Arturia Minibrute 2 / 2S - Let's Build a... Bass 

Really glad to hear that! If you have a Minibrute, I have 3 or 4 other videos like this with increasing complexity of how it can be pushed and pulled to do cool stuff - hopefully you'll find those useful too!

@@OscillatorSink Dude I've been watching all of them!! They're fantastic. I dont have a minibrute but I found this video while researching it and I think I'll be going for it as my next piece of gear.

Thank you so much! I hope you'll enjoy the next few I have planned.

Thanks for watching!

Have fun making BASS!

Yessir!

Hello and welcome to the channel!

Arturia make great controllers and sequencers! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Hehe, yeah, it's a pretty angry one. I'm enjoying my time with the Minibrute, it's very hands on in a good way. There'll be another patch walk through out soon!

@@OscillatorSink One can see that you're having fun :) Will you also combine it with the Digitakt?

I certainly won't rule that out...

Really glad you're enjoying it!

@@OscillatorSink U are very welcome and i'm waiting the next episode for a new insane patch ;)

I have enough already recorded - should edited and released next week!

@@OscillatorSink Cool ! It's a good news !

Another one coming next week!

You're excellent.

Expertly paired. Your are a Synth Sommelier.

As long as the mb2s is getting a clock from the DAW, there's a sync switch for each LFO - set it to Seq (for sequencer) for tempo sync. See section 5.2.1 (page 29) of the manual. The other way to do it would be to use one of the Mod tracks (sequencer track 3 or 4) in one of the LFO modes.

@@OscillatorSink yes, it syncs to the midi input, but the lfo does not restarts when a new note is pressed. i mean, that when i press a note the lfo is always at the random start position. And that is very important for the bass

@@radjan666 I think for that you'd probably want to use the A/D envelope in loop mode then.

Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it!

I want both of those other two synths you mentioned. Excellent taste.

@@OscillatorSink Ha, guess we both have an excellent taste in synths, then! :D This video made me buy a Perfourmer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fGZHjBJIeRU.html I was very happy to find a second hand "silver but with coloured knobs edition" for about 500 euro. Think its as good as the newer one. There was a minor difference bit cant remember what.. And dont forget.... 4 voice poly with each voice independently editable, or duo, or mono. Each voice can be set up in same or different midi channel. Yeah, she has something special ;)

I've got a DRM-1 that has gone criminally under-used this past year, I think I'm going to have to sell it to fund another piece. It's terrible to say because it's a sublime drum machine, but I don't think I can live with it not getting regular use.

@@OscillatorSink Can imagine. As far as I "researched" it, looks like a great and exotic (non-cliché) drum machine..extremely controllable with all the knobs... haha actually thought of buying it. If you said this a month earlier and lived in Holland, I might would have been going for it haha. But i guess thats a bit of the gripe for non-millionaire electronic music enthousiasts. Partly because of that I almost bought a second hand Deluge for its fantastic sequencer...but turned back to FL Studio and a Tascam 4x4 AI, controlling hardware..but having ultimate flexibility in producing. (This YT channel is only for fiddling around with some hardware ;) ) What do you plan to buy next?

@@dawlessstrolling5306 the top of my list is a Soma Pulsar23. It's the perfect drum machine for where I am now musically. But it's not cheap and there's a waiting list. But yeah. That's my main gear lust now after picking up Zoia finally.

Or is it that the LFO is linked to the VCA, so the overall amplitude/output, which increases naturally as the filter opens up, due to the filter envlope settings?

I think the confusion comes from the fact that you have the "Amp" (which is also a VCA), but also a utility VCA which isn't linked to the output - it's just used to amplify signals *inside* the patch. I used the utility VCA here. The LFO goes into its input (so that's the signal I'm amplifying / controlling); the output of the VCA is going into the filter cut off (via the attenuator), so the LFO is controlling the filter cut-off; then finally I'm controlling that utility VCA using the ADSR envelope (the one that's normalled to the filter FM) so that the amplitude of the VCA, and therefore the "strength" of the LFO is going up as the filter opens up, following the ADSR. Does that clear things up?

It does, thank you! @@OscillatorSink

No problem! Sorry that wasn't totally clear in the video.

@@OscillatorSink Thanks, I needed this explanation too :-)I'm not sure if this would involve these mixing operations, but I am trying to think of a way to recreate the pitch wheel and pitch bend range knob found on the keyboard version or Minibrute 1. Connecting the Keystep means you're stuck to only one pitch bend range unless you go into the software. I like to be able to use either a fifth or a whole tone, so I wonder if I could patch something using attenuators and the tuning button or even FM. So an attenuator could become a pitch wheel somehow and maybe the FM knob would set the range? Maybe I'm dreaming here...

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If you want it to happen 'automatically', you can send the LFO to the utility VCA and then patch another CV source into the CV input of the VCA (and then the output of the VCA to whatever you want the LFO to control). If you just want a knob to control the modulation amount, then you can just patch the LFO's output via one of the two attenuators.

@@OscillatorSink well in my daw i have aftertouch routed to my controller mod wheel so i can control filter cutoff with my modwheel .. i'd like to control lfo amount with my mod wheel but i'm having a hard time wrapping around how to accomplish this. im guessing something to do with the attenuators but when i start to think about it my brain goes into inception of inception mode

I'm pretty sure that by default the Mod Wheel should come up out of one of the two mod tracks, as long as it's sending the midi CC that is expected (which is 1 I think?). And if it's not, you can change what the mb2s is expecting in the Midi Control Centre software. So assuming the channel is set correctly etc. patch a mod track output into pitch and wiggle the Mod wheel. If it doesn't work, then try the other one, if that doesn't work then you'll need to play with the settings in MCC. Hope that helps!

Yes, and I dig into the Mod tracks a lot more in later videos. I was talking more about manually playable envelopes in this case. It'd be great to be able to re-purpose those tracks to just be an extra envelope or LFO that was key triggered. Actually I wonder if you could do that with the clock and reset inputs patched to the gate signal with the sequencer on 1ppqn? Never thought of trying that.

Yeah, that totally works, I stand corrected. Set the Mod track length to 1, patch keyboard gate into clock, make sure the sequence is 'playing' and the envelope on step 1 is an independently playable envelope. Obviously you can't use the sequencer conventionally then, but thanks for pointing that out.

Sorry. It seems like this is an impossible balance to strike to please everyone in every environment. Glad you're enjoying the synth though.

@@OscillatorSink Sure! :D

Great vid tho - subscribed! :)

Cheers friend.

Glad you chose to stick around friend.