Arturia DrumBrute

Analog Drum Machine

PURE ANALOG BEATS

DrumBrute is an all-in-one analog drum machine designed with performance and in-depth sound editing at its heart. Give your music the analog impact it deserves!

Providing 17 distinct, fully analog drum and percussion instruments with an intuitive sequencer, massive connectivity, a two-mode Steiner-Parker filter, and dynamic performance controls, DrumBrute will take your beat production to the next level.

Create energetic and exciting drum beats with a single, user-friendly device. With its vast sonic potential and smooth workflow, DrumBrute meets and exceeds the expectations of demanding musicians. Bridging the gap between inspiration and technology, DrumBrute offers punchy analog drum sounds, advanced 64 step / 64 pattern sequencing possibilities and ultra-effective performance controls.

Strike the First Blow

Create your perfect kit using the best analog sounds

Every single one of the seventeen drum & percussion parts is 100% analog, and carries the savage DNA of the Brute synth family. DrumBrute is fully polyphonic, so all of its sounds can be played simultaneously and twisted by the nasty two-mode 12dB 

The Arturia DrumBrute packs 17 different drum sounds: kick 1, kick 2, snare, clap, hi-hat 1, hi-hat 2, conga hi, conga lo, tom hi, tom lo, maracas, rimshot, clave, tambourine, cymbal, reverse cymbal, and zap. Having two flavors of kick drum gives you a lot of flexibility in how you compose your grooves, and the unique analog reverse cymbal is a great way to transition between patterns. Speaking of patterns, the DrumBrute holds 64 patterns with up to 64 steps each.

Create complex polyrhythms

We’ve used a lot of drum machines at Sweetwater over the years, and we know that many don’t offer much capability when it comes to polyrhythms. The Arturia DrumBrute allows each individual drum track to be any length you like, allowing you to create polyrhythms with any combination of drum sounds.

Perform with pattern effects, and chain patterns with Song Mode

The DrumBrute offers performance effects like Pattern Looper (for beat repeats) and Step Repeat (for looping glitch effects) that make it a great instrument to improvise with. Song Mode allows you to chain patterns together into a longer composition, further expanding your ability to perform with the DrumBrute.

Studio-ready with 12 individual audio outputs

Once you’ve created an awesome drum pattern on your drum machine and want to get it into your DAW software for processing or mixing, the last thing you want to do is have to record your drum pattern one drum sound at a time onto separate tracks – that gets old real fast. The Arturia DrumBrute offers 12 individual audio outputs (plus a master mix output), making it easy to record grooves into your computer as multitrack audio.

Create dynamic grooves with per-track swing, randomness, and accent

Swing and accent are two of the most common ways to add dynamic interest to a drum machine pattern. Accent is available on each track individually, as you’d expect. Swing can be applied to your pattern as a whole, and you can also apply different swing amounts to individual drum tracks if you choose. DrumBrute also has a randomness option, perfect for creating a more human feel – you can apply that globally or on a per-track basis too.

FEATURES

• 17 pure analog drum sounds
• Kick 1, kick 2, snare, clap, hi-hat 1, hi-hat 2, conga hi, conga low, tom hi, tom low, maracas, rimshot, clave, tambourine, cymbal, reverse cymbal, zap.
• Wide-range controls allow for many new and unique sounds.
• 2 different flavors of kick drums
• Our unique analog Reverse Cymbal
• 64 patterns with up to 64 steps each
• Separate accent per drum
• Song mode for chaining patterns

Pattern effects

• Swing that can be global or per instrument
• Randomness per instrument for generating variations.
• Pattern Looper for beat repeat functions
• Steiner Parker output filter with bypass
• Multiple sync options

Internal

• MIDI
• Clock
• 1PPS, 2PPQ, DIN24, DIN48
• USB MIDI interface
• Mix audio output (unbalanced 1/4″ jack)
• Individual audio outputs (unbalanced 3.5mm jacks)
• Headphone output with both 3.5mm and 1/4” jacks
• Create polyrhythms
• Each drum track can be a separate length.