Designing Sounds with the MicroFreak 3.0 Update (New Oscillators!)

[@laurenislost]

Arturia has a customer for life, love this synth!!

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

I agree...............these updates just keep adding to its appeal. It’s a great piece of kit.

[@jonkaplan1394]

@@LockStoppageSandwich I think I'm going to get one later this year. I have too many new components that I've purchased that I need to just sit with and get comfortable with.

[@flucto]

Nice tones! I'm very happy with this new update. Now the microfreak's got grit! workflow tip: you can access the unison spread by holding Shift+paraphonic and moving the data knob.

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

Whoah-Unison is the really crazy upgrade for 3.0-I think more than anything else. But it should work on all the oscillator types? Or is it just the 3 new ones? Thanks for posting.

[@arte.marcelo.castro]

@@luminousbrilliance1711 Unison works on all the oscillator types!

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

@@arte.marcelo.castro As the kids say these days-SQUEEEEE-Omigod-Mess with Unison on a Vintage analog Oscillator, or waveform,or any of the original oscillators-Good Lord!-Thank you so much for the reply and the tip!

[@Jamslerr]

The new oscillators pushed me to buy the microfreak finally. Seems like a fun synth.

[@seffers007]

Me too - really glad I did. The new Unison and 3 Noise Engineering oscillators are fantastic for ethereal evolving BOC sounds.

[@Jamslerr]

@@seffers007 hey oh. Love BoC. That's what the microfreak is for me. The cheapish sound of emulating tape.

[@DylanParisMusic]

Fine Gabe, I'll buy a Microfreak, you've forced my hand

[@stefrance2]

By far, the best overview of these new oscillators on the internet ! Great skills ! Well done 👍 Will wait for your full review of this synth that I tend to not using enough vs plug-ins in my daw.

[@aCarefulBear]

MicroFreak is the gift that keeps on giving

[@leavenworthmedia2411]

The whole year, Clark

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

Great video. I too, am exploring ways to get, Buchla style boops and beeps, noises and tweets, from my twin freaking MicroFreaks. I'm embracing the chaos, hidden inside this little gem. Firmware update #3, and your video, puts me closer to that goal. Thanks for sharing, and best wishes for your continued success.

[@dinogoldie9716]

Great video. I really should get my Microfreak out its box for something other than firmware updates.

[@flann5802]

"DO IT!!" - Palpatine

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

I say plug it into a Distortion Pedal and a Delay Pedal before putting it into the Public Adress system. The customers will tip ALOT for the shout-outs! :-)

[@MarcadamiaNut]

This is great! The only gripe I have with my microfreak is that the low end isn't fat but now it's got BOOTY. I did not expect them to expand on this.

[@PolaOpposite]

I've concluded that the discovery of novel and usable patches is a product of random chance. And it's not always a fruitful process.

[@GabeMillerMusic]

There's definitely experimentation that happens, but the more you know about sound design and a specific synth, the easier it gets to create cool stuff and happy accidents.

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

Lol! I keep telling people this thingie Widget is Thicc as a Bricc! It is joy in a box. E.G. I am thinking of re-recording all my Voice Mail Recorders with the Vocoder. :-) Thank you again Gabe for posting your tutorials-you make music look easy!

[@samueltiradovillaescusa2325]

love that last patch. good video man :)

[@benjaminbrand3714]

The audible excitement at 7:59 was so relatable. I just updated my Microfreak and definitely did my fair share of “ooo!”s while messing with the new oscillators

[@cowprez]

If you like this synth, you would have LOVED the Buchla synth I played back in the 70s!!! Very similar.

