Arturia Minibrute 2S - Let's Build an... 8-Bit / Arcade Arpeggiator

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In episode 4 of the series where we're building patches from scratch on the Arturia Minibrute 2S, we're going retro and drawing inspiration from 8-bit and arcade chip-tune sounds and building a patch with a distinctive style of arpeggiator.
Along the way we take a look at the CV sequencing provided by the Mod tracks and look at how we can overcome unintentional attenuation.
Transparency Notice: The MicroBrute 2S and DrumBrute Impact were kindly provided to me by Arturia.
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@tarqu1no39 5 лет назад

I'm loving all these tutorials, you're really bringing the MB to life for me, and that 1980's Open Universityesque tone and methodical, detailed walkthroughs. are all good stuff!,

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Thank you, and thanks for checking them out!

@saladfatoosh2293 4 года назад

I am new to synths. My 1st, a Minibrute 2s arrives tomorrow. This and the "Let's make a bass" video were the main impetus!

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

Woop! Enjoy your new synth!

@elblito86 5 лет назад

Man your videos are so awesome. Loved this patch. I recently bought a minibrute 2s and im still exploring it. Its my first analog synth and it has been really cool so far but sometimes i get frustrated when i cant make what i imagine the sound should be. Your videos have helped me a lot!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Thank you, and I'm glad that I'm helping you enjoy your new synth, have fun with it!

@MichaelMoore-bx6st 4 года назад

This is a monster synth in the right hands. Great video!

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@leandromiquet4820 5 лет назад

Amazing!! I've had the MB2S for a couple of months and each of your videos make me feel I made a great choice. Keep this up!!

@zenbeeby2986 4 года назад

Got my MB2S yesterday followed your patch etc .... got a slightly different sound but damned awesome ....keep doing the vids both informative and easy to follow so glad I got it now ... be nice for a vid of MB2S and DB impact ..... Brilliant ...Big Thumbs up

@knwohwo9737 3 года назад

super interesting! gave me a new view on what you can do with the sequencer!

@dwdougherty 5 лет назад

Getting hit on the back of the head with a shovel full of nostalgia is a perfect start to my Saturday. This one even made my wife giggle. So cool!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Haha, I'm glad you liked it friend!

@LeonTrimble 3 года назад

Castlevania in spaaaace!

@longfade 5 лет назад

Another great one. I can't believe how much you bring to the YT synth community with your videos.

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

❤️

@MrBasic 5 лет назад

This is an awesome patch! Thank you! Better even than a P.O.

@jonridley 4 года назад

more greatness. ive got one hooked up to my modular case and loving it. your tips are proving useful

@df0rce 4 года назад

Amazing stuff! Now I am eager to apply it.

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

Have fun!

@SteveEngledow 4 года назад

Man I really wish I'd bought the 2S instead of the 2 😣 The video was excellent though! I've been watching a few of this series and for the MicroFreak too. Great stuff 👍

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

The sequencer on the 2 is great as well, but what you can do with the two extra tracks on the 2S does elevate the synth for me (as someone who's a terrible keyboard player anyway!)

@RealBassist 5 лет назад

Such an awesome patch! Thanks a lot for sharing, your work is deeply appreciated!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@hector3550 Год назад

Maestro!!

@humanerror3139 4 года назад

Thankyou so much this is my first synth and your vids have helped me no end. You know that you're a genius with the minibrute 2s right? Wicked stuff. Thankyou 👍🏻

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

I hope you're enjoying your synth!

@dynatwenty Год назад

Great videos man!

@JaseLovesDub 4 года назад

Just discovered your channel and this is a *great* walkthrough. Excellent work! :)

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

Welcome to the channel! I hope you find some other content you like too!

@JaseLovesDub 4 года назад

@@OscillatorSink There's acres of it :)

@gabesudholt 4 месяца назад

Excellent

@fern6956 5 лет назад

Really Great stuff! Keep up the good work, Great inspiration!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@Expectaz 4 года назад

Thanks! Great tip

@djhockeetime7681 5 лет назад

Thanks great video very educational

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@oldschoolSupertech 5 лет назад

Sounds great! And I enjoy the creative patch-around for voltage scaling - thank you. It seems too that if one is willing to just dial in notes by ear (like you do later in the video to make non-octave steps), you could skip some of the patching... yah? Cheers and thanks again for a great video!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Yeah, definitely - everything will work the same, you just won't have those nice neat numbers as signposts (but on the upside you have a VCA to use for something else!)

