Just turn a nob to select something to do the modulating and something to be modulated and-BAM!-a light shows up letting you know that the connection has been made. It's nearly as powerful as the mod-matrix on a Moog Mother 32, but requires no patch cables and is blazing fast to use. The patch bay is like nothing I've seen before. Seriously, though, unless you're a raging snob about analog, the Freak will provide enough grit to put a smile on your face. If you absolutely hate presets and digital technology in music, then get ahold of something like a Behringer Crave or pony up for a Moog. If you're not into presets, don't use them. Once selected, the settings of any patch can be sent to the panel, so that the patch reflects the actual settings of the knobs.

You'll keep looking down at it in amazement when you stumble upon a certain preset or home-brew patch that blows you away.Īll panel settings, including the analog filter, are digitally controlled so that every metric of your patch is stored in the preset library.

Still, for this price, you can make some enormous walls of sound that you will not believe came out of such a small, light-weight box. Unlike nearly all instruments in this price range, it is capable of playing up to four voices simultaneously, even though all four voices pass through the same filter. The MicroF reak is a paraphonic digital synthesizer equipped with an analog filter-what is now being referred to as a 'hybrid' synthesizer. Many long-time synth enthusiasts will be attracted to the form factor and flexibility of the MicroFreak, while still offering at least a small amount of analog wet signal. The manual downloadable from Arturia's website is nicely written and it's easy to target a specific thing you'd like to learn how to do.Įxperienced users will appreciate the enormous depth of the feature set and how portable so much sound design power can be. Learning the oscillator, LFO, envelope, and modulation matrix is enjoyable on the MicroFreak. Packs a lot of synthesizer power in a small, lightweight box.ĭigital flexibility with just enough analog muscle to put some growling bottom-end into your patches.īeginners will wonder at how easy it is to make a variety of pleasing sounds with this synth, all while learning traditional electronic music principles.

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