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Title: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: mattsterp on June 06, 2012, 08:41:27 pm
Still waiting for my minibrute.  Anyone out there received theirs yet?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 06, 2012, 10:07:34 pm
Yeah got mine on friday its shit
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 06, 2012, 10:10:12 pm
Just kidding dude,still waiting :-(
And they havent put the manual up yet :-(
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: mattsterp on June 06, 2012, 10:19:09 pm
You had me going for a second.  Thanks for commenting. 
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 06, 2012, 10:27:35 pm
Ha ha felt a bit guilty for doing it. Hope they havent lied to us again......
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: mattsterp on June 06, 2012, 10:45:43 pm
Me too.  I really would not be surprised though.  I have heard first week in July from a friend at guitar center. 
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 06, 2012, 11:04:02 pm
The first batch of units went out of the production line last week, as announced, but please understand they are still in transit and have not reached the dealers/customers yet.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jakegetup on June 06, 2012, 11:18:20 pm
So how long till they do reach dealers?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 06, 2012, 11:36:41 pm
when the announcement went up last week i emailed my dealer in the uk and asked if they are getting some from the first shipment heres a copy of the reply i received it on thursday

you’re definitely getting one from the first shipment as you have our first pre-order. We have four coming in the next few days, one for you.

sounds promising to me. just gotta be patient and wait i suppose but its really hard when im so excited  :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 06, 2012, 11:49:06 pm
At this point, the exact date is out of our control. It will depend on the time it takes freight forwarders to consolidate and dispatch shipments, and also the time it will take to clear customs (this is the first time this item will go through US customs, therefore it might take a little longer than usual to clear).
Without hitting any major snag in transit, the first units should mostly likely start reaching US dealers in a couple weeks.
But as Romain stated here http://www.arturia.com/evolution/smf/index.php?topic=6275.0 (http://www.arturia.com/evolution/smf/index.php?topic=6275.0): "delivering all orders will take much more time than planned."
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on June 07, 2012, 03:37:58 am
Thanks for the info, Sean. I the meantime, is there a delay on the user manual for some reason? A lot of people would really like to read the manual so they can get answers to some questions that have not yet been cleared up by demoers or online advertisements.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Fnord on June 07, 2012, 07:58:08 am
Are they going only to US now or is there a shipment coming to European countries too?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: dukino on June 07, 2012, 10:55:23 am
Hello

i can understand the delay in production and shipping
but as someone else said already .. the manual ?
i check the website daily since months but no luck !
it must be just a pdf and ready
why it is still not available ? i just cant wait to read it !

Andrea
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on June 07, 2012, 07:43:18 pm
I got an email from MF requesting a response to if I still wanted to continue the backorder - for some reason this is their policy.  Anyway, of course I called and told them yes.  They then told me they expected my order to fill 6-18-12!  The second batch is expected 7-6 I think.

But, why the manual is not yet posted is a bummer.  Why?  Since it is in production, I would think they have the details already nailed down. 
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: stoneskipper on June 07, 2012, 11:03:05 pm
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why everyone is so hot to get the manual.  I'm pretty sure all of the functionality is right there on the main panel.  I can't imagine there's going to be much learned from the manual.  I mean, are there some hidden functions I don't know about?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on June 07, 2012, 11:21:58 pm
Yes there are potential hidden features. Sysex control of the software editable elements, would be one example. Input method of the arpeggiator would be another. A manual would allow us to put to rest whether velocity affects the minibrute or just external gear hooked up via midi.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: stoneskipper on June 07, 2012, 11:58:13 pm
I see.  Thanks for that.

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on June 08, 2012, 01:08:18 am
Also, I believe the keyboard responds to velocity - and I think it sends via Midi/USB?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on June 09, 2012, 01:05:40 pm
Anyone know how many units have been shipped to the UK?

Pre ordered a while ago but it keeps being pushed back and no sensible answer is forthcoming from the retailer. Not even sure if they get 1 at all LOL



Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jakegetup on June 09, 2012, 05:04:25 pm
Same problem. I pre ordered with Dolphin Music and have been told I'm in the first shipment but I think they know as much as we do as all they say is that as soon as they get it they will ship it. One guy even said, after I had explained the release date on the Arturia website, "Well if thats the date they say then thats the date we will get them I suppose."

They dont seem to know very much.

I really would like a minibrute and I'm going to wait another two weeks but if I havent recieved one by then I'm just gunna get a Mopho and Tetra. Price isn't the issue here really. I do want the filter of the minibrute as well as the unique sounding brute factor, metalizer etc. However I have a feeling I would be better off waiting for a few to be sold on ebay and in the meantime just get somthing else.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 10, 2012, 12:09:51 pm
Anyone know how many units have been shipped to the UK?

Pre ordered a while ago but it keeps being pushed back and no sensible answer is forthcoming from the retailer. Not even sure if they get 1 at all LOL





Hi steve im in the uk also and I was promised one a few days ago. Obviously this has not materialised and I cant say im not pissed off :-(               
Out of interest who did you order it from Steve?  Anyway I originally bought it as a gift to myself for two years of quitting smoking in april. Yesterday was my birthday and they couldn't even make that date :-(
The fact that in another thread arturia stated they would release the manual a few days before they release the mb smells dodgy to me. I suppose if we dont have it in the next week we will know if they were just stalling again. Suffice it to say that this has got to be the most delayed product in history!! Ha ha :-D and I can guarantee I will never ever purchase anything from arturia again I will go for a proper company next time like one of the established names we know we can trust. If I dont have it in the next week I will be cancelling my preorded (which I have already paid for) and put the money into something else. I have wanted an access virus ti for some time I know its not analog but I have a 101 anyway so hey. At least one good thing is I have 430 quid saved towards the virus. Sorry to be so negative but why say in the first place it would be ready in april and then not be able to deliver? Its very bad business practice from a very shit company who are giving themselves a bad reputation for customer service,who anyone who has been waiting for the mb to be released will know.   
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Ruari on June 10, 2012, 07:55:12 pm
I have wanted an access virus ti for some time

I'm going the other way, I've had a Virus for a while but with my present bout of GAS I'm considering getting a minibrute.

I'll be keeping hold of the Virus tho ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on June 10, 2012, 08:04:53 pm
Everyone who is having doubts should cancel their predorders and pick up a roland gai sh-01. I’ve heard that it is a capable virtual analog and should be able to emulate the minibrute perfectly.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 10, 2012, 09:00:44 pm
I have a gaia sh 01 also and I like it but it still has that digital sound. Also the filter is very different from the minibrute and it does not behave like a mono synth when it is in mono mode. Plus I have intermittent problems with the arpeggiator working. However one thing I will say is when I have a problem roland support get back to me straight away bravo :-D if the minibrute does sound like the gaia I will literally cry cos the gaia is good but nothing like the 101 I have given it a fair test ;-)
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Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on June 10, 2012, 11:07:10 pm
I ordered my one from Gear4music as at the time they were the only ones having a due date. As we wanted to use it on our new album on which we are working on currently I thought they might have it earlier then other dealers including our usual one.

I don't have a problem with the odd delay on a new product, that happens. But I do have a problem with the lack of communication and clarity from Arturia and the dealer in question.
I agree that the manual should have been published early on in the process, it would help to establish some sort of trust with potential buyers as this is not an established analog synth company. It's a little bit of a mistery to me why there is a lack of communication.

The main reason I pre ordered a MB was based on the sound, which is different from other analog synths. The price at this stage certainly helps too.

Just hoping the MB will arrive on the promised date now of 13-06...If pushed back again I will question the dealer firmly on their handling of this as well and decide then about keeping or cancelling the order.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: lethal_pizzle on June 11, 2012, 10:48:23 am
Can I again urge all those who are appalled at a few weeks delay in something they didn't even know existed a few months ago to cancel their pre-orders. I'll get mine quicker then, ta muchly ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 11, 2012, 12:06:52 pm
Can I again urge all those who are appalled at a few weeks delay in something they didn't even know existed a few months ago to cancel their pre-orders. I'll get mine quicker then, ta muchly ;)
I have three on pre order pm me and ill sell u one. 800 english pounds ;-)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: lethal_pizzle on June 11, 2012, 04:29:00 pm
Heh, well I've survived 35 years without one, reckon I can wait ;) thanks anyway
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on June 11, 2012, 04:59:33 pm
Heh, well I've survived 35 years without one, reckon I can wait ;) thanks anyway
No worries man im just kidding anyway ;)
Im just really excited. No way im cancelling my order this late in the game im not that stooopid ha ha
Just heard from my dealer last they heard the brutes were in the boat from china en route to france then they have to go thru quality control so just gotta be patient :-)
Note to self stop trolling the forum man lol :-D
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on June 11, 2012, 10:30:15 pm
well well well lol

Pushed back to the 18th now - I have a feeling the dealers have no clue and Arturia is not updating them properly.