@thesrabbit 5 лет назад

So good!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@Dettol68 5 лет назад

Making me love my investment in my 2S thank you

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

I love hearing that I'm helping people get more from their synths, thank you!

@mousikavinteo 5 лет назад

Keep it up my man!

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Will do!

@EmperorDoom 5 лет назад

I've been holding on to a c64 specifically for sounds like this but It's such a huge pain to interface it with anything. I think I'll sell it and pit it towards a 2s.

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

You could also try to track down a Therapsid or SID Station if it's that c64 thing in particular. But you can get most of the way here!

@orgoneheart 5 лет назад

I just got a secondhand Therapsid mk1 for a reasonable price. It might need a replacement SID chip, as it tends to have a mind of its own, like it has its own unique character and I have to say I absolutely love its sound. As a heads up, Twisted Electrons are releasing another Sid style synth called TherapKid, but it is a digital Sid style, it is a bit cheaper than the analog versions tho.

@_panSlonik_ 5 лет назад

Honestly, I would pay serious money for SID/FPGASID-based „groovebox” like thing with all the knobs and sequencer, like Circuit Mono Station (which I found really nice, much underrated machine)

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Yeah. I think a lot of people would. That'd be killer.

@_panSlonik_ 5 лет назад

Oscillator Sink Someone should call Elektron, they have knowledge and resources. Many people would just throw they wallets for SidStation in form of Digitaktone box based on that hardware platform.

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

A Digi Monomachine Mk. 3 you say?..

@_panSlonik_ 5 лет назад

Oscillator Sink Exactly, but more “correct” in terms of SID compatibility as current hardware and software solutions can be much closer to the original than Monomachine emulation was. Also, it would be better for me personality, as I recently found MD MkII-UW completely out of nowhere, and now I’m hopelessly looking for MnM which is quite unobtainium recently, even considering these offers with crazy prices, almost nothing in EU right now. And I’m surely not the only one looking forward for it :)

@MrSpiderkells 5 лет назад

Problem is we are running out of SID chips. Elektron bought up all the stock when MOS stopped making them for Commodore.@@_panSlonik_

@Digithalis 5 лет назад

great tutorial video :-)

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Cheers!

@sebastianx8128 2 года назад

...Let's see if there is a video about how to make 8bit sound on the minibrute... Boom there it is. Thank you so much for this! Two questions though, since I am not very experienced yet: 1. How do you make the sequenced sound to be played only when triggered by your fingers? (When i hit play, it is played nonstop...) 2. My sound is way deeper than yours even though i have the exact same settings as you... at least the ones that I can see on the poties... Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Sebastian

@OscillatorSink 2 года назад

1. Make sure your main "pitch" sequence is empty 2. Try changing octave on the keyboard, otherwise it's probably a case of retuning your oscillators.

@sebastianx8128 2 года назад

@@OscillatorSink 🧡 thank you so much!

@gilberth_ Год назад

GReat!

@MrSpiderkells 5 лет назад

@oscillatorsink I've watched all of your videos on the Minibrute. I just put them on in the background when I am messing around. I have a question for you: I've started to experience an issue with the sequencer and was wondering if you have had the same problem. When I hold load and jump from one sequence to another there is a delay of about 2 seconds ? Very strange. The delay was not there before. I wonder if it's got to do with me filling up the spare banks with my own sequences and the cpu can't handle it or something. Cheers, Stephen

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

I haven't, sorry - are you running the most up to date firmware? You can check using the Midi Control Centre software - updating is pretty painless and it's worth ruling that out...

@seekersystems 2 года назад

Hi OS - love your vids. Do you/ did you get any tuning probs with M2S?

@OscillatorSink 2 года назад

Thanks! In terms of tracking? No, not that I noticed. In terms of drift - no more than you'd expect from VCOs, which is to say - yeah it drifts a bit, but tends to be more stable after it has warned up for a while.

