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I just got a Microbrute. Anything I should know from an iOS perspective?
I'm having a great time, by the way. I've been trying to resist hardware because of the way it depletes both space and money. But hey, buzz buzz.
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If you're anything like me you're already in trouble, Microbrute was my gateway drug....
My gateway would be a mixer/multi in interface.:(
Yes me too, Volcas then Microbrute.....next .. (perhaps a Minilogue)
Modstep has a cc mapping for it. Although the Microbrute doesn't have much in the way of midi cc in unfortunately.
This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for.
Anything else?
Derek @MusicInclusive has some great videos on his yt channel with the brute. I don't know how to share a channel so here is one of his vids
Also, check out midibrute for iPhone
https://appsto.re/us/hdUp8.i
Indeed.
You can do all of that stuff in something like MIDI Designer but for two bucks it's kind of a no-brainer.
Hey - thanks for the shoutout @TGiG
I saw a vid someone did using an Ifo app or something plugging an iPhone into the patchbay. I think at some point a microbrute may be in my future.
Edit: here ya go:
And, in a too little too late moment, apparently the video I originally saw was in fact @MusicInclusive ...
As long as you stay away from Eurorack. Don’t be doing the modulars. Nobody survives.
It's not just for bass, I've used it a number of times playing high register lead arps - very chip tuney.
You can get some really nice bass out of it though. Sometimes when dialling in a quick bass patch, I'll hit on a sound that just makes me smile, and smile, and smile. THIS is why I love my Microbrute.
It has no internal effects section so it can sound a bit dry, you may want to throw some effects on it somewhere in the set up. I normally have my brute fed into Ableton for the Audio even when I'm originating notes on the iPad, so I can throw effects on there. I suppose an iPad workflow will be AUM. Not sure; I'm going to be trying some all-iPad configs with my small but perfectly formed hardware collection soon. Think I want to try AUM and ModStep together.
The Brute LFO App really does give you another ( 1/5th depth ) LFO. So far I've only ever used it to to re-add a bit of vibrato when I've decided to route the LFO elsewhere, but there's probably other possibilities.
Beware the knobby tweakyness, it's entirely possible to spend a week twiddlying and not make any music at all, sometimes even forgetting to document cool patch settings ( with a photograph usually. Oldsk00l! ).
Good luck!
yeah i was lured in by all the cool volva vids on youtube. picked up a volca beats but returned it the next day... i found it kinda limiting. anyways chopped that in for a TR8 and a microbrute .... i do basic stuff with midi out in auxy on the ipad.
t'was this video that sold the microbrute to me
Great video, thanks for the link. I need to spend more time with the Brute, only got it last week but love it.
Yeah the Beats is definitely the weakest of the Volcas. The others are really good though, especially the Sample and Keys. I'm almost certainly getting the Volca FM too that looks great.
I would kill for the Microbrute's sequencer to send MIDI Note Out!
A cv to midi converter?
You'll be wanting a Beatstep pro next, for the CV outs
Regular BeatStep has a single CV and Gate out, but Pro has lots 
That would be sweet, one alternative compromise is to use the helper program on computer to export the sequences to MIDI and play them pack in a DAW. Though that loses the real time transposition feature.
Yeah my specific goal was to be able to play sequences and change them real-time with the pattern select knob on the Microbrute and have the results recorded into my MPC. Not the end of the world but it would have been cool!
Maybe ModStep needs to add a method to easily transpose patterns during performance.
I was recently in your boat - I had ZERO experience with synthesizers of any kind (not even VST) until I started using them on iOS. I actually find that having the wealth of stuff we have on iOS limits, rather than encourages, hardware purchases, since I'm filled with totally unreasonable expectations for what certain features and sounds should cost me to obtain in a hardware format. For example, I had no idea that polyphony (particularly polyphony of more 3 or more notes) was so difficult to achieve inexpensively with hardware, which is part of what makes the new Korg Minilogue ($499 U.S.) pretty appealing as an analog unit.
I picked up a used MicroBrute as my first synth. At first, I wasn't sure what I would do with it, but it really started to grow on me and I was enjoying hooking it up through the horde of guitar effects I already had. Unfortunately, it had a defect with something oscillating and bleeding through the sound, so I had to return it. Rather than purchase a new one full-price, I tried the Korg Volca series, and ended up with 3 of them (Bass, Keys, Sample). Lots of people compare the MicroBrute and Volca Bass, for example, but the Volca series really is on another level in terms of battery operated portability. By contrast, the MicroBrute needs to be plugged in with a wall adapter, and it's really not "portable" in the same sense, just really "compact".
I may end up with the MicroBrute again some day, though if I go in that direction, the Korg Minilogue for another $200 may make a lot more sense. But the question from an iOS perspective, for me anyway, is whether the experience and sound quality of the hardware synths is "better enough" to justify the extra work to run it through an interface and recapture the audio with an iOS DAW. Is doing all of that qualitatively better than simply finding a good iOS synth and recording using AudioBus and a MIDI Keyboard? Probably not. But I totally admit that there's something much more enjoyable working with hardware knobs versus tweaking in iOS - similar to how I tend to prefer actual guitar amps and pedals over the iOS apps (despite the latter offering far more value and tonal flexibility).
You might find this in the series I did on the MB + iPad stuff to be of interest. One of a couple using SGenerator:
This one too.
Awesome
Have you played with the app midiSTEPs? It's modeled after the SH-101 sequencer, just like the Microbrute.
Photographs? Going to your friend/parent's office to make copies of the blank patch sheet from the back of the manual and then using a pen to mark them down is old school. Get off my lawn!
This series on YouTube was what convinced me to buy a MicroBrute (This is the first of four sound overviews). The Marc Doty series is also good as an overview of the synth.
It was my first hardware synth as well. I ended up selling it, as I needed the money to (eventually) buy a Moog Sub 37, but it is a great entry point.
If you're talking about purchasing new and CV I/O isn't important to you, I don't think there's any contest here. The Microbrute is fun and a great sounding mono but the Minilogue seems way more fun (for me anyway, couple of hours in the store) and much much deeper synthesis wise. Plus, polyphony, presets, MIDI out... I think if they were priced the same and both mono, the Korg would still be a more capable synthesizer but at that point it would come down to which instrument's fundamental sound did more for you. The brutes can gut punch and smack you around in a way I'm not sure the Minilogue can.
Used though, the brutes are going cheaply and sound awesome. It's going to be quite a while until we see the same drop in Minilogue prices. I just got a MiniBrute for $200 last month.
As mentioned earlier, Brute LFO is a great pairing with the MicroBrute. The app MidiBrute was great for me, as it acts as a replacement the editor software. My MicroBrute was not in the same room as our PC, so unplugging it and moving it downstairs to change some parameters was an inconvenience.
Had to draw the line somewhere, apparently I don't own a pen or any paper any more. How did that happen?