I don't mind waiting but I do mind being bullshitted by retailers happy to take my money but unable/willing to be upfront. If it is going to be August, just fucking say so..
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Ruari on June 11, 2012, 10:55:38 pm
well well well lol

Pushed back to the 18th now - I have a feeling the dealers have no clue and Arturia is not updating them properly.

Interesting, there's a chance my GAS may have subsided by the time this thing hits the shelves. I've spent the day with Reaktor & it seems to have helped me a bit  :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: MOKNOW on June 12, 2012, 10:07:11 am
"RELEASE IN APRIL" ...still waitin in june...

ARTURIA, the house of fun...hrrrrrrrr hrrrr!!!

WHAAAAATZ goin on..."!!!we're close to the mid of june!!!"...and Iam really out of tune.

Never saw such a outstanding marketing...

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 12, 2012, 05:48:52 pm
The MiniBrute Manual is now online at :
http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/minibrute/resources.html (http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/minibrute/resources.html).

More info to come...
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on June 12, 2012, 06:52:54 pm
The MiniBrute Manual is now online at :
http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/minibrute/resources.html (http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/minibrute/resources.html)
Thanks for the heads-up :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 12, 2012, 07:11:08 pm
Yes there are potential hidden features. Sysex control of the software editable elements, would be one example. Input method of the arpeggiator would be another. A manual would allow us to put to rest whether velocity affects the minibrute or just external gear hooked up via midi.

Sysex control of the software editable elements is available via the USB port (MIDI over USB) only at this time. The description of those SysEx messages is not included in the manual, but will be published soon.
Input method of the Arpeggiator is one of those parameters (Arpeggiator Hold Time Sorted On/Off)

Velocity does not affect the analog synth engine, which only receives CV/Gate information, but velocity is transmitted via MIDI/USB.
However, aftertouch can be routed to either vibrato or filter cutoff.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: rcmusic on June 12, 2012, 10:14:49 pm
Thanx Sean.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on June 14, 2012, 09:59:18 am
So anyone been lucky yet? They should call it the Arturia Ghost lol
All I know is my retailer is either ill informed or just plain rude, not sure yet which is the case.
So far not getting a response from Arturia on my simple question if any units are actually on the way to the UK. Ah well, customer service is of course not important these days...
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: MOKNOW on June 14, 2012, 03:10:55 pm
 ::) ...in pre order..but nothing in the hand.

The manual is out...   :o

My dealer is tellin the same way like arturia: "...the BRUTE is commin in end of may or EARLY june..."    hrrrrrrrrrr hrrrrrr hrrr

NO CLOUDS OF SMOKE OR OTHER SIGNZ!!!

The manual is out...   :o

The BRUTE is outa space!!!
Title: TOMORROW IS THE MID OF JUNE!!
Post by: MOKNOW on June 14, 2012, 03:16:23 pm
WHERE IS THE GEAR!!!

Please ARTURIA, we need more info!!!

THX!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on June 16, 2012, 11:50:45 am
AAAHHHH,Finaly mine is arrived.
Got it!
I played it whole morning and I have to say that it's sounds good but not the way I wanted .
I compared the waves with the logic es 2 waves and I must confess that the es2 sounds fatter :(.
Also the knobs feels a little cheap.
Another thing is ,I'm already missing is the presets save button.
I never thought that I would miss it so hard.
I'm happy that I have it but now I'm running with my head against the wall and wake up and find out that no preset save button is a true hell and makes this handy thing a nightmare.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: monobrute on June 16, 2012, 07:48:47 pm
So this is how the zombie apocalypse really starts, from us growing mad from one failed release date to the next, until we cannot be recognized by our own family or friends. People on this forum will turn on each other accusing others of getting their Brutes first. But they will deny it even if they really did get theirs in. Wouldn't you? You can't trust mankind when natural resources like Miinibrutes are scarce and almost non existent. There just simply is not enough to go around. Generally decent people like you and me going into to music stores trying to play other keyboards as if they were Minibrutes. The employees will try to be helpful at first. Saying stuff like "hey man did you plan on walking out with that Mg today". " NO I AM NOT PLAYING A FUCKING Mg I AM PLAYING A MINIBRUTE AND YES I WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE IT!" one may scream back. Minibrute enthusiast will be denied entry to our favorite music stores one by one. Arturia will try to alleviate the problem by promising more and more release dates. Some of the more optimistic blokes will lose sleep excited by the anticipation. General health will decline a sudden loss of appetite and no longer an interest in porn. But the release dates never come. Confusion will set in fast followed by riots. The socially fabric of society will erode faster than governments can keep up with. Everything human progress has built up will be no more. All will seem lost but there will be one last hope. A great hero (probably me) who will discover a way to rebuild a greater society than the last based on Minibrute technology from the demo versions and ................................  Oh sorry about that. Yeah I am still waiting for mine as well.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on June 16, 2012, 07:55:46 pm
AAAHHHH,Finaly mine is arrived.
Got it!
I played it whole morning and I have to say that it's sounds good but not the way I wanted .
I compared the waves with the logic es 2 waves and I must confess that the es2 sounds fatter :(.
Also the knobs feels a little cheap.
Another thing is ,I'm already missing is the presets save button.
I never thought that I would miss it so hard.
I'm happy that I have it but now I'm running with my head against the wall and wake up and find out that no preset save button is a true hell and makes this handy thing a nightmare.

Thought you cancelled your order?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Denis on June 17, 2012, 07:54:08 pm
AAAHHHH,Finaly mine is arrived.
Got it!
I played it whole morning and I have to say that it's sounds good but not the way I wanted .
I compared the waves with the logic es 2 waves and I must confess that the es2 sounds fatter :(.
Also the knobs feels a little cheap.
Another thing is ,I'm already missing is the presets save button.
I never thought that I would miss it so hard.
I'm happy that I have it but now I'm running with my head against the wall and wake up and find out that no preset save button is a true hell and makes this handy thing a nightmare.


Hello all,

I'm Denis, in charge of international sales at Arturia.

So far not a single Minibrute unit has been sold to an end user. The above message is a troll.

Funny troll...I have to admit... ;D

All the best,

Denis
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: MOKNOW on June 17, 2012, 08:30:36 pm
hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... ;D

And the adventure goes on...
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 17, 2012, 08:50:24 pm
The first batch of units from the factory is actually set to clear US customs in Seattle this week.
Long-time pre-ordered units should start showing up at some US dealers next week, so there will be a whole group of customers who will receive their pre-order during the last week of June.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jakegetup on June 18, 2012, 02:39:33 am
How about the UK? any news?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: MOKNOW on June 18, 2012, 12:16:08 pm
 ;) HURRY UP AND WAIT...should be the message in the next commercial!!

BAD BAD GAME!!!  :-X
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: The01Habiitat on June 19, 2012, 05:23:51 am
Arturia has delayed their product in order to create so much of a stir that i hear the most random people freaking out about how awesome it must be and they gotta get their hands on one. Almost like an Apple product...

Thanks to Filip for tricking "Denis, in charge of international sales at Arturia" into replying with a confirmation that "So far not a single Minibrute unit has been sold to an end user." so much for release date credibility.
Im not sure if Filip realized what he was doing when he did it, but he still managed awesome results.

Well Played guys...Now where the F*** is our S***?!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on June 19, 2012, 05:55:49 am
It’s a bummer that so many of the people on this forum are just enormous whiners.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on June 19, 2012, 03:34:52 pm
Well it is all becoming a little bit of a joke reallly....

For me it is clear; Arturia software is cool, customer service basically non existant.
PR is great, creating hype even better - but planning, communication and delivery of promises absolutely zero.

I just hope that the product lives up to the hype otherwise Arturia has lost a lot of their reputation and certainly a customer in me for the future.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on June 19, 2012, 04:18:29 pm
Honestly, I don't see it that way at all. I don't think Arturia 'created hype' and I don't think they appear particularly good at creating hype for hype's sake. The minibrute created its own hype. magazines and online reviewers created hype because they genuinely like the instrument. The pre-sales sold far beyond Arturia's already high expectations because people see that this is a steal for $400-$500 depending on your retailer, given the glowing reviews from folks who have seen it and played with it in the flesh.

