MiniFreak Quickstart // How to Program and Edit Tones
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
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A Quickstart guide/tutorial for the Arturia Minifreak. Here I demo how to edit tones and create your own patches as well as understanding how to navigate your way through the interface. I was hoping to make a 10 minute video BUT there's a fair bit to get through. I've been as edit happy as I could but it's difficult to do anything useful in less time.
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• From The Studio
0:00 Intro
1:39 The Basics
4:00 Shift + Sound Edit Functions
6:50 Hold and Chord Modes
8:04 Assign
9:26 Macros
11:38 Oscillators and Filters
14:53 12 Voice Paraphonic Mode
17:41 LFOs
19:37 LFO Waveshaper
20:25 Cycling Envelope
21:40 Patch from Scratch Housey Chord
23:05 How to Program Wobble Bass Tone
25:44 How to Make a Vintage Pad
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happily just got one of these...2024. Thanks for the insights and deep dives.
**A Re-upload** the first version had L+R phase inverted on the synth so in mono it was silent!
Just to mention, but I believe it is a SEM styled filter as opposed to the Steiner-Parker filter present in the brute series
Best review yet for this keyboard 👌
It's really a competitive synth to the minilog xd, little more expensive but touching similar grounds. Sure it sounds less analogish sort of speak, and this filter sound more rounded and less aggressive, but you got the extended polyphony and modulation matrix over the xd. And thou I would prefer normal keybed, its got aftertouch vs the korgs keyed.
Would really like to see a compare between the two sound wise 🙂
Thanks for demoing the 12 voice paraphony. I’d been trying to get my head around how 6 filters would deal with 12 voices. It’s actually kind of a cool musical effect-the last few notes added just swell into one big chord….
very useful thanks
What a beautiful keyboard, last week they brought in a Roland Fantom workstation, it's huge and heavy too, it needs servicing. And then I can keep it for free. To my stack of other keyboards.
Terrific demo! Thank you!
Now...should I buy this or wait for the next level up? A MegaFreak perhaps?
Very useful video! I just wish we could save & recall 6-8 favorite patches via simple 1 or 2 button presses.. for live performances or efficient studio work. Love my mini freak though!!
Thanks for this video as there is still no official manual from Arturia, they must be planning an update already?
I very cool demo of a nice synth, sound design is so much fun right?!
Thanks for the video! I'm having trouble with how to make the keys velocity sensitive. Like press init, then just have them be velocity sensitive. Any info on the matter would be much appreciated!
Hii very nice content!! Does this synth have full controll over everthing in de V lab software? Does it scroll to all te pre sets and controll all the knob if a synth is selected??? Regards A
I find the Hydrasynth extremely easy to interface with and I am wondering how the ease of interface compares to the minifreak. I know this is subjective but your thoughts are welcome. I am considering adding this board to my arsenal!
Thinking of selling my Microfreak, Minilab 3 and replacing the hole they leave with a Minifreak. Wondering if it will work okay as my DAW master keyboard.
Informative video...is saving a project on the mini the same as the microfreak?only if these synthesizers had recording options like the op-1
Yeah I think it’s exactly the same. Would have to check to be 100% but not noticed any difference.
Question.. How do you save a patch once programmed?
I really wouldn't mind this in a 19" desktop format with rack ears.
Is this a good as getting the complete Arturia v collection? Similar price…
I have the v collection. It’s amazing and will take a lifetime to fully appreciate
It really depends on what you’re looking for; a hugely flexible and massive collection of softsynths or a hardware unit. If you want to produce tracks in the box you really can’t go wrong with the V collection. I’ve picked them up for years so my upgrade price is always really low. But if you want something standalone - again really flexible - this is a nice thing to have. It’s nice to have nice things.
At this point hardware to me is almost only about having fun creating sounds off-time, since producing in-the-box is just so much faster. I love my opsix to death for wasting countless hours just experimenting with sound. The Minifreak sounds great, but is it fun to use?
I’d say definitely yes. It’s easy to use and there are so many things to play with and get lost in. From a sound design perspective the small keybed isn’t an issue really.. unless you’re thing is huge wide spanning chords. Apparently there’s a VST on the way, but I much prefer hands on editing.
still wouldve liked to see a dedicated amp envelope
i know you can create one but filter and amplifier share the envelope by default.
Love your videos, but one request. When demonstrating LFOs, could you please use cutoff as a destination instead of pitch? It’s just so annoying. Like a siren in my living room. Cutoff is just as effective and actually sounds good. Maybe I’m alone in this, but it makes turn off videos when people do this. Respectfully, GC.
Point taken. I was just mixing it up a little so it wasn’t all cutoff.
@starsky carr could u Help me pls?
In a digital VST u can set the wave like high? So the Sound never stops, at the Arturia Minifreak there is something which causes the sound to go complete to 0 volume after each wave.
