Very handy for making linear grooves and beats sound more alive. 'colour settings? what are they?' Well, a new feature to the Impact is the colour control, which effectively serves as a secondary voice for the main voice you're programming, this colour handles a different function depending on the voice you've selected and, as mentioned above, you can chose on a per-step basis, when that colour change takes effect. The sequencer can do complex poly-rhythms in the same way you can on Beatstep Pro V2.0 and it also allows you to sequencer lock the colour settings for certain voices. Impact contains 10 analogue voices, which are controlled by a remarkable sequencer (something which Arturia are well known for). It's also a lot smaller and quite a lot cheaper at just £265.

DrumBrute Impact, whilst I shares a similar look to the original DrumBrute it is in fact completely re-voiced and sounds remarkably different.

You might be asking yourself 'but why?' and 'what's different?' and let me stop you right there.

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