Awesome video, as usual! Couple of tricks with MiniFreak modulations 1. There are 3 pages of 3 assignable destinations, so it's possible to assign 9 custom destinations total. To switch between pages, hold "Shift" and click the "Page" number. 2. It's possible to make modulation source to modulate modulation amount - to do that, hold "Assign" button and move "Matrix/Amount" position to the needed destination. 3. For Velocity/AT modulation source, it's possible to select either both or any of them - to do that, press "Sound Edit" button, then scroll to "Keyboard", and then "Matrix Src". There will be "Velocity", "Aftertouch", "Velo + AT". The last one is the default and will be modulating depending on key velocity, but adding more when pushing for aftertouch. Hope it will be helpful
Great vid, thanks! And in case anyone is wondering, you can delete the macro settings and start new by holding down the preset selector knob for 2 seconds and the setting you’re on will go blank. You can do this for one, or all selections and start fresh, in case you choose something you didn’t like. :)
It's always a pleasure to hear you create sounds, like you I'm delighted with this update, this MiniFreak is really great! May you be blessed this holiday season.
Great material and that moment when you go deeper and deeper and the idea evolves to another great sound. Before I sow your material and read info about firmware 2.0. I bought MiniFreak a couple of hours earlier today. I have DrumBrute so I'll try those two together. Thank you for the inspiration!
Very nice to watch man, I've been looking at the Minifreak as a first hardware synth, the way you explain matrix answers a lot of questions, using Ableton Wavetable and this just opened a world of possibilities
re:17.15 Under SoundEdit>Preset there is a snapshot feature that lets you undo to previous patches if you just opened up new one. I kept hitting the white knob all the time making patches the first week I had it!
Minifreak is awesome and sounds great. The screen with the three "vials or bottles filling up" instead of an animation of real-time wave activity is a shame though. You spend a surprising amount of time looking at those three vials and trying to listen to hear what your doing to the sound.
That's true, I wonder what difference in sound we would choose if we had the waveform though. I have a tendency to use round numbers. a completely arbitrary preference. But those decimals matter! Kind of like mixing on an MPC vs using EQ8 in Ableton Live haha
Good point I never thought about it that way. I do love all the little opening visuals you get for each oscillator though. Then they disappear :(, sometimes I find myself changing oscillators just for the dopamine hit haha. @@RickyTinez
17:17 Oh no, you didn't know that you can recover from deleting your patch! Press Sound Edit and go to the last menu option "Presets", then "View Snapshots" and select from a bunch of timestamped save states to restore!
@@tavaresvideoeditorIt's an adjustment from normal sized keys but not too bad. I only know a little bit about the keyboard, so maybe to a pianist it would be harder to use. The more limiting factor is only having 3 octaves, but that's the only way it comes unfortunately.
@RickyTinez thanks so much for contributing videos such as these. To (mis)quote Blackadder II, a synth without making the sound yours is like a broken pencil: pointless, get a sample pack of the presets instead.
Regarding "I'm Stumped" : first assign lfo to pitch but with 0 amount. Then go to the aft/velocity row and over to the "assign 1" slot, hold down the button and turn the encoder until you get LFO->Pitch. then set with encoder. press the Sound Edit button, scroll to "Keyboard" there you can set velocity or aftertouch or both as the modulation source on the matrix.
Cool video, if you're missing a third envelope you can set up one of the LFOs to be an envelope as well. It's a bit clunky but you can definitely make it work.
Even quicker way to get an INIT patch…..save it! For whatever reason, this synth still hasn’t grabbed me. I wonder how it compares in terms of the “not being able to take your hands off it” factor? I just got an OPsix and I swear it just makes me want to play it and tweak for hours! And it’s one of the few synths of the many I have had over the decades that I took immediately as far as learning the ins and outs of it so quickly. So much so that the Prophet Rev2 I bought just prior to the OPsix-I have touched in weeks!
Still baffled that they haven’t added the granular engine from the minifreak. I wonder if it’s to avoid the minifreak vst cannibalizing potential sales of pigments vst which also has granular synthesis.
@@squarelanguageyeah that’s part of why I feel like the minifreak is being nerfed by not receiving microfreak features, as a vst they want to sell you both pigments and minifreak and if you give minifreak too many features that overlap with pigments, people won’t buy pigments.
I really appreciate these videos but need to take a break from hearing timbre mispronounced. It's pronounced "tamber" not "timber". That being said, thanks for the excellent content.
I was almost ready to get one of these synth. But tbh none of this sounds very good to me. I suppose if you want non descript house music sounds it's OK but this sounds fairly terrible.
I suggest you watch Bloom Music's 'De-freaking the Arturia minifreak' video which gets into the weeds of making classic style synth tones on the device. It's a really powerful device capable of making some incredible sounds and there's not really much that competes with it given its price point. The build quality is great too, and super intuitive for tone crafting.
sold all my arturia synths.. wonderful on paper.. buged like no others, with no support. I genuinely don't understand how people can use them. Wasted too much time. I never look at any new arturia tool since. Seeing thatvideo brings back trauma of hours wasted on forum trying to figure out all those bugs...
