Microfreak Modulation Source I've Never Used!

[@careycummings9999]

I'm just starting with synths, and I'm blown away by my MF. This gave me even more stuff to try, thanks.

[@FreeBeat]

Glad you liked the video!

[@S.tebban]

Glad to hear you are still learning too. I'm in this game for 1 year and a half now and all I do is create sounds. Every now and then a tune comes up but mostely a song does not yet pop up. And that is ok I guess. I have fun and I discover. I think that's the point here. It's like Lego.

[@FreeBeat]

The Lego analogy is great! There's always fun in following the instructions, but it's also a blast to ignore them and do your own thing :)

[@DonaldNatale]

A classic key tracking trick is to set it to 100% and modulate the center frequency of a bandpass or cutoff frequency of a LP with resonance jacked up. You can set the oscillator to a noise source and play the resonant filter peak chromatically.

[@annother3350]

good tip

[@squishmallowfan025]

I like this a lot....this thing has enormous potential. To coin a term I basically never leave the house because going down the rabbit hole with something that's basically cheap as chips is so rewarding.......

[@FreeBeat]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching :)

[@jantuitman]

Cool trick, since I don’t have a microfreak I checked if this is also working on the Deluge, and happy to report it is. It’s called “Note” there and it is the 4rd button counted from the bottom in the right column.The right column and some buttons in the column next to it are the Deluge mod sources. To make a modulation first shift press the thing you want to modulate, for example “frequency” (which is filter cutoff, located in the top row in the middle) and then shift press the mod source. Both lights should be blinking and then you can adjust modulation amount.

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah haha I stumbled onto it on the Deluge first, that's actually what made me think to go back and try it on the Microfreak!

[@siniquezu]

Thanks for convincing me to get the micro freak. Just need to wait for it to get back in stock. It randomly runs out. Great videos man!

[@FreeBeat]

Awesome! Hopefully you don't have to wait too long haha. Thanks for watching :)

[@fredodeep]

Merci, je viens de découvrir encore des choses sur ce merveilleux synthétiseur !

[@FreeBeat]

Merci beaucoup d'avoir regardé !

[@unclemick-synths]

I don't think there's any synth that offers the value of the MicroFreak. It has so many features for such a great price.

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah, it really is, thanks for watching!

[@rayderrich]

Why do I keep watching your videos about gear I do not own? Well, it turns out that what you can do on for example the MicroFreak is also very easy to replicate in my software synths, so your modulation examples are nice inspirations for my next sound designs.

[@FreeBeat]

Haha glad you got some inspiration, I appreciate you watching!

[@Stadsjaap]

Bottom row, eh...? It occurs to me that this should actually be where modulation of patches should start.

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for watching!

[@technodrone313]

i own and have owned even more synths mostly analog. i tried an fm synth and was frustrated. this thing has been a treat to learn. and saving patches is pretty nifty lol

[@dustyaudio]

I add key arp to sustain on my plucky patches, nice touch to let high notes ring a bit

[@FreeBeat]

I hadn't even thought of tying it to anything amp envelope related, thanks!

[@dustyaudio]

@@FreeBeat rereading that I probably meant decay but go wild!

[@FreeBeat]

@@dustyaudio Hey it's all part of the envelope haha

[@felixlindman409]

I hope they add a custom voice oscilator!! Omg

[@FreeBeat]

That would be awesome! We got custom wavetables so who knows :D

[@psider3239]

the Key/ARP mod doesn’t work the way it supposed to. I’m using the numbers on the speech osc, because they are great indicator of where is the modulation. Key/ARP on 100% modulating Shape at 0 position, the highest key on the highest octave says “4”. If it was modulating 100% of the Shape it should say “10” This modulation is awesome for making sequences of different words with the speech osc, but it’s not modulating 100% of the value unfortunately.

[@FreeBeat]

Interesting, any idea why that's happening?

[@romi9485]

Yes, when you set the modulation on 100% it's never actually 100%, anywhere on the matrix, which is kind of a bummer, i hope they change it in future updates

[@scottherzog9359]

Very Very Cool .. thank you !

[@sennstrato7281]

The microfreak is a super fun unit hours and hours of entertainment of just fucking around with the thing

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah it's so much fun to see what you can come up with!

[@eightcoins4401]

It sucks the manual never properly explains what the key source does

[@evankeal]

The other half of that button is ARP, I tried that on Pitch. Excellent video as always.

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah I'm definitely gonna try it out on the arp (and sequencer) soon. Thanks for watching!

[@wiggesobk]

That's cool👍

[@FreeBeat]

Super cool! After reading some comments I've got a lot more ideas to try haha.

[@rexcellencemagee6729]

I almost bought one of these recently and I will eventually, I’ve got three synth’s I know relatively little about so I came across a really great deal on a Korg kaos pad KP2 used, obviously, and with the Behringer announcement of the under $100 synths, there’s 4 of them coming out. Those will be first, I am interested in your opinion on that if you have one!

[@happyjessus]

My guess is you ll have to wait a lot for the berhinger synths.. this announcement was way too premature unfortunately

[@FreeBeat]

I'm actually super interested in the new Behringer synths, but I think we'll be waiting quite a while for them :( Thanks for watching!

[@MWGallaher]

I notice you didn't try modulating pitch with the Key/Arp row. When you do that, you can microtune to less or more than 12 notes per octave!

[@FreeBeat]

Great tip, thanks!

[@Paulmccarthy6801]

Does this do regular piano sounds or only synth sounds

[@FreeBeat]

The Microfreak is just a synthesizer :) You can probably get some pretty solid electric piano sounds, but no sampled piano or anything like that. Thanks for watching!

[@romi9485]

If you use the stringpluck engine with bow and pluck to 0 and decay to 90, and set the envelope to 100ms attack and 100ms decay you get a nice piano sound You can also dive into the mod matrix to set up the velocity of the keys and get a nicer feel

[@traildoggy]

Does this work the same way with the sequencer?

[@FreeBeat]

I know it works with the arp, I'd imagine it works with the sequencer too :)

[@tomster]

Really tried to like the MF (Vocoder Ed.) but returned it after a month - it just does try to do many things at a mediocre, toyish satisfaction level, low-vol output and plasticky look & feel.

[@FreeBeat]

It's definitely not for everyone. Thanks for watching!

[@annother3350]

All it needs is a bit of reverb and it transforms into a monster