Arturia PR has been quite forthcoming with the information they have, going so far as to come onto this forum with answers to specific questions. The problem is they don't have all the answers; they had to change their factory to meet demand. This comes with a huge amount of uncertainty. There may be parts shortages, quality issues, manufacturing defects, customs delays across multiple borders... there is a lot to go wrong! So I'm glad Arturia has their hands full ensuring quality is maintained and that they are not making promises to us or trying to give us hourly updates. It will be better in the long run.

This is the risk of buying items on pre-sale. I got on the pre-sale because this is exactly what I want. I'm a bit bummed about the delays, but it's worth it to me. There is nothing else in this price range that compares, and I am poor as hell :p So I'm fine to forget about it for a couple of months. Then one day a package will come to my door, and it will be a bitching analog synthesizer, and it won't be DOA, and I will have a lot of fun with it.

If you need this thing tomorrow, then jump ship! Arturia has already informed you of the delays and the reasons for the delays. I'm confident they will update us all as they get solid information. They gave us a date of April based on previous estimates, and then they pushed it back to May so they could meet demand.  They came clean that they are having some troubles (which is to be expected really) but they did get some gear out on May 30th, which is now in customs. So I'm sure we won't be hearing too many dates from them until their process is running steadily, but I'm still glad they are communicating.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on June 19, 2012, 04:55:37 pm
Totally agree with the above from zedius!  :)  The number of preorders, producing a synth that is out their traditional line, etc., factory delays, all are a part of the delays.  i can wait on my preorder, and hope they get it "right" from the start - as they have stated that this is a priority.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on June 19, 2012, 10:55:12 pm
In my humble opinion there is no excuse for poor estimates and misleading release dates. By any other manufacturer the release date given means the date the item is available to buy in the shop - as in they have it then in stock.
That is very different from the date they ship the items out of the factory.

Once you announce a product that has a good review/reception on a trade show you normally sit down and work out a realistic release date based on solid facts. Anything else is a guess and in business you can't work on a guess.
The information given at the moment is still vague, no one mentioned what numbers they are talking about or if there are territories who are not getting a first shipment.

The price of the product is irrelevant in this picture. Whatever the case, any manufacturer is lucky when they get high volume pre orders and should treasure the trust given to them by those buyers. These buyers can make or brake the future success of the product and the reputation of the brand. Not to mention the importance of satisfied customers singing your praise leading to more sales.

In a nutshell, a great product is only half the battle
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on June 20, 2012, 02:10:19 am
In my humble opinion there is no excuse for poor estimates and misleading release dates. By any other manufacturer the release date given means the date the item is available to buy in the shop - as in they have it then in stock.
That is very different from the date they ship the items out of the factory.

Once you announce a product that has a good review/reception on a trade show you normally sit down and work out a realistic release date based on solid facts. Anything else is a guess and in business you can't work on a guess.
...unless the "solid facts" change over time.

Good quality parts availability change over time. Setting up a new high quality production line is a very difficult thing to do, if one wants to keep the final announced price.

The "hype", honestly, was more a public/user thing than Arturia's.

Arturia did what they should, show off the synth to everyone that wanted to see it at the event, send some prototypes for review and basically tell to the world what an awesome little "baby" they had in their product line. The rest was "the internets" and word-of-mouth.

If we can point some "wrong doing" at Arturia was them not adding some extra room for the official release, but like I said, that's also kinda of a commercial gamble and always a tough decision to make. They must've opted to give their best guess with what they knew at the time... which changed, unexpected issues happened (they always do) and only pushing the release date about 2 months, to me, is almost a miracle.

Also, there's the extra delay of the 1st time a new product goes through some customs (they should again, have added this to the announced release date, IMHO).

When they said "it's being manufactured right now, so late April we'll have them in the stores" I thought "hmmm... ok, maybe August then." ;)

I'm going to buy the MiniBrute through Arturia eShop, so, as you can imagine, I'm ready to wait a couple more months until all the production and logistics wheels are running at the right speed.

Better to wait for a good quality product than rushing it to the market with a lot of issues and bugs not easy to solve through a firmware patch (like other digital based products)

Having said that, I can only hope that the MiniBrute is worth the wait, manufacturing quality-wise, because sound-wise, I think I've got enough 2nd hand opinions and reviews from trusted parties.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 29, 2012, 02:08:59 am
The first batch of units from the factory is actually set to clear US customs in Seattle this week.
Long-time pre-ordered units should start showing up at some US dealers next week, so there will be a whole group of customers who will receive their pre-order during the last week of June.

As I had mentioned, the first batch did clear US customs last week, at the end of the week, and was delivered to our US warehouse on Tuesday June 26th.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/29osdxi.jpg)
All those units are already on their way to the dealers who had pre-ordered them first.
A second batch has already been shipped from the factory, still for those very early pre-orders.
Unfortunately, we are aware this is nowhere near enough quantity to fulfill all the current pre-orders, but it's a start!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on June 29, 2012, 06:11:33 am
Thank you Sean for the update!  Please update as you are able.  There are many people who preordered or are interested in this synth.  More communication from Arturia would be great!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on June 29, 2012, 09:58:07 am
(http://i50.tinypic.com/29osdxi.jpg)
Thanks for the info update!

btw, out of curiosity, each of those boxes carry what, 3 or 4 Minibrutes, right?

It's hard to imagine that each individual Minibrute box will occupy that cubic space... or am I forgetting something?  :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jakegetup on June 29, 2012, 10:26:30 am
Were still waiting for news here in the UK. Any update as to when we will get a shipment?
Thanks.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sourcedist on June 29, 2012, 01:46:04 pm
Hi - We're the UK distributor! We do not have a specific ETA for our Minibrutes yet - but as you can see Arturia have now shipped the first units to the US.

We're told ours will come later, but due to the slower-than-anticipated production of units we can't specify just yet when that date will be. From playing with the pre-production demo unit, I can say it's most definitely worth hanging on for though - huge thanks to all patient UK guys who've preordered...we're looking forward to shipping your synths out when they get here.

Any questions about UK supply please feel free to drop us a line - http://sourcedistribution.co.uk/contactus.php
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on June 29, 2012, 05:27:37 pm

btw, out of curiosity, each of those boxes carry what, 3 or 4 Minibrutes, right?

It's hard to imagine that each individual Minibrute box will occupy that cubic space... or am I forgetting something?  :)

5 MiniBrutes per carton
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on June 29, 2012, 07:02:59 pm

btw, out of curiosity, each of those boxes carry what, 3 or 4 Minibrutes, right?

It's hard to imagine that each individual Minibrute box will occupy that cubic space... or am I forgetting something?  :)

5 MiniBrutes per carton
ah, thanks! :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: MOKNOW on July 04, 2012, 10:55:07 am
Give me Karma -10 for sayin the truth but i canceled my pre-order.

I don't give a shit...

Enough of waitin and bitchin with the  ::) "support"  :D

Have fun...one more unit for you guyz!!!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on July 04, 2012, 03:20:19 pm
Had enough of the incredible incompetence of Arturia in this saga. I have cancelled my pre order after the retailer had given me many ETA changes given to them by Arturia. After finding out that the first finished products were all going to the US and the fact that the UK was not going to get any in a long time (words of Arturia themselves), I decided enough is enough.

Once it is in the UK I might give it a try and if I really like it still buy it, but the way Arturia is handling this is putting me off to be honest. Imagine you need them for anything once you got the product.....

Software wise I will not abandon them as they do what they promise there (well so far) and I like the sound of my Prophet V lol
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on July 04, 2012, 04:40:28 pm
Had enough of the incredible incompetence of Arturia in this saga. I have cancelled my pre order after the retailer had given me many ETA changes given to them by Arturia. After finding out that the first finished products were all going to the US and the fact that the UK was not going to get any in a long time (words of Arturia themselves), I decided enough is enough.

Once it is in the UK I might give it a try and if I really like it still buy it, but the way Arturia is handling this is putting me off to be honest. Imagine you need them for anything once you got the product.....

