Arturia – MicroFreak Synthesizer Keyboard – 25-Key Hybrid Synth with PCB Keyboard, Wavetable & Digital Oscillators, Analog Filters

Product Description

A synthesizer like no different.

MicroFreak is a peculiar, distinctive instrument that rewards the curious musician. It blends wavetable and digital oscillators with analog filters. It encompasses a distinctive poly-aftertouch flat keyboard. It provides managed randomness to sequences. This isn’t a revolution, it’s a mutiny.

MicroFreak packs a lot into such a compact instrument, you will surprise how we did it. We would like to say it was magic, however it was pure ability & ardour. Bodily modelling, wavetable synthesis, digital analog, there may be nothing as full and thrilling because the MicroFreak oscillator available on the market. It is exhausting to imagine from such a small synth, however right here it’s, prepared so that you can discover. Stimulate your creativity and reward your curiosity with a big, various sound palette. MicroFreak options 17 superior oscillator modes, together with 7 bespoke Arturia engines, 7 modes from Mutable Devices, and three oscillator modes designed with Noise Engineering.

A contact of insanity. Whether or not you’re searching for your first, reasonably priced {hardware} synth or are a collector searching for unique sounds and distinctive interface, MicroFreak is the synth you want. This out-there little music machine encompasses a versatile digital oscillator so you may create uncommon and attention-grabbing sounds with ease. Modes like Wavetable, KarplusStrong, Harmonic OSC, and Superwave give adventurous musicians the prospect to discover completely new, unheard potentialities. Like having dozens of synths in only one instrument, each wild-eyed newcomers and seasoned professionals will fall in love with MicroFreak’s versatile, highly effective synth engine.

That is a humorous wanting keyboard. That’s proper, it’s. It isn’t actually even a keyboard. It’s a PCB. Tremendous-flat, with no shifting components. Will it monitor lightning-fast synth solos? You wager. Higher than a conventional keyboard, truly. Will it allow you to be expressive? After all, it’s not solely stress delicate, but additionally affords poly-aftertouch. This implies every key can management parameters differently relying on how a lot you contact. You too can use its USB, MIDI, and CV outputs to regulate devices in your DAW and modular synths. This additionally means you could additionally use MicroFreak as a controller to expertise polyphonic aftertouch with leading edge software program devices.

Style the spice, throw the cube. MicroFreak is filled with distinctive, thrilling options that allow you to create music with a recent perspective.

Report as much as 4 automations, edit notes per step or use the modern Spice and Cube sequencer features to search out pleased accidents. Add randomization to create evolving, unique patterns, and nearly rewire and reconfigure its sign chain and controls with the 5×7 modulation matrix.

This actually is a budget-friendly synth like no different.

Product Particulars

Analog State Variable Filter, 12dB/octave, resonant, Low Cross, Band Cross, Excessive Cross
ADSR envelope
LFO with Sync: Sine, Tri, Noticed, Sq., Random, Slew Random
Modulation matrix with 5 sources and seven locations (3 customized locations)
Biking Envelope providing two modes (Envelope, LFO)
Monophonic or Paraphonic modes – As much as 4 voices

384 preset slots and 320 manufacturing facility presets
16 digital oscillator modes, together with engines from Mutable Devices and Noise Engineering

Impressed by the trailblazing 12-dB SEM filter, you can also make MicroFreak’s filter scream or whisper to style. The filter is state-variable, and may even auto-oscillate! You need to use that is any approach you want, from taking the sting of the razor-sharp wavetable sounds, or automating the cutoff by modulating it with keyboard stress or the in-built sequencer.

The very best of each worlds

Though MicroFreak has a digital oscillator at its coronary heart, “opposites entice” because the saying goes. That’s why we’ve included a lush-sounding analog filter.

25-key capacitive keybed with polyphonic aftertouch
Capacitive contact strip
Crisp OLED show for modifying and parameter values
CV / Gate / Mod outputs
USB, Clock and MIDI out and in
6.35mm grasp and three.5mm headphone output
TRRS enter suitable for Vocoder engine

Highly effective arpeggiator & 64-step sequencer

Arpeggiator

Up, Order, Random, Sample modes

Spice & Cube Gate randomizers

64-step Sequencer

2 patterns per preset

4 automation tracks per preset

Chord mode enables you to program a chord form and play it on any word.

Scale Quantize enables you to set a particular scale for the white notes to simplify the inventive course of.

Wait. Did we point out that MicroFreak has a sequencer? And a mod matrix? Issues are about to get critically attention-grabbing…

Hybrid sound

Journey throughout unexplored sonic terrain, from grainy to crunchy to silky easy. Change course immediately with multi-mode oscillators, analog filters, and clever parameters.

Designed in a different way

The Freak vary is constructed to make you assume in a different way about your music. From distinctive expression instruments to unpredictable algorithms, you’ll be outdoors the field very quickly.

Modulation

Unlock cascading modulation and near-endless assignable parameters, deceptively easy controls, and intuitive visible interfaces.

Description
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Synthesizer Kind
Hybrid Analog/Digital
Hybrid Analog/Digital
Analog
Analog
Analog
Analog

EXPERIMENTAL HYBRID SYNTH: MicroFreak packs a lot into such a compact instrument, you will surprise how we did it. From bodily modeling to wavetable synthesis, it options 17 superior paraphonic oscillator modes, together with 7 bespoke Arturia engines, 7 modes from Mutable Devices, and three modes designed with Noise Engineering. Its digital engines are mixed with a lush-sounding resonant analog filter for true hybrid sound design.
UNIQUE KEYBOARD: It isn’t actually even a keyboard, it’s a super-flat PCB with no shifting components. The 25-key printed circuit board not solely tracks the notes you play with lightning-speed, however can even detect stress or aftertouch on every word individually.
INNOVATIVE FEATURES: Report as much as 4 automations, edit notes per step, or use the modern Spice and Cube sequencer features to search out pleased accidents. Add randomization to create evolving, unique patterns, and nearly rewire and reconfigure its sign chain and controls with the 5×7 modulation matrix, with user-assignable locations for completely distinctive sounds.
MULTIPLE MODES: Simply switched and instantly managed with the 4 devoted knobs within the Digital Oscillator part, MicroFreak has been always evolving. It now comprises 17 oscillator varieties, masking a large number of timbral flavors from candy to savage: Vocoder, Noise, Superwave, Harmo, Karplus Str., Wavetable, BasicWaves, with many extra.
AMAZING CONNECTIVITY: It options CV outputs, letting you ship pitch, gate, and stress alerts to any outboard or modular synth that’s CV/Gate suitable. You too can hook it as much as your DAW through USB, or use the included MIDI break-out cables.