hardware for musical performance and production founded 1999 in grenoble founders fr d ric brun gilles pommereuil headquarters grenoble products software synthesizers analog synthesizers midi keyboards controllers audio interfaces number of employees 35 website arturia.com arturia is an electronics company founded in 1999 and based in grenoble france . the company designs and manufactures electronic musical instruments including software synthesizers drum machines analog synthesizers midi controllers and sequencers and mobile apps . 1 contents 1 history 2 sales 3 products 3.1 gallery 4 references 5 external links history edit arturia was founded in 1999 in grenoble by inpg engineers fr d ric brun and gilles pommereuil to create affordable software synthesizers . the first product they developed was storm a virtual instrument workstation . 2 the close emulation of classic analog synthesizers helped the company gain popularity in its market . 3 in order to create sounds with minimal digital artifacts brun and pommereuil developed new software algorithms to eliminate these issues . 4 in 2003 using the algorithms they had developed arturia worked with robert moog to create the modular v softsynth . the modular v uses arturia s true analog emulation tae in an attempt to faithfully reproduce the oscillators filters and other modules from the moog 3c and moog 55 . 4 5 following these releases arturia continued to develop software emulations of well known synthesizers including the arp 2600 roland jupiter 8 minimoog and sequential circuits prophet 5 . in 2007 arturia combined sounds from several of their softsynth titles into analog factory which offered 2000 preset synthesizer patches 6 offering this the following year as analog experience a hybrid system which combined the software with a midi keyboard controller specifically designed to play and control it . 7 arturia entered the hardware synthesizer market in 2012 with the minibrute a vintage style 25 key monophonic analog synthesizer with one voltage controlled oscillator two low frequency oscillators and a multimode steiner parker filter . 8 the synthesizer was introduced at the 2012 namm show . 9 despite pre production uncertainty about sales the minibrute sold well due to its low price point and expressive sound . 10 in the following year arturia announced their next hardware synthesizer the microbrute a smaller and less expensive version of the minibrute with minikeys a patch bank and a sequencer . 11 both synthesizers received critical acclaim . 10 sales edit in 2015 exports to the united states japan and northern europe accounted for 90 % of arturia s revenue . 3 products edit the company s product line includes software synthesizers software bundles hardware synthesizers and sequencers mobile apps and other audio equipment and controllers . gallery edit arturia minibrute 2012 arturia microbrute 2013 left with zoom r8 arturia beatstep 2014 arturia beatstep pro 2015 arturia audiofuse 2015 arturia matrixbrute 2016 references edit arturia music trades magazine december 2014 p. 92 courdavault adrien 19 january 2015 . meet the programmers arturia . interview . musicradar . retrieved 3 february 2015 . a b arturia musical instruments herstellerprofil in german . bonedo . retrieved 3 february 2015 . a b pommereuil gilles 2 january 2005 . gilles pommereuil . interview with cyril colom . mixound . retrieved 3 february 2015 . arturia moog modular v . vintage synth explorer . retrieved 3 february 2015 . walden john january 2007 . arturia analog factory . sound on sound . retrieved 8 october 2015 . reid simon july 2008 . arturia analog factory experience . sound on sound . retrieved 5 august 2015 . arturia minibrute . vintage synth explorer . retrieved 3 february 2015 . rogerson ben 19 january 2012 . namm 2012 arturia minibrute analogue synth announced . musicradar . retrieved 3 february 2015 . a b reid gordon february 2014 . arturia microbrute . sound on sound . retrieved 5 august 2015 . rogerson ben 21 october 2013 . arturia teases new analogue synth ; 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