Arturia Drumbrute Impact

Not the name I would have chosen, the drums are actually pretty smooth and soft to my ears (in a good way), but I guess "Drumsmooth Firm but Gentle Touch" would not have sold as many units...

Anyway, I like this thing a lot. It is an analog synth and has a reasonable choice of instruments, with the minor exception that I would have preferred a second FM drum over a second snare and probably a second kick over the toms. It actually has more instruments than you first realize, because almost all have a "coloured" variant. The instruments also all respond to attack, even though the controls on the machine itself only expose two attack values: Yes and no.

The drum synth can be controlled via MIDI and the device itself can also output MIDI, so you can also use it to control other instruments. USB is also an option, however unlike some other Arturia devices you can not use it as an USB-MIDI interface for external instruments. This is a known firmware limitation^↗.

The built-in sequencer is uncomplicated and straight-forward. Web developers and application designers should be required to spend some time with a device like this to understand how to build a good UI/UX for a complicated thing.

The device has settings which can only be accessed via software. I had success using SysEx Controls^↗ to access them.