User Manual

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Table Of Contents

User Manual
Special Thanks
- DIRECTION
- ENGINEERING
- MANUAL
- DESIGN
- SOUND DESIGN
- TESTING
- BETA TESTING
Thank you for purchasing the Arturia PolyBrute!
Special Message Section
- Specifications Subject to Change:
- IMPORTANT:
- NOTICE:
- Precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:
Introduction
Table Of Contents
Overview
- Front panel
- Rear panel
  - Connections
- About this manual
PolyBrute Basics
- User interface
- Master controls
- Auto-tune PolyBrute
- What is digitally-controlled analog?
- Load a preset
- Try this!
Create a Patch
- Subtractive synthesis
- Create a new patch
- Save the patch
- That was only sound A...
Voice Architecture
- A note about tuning
- Morph basics
- VCOs 1 and 2
- Mixer
- LFOs
- Filters
- Filter FM
  - VCO 2 > VCF 1
  - Noise > VCF 2
- Envelopes
- Stereo spread
- FX routing selector
Performance Controls
- Wheels
  - Pitch
  - The Wheel
- Octave buttons
- Morphée
- Voice/control mode buttons
- Glide
  - Glide in Split mode
- Morph knob
- Ribbon controller
- Aftertouch
- Expression pedals
- Motion recorder
  - The Stretch factor
  - Exceptions
- Voice allocation modes
  - Polyphonic allocation
  - Unison / mono allocation
Working with Presets
- Selecting a preset
- Snapshots
- Random patch generation
- Panel mode
- Saving a preset
Working with Mods
- Creating a mod route
- Mod source list
  - What is the Voices source?
Sequencer Mode
- Common features
- The Arpeggiator
  - ARP home page
    - Octave range
    - Copy to Seq
  - Play Mode: Arp
    - Pattern mode
- The Sequencer
- Matrix Arpeggiator
- Sequence Management
Step Record / Edit
- What's the difference?
- Overwrite vs. overdub
- Step Record
  - Enter / edit one step
  - Enter / edit many steps
- Step edit: Notes
- Step record: Mods
Morph Mode
- What is Morph Mode?
  - Morph vs. crossfade
- The Morph knob
- Morphing with Morphée
- Morph and mod routes
- Morphing sounds
  - Editing sounds A and B
  - Morph utilities
- What can morph?
The Effects
- FX routing
- Modulation
- Delay
- Reverb
  - Reverb filter options
Settings
- Settings overview
- Preset: Voice
- Preset: Out section
- Preset: Expression control
- Preset: Preset info
- Global: Sync
- Global: Keyboard
- Global: MIDI
- Global: Misc
Specifications
- MIDI Continuous Controller assignments
Software License Agreement
Declaration of Conformity

1. OVERVIEW

This chapter provides a quick look at the PolyBrute features, front and back. Links are

included to many sections for further reading.

1.1. Front panel

1.1.1. Left side

Number Section Description

1 Performance controls Wheels [p.35], Octave buttons [p.36], Morphée [p.36]

2 Headphone jack Stereo headphone connector

Voice management / Control routing

[p.37]

Polyphony, Timbrality, Wheel/Morphée routing, Glide

[p.40]

4 Morph control knob [p.40] Adjust balance between sounds A and B

5 Voice parameters [p.21] VCOs, Filter FM, Noise, Mixer, VCFs, Envelopes, LFOs

6 Keyboard, ribbon controller [p.40]

Keyboard: velocity-sensitive, channel aftertouch

Ribbon: route to any parameter via Mod Matrix

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