Blowing up the grainy first photo and comparing it to the Matrixbrute, you can see the part toward the right that might be a mtrix is considerably smaller. On the Matrixbrute its over an octave wide, almost an octave and a third. The unidentified keyboard it is only about a fifth wide, and looks square. The Matrixbrute is slighly wider than it is high.
are there other patchable polyphonic synths? I’m struggling to think of any… typically a patch point is a direct connection between audio points or cv modulation source and destination. I guess maybe they could have a mult behind every point though…?
but yeah you also don’t see 61 key mono synths either. so I’d assume poly.
You mean specifically with a button matrix? Otherwise there are lots of polyphonic synths with modulation matrixes. The Hydrasynth being only one example, plus it has the CV input that maps too. I must be missing something in what you’re saying.
no not a modulation matrix but via patch cables. these green and yellow/orange parts beneath VCO1 mix pot look like 3.5mm patch cable inputs, no? or are they LED’s? there’s a handful of 'em in the other pic further up-thread, with the One and Pro 3 in the pic.
So i notice the Matrixbrute is on sale at a variety of places. Three hundred dollars off here in the US and it looks like something equivalent in Europe.
Now there could be lots of reasons for that, just a plain old sale, or reaction to price and demand pressure due to economic conditions, or something else – so let’s jump to the conclusion that there will be a replacement analog paraphonic monosynth at a more affordable price point. The Matrixbrute 2 !
Then it would be a stripped down version. As the above picture shows it only has 2 oscillators and a noise. As the original had 3 oscillators, noise and external input.
I really like the stereo mixer after the Oscillators but before the filters like on the (digital) Hydrasynth. The analog equivalent of that would be nice.
Does anyone know Fred from the KS for his Buzzzy! polysynth? In the most recent update on the Buzzzy! KS page he mentions working with Arturia on the Microfreak and another unannounced product from them. If I had to speculate, I’d say he’s on the Polybrute team. Very interesting.
While being involved with several client projects, namely Arturia’s microFreak update and some yet confidential work, I managed to miraculously extract enough brain time to prepare you the hardware of a new desktop module.