Funny to see how personal a synth actually can be. You are not over excited. I honestly was excited when i ever saw the first review. I immediately bought it and i am so happy with it. And yes, i have some real analogue stuff at home, but i honestly love this one too! Great review by the way Thanks.

@AnythingEvil78

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree, Ive been through 3 other synths in the last few months, but the Microfreak fits well in my setup and I can see it being there for a long time. the other synths I had reviewed well but were just not for me . . .

This synth deserves better. It's a total beast for the price point. But it's not going to give you what you want right out of the box. You gotta spend time and go deep.

Just bought one it’s awesome . It’s not a toy by any means. Watch the review by stimming. This does not do it justice at all.

@yonashorvath8338

5 жыл бұрын

You just made me discover stimming. Thank you thank you

@alyeska4226

5 жыл бұрын

What where link, janky

@HotStrange

4 жыл бұрын

Al Yeska what?

@curlupa10

3 жыл бұрын

Tysm man Here's the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k4aIrs6fdLXgoLg.html

Thanks for bringing your perspective to this unique instrument. This helps me envision uses for the MicroFreak outside of the purely electronic genres. You've highlighted some of the more beautiful patches I've heard - cheers.

The MF is my first hardware synth. I got it for the variety of oscillator types and mod matrix. To my fairly novice ears it sounds real nice and I feel like you get some pretty great features for something in this price range. So far the only thing that really puts me off is the plastic shell.

This was unexpectedly soothing for a synth review

I really love this synth. It grabbed me immediately but the keyboard and lack of pitch and mod wheel kind of turned me off, but after spending a lot of time with it, it’s become one of my favorite synths I own. It’s so quick and easy to dial in a good patch and you can get experimental very quickly, which I always love.

I've edited loads of my Presets to more lo-fi sounding, I find the touch keyboard works perfectly with very soft lo-fi ambient just touching them gently with the tips of your fingers brings about all kinds of beautiful patterns I love this machine for ambient arpeggiators and I run it through a korg nts-1 they are perfect partners

You said that it doesn't impress you much but you reviewed it like you really loved it , better than any other review online ,thanks

I just got one last night. They have something with this little thing. I found that turning off the sequencer in the presets (and usually adjusting the octave) I could use a lot more of the patches. And like you noted, add some effects and it rocks pretty hard.

Whoa! Loving this around 19:15!

Love this thing

Having just gotten one myself, your comments really resonated. I wish they had a few less “freaky” presents and a few more mellow but evolving. It is a great value as a compliment to other tools

@HotStrange

4 жыл бұрын

So make your own then? So silly to complain that they didn’t put the exact presets you want. It’s a synth. They’re supposed to be tweaked.

cool review thank you !

Best demo of the microfreak i've seen on youtube yet, thank you !

We should remember that TB 303s were kind of "toy" like.

Most of the basic preset come with prerecorded sequences that are on by default and transpose to the key you press, you should disable the sequencer if you wanna hear just the sound, or start from 129 where there are templates for basic sounds. Yet it kinda needs a reverb, delay and some kind of overdrive if you want something sounding warm.

after you spend some more time with it, it would be nice to see one of your purely musical videos with the patches that resonate with you

Great demonstration! Just on an aside I think this is amazing synth as entry into hardware as it sounds great, has a bunch of generators and is 250. If youre big into synth it could be redundant ofc but im really impressed by it.

I don't use soft synths but software can replicate literally anything these days.+ It's not always good to judge a synth based on patches. In my opinion it sounds great . For the price this little box is more than enough of sound shaping capabilitiesIm waiting for mine

When i saw this a while ago i thought wow there are synths i can afford? Ended up getting a monologue instead (first synth), and so far i dont regret that decision

@VictorSteiner

5 жыл бұрын

For the start a monosynth will give you a lot less headaches than the MicroFreak, so good choice.

@drstupid1

5 жыл бұрын

Monologue ftw

@johnrichardson3297

5 жыл бұрын

Great ;)

I just got mine and I am sort of in the same boat as you are. Mining for the potential. I would have mot minded to pay a bit more for decent internal effects on this. I want this keyboard for both, live and studio setting. Tap tempo button also sorely missed.

One small correction, the Microfreak is actually pseudo-paraphonic in that each voice has its own envelope, but still share a common filter and LFO.

Microfreak is awesome enough on its own, but it also makes for an excellent portable controller for iPad synths - Sugar Bytes Aparillo, Factory, etc. Very expressive if you assign the aftertouch to certain parameters.

@77greaves56

Жыл бұрын

Interesting... 🤔

Arturia has updated this initial release already with another 40 or so more functional presets including pads, bass, leads and chords you can actually see yourself using. To judge it as a 'synthesiser' is off the mark. I am using it to add spice and fills to grooves made on my Deluge and eurorack. It provides the performance layer that makes the difference. For example its superb string sounds :-)

@PeanutButterAM

5 жыл бұрын

Spiderlab I with you on that. I got it to fit in and add on rather than to be my one and only.

20:20 sounds like Depeche Mode circa A Broken Frame. Great sounds.

Does your finger position on the key send modulation to an effect? In other words, can you slide your finger up the key to , say, open up the filter?