How im able to increase the like end wave high or volume? I wasnt able to find it yet, and tried turning every controller.
Its somewhere in the standard Setting when u turn on the arturia minifreak.
But I also got it on diffrent oszillators and presettings like in subcult (37) or doom (34) you can here it very clearly
I hope Its understandable what I mean.
I'm not sure what you mean, but the HOLD button keeps the sound playing indefinitely.
@@StarskyCarr I think I got it. on the Standard (1) its the Phraser which cut of the sound hardly and on the “doom preset “ its the Chrous which cuts the sound off hardly. The Volume goes like normaly to Zero after some waves. That was anoying as hell.
Hello at 09:42 Cutoff Frequency is set at -48? with the Cutoff Pot. Right after that, was that value changed with the Preset/Edit Pot to 100%? Then another value is changed with the Cutoff Pot. I am not following this part. Can anyone explain me that please?
By wiggling the cutoff you are assigning it to the macro. The -48 is inconsequential at this point. It’s just reflecting that there’s been an assignation. That’s showing the amount the macro will affect the cutoff. At -48 it will reduce the cutoff as the macro is increased. I then change the amount the macro changes the cutoff to 100. Now the macro will increase the Cutoff. I then have to turn the cutoff down so the macro has an effect. If the cutoff is set high the macro can’t send it any higher.
@@StarskyCarr hello many thanks! perfectly explained, very kind of yours.
@@StarskyCarr many thanks
Forgive my ignorance! Tell me, is this arturia multitimbre? As far as I understand hydrosynth is not multitimbral
No it’s not multitimbral
Thorough as always ! (I haven't watched all 30 mins yet, as it was only uploaded 10 mins ago... but I know it will be thorough 😄😄). But quickly jumping through it initially, I'm wondering a little bit about what this gives, that similar VST's don't (obviously, hardware controls dedicated to the synth engine, for one)? It's quite pricey for what sounds to me to be a bit of an uninspiring 'VST' sound (ok, bring on the hate!! 😛)
The analog filters I suppose take it away from accusations of being just a ‘VST in a box’ but there is a software version on the way apparently (that won’t have analog filters 😂)
@@StarskyCarr Yes.
You mention it has a steiner parker filter, that´s incorrect. It´s based on the SEM filter by Oberheim.
The last video I uploaded I was ‘reliably’ informed it was Steiner Parker… I can’t win 😂🤦♂️😂
@@StarskyCarr th-cam.com/video/AdqwjABa3kw/w-d-xo.html he talks about it here. Saying that they tried the steiner parker filter, but it didnt work. And they kept the SEM filter from the microfreak.
Didn´t mean to criticize though, just to correct. Love your videos :)
@@RubenHulzebosch no worries - I know 😊 but it’s funny getting conflicting info.. you can’t believe what you read online … so I really do take on board comments from like minded folks. And this is where it gets me 😂. Haha.
It sounds more like the Steiner-Parker on my PolyBrute than my OB6 SEM-based filter though.
4:01 The Beast from the woods makes a cameo appearance.
False alarm - it was just Starsky's hair getting in shot.
Is it a Steiner-Parker or a SEM filter?
I think the filter - if it’s the same as the one in the MicroFreak - is derived from the SEM.
Yeah there seems to be some confusion. Following my last video I was told it was steiner Parker - but now I’ve mentioned it people are saying it’s derived from the SEM. I think the latter seems to be the consensus. I shouldn’t listen to people 🤦♂️
@@StarskyCarr all good man. At the end of the day, if the filter works and helps shape a musical tone that's what's important. Thank you for all the great content. It looks like this will be arriving in Canada for the new year - just enough time for me to pay off the ol' Visa card.
Does this do any form of percussion?
Only so much as any synth can make percussive sounds, but it doesn’t have a ‘drum track’.
@@StarskyCarr Cheers. Already have a Casio 'performance' keyboard I got real cheap (and on a whim) but it doesn't inspire me at all. So, I'm looking to splurge on a synth and drum machine. Probably going with the MiniFreak + Drumbrute Impact. Surprised Arturia haven't brought any more drum machines out in recent years tho. :)
Is it worth it if you have minifreak v?
Only if you want the hardware and hands on control etc. otherwise they’re so similar….
@@StarskyCarr it looks like it moght be worth it actually the hands on control looks pretty good
Hahahaha... you shaall make the thing....
Why is nobody demoing the analog filters? I know they are not as fun as the Steiner-Parker on the *Brutes but.. come on! Aside from pads are they that boring? Not a single sweet spot? What about one just before the resonance begin to scream on a low sawtooth note?
I had more of a play on my last video comparing it to the vintage Prophet VS. Here I’m demoing how to use it rather than the tones.
Anyone else think we were about to break into a music to walk home by cover at one point?
If this thing does more than my polybrute, I'll be highly upset
crusty pluck 🤣🤣🤣