 and the Tom Low will play on beat 1 every time But the other instrume...

Page 71: ...long If so stop the pattern 9 Tap the Snare 1 pad to select it 10 Hold the Last Step button and press Step button 4 Snare 1 now has a 4 step loop 11 Release the Last Step button 12 Press Step button 1...

Page 72: ...yrhythm mode for the pattern Pad Choose an instrument to edit without triggering the sound Rate Fine Increment or decrement the tempo to the 100th decimal place Swing Shift the timing of all steps in...

Page 73: ...sent to MIDI out USB MIDI and the Clock output The tempo can be set using the Rate Fine encoder and the Tap Tempo button Hold Shift and turn the Rate Fine encoder to fine tune the tempo 8 2 As Slave D...

Page 74: ...94 menu in the MIDI Control Center It is better to synchronize the DrumBrute Impact with 48P if other devices in the system send or receive that sync format The synchronization will be more accurate 1...

Page 75: ...IDI Control Center features that are unique to DrumBrute Impact 9 1 1 System requirements PC 2 GB RAM CPU 2 GHz Windows 7 or higher macOS 2 GB RAM CPU 2 GHz macOS 10 7 or higher 9 1 2 Installation and...

Page 76: ...after its LEDs go through the startup cycle Now launch the MIDI Control Center The DrumBrute Impact will be in the list of connected devices The use of a high quality hub and cables will help prevent...

Page 77: ...CC Basic Operations In the MIDI Control Center there are plenty of features available For example you are able to drag and drop one of the patterns in the Project Browser to one of the Bank tabs send...

Page 78: ...e Store To button to send the Template to the DrumBrute Impact if you want its internal memory to match the MCC Template You can also drag drop the Template to the Working Memory see the next section...

Page 79: ...From section p 78 to learn how to do this A Template in the MCC contains the same number of patterns as the internal memory of the DrumBrute Impact and it also has them arranged into four banks of 16...

Page 80: ...From button This will transfer the DrumBrute Impact pattern memory into the Working Memory of the MCC At the same time the MCC will also create a new Template in the User Templates area The Template...

Page 81: ...pact there are two ways The following process will overwrite the Working Memory and the pattern memory of the DrumBrute Impact Be sure to save what you were doing before you transfer the file First us...

Page 82: ...Template to the DrumBrute Impact find that pattern in the Local Templates window and drop it onto the Working Memory This will send the selected pattern directly into the DrumBrute Impact at that same...

Page 83: ...ry 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 the bottom of the window This process will stor...

Page 84: ...Export The Import Export buttons pictured above perform a different function from those at the top of the Device Settings window see the next section p 80 These files will have the extension drumbrute...

Page 85: ...the extension drumbruteimpact_ds You can swap these files with other users or build a library of configurations for the different systems you encounter in different locations 9 6 1 Export Device Setti...

Page 86: ...uch as Pause Mode click its pull down menu and make a selection 9 7 2 Selecting the tabs The middle window of the MIDI Control Center has five tabs Banks A D and Device Settings Each bank contains 16...

Page 87: ...he 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 as we describe the Pattern Window p 83 9 7...

Page 88: ...osition the pattern view 9 8 1 2 Zoom To zoom in and out of the horizontal view place the cursor in the pattern field Then press Command macOS or Control Windows and use the scroll wheel to adjust the...

Page 89: ...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 drag...

Page 90: ...mall orange rectangle beneath it A Color event has been placed under the second event but since a Kick event does not exist at that step location an event will not be played The third Kick event is a...

Page 91: ...box around the events with the cursor Next click on the middle of one of the events and drag the selected events up down left or right If one of the selected events moves beyond the Kick or FM Drum in...

Page 92: ...velocity value and red is the highest velocity value When the velocities of multiple events are edited at the same time they will all change to the same value If the velocity value of an event is rais...

Page 93: ...graphic that represents the event will shift too In the image above the Cymbal has two events that are not shifted while the third event has been shifted late by a value of 34 Shift timing is measure...

Page 94: ...ontal arrow icon Drag the cursor left and right to change the Step Repeat value of that event to a value between 1 and 4 When all four Step Repeat values are used in the same track the result can be a...

Page 95: ...d from the MCC to the DrumBrute Impact In order for these changes to reside in the physical unit you can use the Store To function or drag the current Template to the Working Memory area of the MCC 9...

Page 96: ...r track This performs the same function as the front panel Swing Current Track button It enables a track to have an independent Swing setting from the other tracks in the pattern Rand cur track This p...

Page 97: ...e white line at the end of the pattern length boundary and drag it left or right for any track independently In the image above the Cowbell track has been extended from 16 steps to 18 while the Hat an...

Page 98: ...time the DrumBrute Impact is connected the Device Settings are automatically sent from the unit to the MIDI Control Center When one of the Device Settings is changed on the MCC that setting is also ch...

Page 99: ...ignal it receives and when the clock signal stops the DrumBrute Impact will switch to Internal clock If the incoming Analog clock signal stops or drops out the DrumBrute Impact will stop too because i...

Page 100: ...ction p 99 for more information 9 10 2 8 Sequencer sends MIDI notes You can choose whether the sequencer will send MIDI note data or not The available options are Off no MIDI note data sent USB MIDI U...

Page 101: ...10 2 15 Local Control This parameter determines whether the DrumBrute Impact will be played by its own pads and sequencer or only by incoming MIDI data When set to Off the sound producing part of the...

Page 102: ...ching MIDI CC message is received by the DrumBrute Impact You can change the MIDI CC number of the Touch strip see the Device Settings p 93 section But the MIDI CC values sent and recognized by the To...

Page 103: ...transmit the same type of MIDI information though MMC MIDI CC or both The DrumBrute Impact will always send MIDI Clock type messages MIDI Real Time messages while playing thus it will always remotely...

Page 104: ...a field and type in the desired number The Cowbell does not have a Color effect so the MCC does not display a Colored Cowbell value field For information about the Color effects for each instrument c...

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Page 107: ...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 followin...