Plastic ridges? I’m a guitar player looking for a synth. I think it would feel right at home as you slide over frets, you slide over keys. I kind of love it?

Wow that thing has some really impressive sounds for such a small unit. And even though it's out my personal budget but that's only cause I'm poor af. Because it is actually an awesome price for what I get.

Thanks for the video. At the start of the vid you mention it is running into ableton. Could you perhaps detail the setup you have for this? I have been unable to have the device run natively into ableton on a mac over usb. I have contacted arturia support and they have not been able to articulate how to setup the mac audio sources and midi devices to be able to create an aggregate audio source or a simple audio source to select as the audio input from preferences within ableton. By the sounds of it you have achieved this quite simply, which makes me wonder if I am perhaps missing something? I can see microfreak in midi devices on the mac but there is no microfreak audio device. I was expecting to set it up similar to say a Roland tr-08 as audio input channels on ableton. Thanks

@stevewilliam6478

5 жыл бұрын

A most timely update from arturia support. Microfreak can be used as a midi over usb into a mac but not audio over usb. Microfreak requires an external audio interface for audio over usb. Good to know.

So basically the best synth ever.

@NoirEtBlancVie

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Syrett lol

@darkjusticemedia5621

4 жыл бұрын

Im thinking that too ... ? Who else ?

great video as usual! any chance you found a way to adjust tempo? seems like a well hidden feature

@PeanutButterAM

5 жыл бұрын

gold punks rate knob. Maybe click the rate knob first, then twist.

@GoldPunks

5 жыл бұрын

I hate to admit how simple this wound up being. I for some reason took the rate knob as being a way to make the internal tempo different then they received tempo. More like a clock divider. I have no idea why that got in my head :-)

funny, i was just going to go out buy one when i saw the vid haha :)

I really like those MI algos, for me at £230 it's an absolute no brainer. Even if you were to buy softube modular and then braids you'd be looking at £100. This for £230 with the sequencer, no cpu usage and the kb + the portability...

It should theoretically be possible to change the velocity of a digital encoder's action with a firmware update. Software controls the voltage output change per degree of rotation. Well designed encoders even have dynamic response based on acceleration, so a 30% twist will change the value more drastically if performed quickly than via a slow, deliberate turn. I imagine a cheaply implemented encoder has some physical limitations that may make the action hard to improve with a software update - like if the knob is literally just stiff - but this is not inherent to digital encoders in general. I'm sure you were at least partially aware of most of these points, but I kind of got stuck on one semi-throwaway comment somewhere in your video and thought it may be worth pointing out to other viewers. Digital encoders seem to get a lot of shade, perhaps unsurprisingly since the bad ones can be really bad (I've got a couple of older Behringer MIDI controllers that take way too long to sweep and are generally quite unsatisfying). But good digital encoders can be fantastic, with more than enough range to avoid noticeable "steppiness". Good video btw - glad to hear a little honest criticism of this device. Not every new piece of gear is necessarily great, folks.

@LukezyM

3 жыл бұрын

These encoders have acceleration, but just not enough. If it’s possible to tweak it via firmware, I don’t know. I think they(Arturia) would if they could, because people have complained. Otherwise great synth.

Oh and it has poly aftertouch. And there is an Andrew Huang video with 4 tracks by KZread music ppl where they used this exclusively.

It felt like you couldn’t see outside yourself and how you would specifically use the synth. It’s of course important to share personal preference in a review, but in centering on that I think you failed to provide more well-rounded insight for a variety of users.

@vubrendan

4 жыл бұрын

lol i think people watched for how he would use it though :P

@ruxiwang9571

3 жыл бұрын

well-rounded reviews are already everywhere. I would like some channels just stay personal.

Filter does self oscillate

I almost bought one of these until I found out there's no audio in... what a miss. It would be great to be able to process external audio using the analog filter.

@sokoleski

5 жыл бұрын

Agreeed.... it's suuch a missed opportunity , i cant find no other excuse for excluding that , other than keeping cost's down.

@reinhardwolf2855

5 жыл бұрын

I will connect it to my vocoder 👻

@HotStrange

4 жыл бұрын

Lol your loss.

@reinhardwolf2855

4 жыл бұрын

Still exploring the Filters 👼

Midi issues anyone? My set up , Digitakt master to microfreak in

Thanks for watching! The quick tutorial starts at 11:11. What do you guys think about this synth?

@MangoMang

5 жыл бұрын

I think this synth looks really interesting! To me it seems like it would have a lot of potential once you've mastered using it.. The keys however, they put me off slightly because I'm not the most dextrous as it is, so it might take a while before I stop accidentally triggering other keys. I'd be fine with sliding my finger since the keys aren't too small but as you pointed out those ridges make that a tad more difficult! I'll keep my eye on this synth methinks 👁 It intrigues me! Thanks for the video, great runthrough as per usual :)

@TROGULAR10000

5 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the reason the sounds didn't grab you is because you're more of an analog guy, like me. Having said that I think this is a pretty exciting synth with some obvious yet unprecedented features as well as some creative ones. One thing it's lacking like all these small guys (Uno, Circuit, Keystep...) is a rechargeable battery, not just battery operation. The forthcoming replica of the SH101 is gonna have one. It's just so much simpler. You ccould even easily have a solar powered synth these days, mounting the panels on a case for instance. Wonder who's gonna do that first...

