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The MicroFreak is a Freak of a synth...but I love it...nothing else sounds like it...
I love this synth, I’m hoping for a bigger, better version, fx, more polyphony and once you get used to the keyboard it’s very expressive, if not just plug in an external.
The new user wave tables are so cool. I already created great sounds with it. You can simply use Serum wavetables and there are a lot out there.
I so much would prefer the white version. I have the dark version and when there is dim lights my old eyes have problems to read the labels properly. Without an LED lamp I'm lost. Anyone likes to swap (with compensation)? Mine is from 2021-01-11 - almost one year old.
How mobile is the Freak?
I see it doesn't have batteries. But it does have USB, which might mean it'll work OK for in the car or other places with the increasingly omnipresent USB.
Very mobile, it’s lightweight, last for ages with a power bank via USB.
Thanks! I probably already have a powerbank somewhere.
Just ordered it via Sweetwater. The regular was out of stock, so I popped for the white vocoder edition. Hey, it's Xmas!
I'll start researching how to integrate the Freak with AUM or the OP1, or at least keep them in sync.
It's a microfreak, microfreak, it's micro-freaky... yeow.
Have fun, it’s a versatile little beastie
So I got my freak on Christmas. I'm enjoying learning it and getting to know it.
But to be honest, none of the sounds are knocking my socks off. It's good, but not super impressive, which feels a bit off to say during the "honeymoon" period with a new instrument. I've hooked it up to the same PA systems and headphones I use with other gear. Let's just say I had a bigger grin when I heard Animoog Z and FRMS the first time.
My internet perusings tell me to be patient, young apprentice. And that perhaps my own sound designs or some other presets will impress me more.
The freak neads a bit of effects to really shine!
Very true, but also sometime using the mod matrix to control expression and the excellent sequencers bring out further expression.
Santa brought me a Korg NTS-1 for Christmas. I think it will be a great companion for the freak as an effect and of course a vast synth playground on its own.
Definitely need to run it through some FX. Zoom ms70 cdr is a great companion
Just worked through this video...
So I feel much more excited about the sounds I got while applying a few things I've learned the last few days.
Agreed, it helps a lot to have even some modest reverb.
So tonight I tried to use MIDI with the Microfreak and my iOS setup.
The signal chain:
Microfreak > USB out > USB hub > Camera Connection Kit > iPad > AUM > Module, Moog D apps
AUM sees the MF as a MIDI device. But when I played the Freak keys, nothing happened.
I checked the MicroFreak Utility menu for MIDI. The Input Channels is set to "ALL". The Output Channel is set to "1" (didn't see an "ALL" option.) The Destination is set to "Both".
The AUM tracks have their MIDI channels all on.
Any tips to make this work?
Thanks,
Joe
P.S. I routinely use the USB > USB Hub > CCK > iPad to play a digital keyboard into my iOS apps. Works fine without any fuss.
This sounds familiar to a problem I have encountered, it was intermittent, try altering the mode between USB, Midi and Both each time retrying to play the keyboard, I encountered it though when transmitting and receiving via 5pin DIN.
Not exactly, the MF Wavetable OSC only supports wavetables with 256 samples cycle length (and 32 such cycles/frames per wavetable) so whatever wavetable you're planning to use, each frame should loop perfectly within these 256 samples and that's usually done best by resampling.
Another thing to watch out for is the phase shift between successive WT frames as we usually want to scan through a wavetable without artifacts that haven't been in the original waveform.
Aah ok, didn't know there is 256 samples limit .. that's a pity, this really limits possibilities of uploading there good sounding wavetables ...
There's always Drambo with frames of 2048 samples and supporting much longer wavetables, including multiple wavetables appended into one file for doing the kind of WT switching by modulation that @dvi suggested 😉
On the other hand, pitching them down and filtering on the Microfreak can give them a raw character that could be desirable.
One thing I'll try today with MF and iPad iOS is to set the MIDI Input and Output Output to different channels. (One is on "ALL"). I understand there is a thing called MIDI collisions. Maybe that applies to my situation.
Good news, it’s working! Just now I started from a new AUM session and an Init preset on microfreak. Made sure MIDI was only going one way, from the Freak to the iPad.
It works, and I can see good things coming with how straightforward it was to use AUM to MIDI map MF knobs to the controls on the Moog model D. So nice to have a MIDI controller already labeled with knobs such as Cutoff and Glide for mapping to the iPad synthesizers.
Didn't know about that—good trick! With that you can also do another technique I've been exploring which is to p-lock the wavetables from the DT (although this could be done in the MF's inbuilt sequencer too. Just a bit easier in the DT). I haven seen enough examples online of the kind of things that are possible with the possibility of switching timbres—not just wavetables but whole oscillators—on the fly in synths such as the MF and the NTS-1.
Wait what, the microfreak outputs all it’s knobs as cc over usb midi, not just the keyboard and pressure/aftertouch?!
Also if you have access to a desktop PC/Mac don’t forget you can download the Midi Controller software from Arturia it can backup your patches, remap and alter CV/Gate settings on a wide variety of Arturia controllers and synths, also check the Freebie presets banks for the MicroFreak at Arturia, but backup your Freak first.
(Also, obviously, the firmware updates add new oscillators)
I can confirm this. The MF is a great soft synth controller.
Lol I’ve owned this thing for almost a year now and would have never realized
again and again you guys are my heroes 
Yeah, $400 is a lot for just a MIDI controller. But $400 is fine for an evolving, innovative, portable synth. PLUS a MIDI controller.