Software wise I will not abandon them as they do what they promise there (well so far) and I like the sound of my Prophet V lol

I feel your pain Steve dunno what to do man. The way my luck is I will cancel it and it will turn up the next day :-(
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on July 04, 2012, 05:04:35 pm
Cancelled mine a month ago and bought myself a nord lead 2x that I bought during awesome sales at my dealer.
Couldn't resist the price of the unit.
I also had enough of how Arturia was telling shit about the release date.
Well my feeling was right ,we here in Europe (Belgium for me) we can wait minimum more than a month longer than U.S. orders.
After canceling the release date how many times?
And they leave us like shit not telling that U.S. will get it first .
We had to find out everything by ourself during this release saga .
My feeling was right !
And now that I'm not so happy anymore about the minibrute I can honestly say that I would not accept the minibrute because it can not save presets.
Think about that!!!
No preset saving!!!
Who's going to use the included preset sheet papers?
If you try to set it the way you had it it will not be the same,the knobs are to wobbly and it's analog so it's not going to be easy.
And the time it will take to draw the preset on the sheets  ::)
It also needs a warm up time I think to calibrate.
But yeah that's analog so we accept that.
Now that I know everything about it I find 499 euro too much for it.
Arturia first you broke my heart and then you woke me up.
So f you and thank you!




Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Antoine on July 04, 2012, 06:27:34 pm
Mmm bad mood here.  :-\

There may be merely nothing I can do to get it off your chest, except stating that as far as I know Arturia has not taken pre-orders, that's the sole reseller responsibility to do so. The same topic has been debated  on various forums (see on Muffwiggler or Gearslutz for instance) and the whole thing is:
1. We could not fiddle with quality, so production issues means additional delay;
2. First distributors orders are first delivered ones, and they mainly came from US. Period.
3. Knobs are solid enough for a normal usage.

So, I can clearly imagine your impatience (I wait for my unit too), but please try to think twice before putting all the blame on us.
We have absolutely no interest in adding more waiting than necessary, there is no hype to artificially maintain, and we hardly appreciate to disappoint anyone (we rather prefer love than anger, really).

My 2 cents.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on July 04, 2012, 06:46:55 pm
Hi Antoine

I'm not disputing the quality of the unit, I have not had one in my hands so I'm unable to judge.
I also don't think you would on purpose create a longer waiting period.

However I do lay blame by Arturia for not doing enough and accurate market and demand research. Also after the overwhelming positive response at the introduction online and at the industry shows Arturia should have adjusted their timetable in relation to the amount of units needed. Besides that a realistic release date (when it would be availble in the shops or pre orders be delivered at the retailers - not when you start shipping from whatever factory in China) should have been given. You must have realised that 30th May was a no go judging the production time and available resources for this process.

That and the lack of satisfying communications with the distributors/retailers is what gets to people, some of us (like me) are pro users who allocate budgets to needs in the studio and are counting on those pieces of equipment available in time for certain projects. (we all want to have fresh sounds asap, part of the job)

Since Arturia did the design, planning, marketing research, PR and manufacturing of this unit I can't see who else would have blame as the whole process is in your hands.
Sorry to be harsh...
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jakegetup on July 05, 2012, 10:01:20 am
I have to admit. I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I had an email from the company I ordered the product from today stating that they have made a complaint to the UK distrubuter themselves and still cannot give me a delivery date in any way.

I pre ordered in March and after 4 months still no delivery date?

What's really getting to people isn't the wait. It's just the lack of communication. You posted on your website a release date. Not a distribution date. then changed it without giving any clear account as to why for days after the change.

Then when the date finally comes round it's just a distribution date and anyone not living in America or Japan has to wait a further 6-8 weeks at least. That's insanely bad communication skills.

Any other product that s pre ordered is generally shipped on the date given by the company. It goes to pre orders on that day and then 1-2 weeks at the latest is given to all other shops and customers.

This has been months!

After waiting so long I feel we at least deserve a rough guidline as to when we are going to recieve the product we reserved so long ago.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: harpies on July 05, 2012, 06:02:49 pm
i preordered in january.  I just called Musicians Friend to cancel my order, but they said their tracking info shows they should have 90 coming in today, and they have 97 preorders.  anyway, if I don't get a shipping notice by tomorrow evening, I'm cancelling too.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on July 06, 2012, 02:47:51 am
Mmm bad mood here.  :-\

There may be merely nothing I can do to get it off your chest, except stating that as far as I know Arturia has not taken pre-orders, that's the sole reseller responsibility to do so. The same topic has been debated  on various forums (see on Muffwiggler or Gearslutz for instance) and the whole thing is:
1. We could not fiddle with quality, so production issues means additional delay;
2. First distributors orders are first delivered ones, and they mainly came from US. Period.
3. Knobs are solid enough for a normal usage.

So, I can clearly imagine your impatience (I wait for my unit too), but please try to think twice before putting all the blame on us.
We have absolutely no interest in adding more waiting than necessary, there is no hype to artificially maintain, and we hardly appreciate to disappoint anyone (we rather prefer love than anger, really).

My 2 cents.

Well... understanding that, I would rather wait for a perfectly working and durable unit than getting something fast that needed to be returned 1 week later.

So, I'm patiently waiting for the MiniBrute to show up in Arturia's eShop to buy it. This will avoid me paying a pre-order to a seller that is waiting for the units himself, with my money in their bank :)

If I can get a MiniBrute before Xmas, I'll be a happy owner of that little monster.

my 0.02€
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on July 06, 2012, 01:03:26 pm
Well,I was also promoting it on you tube video's how wonderful this minibrute was.
But I don't buy stuff from people that's telling one lie after the other for a half year long.
 >:(

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: lethal_pizzle on July 06, 2012, 10:19:21 pm
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/8041180-post1406.html
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on July 06, 2012, 10:21:43 pm
Very cool! I'm so happy to see that some folks are receiving their orders :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Audesi on July 07, 2012, 02:26:58 am
Mine shipped out on July 3rd and will be delivered on the 10th. Man! I should have paid for faster shipping! On the other hand, it will be arriving on my birthday!  :)

 
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 07, 2012, 01:14:25 pm
i preordered in january.  I just called Musicians Friend to cancel my order, but they said their tracking info shows they should have 90 coming in today, and they have 97 preorders.  anyway, if I don't get a shipping notice by tomorrow evening, I'm cancelling too.

I also ordered from them a day after the announcement. I expected delays from the start since the interest was so high, but the false promises/dates from MF are getting annoying. If they can't estimate the shipping date then they should just admit it. Apparently only one US distributor (Sweetwater) got ALL the units from the first batch, so I'm assuming it's going to take a very long time to fill even the earliest pre-orders.

I ordered from MF in Feb. and called them yesterday.  The rep. told me they still have a 7-5-12 delivery date in their system and that was a "good sign", but he couldn't tell me if they actually received them yet - said it would take about 2 days for their warehouse to update the sales orders in their system.  No reason to assume that SW got ALL the units initially shipped though.  We shall see......... ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: monobrute on July 08, 2012, 12:44:55 am
Well,I was also promoting it on you tube video's how wonderful this minibrute was.
But I don't buy stuff from people that's telling one lie after the other for a half year long.
 >:(


filip shut up you have bitched an cried enough. and you have posted lies on here as well
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: diabolik! on July 08, 2012, 02:07:02 am
pre-ordered mine via guitar center.  just got a shipment notification with tracking #. 
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 08, 2012, 04:11:38 am
Preordered back in Feb. and got my tracking number from UPS tonight as well!    :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: KAO99 on July 08, 2012, 05:20:42 am
Finally!
after months, and months..