@seekersystems 2 года назад

@@OscillatorSink thanks mate, still riffing off your OPSIX krell /juno patches. Keep it up.

@OscillatorSink 2 года назад

Cheers, happy to help!

@CoenBijpost 5 лет назад

Wouldn’t it have been easier to double the volts going to the fm input and use the fm pot to fine tune the octave. You wouldn’t have to disconnect the attenuator, didn’t have to use the amp AND have used the fm attenuator for what it’s made for. Bit nitpicking, but I normally like to use as little of the utilities so they remain free for when they are really useful. Great vid, btw, learned a lot from these vids! Edit: maybe your way is a bit cleaner for programming the sequence, now that I think about it...

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Poooossssssibly yeah, that should work for the straight octave jumps, but remember that in the higher volt modes you lose a lot of accuracy with the voltages you can pick. It's already a bit tight when it comes to those "in-between" notes on 5v mode in terms of tuning, I think you might struggle to get the more interesting arps in tune on 8v mode (which you'd need to go to to get the same range). Glad you're enjoying the series though!

@CoenBijpost 5 лет назад

Oscillator Sink just tried, I found that the best method was to use 1.2V per octave. That way you can fine tune using the fm knob and then every note in the octave is precisely 0.10V, which makes finding in between notes a breeze. Yeah, I’m really finding out a lot of new stuff because of your vids. I love the minibrute 2s! minibtrute 2 users miss out on a lot. The sequencer makes a lot possible, like paraphony, playing a bassline, bass drum and hihat sequence at the same time, and so much more!

@tekfunk6299 3 года назад

12:26 Knight Rider

@augustosuarez1642 5 лет назад

💪👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

👾🤖👾🤖👾

@tothefinlandstation 4 года назад

Would it be possible to use the two VCA inputs to combine the output of the Keyboard out with the voltage from the mod lane and send the output of that to the VCO pitch input?

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

I think so, but you'd have to get it exactly at unity amplification otherwise it won't scale. I'll have to try.

@tothefinlandstation 4 года назад

@@OscillatorSink According to the manual "This jack [VCA out] will output the combined signals of the In 1 and In 2 jacks at their raw input levels unless they are controlled by an input voltage at the CV jack," but that doesn't seem to be true. It does seem to attenuate the level somewhat. Just running the output from the KYB out to the VCA input, and from the VCA out to the VCO pitch in, and the pitch doesn't track right anymore.

@chrisjoseph9230 Год назад

Can the sounds made be saved into the Synth? I tried but I don't think it saved. I would go back to try to find it but couldn't.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

No, you can only save sequences, the synth itself is all analogue - it would be tricky to "save" which patches are plugged in for example.

@chrisjoseph9230 Год назад

@@OscillatorSink Thank You! I made some cool sounding sequences too.

@df0rce 4 года назад

How can you increase the speed of the pitch track? Tempo only affects the Velo track.

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

Tempo affects all of the tracks... Could you explain what you're trying and what's happening? If you turn up the tempo then all of the tracks should move faster.

@df0rce 4 года назад

In your video at the very end you can see that the pitch track is moving slower. I guess I figured it out. I changed from 1/4 to 1/16 and it run quicker. Thanks

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

@@df0rce yeah, that's it! As soon as you set the Mod Tracks away from being velocity and pressure, you can change their divisions independently of one another - and their lengths for that matter. One really cool thing to try that's related to that feature is try having the the Mod Tracks provide your gate pattern - patch it into the trigger in of the ADSR. Then you can set the divisions and lengths differently to your pitch sequence. Some really cool melodic ideas can pop out!

@awesomeduder 5 лет назад

morelike Oscillator SID, amirite

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

👾

@validcore 5 лет назад

Mega Man vibes.

@OscillatorSink 5 лет назад

Megaman 2, Wily's Castle, First stage ❤️

@ogulkoker 4 года назад

Or we can program octave jumps in Ableton send it through MIDI in?

@OscillatorSink 4 года назад

You could straight up sequence the quick octave jumps, yes, but it'd be a slightly different vibe as you wouldn't have the free running sequencer running at the same time, so it'd be a little more precise - which could be what you want.