Arturia MicroFreak Experimental Hybrid Synth
$349
25-key Paraphonic Hybrid Hardware Synth with Poly-aftertouch Flat Keyboard, Wavetable and Digital Oscillators, Analog Filters, Modulation Matrix, Arpeggiator, and Sequencer
Available on backorder
Making senseof madness
It might sound a bit wild and crazy, but MicroFreak is easy to understand and quick to master.
Every feature is clearly marked and simple to access and control, letting MicroFreak enhances your creativity rather than standing in its way.
On this page, we’ll cover a few of the things that make MicroFreak a truly unique specimen.
Hearingvoices
The multiple modes of MicroFreak’s digital oscillator can be easily switched and directly controlled with the 4 dedicated knobs in the Digital Oscillator section.
The Type knob switches between the engines, while the Wave, Timbre, and Shape controls let you refine the oscillator to suit your taste.
Since its inception, MicroFreak has been constantly evolving. It now contains 17 oscillator types, covering a multitude of timbral flavors from sweet to savage. Here are the oscillator modes you’ve got to work with:
Mutable Instruments
We’ve also integrated the open-source Plaits oscillator developed by Eurorack legends Mutable Instruments to bring you 7 additional synth modes. While all of the oscillators in MicroFreak are naturally monophonic, you can choose to enable paraphony to play up to 4-voices at once.
Noise Engineering
3 new algorithms designed in collaboration with LA modular heavyweights Noise Engineering. Combining wavefolding, phase modulation, and harmonic manipulation, these vicious sounds push MicroFreak further than ever into the digital realm.
Noise Engineering x Arturia
MicroFreak’s evolution continues
Up in the sun-kissed hills of Los Angeles, peering out the window at a pastel skyline punctuated by skyscrapers, rolling mountains, and towering tree canopies, you can’t help but wonder if there’s a place better suited for a buzzing hive of sonic creativity. Noise Engineering presented 3 prototype algorithms designed for their upcoming DSP oscillator platform to port for MicroFreak.
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