..and months and months and months

of waiting, finally got my tracking number at approx. 7:00 PM tonight. Unfortunately they cannot "locate the shipment" with the tracker. Probably because it left only 4 hours ago.
But I don't care! I'm finally gonna get my hands on this thing
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: monobrute on July 08, 2012, 10:38:11 pm
Just want to say congratulations and i am happy for who ever has their Brutes on the way or has already received theirs. Mine is still on back order and I'm ok with that. I'm fine with waiting for mine. Its just a product (albeit a nice one) and not a life and death threatening situation. Some of you on here (and you know who you are) have been complaining as if you were on a list to get a liver or kidney transplant. I will say this...Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous and cannot be validated even by the release date set backs. I will put this into perspective by making a simple observation that if the Minibrute was never created you would not have this erroneously perceived problem. Further more you would not be feeling like there's a void in your life that only something like a Minibrute could fill. A year from now everyone who wants a Minibrute will have one. And if there is a problem in life that is not going to matter a year from when it occurred, then its just not a big deal to begin with. Sure on some level the waiting sucks but if that is a huge problem for you, then your priorities are not in order. And if you are still feeling like you have been wronged by this minor situation, take a good look at the real problems that are going in this world and then shut the hell up.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on July 09, 2012, 02:55:31 pm
Dear mono brute,I pre ordered the minibrute back in february at my dealer.
I have send an email (in february) to arturia with the question when they should be in stores.
arturia responded back with the answer that it will be in stores in april and that every dealer will get them on the same moment because they wanted it that way.
I don't have that email anymore ,I removed it from my inbox otherwise I would post it here.
I'm not telling a lie and I have never done that on this forum.
Now we are reading here on this forum that U.S. is getting the first batch and it goes to sweetwater only.
I live in Europe so I can fuck off and watch how other people is getting they units before others does.
And I'm not talking about hours or days.
It will take to september ,oktober until I will see a minibrute (probably the pre orders only)in a store here in Belgium.
Knowing that Belgium is located next to france!
Well mono brute,if I ever get you in my hands ...
//// CENSORED BY ANTOINE ////
//// Let's behave as gentlemen, please. ////

Promise!

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 09, 2012, 03:41:37 pm
The 1st orders are not going to SW only.  I am lucky that I live in a suburb outside of Kansas City, and the MF warehouse ships out of KC, UPS has updated my tracking number, so I should expect mine tomorrow.   :)

+1 to Monobrute - you stated it better than I could.  It is unfortunate that Arturia had to limit their initial shipments (to USA only?).  I can emphasize with the bad feelings from the euro & australia, etc. communities, but as mentioned by Antoine, the 1st orders were filled first.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on July 09, 2012, 04:55:08 pm
AAAHHHH,Finaly mine is arrived.
Got it!
I played it whole morning and I have to say that it's sounds good but not the way I wanted .
I compared the waves with the logic es 2 waves and I must confess that the es2 sounds fatter :(.
Also the knobs feels a little cheap.
Another thing is ,I'm already missing is the presets save button.
I never thought that I would miss it so hard.
I'm happy that I have it but now I'm running with my head against the wall and wake up and find out that no preset save button is a true hell and makes this handy thing a nightmare.

Filip, I don't know what you threatened monobrute with, but clearly you did lie right here in this post, so I don't think you should feel so butt-hurt when you are called on it.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on July 09, 2012, 07:25:40 pm
Now,you 've got me by the balls zedius.
The point is ,  :P one!
 All of you , :P :P :P
Now you know! 8)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: monobrute on July 09, 2012, 07:37:19 pm
Dear mono brute,I pre ordered the minibrute back in february at my dealer.
I have send an email (in february) to arturia with the question when they should be in stores.
arturia responded back with the answer that it will be in stores in april and that every dealer will get them on the same moment because they wanted it that way.
I don't have that email anymore ,I removed it from my inbox otherwise I would post it here.
I'm not telling a lie and I have never done that on this forum.
Now we are reading here on this forum that U.S. is getting the first batch and it goes to sweetwater only.
I live in Europe so I can fuck off and watch how other people is getting they units before others does.
And I'm not talking about hours or days.
It will take to september ,oktober until I will see a minibrute (probably the pre orders only)in a store here in Belgium.
Knowing that Belgium is located next to france!
Well mono brute,if I ever get you in my hands ...
//// CENSORED BY ANTOINE ////
//// Let's behave as gentlemen, please. ////

Promise!


Dear fillip post #39 was yours and and a lie. An elaborate one at that. Now you are lying again by saying you did not lie. I don't know what your threat to me was and I don't care. If you feel the release date has been dragged out too long and want to cancel, you have every right to. I am not faulting you for that. However you have claimed you cancel your order and that you have received your Minibrute and that you went ahead with another product. But you keep coming to this forum with additionally useless complaints that borderline on harassment. Maybe that is an exaggeration but it is annoying. You have said enough and you are out of the Minibrute game. So quit coming back on here with your "and another thing's". Obviously your negativity is not popular and you should just move on to bigger and better things. Honestly I wish you well.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 10, 2012, 03:48:45 am
Mine arrived today!  :)  I was expecting it tomorrow at the earliest.

Thank you Arturia!  This is for real.  They did a great job packing all these features in a very solid unit.  The keyboard and aftertouch is great.  Knobs, sliders, switches feel solid as well.  Having much fun with the arpeggiator.  Hooked it up via CV to my Dark Energy and got some extremely wicked sounds.

They have hit it out of the ballpark (I'm watching the home run derby at the moment!).

To those who are waiting - it will be worth the wait.  There are good reasons for the delays, and Arturia has at least tried to ship what they are able at the moment.  

Unfortunately - I have some USB/midi issues in my rig that I thought I would have time to correct before the Minibrute arrived but didn't get around to fix.  So I can't update to the new firmware or connect to the software.  The issue is almost certainly on my end, so I am going to have to make my contortions and other tricks to get behind my rack and stands to check cable runs, etc.  It's not what I am looking to do tonight, but that's the price one pays for having such a convoluted rig that I have!  ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Antoine on July 10, 2012, 09:09:40 am
@jimtheswede
Congrats, you're one of the happy few first owners on this planet!
Try to borrow a working computer, do the firmware update, have serious fun.
Please be gentle enough to post video demos here and there, to feed the other hungry folks waiting their units! :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: kulabocca on July 10, 2012, 06:56:45 pm
Just received mine today as well!  I had it delivered to Guitar Center and will not be able to play it till later this afternoon, but the build quality is great! 

I cannot wait to play it!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jakegetup on July 10, 2012, 07:08:44 pm
Congrats guys, it's good to hear the product is as good as most of us were hoping for. I hope to see more people on here saying similar things soon! Oh and yes post video's because honestly I'm exhausted from the excitement and I need my Minibrute fix!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on July 10, 2012, 08:11:32 pm
Oh and yes post video's because honestly I'm exhausted from the excitement and I need my Minibrute fix!
I've been adding every Minibrute video I bump into in the youtube list mentioned here: Arturia MiniBrute Videos & Forums (http://www.arturia.com/evolution/smf/index.php?topic=5731.0)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 10, 2012, 09:36:50 pm
I could try and post a video but I'd probably do more harm than good!   Probably better if someone else with better skills than I attempt it, although I will try and take a picture of it (sitting with my Mg CP-251 and Dark Energy) and upload it.

BTW - I did manage to update the firmware.  I re-downloaded the "connection" file again after noticing that my orig. .mpf file was 0 bytes.  Worked fine with the new file (which is 142KB).  :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Audesi on July 11, 2012, 02:06:08 am
Just got mine this morning! Having fun! I love it Arturia, thanks! Can't wait to start using it in recordings.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: kulabocca on July 11, 2012, 04:20:00 am
Been playing it all evening.  I absolutely love this little beast!  The preset sheets are great for exploring how varied the sounds can get. I also really love the arpeggiator. I hadn't really seen much on that part, so I was really curious. 

I have a feeling the mood on this thread will change quite a bit over the next few weeks. You've done a great job, Arturia. It was worth the wait for sure.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Audesi on July 11, 2012, 06:37:51 am
I am curious if Arturia put the wrong resistance value potentiometer on the Filter ENV Amt? It seems that only half the range of the knob is useful. Anyone else with a Minibrute experience this, or care to verify? Also, you can compare it to one of the preset patch sheets and a YouTube review of the prototype. More detail is on my post at http://www.arturia.com/evolution/smf/index.php?topic=6501.0. Thanks.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on July 11, 2012, 09:55:15 am
Wait till Oktober ,no thanks .
And no preset saving?
First issue is already here!
The env amount potentiometer issue.
And that with the first minibrutes.
You can give my portion to the cat!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on July 11, 2012, 11:21:53 am
I am curious if Arturia put the wrong resistance value potentiometer on the Filter ENV Amt? It seems that only half the range of the knob is useful. Anyone else with a Minibrute experience this, or care to verify? Also, you can compare it to one of the preset patch sheets and a YouTube review of the prototype. More detail is on my post at http://www.arturia.com/evolution/smf/index.php?topic=6501.0. Thanks.
hmmm... this is bound to happen (and my greatest fear with these products) let's hope it's just a defective unit out of perfectly done batch or better still, something easy to calibrate... that would be nice, if possible.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Audesi on July 11, 2012, 11:55:44 am
The env amount potentiometer issue.
And that with the first minibrutes.