@jthorpe4droid

5 жыл бұрын

Im still tempted to get one just to jam around on, as the sounds are my thing I'm still on the fence really about the keyboard.

@rdean150

5 жыл бұрын

@@TROGULAR10000 Interesting idea, although I wonder how long it would take to charge the necessary battery via solar charger. Last time I tried one of those solar phone chargers it took hours of direct sunlight to charge it even halfway, and if I was actually using the phone it just kinda slightly slowed down the speed at which the battery went down. And of course I wouldn't want to leave an expensive synth directly exposed to outside elements unattended for hours, but a synth of the Microfreak tier would actually be a good candidate for such an innovation. Also it's been several years since I tried that solar phone charger, and it was not a huge panel or anything (but it was definitely bigger than the screen of the smartphone). Hopefully the tech has improved since then.

@onceuponasynth

5 жыл бұрын

@@TROGULAR10000 Yeah you're probably right. I tend to gravitate towards simple analog mono synths. But I still try to keep an open mind about using unusual sounds out of context. So I will force myself to play with that speech synth and see if I can incorporate it somehow.

Nice review! I thought it had a 64 step sequencer?

@PumpkinPieces33

5 жыл бұрын

Hey! I have this synth and you can go into the utility menu for each patch and choose the sequence length per patch. Default length is 16 for new Init patches, but you can set it for 64 steps. :)

@valdiskrebs566

5 жыл бұрын

Ghost Hip Thanks! How do you like the synth?

@PumpkinPieces33

5 жыл бұрын

@@valdiskrebs566 I've had about as much time with as our bud once upon a synth has but I completely agree that they presets don't really give you inspiration. I had to start digging and making my own patches and sequences to get truly excited about it. I really do like the touch keyboard, and I'm surprised this video didn't touch on the pressure sensitivity and how you can assign it to affect whatever you choose via the mod matrix. In paraphonic mode, the flatness of the keyboard makes it really comfortable and fluid to start with a chord and slowly change notes or create a lead line but sliding your finger(s) to a new note. I like this motion as opposed to having to lift your fingers up and press a new key on a typical keyboard. Those are a couple of positives I would add to the first impressions in this video. I still need to sit down more with it to form a full impression, but this thing is only $300, and at that price point I can surely say it packs a lot of features for the price. As with most quality synths its more a matter of "is this great for me and my workflow/process?" that I have not quite reached a conclusion on yet.

@valdiskrebs566

5 жыл бұрын

Ghost Hip Thanks for sharing your experience... yeah pre-sets are usually pretty bad on most synths. Like your idea of slowly changing chords! I was wondering can the MF be used as a controller for MPE apps, such as Animoog and Model 15 on iOS? Does the sound change as you slide your finger on a key?

21:25 > That actually sounds really good. I totally agree. :-) Actually such small instruments with a limited amount of direct control through nobs and more »in depth« tweaking through menus ... I think those do fire inspiration a lot more because one has to deal with such an instrument which in turn and maybe creates interesting results. I do own the first »Pulse« from Waldorf which also has very limited amount of control knobs and I am always impressed what you can do with such an instrument. Your review really made me think about buying one »MicroFreak«. Thank you so much for this nice in-depth review. :-)

19:45

Just connect a midi controller to it. Doesn’t have to be anything fancy, but it’ll ask least get you better keys to play with.

Funny I've watched about 50 video reviews of the micro freak and yours was the first fairly negative one 🤔

Got it last weekend and was wondering how nice it sounds, if i make a track in cubase, by just using MicroFreak as synth for all tracks. Here my video about that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpWh07abmJaaeaw.html

Perfectly criticized it's limits. Thank you

Does it have a speaker?

I like OUAS but this felt rushed. The synth deserves more time

Add microtuning arturia this is not fair

Its way to tinny for me, and the presets just don't cut it to make me what to play it. As far as technology goes, its quite compelling.

@mitchminimal6942

5 жыл бұрын

Source choice and adjust those parameters? Filter? And it's pretty easy to make your own presets. Good ones too. Lots of easily accessible modulation options.

@peterl4062

5 жыл бұрын

@@mitchminimal6942 Thank you for your response. Maybe I will give it a go.

@EarlyMist

2 жыл бұрын

Tinny?

I bet you're making use of this VOCODER synth now... coatseller!?

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You seemed bothered to do this, and rushed... also your demo note choice seemed, unmusical and atonal. Impressed with the Microfreak, not you at all tho.

@bestkoreanjesus

3 жыл бұрын

he died a year ago

I don't like this Arturia .

Cringe thumbnail. Not watching. Do not recommend channel

Easily the most ugly synth I've ever seen.

arrogant.

@GuidoGautsch

5 жыл бұрын

Not at all! It's a review

@rulindachatt

5 жыл бұрын

I know! Man titles video first impressions and gives first impressions. The nerve!

Blah blah blah