PolyBrute - PolyBrute Connect Overview

PolyBrute Connect is the comprehensive and full-featured editor-librarian software for the PolyBrute.
It offers two-way communication between the hardware controls and the software, letting you use the PolyBrute within a DAW as though it were a plug-in.
There is also extensive patch management, the ability to update the PolyBrute firmware, and much more.

PolyBrute Connect is free to all registered users of the PolyBrute synthesizer.
It may be downloaded at our Downloads & Manuals support page, and from the Arturia Software Center application.

VST on macOS and Windows, Audio Units on macOS, and AAX (for Pro Tools) on macOS and Windows.
The download also includes a stand-alone version for macOS and Windows.

Unfortunately not at this time.

• Make sure the PolyBrute is connected to your computer via USB:

• Open an instance of PolyBrute Connect in a virtual instrument track:

• Make sure the PolyBrute’s audio outputs are connected to inputs on your audio interface.

• Create an audio track and assign those same inputs to capture the PolyBrute’s audio:

Click the “books” icon in the top taskbar to bring up the Preset Browser:

In the screenshot below, these are:

1. Search Parameters: Search for Presets by text string, Type filters, and Style filters.
2. Search Results: The results of what you do in area 1. Presets are stored on your computer, then loaded into the PolyBrute when you select one.
3. PolyBrute Preset Explorer: Every Preset currently stored in the PolyBrute’s memory (not your computer). List and grid views provide a mirror of the Matrix Panel when in Preset mode.
4. Project Browser toggle (see below).

A Project is a bank of 768 Presets (some of which may be Init Presets) stored on your computer.
It can be ordered in any way you like and transferred to the synth when you’re ready.
Click Browse Projects at the lower left of the screen to bring up the Project Browser, like so:

The Current Preset name is always color-coded to reflect the place from which you selected it.

• White: From search results.
• Yellow: From a Project.
• Red: From the PolyBrute Preset Explorer, or by pressing a button on the PolyBrute itself.

• Keyboard (the default view)
• The modulation Matrix
• Preset Settings
• Global Settings

Unlike the hardware, they’re always in latch mode, and you have a separate Z-axis strip for the Morphée.

Drag the bar back and forth to set the split point for a split Preset.

Yes. In Matrix view, click the arrow button to bring up a full view of the Matrix.

You can create and adjust modulation routings just as you can on the hardware. Click a cell to bring up its amount knob.

Yes. In fact, it’s the best way to see what’s going on when you turn the Morph knob.



As shown above, all the other controls onscreen will Morph between their A and B values.

Yes, and it’s maybe even easier than on the hardware because of the visual feedback.

For a knob:

• Hover the mouse over the “collar” around the knob.
• Left-click then drag to adjust the A value (blue needle).
• Right-click then drag to adjust the B value (green needle).
• You may have to move the Morph knob to see both the blue and green needles.

For a slider:

• Hover the mouse over the vertical strip to the slider’s right.
• Left-click then drag to adjust the A value.
• Right-click then drag to adjust the B value.
• You may have to move the Morph knob to see both the blue and green needles.

For a switch:

• Right-click on the button to see its pop-up menu.
• Select “Edit A”.
• Select the option you want in the submenu.
• Repeat for “Edit B”.

A pop-up menu button works the same as a switch, but uses a left-click, not a right-click.