Artists & ARTURIA # 22 - Vince Clarke meets MiniBrute
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2013
- 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.
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Mr. Vincent Clarke - Synthpop Genius ! Greets From Poland ;-)
MiniBrute is actualy in french... too. It's my first language.
Very good interview! Excellent edition! Congrats!
Love Vince! The man is a legend.
and this sense of humor....amazing !
Such a useful synth. Love it! In addition to my very useful Keystep and V Collection 6 (Which I've upgraded from an original vintage collection! Thank you Arturia!
Congrats on Arturia's success with the Minibrute! I was lucky enough to receive mine among your first shipment (around August), and I love and cherish this little beast!
Imagine three Vince Clarkes in the studio 😁
Great Vince !!!!!
It's 99.999% one of the most iconic synth players in the history of synths knows what aftertouch does ;)
Yeah, Vince is always saying he has no idea what he's doing. I think he's just being honest about the fact that practically no one, or really no one, can always predict exactly the sonic result they're going to get. You can have an idea of what you're doing because you know what LFOs, VCOs, and VCFs are and how they work, but every synth sounds a bit different, and the only way to know what it will sound like with a certain patch is to try it. A man like him, with his accomplishments in this field, doesn't have to "talk the talk".
Need to get my hands on one. Nice video!
Absolutely agree! Well said.
Legend
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.
love it... talented people like Vince do not take themselves seriously!
Ooh I like the "next Erasure album coming out soon" part!! :)
He's an excellent musician and has a wonderfully effervescent personality. One of the most fun product talks ever. Thanks.
First DJ gig at 52 :) Love it
Cool. Mentioned his gig at Numbers in Houston.
Nice one, Vince :-)
I met Vince Clarke a couple of months ago in mexico city :D
Love vince! Wish I could talk to him!
Vince genuinely likes and uses the MiniBrute. If he didn't, he wouldn't agree to put a video out with us & waste his time. We wouldn't either. We would go with someone else that likes the MiniBrute (which there are plenty of) The aftertouch comment, and the bit about him not knowing what he's doing, etc... is Vince's dry sarcasm. Trust me, he knows how to use the MiniBrute, and many other synths which all have features that would be familiar to anyone with a history of using synthesizers ; )
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.
Brilliant! Maybe its cause im a brit and im familiar with the sense of humour, but this is great fun!
Love the 'silent T' in "mosquito."
Nice interview. Nice keyboard. In my experience, since late 90's almost all synth does the same. I had a Roland JP 8000 and it was awesome, too much into GOA texture. The Nord Lead 2 was nice. And I ended up with a Quasimidi Polymorph (for sale) and Access Virus Ti Snow even I would like to have the rack. At the end, what ever you feel good and make you accomplish things, no just twiking knobs. As some one told me once... we want to hear what you want to say.
This kind of unpretentiousness and honesty in how he works is pretty much indicative of what separates proper musicians like he is from most modern shallow pricks with zero talent and all attitude.
Johnny Natrium...couldn’t agree with you more mate.
I am a musician and I play those old fashioned things that make sound. And this modern pop is anti music, bigoted, sexist, egotistical...because that’s the fashion!
I write a comparison a while back between modern shot and the pre 2000s.
Ed Sheeran or Bowie?
One Direction (ironic name considering the shallow crap these manufactured figurehead morons sing) or The Rolling Stones?
Little Mix or Abba?
Westlife or Nine Inch Nails? That’s Cheating! Just to show that there are still genius real songwriters around. Pity the kids are served up Ronan fucking Keating and apathy instead of rebellious and dangerous protest songs (when was the last protest song?)!
Well said mate.
a man like that doesn't have to brag with what he's acheived
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.
i love my minibrute :)
i regret i sold mine..great mono synth
It has that special something that you CAN put your fingers on.*
at the end it sounded like 'Pacman' :-)
Vince is my hero :) 1:30 "Hear that?" I thought he was exaggerating, until I bought one. The aftertouch seems next to useless.
You have to press so hard I was worried I'd break it, then it goes from none to most of it, then a tiny bit more if you press even harder. It's like trying to work the mod wheel by hitting a punch bag.
It lacks vibrato depth and LFO depth knobs too. You can assign either to the mod wheel, and use that, but then full throw is full on - no adjustment of the range. Sad, really.
Apart from that, it is a great little synth though, and what you can do with the one oscillator and all the waveform options is great.
What gets me is that Vince arguably is one of the top 5 synth pop creators of all time and he managed to make all those great tracks without knowledge about it. Shows that talent beats taught knowledge any day of the week. You might have all the training in the world, but without talent you will be stuck in the ways people told you it should be done.
I really need help on mapping the mini lab could some one help me? or make a video there is not much of it..
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.
Or you can set your soft-synth up with a hardware controller. Works well for me.
Yay, I finally own a synth that Vince Clarke has too! But diff is I have to pay for it and he doesn't!
After-touch has been around for years!
his comments about it was sarcasm maybe
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.
Check out S.O.N Electronic
I see, Vince Clarke likes to appear naive on his videos about synths, if you check the series of videos (Analogue Monologues) he made on his site you will understand that this is an humour attitude of his not a real misunderstanding of the machine.
I hope all viewers understand the "what is aftertouch" comments were tounge in cheek ;)
Man, I know. I got an iPad a while back, tried all the well-known synths and sequencers for it, tried syncing it with my laptop, using it live, got an iRig, external keyboards, bla, bla, bla, NONSENSE. Absolute garbage for any music making that isn't novelty demo crap.
Got rid of it, bought my first hardware synth, the Minibrute, not long after it was released (followed by a Mopho X4 and a Machinedrum) and I haven't touched a VST ever since.
Wporzo kolo ten cały Vince. Przydałby się z powrotem w depeche mode. Może nowa płyta byłaby lepsza.
He he, yeah - life is so unfair. ;)
VC = 😁
and then korg gave him an ms-20 mini
"they're French but ... Mini Brute is actually in English" 😅
Vince doesn't know what he's doing- lol pull the other one. Is there a synth that Vince hasn't used?
guys, repair your cameras
who cares if he didn't know what aftertouch was, hes made some of the best music on this planet by using talent, not geeky mouth words
Dude quit Erasure!
Yeah! A total waste of talent imho!
Doesn't understand aftertouch...he's still making himself out to be the ultimate non-musician musician. He knows what modulating a sound means, because he does it all the time, he just doesn't do it by playing, because he doesn't play keyboard, so he doesn't get it! 😄
Terrible amount of jump cuts. Fucking hell.
He is telling you what he thinks about it. Arturia is too small to be able to pay people like him and he is too big to need to be a paid talking head. Yes, we do go to artists and ask them to check out a product, every company does that. We do not pay anyone to endorse a product.
Interesting clip spoiled by irritating visual effects. When people play with their toys, I wish they'd leave the results at home.