It still sounds very wonderful. I've been playing with it all night. I'm enjoying it a lot. It's just a slight nuisance, as you don't have as wide of a range to turn the knob. It takes finer smaller adjustments near the center portion of the knob. I hope there's an easy fix though. Maybe I'm the only one with the problem. Also, products usually become better with newer revisions. I don't want to turn people off to the synth, as I really like what Arturia's doing here!

I definitely wouldn't be opposed to patch saving though :), even if it was implemented the way Mg did with the Minitaur. via a software editor and digitally controlled potentiometers. That would be great!! It would also still be an all analog signal path.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Filip on July 11, 2012, 02:14:41 pm
Oke, if the customer is happy.... :-X
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: stuey on July 11, 2012, 02:19:26 pm
And no preset saving?
First issue is already here!
The env amount potentiometer issue.


If you wanted one finger access to different sounds, why did you buy the mini brute. Arturia have stacks of preset wonders in their arsenal.

I think any manufacturer that release a version1 of something they have never tried before are going to bump into issues, but for what £400? you have a full analog path synth. I think the minbrute will be a modern classic in not so many years.

I'd love to get my hands on one

Stuart
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: rcmusic on July 11, 2012, 06:32:15 pm
Wait till Oktober ,no thanks .
And no preset saving?
First issue is already here!
The env amount potentiometer issue.
And that with the first minibrutes.
You can give my portion to the cat!



no presets is a philosophy on this keyboard, since it was announced, and you still complaining always and always, becoming quite boring now, i really wonder why are you here on this forum. Even about the delays, what are 2 or 3 months in a life ? ::)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: monobrute on July 11, 2012, 10:33:25 pm
Can we vote filip out of the forum? It seems his only purpose in this forum at this point is to rain on any kind of parade. Not only does he choose to go out of his way to be miserable, but he try to bring as many of us as he can down with him.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on July 11, 2012, 10:55:56 pm
I agree! Mods, please ban Filip! He should find other ways to entertain himself, like one finger accessing his presets!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 11, 2012, 11:07:40 pm
Can we vote filip out of the forum? It seems his only purpose in this forum at this point is to rain on any kind of parade. Not only does he choose to go out of his way to be miserable, but he try to bring as many of us as he can down with him.

He's not "raining on my parade", but his posts are tiresome to say the least.  I don't know his age but I assume he is very young or.....certainly acts like it!  Presets were never provided in a true analog synth back in the day, and recreating a "vintage" synth was apparently their intent.  He doesn't have the synth - did he cancel his order?  What is he doing here if he did, or has no interest in it?  

I have nothing but good things to say about this synth, and my thanks to Arturia for "thinking outside of the box" from their typical product line and producing a synth that is original and has many innovative features.  I have not noticed the ENV pot. issue yet, but haven't played very long on it.  I'm very pleased with everything with the MiniBrute so far.  Hoping for a "MicroBrute" w/o keyboard as an expansion module, and maybe even a sequencer.  The MiniBrute concept could expand Arturia's product line in many ways...I'm hoping!  

Edit - from looking at his profile, I found he is 24 yrs old.  No further comment from me!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: stuey on July 12, 2012, 12:53:14 am
Presets were never provided in a true analog synth back in the day, and recreating a "vintage" synth was apparently their intent.  

Jupiter 8 ?

 ;)  ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Koshdukai on July 12, 2012, 01:35:42 am
Hoping for a "MicroBrute" w/o keyboard as an expansion module, and maybe even a sequencer.  The MiniBrute concept could expand Arturia's product line in many ways...I'm hoping!
Yeah, I really hope to see a desktop/module version of it and would trade some of the digital stuff (keyb & arp) for CC control of the analog knobs (hey, a guy can dream, right? :D) for the same price of the current Minibrute (if possible).

That would be the best expansion to an existing Minibrute and/or to a DAW (allowing total MIDI control) and would cover the rest of the market that doesn't need another keyboard but still cries for "no preset saving" by allowing "presets" to be kept in the DAW or any other MIDI sending app :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Cord on July 12, 2012, 03:43:29 am
Edit - from looking at his profile, I found he is 24 yrs old.  No further comment from me!

you were mistaken, that is his IQ!!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on July 12, 2012, 04:44:22 am
Edit - from looking at his profile, I found he is 24 yrs old.  No further comment from me!

you were mistaken, that is his IQ!!

Sorry - I was hoping he was about 14 yrs. old or younger!  ;D
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on July 20, 2012, 10:45:00 pm
New update from JRRShop.com is late August for mine (Preordered mid Feb). I'm just gonna try to forget about this one for a while :(

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: mattsterp on July 30, 2012, 06:30:27 pm
I got my minibrute last weekend, and let me tell you that it is truly amazing. If I had known it would be this well made and sound this amazing I never would have complained about the delays at all.   Let the crow eating officially begin.  thank you Artutira
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: dexfx69 on August 04, 2012, 06:08:56 am
Got mine today, first one in Canada! Unfortunately, then I woke up.  :-[

Just promise me, Arturia, you've learned from your mistakes and won't announce a false ship date again. Look at DSI, the date of announcement of the Mopho X4, and shipping same day - that should be your absolute goal, to help your company gain back credibility. You have lots of angry and disappointed Minibrute preorderers who are still waiting for their unit, months after it was promised to ship.  :'(

No hard feelings, but can we expect accurate ship dates on future products?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: oim on August 15, 2012, 03:41:32 pm
Tell me if I'm wrong, Arturia thought they'd be able to send thousands (according to the pre-orders) of minibrutes precisely in april but finaly only could send a few in July, and only in US?
Then lied a second time again and again telling other territories would be shipped "later in July"? (probably October)
I guess the guaranty period will be as extendable...
What a skilled communication/management!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: washburn on August 22, 2012, 08:05:31 am
what kind of estimate did Arturia have for the demand? 500 people?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: dexfx69 on August 29, 2012, 01:52:58 am
Tell me if I'm wrong, Arturia thought they'd be able to send thousands (according to the pre-orders) of minibrutes precisely in april but finaly only could send a few in July, and only in US?
Then lied a second time again and again telling other territories would be shipped "later in July"? (probably October)

Yes, it's sad that Arturia is creating a great instrument/price, but is consistently incorrectly announcing almost anything related to release date - the "later in July" is totally inaccurate again, haven't seen one unit enter Canada yet - this is end of August. Trying to keep my love for Arturia is becoming challenging! I ended up cancelling my January preorder last week - I don't like to be lied to and it left a very bad taste in my mouth to Arturia.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 03, 2012, 11:00:29 am
@ Filip: We will not accept that you insult us on this forum. Stupid point less trolling, or insult on the forum got you banned for sometime.
I can understand that not receiving a machine you pre-order (did you really or are you just trying  to get people pissed off?) month ago can be very frustrating. But being sarcastic and insulting will not bring you a machine faster...

Beside that I think it's time for a clear explanation about production delay for everybody.
Many things have been written on this thread. Some are wrong and unfair. Arturia is not trying to lie on you, we have done some mistake for sure, but it was absolutely not deliberate. What do you think? assembling a fully analog synth, in massive quantities, for half the price other companies would have sold it, is an easy and fast job? that we are happy to be late? And happy not to get money back on our invest because we can not sell machines?
We thought it would take up to April... we were obviously wrong. Assembling analog hardware is very different from digital, it's in some areas, far more complex, lots of things need to be trimmed, other are drifting... So producing it, requires fairly qualified workers, and very detailed processes. We mis-estimated the difficulty of putting this in place. As we didn't wanted to cut on the quality, it has slowed down the production. We started to ship in June, but with low quantities. Now is early September, We receive weekly deliveries of hundreds of machines, so it will take some more weeks to provides all remaining pre-order, and to have machines available in shops.
So no lies here, only missing experience in Analog mass production, unexpected things, and a very challenging goal.

I hope you can understand this, be sure we are sorry about this. So please no more anger, and unfair comments. We have been working as hell here to get the situation cleared. Everything is now on his way, so please be a bit more patient, I really think this machine is worthwhile  the wait.

Regards

Bruno
Hardware Design
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: rcmusic on September 03, 2012, 07:06:21 pm
thanx Bruno. Do the last shipments concern France too ? thanx a lot
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on September 03, 2012, 07:09:43 pm
I've had since early July and it was well worth the wait.  Thanks Bruno for the explanation and for banning filip!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on September 03, 2012, 08:55:11 pm
Wow, it's so great that you have banned Filip! He has brought nothing of value to this board ever since he canceled his pre-order and he has simply been coming back to spread lies and negativity.

