Arturia Surprises With a 17 Voice Analog Drum Machine DrumBrute

Arturia has announced a new drum machine, DrumBrute, with 17 analog instruments. It has a two-mode 12dB Steiner-Parker filter to tweak the sound. It has a 64 step sequencer and patterns can be chained into longer songs. Patterns can be recorded with a step recording or real time recording. Swing can be applied to individual instruments or globally. The same applies to random-mode, individual instruments or the whole track can be created by the random function. Each instrument track can have their own length. Arturia DrumBrute has individual outs for each instrument.

Instruments: 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. Some instruments like Rom & Clave, Maracas & Tambourine, Conga hi & Tom hi, Conga low & Tom low and Cymbal & Reverse cymbal share the same controls. However they can all be played simultaneously.

It costs 449 € and can be pre-ordered. It will be available on 17th November. Go here to buy it now https://www.arturia.com/store/hardware-synths/drumbrute