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

The vintage Buchlas I played back in the 1990s had capacitive keyboards as well. And I remember those actually (sucking-ahem um being not as quickly responsive, or not having so many parameters they could tweak real time-err-um) compared to how responsive the New Arturia keyboard is. I think it's because the oscillators are digital or something. Not to dis you or Don Buchla at all

[@KordTaylor]

Cool patches. Makes me want one all the more. And after watching your vid on GAS. 😂 Well ok I wanted one before too. Seems like such a creative synth at such a great deal. Arturia is so on it these days. And yeah, I hit subscribe now. 😃

[@sinewaymusic]

Hi Gabe! Thanks for a great walkthrough of some of the fun new stuff in the MF. As a prospective buyer of this synth, I'm curious of your take on the mono output, particularly with regards to the new unison effect. I'm coming from the DAW world and over there, unison does some pretty amazing things to the width of the sound since the detuned sub oscillators really are panned on either side, making the effect incredibly noticeable, which no doubt plays into its popularity in some genres like EDM. I saw another video where you explained your workflow of sampling from the MF into the MC-101, but doesn't that mean you're stuck with mono samples in the end? I saw another video by someone who actually recorded the MF into the DAW twice to get slightly different takes hard panned left or right to achieve a true stereo effect, but that seems like a lot of extra work. What's your sense here - do you just don't care that much about wide stereo leads, or do you use other tricks like Haas delays to achieve a wider sound in the DAW?

[@thesoundgardxn]

That unison at 07:45 sounds amazingly lush...

[@dinogoldie9716]

Please do a tutorial on making a dubstep lead using the MicroFreak's formant oscillator.

[@GabeMillerMusic]

I have been thinking about doing a dubstep video with the MicroFreak... If I can get to it, I'll definitely try that oscillator

[@WillieCarpenter17]

Please give us that Episode 2 of the Maschine Plus and hook the freak up

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

YES!!!! I just want The Freak plugged into every one of these groove boxes after watching MC-101demo.

[@mohill1003]

Dope! At 8.57 of the video what settings are you using?

[@bigchung3833]

Hello sir! Another question for you. What cable should I buy to hook this up with speakers and also what speakers would you recommend? Thank you again.

[@TheGreatPanicker]

Can you connect this to an ipad and record the audio to create samples to use in apps like korg gadget, etc.?

[@fakinlunatik3553]

You freak me out teenage benedict cumberbatch😅

[@eliminatedown7915]

How dare you compare Gabe to Punitive Grabbersnatch!

[@tomblaze2]

not bad

[@SecretCaskets]

When did this update come out?

[@luminousbrilliance1711]

Like, 5 days ago. Arturia announced their new monster keyboard and this 3.0 update for NAMM 2021.

[@jupitor919]

Can this one vocode or is it only the vocoder edition?

[@eliminatedown7915]

Sure you figured it out. It's an update for everyone who owns the O.G all you get with the new model is the fancy iOS color and a fancy Mic...

[@PaulSalamoneComedy]

Besides having the fun knobs to twist, cool keyboard, and decent Arp/Sequencer, what does the Microfreak give me that Serum doesn't?

[@khasmadeign4698]

If you do not have an MPE device this is the next reason. If you have on then no need.

[@TheCuri]

Yeah every synth nerd comes to the point where he doesnt need modular

[@Magnus_Loov]

Having matrix modulation on a Synth (like Microfreak) where you can actually store the patches and recall them is beating modular in every aspect for me. Not only don't you have to fiddle with cables everywhere (takes longer time than to just set the source-destination in the matrix for a Synth like Microfreak) you can actually recall several of these crazy modulations within a patch, which can't be done with physical patcihng! I have never, ever understood why "physical" modular is so popular. I mean you can get the same type of crazy sounds as in this video. Often there is the "fart sound" video you see on youtube with far less interesting sounds with people sitting for marathons where not much is changing. Then they probably will have to take a photo of the whole d-mn setup to recall it later, which is just f-ing ridiculous!

[@albedo0point39]

This. I found myself planning out modules.... Mutable plaits, 2 envelopes, vcas, oberheim style filter... ending up with almost the same functionality as a Microfreak for 10x the cost and size. And still no chords, unison or paraphony. Just makes no sense.

[@TheCuri]

@@albedo0point39 I think recreating an exiting synth voice is not the strange of modular as I See the wackyness and strange modules more to be desired when building a modular setup. Of course it is expensive but using modules that do not have synth counterparts is what you should Look at in modular