Arturia - 20 Years Of Software & Hardware Development

Music Software and Hardware Development - Arturia President and co-founder Frédéric Brun looks back over the French company's 20-year history and describes the development of instruments such as the ambitious Origin, the best-selling MiniBrute and the mighty MatrixBrute and PolyBrute.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Education and Beginnings
02:35 - Developing The First Product, Storm
04:35 - Making Music Tech More Accessible
06:52 - The Challenges Of Selling Early Software Products
09:04 - Recreating Classic Synths in Software
11:43 - Important Moments in Arturia's History
14:11 - Making Soft Synths For iOS
16:48 - The Move Into Hardware Instruments
18:38 - Origin Modular System
20:33 - Developing The MiniBrute
23:08 - The Steiner-Parker Filter
25:05 - MatrixBrute and PolyBrute
27:37 - Breaking Into The Interface Market
31:14 - Creating Tactile Instruments
34:10 - The Future Of Arturia
35:52 - Utilising New Technology
36:57 - Developing For The End User

Arturia Biog
Based in the French city of Grenoble, Arturia have built on their roots as pioneering developers of virtual instruments to become one of the world's leading manufacturers of analogue, digital and software synthesizers, controller keyboards and audio interfaces.

Launched in 1999 by college friends Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, the company initially started out by developing software that could accurately emulate retro analogue synths. In 2003 they started to work with some of the major manufacturers, turning out softsynth versions of classic Moog, Roland, Yamaha and Sequential Circuits synths.

In 2012 they launched their first hardware range with the MiniBrute, later followed by the MicroBrute, MatrixBrute and PolyBrute.

20 years after launch, the company continues to grow and their product line now includes a wide range of softsynths, apps, controllers, audio interfaces and hardware synths.

Sam Inglis Biog
Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).

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