I would like to commend Arturia for promoting free speech and taking so long to ban Filip. You gave him a ton of chances and he made it clear that he was here for no reason other than to troll. Having personally requested that you ban him months ago, I know that it takes a lot for you guys to actually ban somebody. You have more patience than I do :)

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 03, 2012, 10:05:32 pm
Last week shipment has been spread around Europe, including France of course.
I'm not so patient in fact... I was in china last month, far to busy to deal with Filip :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: ddt242 on September 04, 2012, 09:01:50 am
@Bruno What about Poland? Was it also included in last shipment?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 04, 2012, 02:13:58 pm
Sorry I don't know the detailed informations for each countries...
You should contact your local distributor, our sales department provided them with a forecast
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on September 04, 2012, 04:18:59 pm
Hi Bruno,

My supplier is located in the USA, but it was not one of the big suppliers and they have not yet received minibrutes. They were told by Arturia that they could expect stock mid September. Are there any new Minibrutes going out to the US early this month, or just to France? Perhaps some more units went to the US mid August?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on September 04, 2012, 04:39:00 pm
Zedius, regarding the USA, we are now expecting another small shipment towards the end of the month (sorry we missed the mid-September ETA), then a larger shipment later in October.
Shipments are allocated to dealers based upon the date they confirmed their pre-orders to us. That does not always mean your order date to the dealer: some dealers ordered immediately as soon as we announced MiniBrute, but other dealers waited until they had already some customer orders before confirming their pre-order to us.
At this time, units have been shipped only to the dealers who had placed their pre-orders first.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on September 05, 2012, 12:20:19 am
So when are there any being shipped to the UK? Please provide a realistic answer this time, I already cancelled one pre order and am thinking of still getting one IF there is going to be some around in October. Otherwise I have to move on and fill the gap in the studio with something else...By the way I would order from Digital Village as that is my main supplier for equipment:)

Cheers
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 06, 2012, 03:41:00 pm
Some has been sent to UK last week. But I have no idea on how long is the waiting list in UK or at Digital Village.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: ddt242 on September 06, 2012, 08:11:21 pm
@Bruno: so you know about last shipments to France, UK and can provide answer via forum so maybe you can answer on Poland too?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on September 06, 2012, 11:08:20 pm
Thanks for the update Bruno, I will see what DV can tell me regarding order and delivery times:)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Xi_34 on September 06, 2012, 11:28:15 pm
Any news on the shipment to Canada?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Sean W on September 07, 2012, 06:31:26 am
Any news on the shipment to Canada?
There is an upcoming shipment that should arrive in Canada before the end of this month, but I do not know how it will be allocated inside Canada.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Xi_34 on September 07, 2012, 07:13:45 am
Thanks for the quick reply.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on September 07, 2012, 07:17:50 am
How about sweden? I have only heard rumors about a small amount off minibrutes in october for all of europe?


I can understand that there is unexpected things happening in all production, but the key is really communicate with you customers, involve us in your struggles. It will be rewarding in the long run :)

But with that said. I really looking forward to the minibrute and I think what you do is just amazing!!

Many thanks!
Johan
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 07, 2012, 11:26:00 am
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How about sweden? I have only heard rumors about a small amount off minibrutes in october for all of europe?
It's only rumors indeed :)
Units has been shipped to Europe since early September, for sure not in crazy quantities, but there will be more coming this month.  Our factory in ramping-up, early October they should reach their maximum capacity. So small to average amount in September, and much more in October.

A very small quantity has been sent to Sweden last week, a bigger amount should be delivered next week. For Poland, delivery next week but very small quantity...

By the way, keep in mind I'm not from sales department (but electronic design), so I will not be able to answer all the deliveries question, because I just don't know the exact dispatch country by country. I will keep on giving you updates on global deliveries, but I can not answer for shops, dealers, and some countries...

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But with that said. I really looking forward to the minibrute and I think what you do is just amazing!!

thanks!


 
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on September 07, 2012, 12:45:19 pm
Thanks for a quick reply!!

//Johan
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: ONI on September 07, 2012, 03:48:26 pm
Bruno, what about Norway? The wait is seriously killing me... I´ve been having dreams about finally getting a Minibrute in my post box! Waking up sucks nowadays.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 07, 2012, 05:14:28 pm
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Bruno, what about Norway?
same as Sweden, our distributor is for Scandinavia in fact.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: rcmusic on September 07, 2012, 07:03:00 pm
got mine today in Rennes, France. they just had one, i was lucky it just arrived  before i phoned them. they will got another one (or ones) next week.

love the sound, well done team !!!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: electronicpoison on September 10, 2012, 06:02:32 pm
yes today i got mine here in Hamburg (Germany ) YES
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: weppingpresent on September 10, 2012, 09:41:07 pm
Hello there,

I havn't pre ordered the thing and I wonder when all the pre orders will be delivered so that I can buy the Minibrute.
Something like the end of the year ?

Congrats to those who recived it, give feedback ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 11, 2012, 09:03:41 am
it's very hard to know because in the pre-orders we have, some are from shops and not end-users. So if you are lucky you could find a machine in shop even if all the pre-orders are not delivered.
I don't know when all pre-orders will be delivered, because I don't know how many we have....
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: weppingpresent on September 11, 2012, 11:00:46 am
Okay thanks, I will shop around then :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: ONI on September 11, 2012, 11:07:43 pm
It´s good to see that more and more people get their units in Europe now! It seems that you guys at Arturia are really working hard to make everyone happy here. Kudos to you for your efforts!

Watching new videos on youtube makes the wait a little less difficult for me, so to those who have one, make videos and show us "mortals! what its like!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sinepost on September 13, 2012, 06:00:27 am
Fresh supply @ Guitar Center this week, just picked mine up tonight.  Good luck!  TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!! :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on September 13, 2012, 05:41:26 pm
Got my tracking number today in the uk,should be here tomorrow its gonna be a sleepless night I literally can not wait  :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: electronicpoison on September 13, 2012, 09:12:38 pm
better you sleep a few hours before you get yours , it will be a long weekend
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Relayer90125 on September 13, 2012, 11:56:46 pm
...ordered mine last Friday night (7th Sept 20012) from Amazon UK ..... and received it around 84 hours later ... 13:00 hours, Tuesday 11th  ;D
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: sporophore on September 16, 2012, 04:07:43 pm
it was well worth the wait i love it  :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on September 21, 2012, 10:11:43 am
Seems I´m next in line is sweden (fingers crossed)  :)

Any ideas when next shipment will be sent?

//joja
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: moimirpapalescu on September 25, 2012, 09:13:11 am
Hi, I ordered at the thomann.de exactly a month ago and still nothing. I got a message from Thomann - they say it will be until the end of October. Why so late ??? Thanks for reply.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on September 25, 2012, 09:55:02 am
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Why so late
because we haven't delivered yet enough units to have ready to ship stocks in shops. So you are on the waiting list....
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on September 25, 2012, 10:21:51 pm
Hi, I ordered at the thomann.de exactly a month ago and still nothing. I got a message from Thomann - they say it will be until the end of October. Why so late ??? Thanks for reply.

Ha! I ordered exactly 9 months ago and still nothing :) I could be a dad by now. Patience is key :)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Steve Morley on October 03, 2012, 12:51:23 am
Got lucky when calling around:)) someone had 3 in stock here in the UK so right away ordered one. Had a play with it today and so far happy with the sound!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on October 05, 2012, 07:18:13 am
Seems like musicstores i Sweden is changing to dec for delivery. None seems to know not even EM nordic and they really should now, right?

All Im asking is for a realistic estimate when Minibrute might be available in Sweden. Late? Fine, I can wait. But I could buy some other stuff while waiting if I get a true idea when the bill for my Minibrute might show up :)

Thanks in advance!

//Joja



Seems I´m next in line is sweden (fingers crossed)  :)

Any ideas when next shipment will be sent?

