Add some inspiration from my experience using the MicroFreak and the MiniFreak V plugin together. Basically I use the MicroFreak to control all the knobs to the MiniFreak V plugin. My setup Using different midi channels on the MicroFreak . Ch4 controls ocs 1 and all the knobs on the MiniFreak V plugin.ch5 controls ocs 2 and all the knobs associated with osc2.ch6 to controls all the fx effects and sends on the MiniFreak V plugin. I think I got the MiniFreak V plugin at half price or a black Friday deal I know it wasn't the original price.

I love my "plastic door wedge". Such a good value.

@BOOelectric

Ай бұрын

Isn't it!

Ive had one for a while and mustve skipped over the unison functionality. Thanks for showcasing that specifically!

@BOOelectric

Ай бұрын

No worries!

@TooSlowTube

Ай бұрын

I'm wondering why it doesn't say "Unison" in blue, under the Paraphonic button, to match the other Shift functions. Did they add it after the first version? I would have guessed the panel markings matched whichever version it was sold with, but maybe not.

So glad I watched this, as you’ve come up with the sort of warm and bloopy ambient sounds I am wanting to make, and I’ve been holding off smashing the buy button on one of these since first investigating it a few weeks ago, as I was mostly hearing fairly cold and harsh and hollow sounds in reviews and overviews elsewhere… I’ve now got one being delivered in a few days

@BOOelectric

11 күн бұрын

Thank you! I'm very happy to have been of service, and congratulations on your new instrument. You won't be disappointed. 😊

Microfreak in my opinion is the greatest synth under £500..its amazing what it can do and arturia gave it a ton of free soundbanks and keep surprising everyone with each update. I got mine luckily when they first came out and I only paid £219

@BOOelectric

Ай бұрын

And this is Arturia's 25th birthday! Looking forward to Superbooth!

Its great to finally have a synth of the month I have ! . Pairs up with a mod dwarf for effects !

Love it so much, I bought 2! ❤

@InkyDaCaT

2 ай бұрын

My mate did too! Mmm looks at 2nd one🤣🙌

@BOOelectric

2 ай бұрын

Since the BS2 has been showing signs of crapping-out, I'm seriously considering getting another one too...

@TheScreamingFrog916

2 ай бұрын

@@BOOelectric much fun to be had syncing the two together, and having dueling arpeggio/sequences, then change the time division on one of the clocks…etc. have a great day!

Thanks to my many years of edumacation, I understood all of your francish gibberish.

@BOOelectric

2 ай бұрын

Haha! Please accept my heartfelt congratulations!

When I heard this all during your live, I was amazed! This is breaking the rules of normal business! I guess the world is so saturated with plugins, that fighting back with gear is getting real ;) Definitely can now say it's a great synth. I've got gear already so I'm not watching gear stuff, but this was great, thanks.

@BOOelectric

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

I little bit late to the party with this video, but a very welcome guest. Come on in, Sir.

@BOOelectric

Ай бұрын

Cheers! Mine's a scotch.

Thanks Chris, its a really good synth, I love the keyboard too!

@BOOelectric

2 ай бұрын

It's gorgeous to play, isn't it! Thank you!

👌👏👍👍👍👍

Is strange, in your synth the filter amount is not always mapped or attached to the cutoff filter, how did you do that?

@BOOelectric

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure! Some of the engines have filters of their own, maybe it's that?

Do you know how to get it to trigger a new envelope on each note, while playing the Modal oscillator monophonically but with legato? This is driving me nuts, and googling isn't helping. There's a legato setting, but that apparently only applies to glide.

@TooSlowTube

Ай бұрын

For example, as an easy test, if I have a Modal patch in Mono mode, press and hold down a key, then play other keys, the sound dies away over a few notes. Most mono synths have a setting to do that, but they also have a retrigger setting to STOP it doing that, so each note starts the envelope. Have they really not provided a way to do that, after all these years, and all these updates?

@88keyz

Ай бұрын

I think in the settings there maybe and Retrigger setting I'm not sure at the moment my MicroFreak isn't in front of me at this veey moment. If I understand you correctly

@TooSlowTube

Ай бұрын

@@88keyz All I can find is the Legato setting. The 5.0.0 manual describes it as Envelope Legato, and it does work as I'd expect for the other oscillator types, but not for Modal - which would be my favourite one, otherwise.

@88keyz

Ай бұрын

@TooSlowTube my bad I apologize its lfo Retrigger I thought it was for Envelope also i was wrong under utility.this got me thinking if the mini freak has Envelope Retrigger I am going to check the MiniFreak plugin version I have it also so I could have gotten it confused with the MicroFreak again I apologize for the misunderstanding.👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 MiniFreak v manual

@88keyz

Ай бұрын

@TooSlowTube The Retrig Mode setting under the display controls how the Envelope is triggered by the keyboard, depending on how you play: • Env Reset: Every time you play a note, the Envelope restarts from the beginning. This is often termed multiple triggering. • Env Continue: If you play a note while another note is still playing, the envelope will start from the current value of the old note's envelope, rather than dropping back to 0 first. This is often termed single triggering. The distinction might seem kind of strange - how can playing one note affect another note's envelope? That depends on the Voicing Mode [p.51]. It's true that in Poly mode, where notes don't retrigger unless you play one more note than the number of voices you have (and the MiniFreak has to "steal" one of the voices from a previous note), retriggering might not seem important. However, Retrig Mode is vitally important in the Mono, Unison, and Para modes, as it has a powerful effect on what the sound does as you play. Clicking on the wrench icon brings up this settings menu:### yeah I got it confused with the mini freak plugin I have been using both lately reading the manuals### 👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾this is from the MiniFreak plugin aka MiniFreak manual

I had one of these. I hated it so much I sold it after a few months. What kind of synth designer insists on using non-standard MIDI CCs just to be quirky? The MIDI implementation on this is worse than on many first-gen MIDI synths from the 80s.

@BOOelectric

Ай бұрын

I only ever play it by hand, and never use midi on it, so I couldn't possibly comment. Anyone else have these problems?

@djjuno106

Ай бұрын

Shame you sold it..there's a great vst editor out that lets you automate it's parameters.

@TooSlowTube

Ай бұрын

@@BOOelectric I tried to play mine with a Casio DH-100, which sends aftertouch from the breath sensor. It works, but there's no way to change the octave the synth is playing in. I've never come across another MIDI controlled synth where I couldn't set the footage on the synth. Presumably they thought leaving it to the MIDI controller to set that was fine, but it's not always good enough - the DH-100 has no way to do that. The octave buttons on the synth only affect the build in keyboard, not MIDI notes.