Arturia Microfreak

[Ben Kohonays]

In case anyone hasn't spotted it yet, Arturia announced this at NAMM:

https://www.arturia.com/products/hardwa ... ak/details



Gear4music have a preorder up at £265.

Main Features

Synthesizer with 192 preset slots and 128 factory presets
11 Digital oscillator with variable mode, including collaborations with Mutable Instruments
Analog State Variable Filter, 12dB/octave, resonant, Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass
ADSR envelope
Cycling Envelope offering two modes
Envelope
LFO
LFO with Sync: Sine, Tri, Saw, Square, Random, Slew Random
Modulation matrix with 5 sources and 7 destinations (3 custom destinations)
Monophonic or Paraphonic modes - Up to 4 voices
25-key capacitive keybed with polyphonic aftertouch
Capacitive touch strip
Crisp OLED display for editing and parameter values
Powerful arpeggiator
Up, Order, Random, Pattern modes
Spice & Dice Gate randomizers
64-step sequencer
2 patterns per preset
4 automation tracks per preset
CV / Gate / Mod outputs
USB, Clock and MIDI in and out
6.35mm master and 3.5mm headphone output

Looks quite interesting.

There's been a little controversy around the use of the word 'collaboration' with Mutable Instruments, but you can read the info from the horses mouth here if you're interested:
https://forum.mutable-instruments.net/t ... reak/14878

[Críoch]

Aye.. seen this last night before I got the hat (edit: hit the hay). Interesting features for sure.

However.. I was far more excited when I saw this.

https://dubreq.com/genr8/

[Ben Kohonays]

I find it hard to muster any enthusiasm for another semi-modular analogue mono, if I'm honest.

[Críoch]

Just thought the combo of the keypad & mod was very cool.

Need to hear some more, less EDM Style sounds with the microfreak

[willemb]

This looks interesting, although i'd be more interested in a mini rather than micro version. I am not sure what I am missing but it seems kind of small. I do like the digital oscillators they mention in combination with analogue filters and modulation...

[timc3]

I find it hard to muster any enthusiasm for another semi-modular analogue mono, if I'm honest.

I find this one interesting, from the keyboard to the architecture not to mention the looks. It's not Mono either as it has 4 voice paraphony...

My hat goes off to Arturia (apart from their handling of the “collaboration” with Mutable which didn't sound anything of the sort).

[timc3]

And here is the Sonicstate NAMM look at it:

youtu.be/l9zLFnwOrTQ

[Ben Kohonays]

This looks interesting, although i'd be more interested in a mini rather than micro version.

Well if you're patient, they mentioned a 'freak' line somewhere, so there could be another couple/few products similar.

[Ben Kohonays]

Minifreak, Drumfreak, Matrixfreak....who knows?

[buonacc]

I find it hard to muster any enthusiasm for another semi-modular analogue mono, if I'm honest.

this isn't your typical synth.

[Críoch]

^^^
Ben was talking about my link to the mega-Stylophone2019

[buonacc]

ahh, right.

[Críoch]

Meant to post btw.. that sonicstate vid was very good. Looks like a cool synth. Lots of range.

Mods appear interesting w.that keyboard.

[Vorlis]

My hat goes off to Arturia (apart from their handling of the “collaboration” with Mutable which didn't sound anything of the sort).

Yea, using the Plaids open source code and then putting it across as a direct collaboration with MI is a bad look. Think they took down all references to a collab from their site now.

Some direct info from MI for anyone interested: https://forum.mutable-instruments.net/t ... k/14878/13

All that aside I look forward to more demos of this wee thing!

Here’s what was on their site

[Lost to the Void]

Sounds interesting.
There will probably be cries of "but it's digital brah"...
But it sounds nice. Theres a Nordish tint to the sounds.

[buffered]

don't mind this. jump to 9:40 in that demo and it gets interesting. exactly like step cycling through a wavetable using cv on a modular system. looks like there is alot to explore and having that sem filter at the end just rounds it out nicely. fun little unit.

[Lost to the Void]

Yeah, I`m in to this.
300 jib for those features, and it sounds great, I have room for this.

[Ben Kohonays]

The more I see about this the more I'm convinced to grab one.

Nice to see something interesting instead of all the usual rehashing of 'vintage' whatever.

That mod matrix looks great, and you can use the custom destinations to modulate any knob on the front panel. Cycle through the 11 oscillators for example. This is a lot of synth for the money.

[Ben Kohonays]

Vid from Cuckoo.

youtu.be/wSt_ex-rDT4

[Críoch]

Motion record & mod matrix.. cool.

Great features & value.