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Even when the hybrid quality is more perceptible, the programmed or synthetic sounds also act to highlight the orchestra. For Luc Besson’s film Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes (2017),^[5] Desplat chose to use Arturia sounds, evocative of the 1970s, made with a MatrixBrute, a mono analogue synthesizer from 2016, to give added value to the symphonic orchestra:

The variety of sounds provided by the Matrix enabled me to give both rigidity, a rhythmic stability, to the orchestra, and a virtuosity which is different from that of a string orchestra for example… Even though the ambit of the orchestra is already huge, by adding the MatrixBrute it becomes even larger. And the more low notes one has, the more the high notes will ring.^[6]