Artists & ARTURIA # 22 - Vince Clarke meets MiniBrute

Check out our exclusive interview with synth legend Vince Clarke at his studio in New-York, talking about MiniBrute, his relation to synths and his up-coming projects.

[juliojunho]

Very good interview! Excellent edition! Congrats!

[MarkoDeLaVoota]

and this sense of humor....amazing !

[JoeVateli]

Imagine three Vince Clarkes in the studio 😁

[Switcher]

He has an excellent spirit, and lot of humour, both essential to survive in the music business.
Interestedly enough, one of the last sounds he uses strongly reminded me some VecTrex game. Good memories.

[marike]

He's an excellent musician and has a wonderfully effervescent personality.  One of the most fun product talks ever.  Thanks.  

[SRDhain]

Brilliant! Maybe its cause im a brit and im familiar with the sense of humour, but this is great fun!

[MarctheDarc]

I got a MiniBrute in the 2nd shipment for Denmark, and it is without a doubt the best synth i've owned. Analog beats digital, and hands on controls beats menus and mouse clicking. It has that special something that you can't quite put your finger on, but once you hear and feel it, you're not going back.
Admittedly plugins have come a long way in emulating the sound of analog, nonetheleast because of Arturia, but that feel and presence of hardware will always be that bit better, to me atleast.

[timberdj]

Um, it is on the official Arturia channel. Branded as an Arturia video. The guy from Arturia came to his studio to show him the synth. Yes, it is a paid advert.

[EquinoxiousEquinoxious]

I met Vince Clarke a couple of months ago in mexico city :D

[XYtoTheDoubleG]

Love vince! Wish I could talk to him!

[bwuh]

Love the 'silent T' in "mosquito."

[nathalieskladanek]

Arturia has never paid any artists to make videos. You might think that this is a marketing oriented movie, indeed we made an interview about the use of one of our product, but what Vince Clarke says about the synth is his personal point of view, none of us told him what to say.

[Nonpartisanmusic]

I'm very confused about what he said on the aftertouch which has been introduced by Sequential in the 80s... So did he not ever come across a synth with an aftertouch since then?? He has more synth in his crib than I have beers in my fridge... Hes been a synth head whole his life, spent countless days weeks years in studios all over the mad world and he didn't know what aftertouch is? He doesn't seem to joke about it he is for real but it's still not possible.

[yayayaokoksure]

It has that special something that you CAN put your fingers on.*

[MrAirRobot]

After-touch has been around for years!

[rubenbolivar]

I really need help on mapping the mini lab could some one help me? or make a video there is not much of it..

[LightboxX]

I hope all viewers understand the "what is aftertouch" comments were tounge in cheek ;)

[analogsynthmuseum]

i like the prophet 5, minimoog ....real vintage instruments so why arturia doesnt create a synthesizer with a real wood vintage look and analogic sound, a synth that everytime you change the model, the face and nobes change digitaly with the led technology like his model, cs80, prophet 5, you can call it octopus with led face changer, i deposite the idea to inpi yet so contact me if you are interested.

[lambdd]

Vince doesn't know what he's doing- lol pull the other one. Is there a synth that Vince hasn't used?

[karljanus]

"they're French but ... Mini Brute is actually in English" 😅