//joja
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: tertior on October 05, 2012, 08:56:45 am
Normally early November if you have a pre-order, but I read a rumor that says that customer had more important to the production site and this will delay the Minibrute delivery late December. Moral: Merry Christmas
PS: this is a rumor ....
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: ONI on October 05, 2012, 09:44:21 am
Well, I live in Scandinavia and I got one a few days ago. I had to order one from the UK though, but they sent it very quickly and it works like a charm! I think that if you really cannot wait anymore, you should try that out. If you want to know what store I got it from, PM me.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: xtinct on October 12, 2012, 06:15:54 am
Hello Hello,

So I haven't actually received my minibrute yet but...I've been in contact with the distributor I have pre-order from here in the USA. I was told as of yesterday that they expect 15 units sometime next week and another 15 units in mid November. The shocker was that even with those 30 units, all of their pre-orders including my own wont be filled by the end of November....
So that's whats the situation is currently here in the U.S.  :(

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: tertior on October 12, 2012, 09:08:47 am
The situation for USA is you are on the top of the country  for deliver Minibrute, before Japon, UK, Deutchland France etc... You will receive it before me in France. In the end of November
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Krinor on October 22, 2012, 10:02:11 pm
Seems like musicstores i Sweden is changing to dec for delivery. None seems to know not even EM nordic and they really should now, right?

All Im asking is for a realistic estimate when Minibrute might be available in Sweden. Late? Fine, I can wait. But I could buy some other stuff while waiting if I get a true idea when the bill for my Minibrute might show up :)

Thanks in advance!

//Joja



Seems I´m next in line is sweden (fingers crossed)  :)

Any ideas when next shipment will be sent?

//joja

The marketing of the Arturia Minibrute is a complete farce. How about just calling it off ?!
Or maybe re-announce it at NAMM 2013 ? To be released in April...?  ;D


Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Krinor on October 23, 2012, 09:47:23 am
Seems like musicstores i Sweden is changing to dec for delivery. None seems to know not even EM nordic and they really should now, right?

All Im asking is for a realistic estimate when Minibrute might be available in Sweden. Late? Fine, I can wait. But I could buy some other stuff while waiting if I get a true idea when the bill for my Minibrute might show up :)

Thanks in advance!

//Joja



Seems I´m next in line is sweden (fingers crossed)  :)

Any ideas when next shipment will be sent?

//joja

The marketing of the Arturia Minibrute is a complete farce. How about just calling it off ?!
Or maybe re-announce it at NAMM 2013 ? To be released in April...?  ;D

Oh and thanks for the minus karma point btw. Stating humerous facts in this forum seems to be forbidden. Come on hit the smite button once again!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: tertior on October 23, 2012, 09:59:13 am
It's Done;  humor, music ,sex are the only things that make us good. We will not deprive of this.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Wobble on October 29, 2012, 08:27:21 am
My first post!

So I ordered a Minibrute yesterday from Musicians Friend, and it says the expected ship date is 11-16. But I've heard all kinds of things. Like May 2013 being a possibility.. The rep for MF I talked to said they actually had no idea if or when they would be getting another shipment.

So what are the odds I have a Minibrute before the end of the year?
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on October 30, 2012, 11:01:28 am
No one knows at Arturia either?

Its been almost two months since you announced "shipping in europe". All I need is a simple answer, are we talking nov or dec?

I mean someone have to know this otherwise its really scary :)

//joja


Seems like musicstores i Sweden is changing to dec for delivery. None seems to know not even EM nordic and they really should now, right?

All Im asking is for a realistic estimate when Minibrute might be available in Sweden. Late? Fine, I can wait. But I could buy some other stuff while waiting if I get a true idea when the bill for my Minibrute might show up :)

Thanks in advance!

//Joja



Seems I´m next in line is sweden (fingers crossed)  :)

Any ideas when next shipment will be sent?

//joja
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Bruno@arturia on October 30, 2012, 03:50:25 pm
I have been told that next shipment to Sweden in planned for November. So in few weeks I guess.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Trenton on October 30, 2012, 04:54:35 pm
Bruno
-

Any word on US shipments to Guitar Center for orders placed after October 8?

Any information is greatly appreciated!

Thanks to you and your team for such a awesome new synth!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: pkdick on October 30, 2012, 08:04:21 pm
lord is this debacle still going on, was reading about apple's perfect supply chain today at work, arturia seemed to have perfected the opposite
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on November 01, 2012, 03:14:36 pm
Ok, I'm getting pretty impatient over here. I'm a Canadian customer, but I placed an order with JRRShop in the US back in FEBRUARY. Arturia has repeatedly pushed back their order, and in turn, JRR Shop has had to push back their availability date.

So far if I recall correctly my minibrute was due in April, May, June, late July, end of August, end of Septemember, end of October, and now end of November.

In June I half joked that I would not see this purchase until after Christmas. Now I know that to be true!

Earlier in the month I emailed JRR Shop and they told me that I was 14th in line, and that they were expecting between 5 and 15 minibrutes at the end of the month, but probably closer to 5 so don't cross my fingers. Then they should be getting enough to fill my order by end of November.

I emailed JRR at end of October to verify, and this is the insane part:

Arturia sent JRR shop NO minibrutes this month. Apparently "the factory messed up" and sent the units intended for JRR shop to Europe. Now JRR is expecting likely 3-5 at the end of November.

And meanwhile tons of folks in the US who didn't preorder are walking into guitar centers with their fingers up their nose and picking up minibrutes on a whim!!

This is insanely aggravating, well beyond my patience threshold. Is there any way to send extra units to JRR shop to cover the mistake that your factory made? It would make sense to me that if some stores in Europe accidentally jumped queue, then their units should backfill into the US. There must be some solution?

Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Worlock on November 03, 2012, 12:45:50 am
Any news of a second Canadian shipment?   Turns out I was misled as to where I was on the list.  Paid in full already, could have bought from elsewhere had I known.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Ed Solo on November 03, 2012, 02:20:13 am
Im in the UK, got mine a few days ago.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Peter K on November 07, 2012, 07:34:28 am
I got mine in Canada the other day.  It ROCKS!!!
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Wobble on November 08, 2012, 11:35:55 pm
Now I heard it's not shipping until the 30th of November.

Just hoping I get one by the end of the year because it seems like nobody knows what's going on. May just cancel my order and get a minitaur.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: jimtheswede on November 10, 2012, 12:26:51 am
Now I heard it's not shipping until the 30th of November.

Just hoping I get one by the end of the year because it seems like nobody knows what's going on. May just cancel my order and get a minitaur.

It's worth the wait IMO!  I would hang in there.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: xtinct on November 12, 2012, 12:54:29 am
So what happened with the expected 150 unit shipment to USA's Guitar Center's on Nov. 8th? Now it's Nov. 30th?

Man, this is really testing my patience....I just hope you all pull through this time around or I most certainly will pull my pre-order and go for one of those nice compact SE  2VCO Boomstar synths.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on December 05, 2012, 08:35:22 am
Still no sign of MB in Sweden :(



I have been told that next shipment to Sweden in planned for November. So in few weeks I guess.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: casoniq on December 15, 2012, 02:27:06 pm
I got mine yesterday. As most of you know, Arturia had a tough time making these fast enough to meet demand (to their credit the Minibrute is selling like hotcakes).  Bought mine from Altomusic on Ebay and it arrived 2 days later! Promptly canceled my preorder with Sweetwater. This thing is AWESOME  8)
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: zedius on December 18, 2012, 11:32:25 pm
Well I just got mine from JRRshop.com. Big big thanks to jrrshop.com for shipping so fast once they arrived and having consistently honest and transparent, as well as sympathetic, communication throughout the whole wait.

2 key weights were knocked out as received but they are still in the box and I can glue them back in myself. Haven't been able to power it up yet.

Pretty excited!!

Thanks again to Arturia for even releasing this thing. I'm not 100% happy with the feedback I got on the delays at all times, but I am impressed for the most part with your presence on these forums, your transparency, and your patience, and the guts it takes to release a niche product like this to the market.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: aquilia on December 19, 2012, 09:22:41 am
Any news on expected shipments to Australia yet? Loathe to pre-order given some of the tales I've heard and nobody in Aus seems to know when to expect any stock.  :'(
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: joja_x on December 19, 2012, 01:24:37 pm
Well Im happy to report that my MB has finally landed :)



Still no sign of MB in Sweden :(



I have been told that next shipment to Sweden in planned for November. So in few weeks I guess.
Title: Re: Has anyone out there actualy receieved their Minibrute yet?
Post by: Wormhelmet on January 26, 2013, 01:35:44 pm
Mine came today and so glad I didn't wait any longer. I'm sure these will sell out soon. This synth is just a lot of intense goodness/rawness/wickedness all rolled into one! Total no-brainer purchase.