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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Microfreak Chord Oscillator is Awesome!
Today we're taking a look at the chord oscillator type on the Microfreak! The chord oscillator often gets overlooked, including by myself, which is a real shame because it's awesome! While the wave knob changes the type of chord playing, the timbre and shape knobs modulate the inversion/transposition and waveform shape respectively. This means that we can create some very interesting sounds simply by modulating the two knobs! If you have any other modulation ideas for the chord oscillator, let me know! Enjoy the video :)
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The LFO is bipolar, so when you were showing the LFO controlling the inversions you had a plateau at the bottom of the cycle where the LFO went below zero on the knob. If you want a smooth transition all the way through, set the amount of the LFO in the matrix to the same number as your initial Timber knob. That way the bottom of the LFO brings you to exactly zero and you start climbing back up again immediately. Just a tip if anyone besides me found the plateau disconcerting.
Oh that's a fantastic tip, thank you so much!
Whoah very useful
I love that it fades through the inversions rather than just stepping. Using that in poly mode with the chord set to octaves sounds great.
Yeah I really like that too, it's surprisingly smooth!
A 6/9 chord refers to the 6th (replacing the Major 7th) and 9th scale degree.
In the key of C it would be the notes : C-E-G-A-D.
Gotcha, I thought so, but I really didn't want to be wrong lol. Curse my drums based music education haha.
Nice.
Came here just for this. Thanks.
The sequencer also let’s you change “chord” per step. Very fun
Good to know, thanks!
Paraphonic mode is useful when you are set to Octave chord type. Since the waveforms (SHAPE parameter) for this oscillator include some organ waves, this is one of the best oscillators for making an easy organ patch.
Oh that's a good tip, thanks!
Thank you FB for your videos!
Once again great video and very understandable.
Thanks so much for watching :)
I'm addicted to your videos. Gotta have my Free Beat fix every night now! Thanks!!!
Hahaha thanks so much, I appreciate it!
Love it!
Thanks for watching!
I do not own the MicroFreak but this video was still fun, and I can always try to replicate some of it in Falcon. Thanks for your daily videos.
I appreciate that so much, thank you!
And yet again, new tricks learned! :)
Thanks so much for watching!
This is cool!
Yeah! I can't wait to play with it more haha, thanks for watching :)
The "69" chord is actually 6/9. As an example, a C6/9 would be C E G A D, but often the G is omitted.
You beat me to it 8)
And Dylan beat you both to it a few posts down haha. Thanks though!
In the 1970s, the "69 chord" was a maj7. Now it's a bunch of m9 in a neo-soul progression.
@@GizzyDillespee maj7 and 6/9 are completely different chords -- unless you're meaning in the "orange is the new black" way. ;)
Those hand motions are ridiculous man
Once again, the Microfreak proves itself to be such an indispensable piece of gear!
Absolutely, it's a beast!
I would think one could make some cool chord progressions using the step sequence function, like a C, Am, Dm7, G etc. Changing chord types as you go.😃🎵🎵🎶🎶
Oh yeah, absolutely!
can you activate the arpegiator in combination with the chord osc? I wonder if that would let you play sick arpeg chords going up and down the chords...
I believe you can :)
Yessss
That was dOpe brooo
Expended my understanding
Great video, I have to spend some time to understand the sequence and arp and how to sync them to midi clock.
Yeah the sequencer is surprisingly deep on the Microfreak! Well worth exploring :)
Did you figure out the clock
Cool just realized that I have the oscillator too since in my modular box I have a Mutable Instrument Plaits. So I can rewatch your microfreak content. I do find the sounds of this module and also of the microfreak a bit plastic to my tastes.
modulation! plaits sounds so static without modulation but throw some lfos and envelopes into those CV inputs and *chef's kiss*
@@magnopere no kissing.
Oh that's awesome, thanks for watching!
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Thanks for watching!
i just bought one a few weeks ago. this thing is so intuitive coming form a minimoog lol
Glad you're liking it! Try to use it alongside the Minimoog :)
@@FreeBeat oh yeah they are a great couple.
Very good. According to you how does this compare to the Model Cycles?
I think they're only similar in that you control the chord shape and the inversion as parameters. On the Cycles, you have very limited control over the actual sound, but you have the incredibly powerful sequencer to aid your music. On the Microfreak, it's more about the control you have over the sound. The digital patch bay basically gives you endless ways to change it. Thanks for watching!
Can you play chords normally or does "paraphony" mean you can't? As in, can I play chords by sending it MIDI? I'm confused.
You can! This chord oscillator is a completely different part of the machine. You can play up to 4 notes at once as long as the parphony button is lit up. Paraphonic just means that all of those notes share the same filter and envelope :)
There's no reason they can't get more additive harmonics. Midi effects or vertical key position enveloping
Hey man can you please make a playlist for the microfreak ?🙏
I plan on making a bunch of playlists pretty soon for a bunch of my videos, Microfreak included :) Thanks for watching!
Can you set it to a key so you have C Dm Em F... etc?
You pick the type of chord you want (minor, major, etc), pick the inversion, then press the key of whatever you want to root note of the chord to be. Thanks for watching!
@@FreeBeat OK thanks, it's unusual that so many synths have this chord function but we don't really play all majors or all minors rtc when playing a song
Here’s what I don’t get about this feature: how often do you use only major or only minor in a melody? It’s always a combo so this seems limiting in that you can’t play a melody with both major and minor chords in it, right? Am I missing something?
It's for simple dance heads
It can be set to octave mode to be used simialir to old e organs and string machines