Is it a psychedelic freak ? | Arturia - MiniFreak quick overview & sound demo

[@resofactor]

That thing is freaking AMAZING!

[@seandumsday7509]

Hopefully, this means there's a microfreak VST in the near future!! Arturia is sure making some good stuff these days

[@olliepsy]

Yes they are ^^ But why having the MicroFreak vst when you get the MiniFreak ? the MiniFreak has way more to offer, only thing that lacks is the wavetable engine.

[@seandumsday7509]

@@olliepsy TBH I thought they were completely different synths. I've loved watching your tutorials on the micro and wanted one since! I went to the shop to buy one but it was used so I held off for now (been burnt buying used before).

[@funky.ass.breakz4473]

Arturia has been on point for years now... Another psychedelic weapon in the arsenal!

[@-zoave-]

Psychedelic freak, c'est clair ;) J'aime beaucoup le SH Glassy et le Naughty FM. C'est vraiment top tes vidéos du genre "can it psychedelic"

[@sheppo]

Great video, again! The phase on the bass seems to be dancing around a lot.. this is a problem on other Arturia synths too, such as pigments, where it’s not possible to get a surgically consistent start to a bass. I do wonder at this point if they just have a single synth engine that they are reusing across their instruments. Anyway, the interface looks nice, easy, and importantly, quick… so I’ll check it out

[@olliepsy]

I'm not sure if the dancing phase issue comes from the plugin itself or somewhere else, I had this issue with Vital using Ableton but in Bitwig it was stable (or vice versa I forgot)! When it comes to basslines personally I prefer sticking to Serum as it's the only one who's stable everywhere or just sample the bassline and play it from the sampler. Anyways, I think it's really impressive to see a 600€ synthesizers capable of getting decent modern psy basslines without any external processing :)

[@Artek604]

Nice! Do you have the hardware unit, too? I'm considering getting it. Why do you say it can't be a "main synthesizer"? (I only have Analog Four Mk1)

[@olliepsy]

No, I only have the software! It can't be a main synth (from my pure point of view as a psytrance producer) because of it's unique charachter, it does sound a bit thin & plasticky, which is not bad at all in it's case but this makes it shine in the upper mid range & high frequencies, also, the osc engines it has (so far) doesn't perform that well in the traditional/modern day to day psytrance sound design which is heavily based on wavetable manupaltion & "FM" (that said, I think if they add a wavetable engine like in the MicroFreak, it'll become easily a main synth specially that osc2 effects osc1 which imho is a sound design heaven). That said, I only spent 24hours with it before shooting the video and I noticed how similar it is to the MicroFreak (which I own since it's launch) so my opinion might change with more time spent with it.

[@Artek604]

@@olliepsy Thanks! :)

[@DaddaPsy]

11:39 you just did the THX test for your followers on youtube

[@olliepsy]

haha yess, didn't mention this but I'm in this NFS Underground nostaglia phase (they're remastering UG2 atm) so I was pretty inspired xD

[@fullkefka]

Love your creativity bro one question what’s the name of your daw ?

[@OldPsytrance]

Bitwig

[@olliepsy]

Thank you, the DAW is Bitwig yes :)

[@funky.ass.breakz4473]

Bro, at this point I honestly believe you can make anything 'psytrance' lol Amazing overview, as always!

[@Audiorial]

GREAT GREAT § i LIKE THE NEW YOU

[@olliepsy]

Thanks buddy :)

[@danielgreen2348]

Is it that much different than Pigments?

[@olliepsy]

Yes! Two different synthesizers.