@@MrMb167agreed, this dude is tripping. The Minifreak and the Keystep Pro are amazing. I just updated the firmware in both last night, and don't have any issues. To the op, what kind of bugs are you experiencing? If it seems as if it's glitching out on you, as if the power supply isn't working properly, that may be caused by the inefficiency of the power grid where you live. I had this problem in Panama City Beach, Florida and contacted support, and the dude told me that people in New York were having that same problem. I'm currently in a different state, and haven't had this problem at all. I actually purchased it used from this company (BH Photo) out of New York City for a little over $400 not long after it first released. I assume that whoever had it before me, thought it was bugged out as well, and that's why I got it for so cheap. I believe the remedy to this is some sort of power conditioner, but I'm not acclimated enough to say for certain. What I can say is . . . I love both my Keystep Pro and my Minifreak very much, and will definitely be acquiring more gear from Arturia. I heard a rumor of some sort of drum machine in a similar context to the Minifreak. A DrumFreak, if you will. Whatever that entails. Either way, I can't wait.
My friend, I hope you are well, you seem to look skinnier every time I see you in a new video, I hope all is well and you taking good care of yourself alright? Sending you love and positive vibes. ❤️🙏🏼
Awesome video, as usual!
Couple of tricks with MiniFreak modulations
1. There are 3 pages of 3 assignable destinations, so it's possible to assign 9 custom destinations total. To switch between pages, hold "Shift" and click the "Page" number.
2. It's possible to make modulation source to modulate modulation amount - to do that, hold "Assign" button and move "Matrix/Amount" position to the needed destination.
3. For Velocity/AT modulation source, it's possible to select either both or any of them - to do that, press "Sound Edit" button, then scroll to "Keyboard", and then "Matrix Src". There will be "Velocity", "Aftertouch", "Velo + AT". The last one is the default and will be modulating depending on key velocity, but adding more when pushing for aftertouch.
Hope it will be helpful
Kez... holy crap.. this is incredible
Also worth mentioning that the Macros are themselves assignable modulation targets.
re: quick way to initialize a patch, I think you can just click down and hold on the preset knob for a couple of seconds.
Sick! Thanks for dropping the knowledge!
Great 🍻 for that! Will try that on mine 😎👍🎹🎵
Dude....Watching you make it sing is amazing. So glad i bought this as my first synth
I call mine the time machine. I start playing and 4 hours in the fiture i regain consciousness
Great vid, thanks! And in case anyone is wondering, you can delete the macro settings and start new by holding down the preset selector knob for 2 seconds and the setting you’re on will go blank. You can do this for one, or all selections and start fresh, in case you choose something you didn’t like. :)
It's always a pleasure to hear you create sounds, like you I'm delighted with this update, this MiniFreak is really great!
May you be blessed this holiday season.
Great material and that moment when you go deeper and deeper and the idea evolves to another great sound. Before I sow your material and read info about firmware 2.0. I bought MiniFreak a couple of hours earlier today. I have DrumBrute so I'll try those two together. Thank you for the inspiration!
Inverting the wave shapes (rise/fall) w/ modulation. nice one Enrique. Appreciate the detailed tutorial (& I don’t even own a minifreak).
You would love the Hydrasyth Explorer . You can go as far as you want with mapping modulation. And you have the visual on screen
he said "timber" :). nice video! inspiring as always ♥
Very nice to watch man, I've been looking at the Minifreak as a first hardware synth, the way you explain matrix answers a lot of questions, using Ableton Wavetable and this just opened a world of possibilities
yes Ableton's Wavetable is a great way to learn the mod matrix of almost any synthesizer. that's where all the magic happens!
re:17.15 Under SoundEdit>Preset there is a snapshot feature that lets you undo to previous patches if you just opened up new one. I kept hitting the white knob all the time making patches the first week I had it!
Minifreak is awesome and sounds great. The screen with the three "vials or bottles filling up" instead of an animation of real-time wave activity is a shame though. You spend a surprising amount of time looking at those three vials and trying to listen to hear what your doing to the sound.
That's true, I wonder what difference in sound we would choose if we had the waveform though. I have a tendency to use round numbers. a completely arbitrary preference. But those decimals matter! Kind of like mixing on an MPC vs using EQ8 in Ableton Live haha
Good point I never thought about it that way. I do love all the little opening visuals you get for each oscillator though. Then they disappear :(, sometimes I find myself changing oscillators just for the dopamine hit haha. @@RickyTinez
17:17 Oh no, you didn't know that you can recover from deleting your patch! Press Sound Edit and go to the last menu option "Presets", then "View Snapshots" and select from a bunch of timestamped save states to restore!
Quickly initialize patch by pushing and holding the Preset/Edit knob.
amazing info! now I'll be flying on this thing
This dude is awesome!
Loved this exploration.
Great vid!
This is my favorite synth. I feel like it's hard to make anything that sounds truly ugly on it. The Minifreak is an underrated gem
Is difficult to play with this short keys? I want buy one, but I don't know
@@tavaresvideoeditorIt's an adjustment from normal sized keys but not too bad. I only know a little bit about the keyboard, so maybe to a pianist it would be harder to use. The more limiting factor is only having 3 octaves, but that's the only way it comes unfortunately.
last patch is sick. thanks for sharing
>Just< opened up my brand new Minifreak yesterday. This is insane timing. Thank you Ricky!
did our guy just got married? Congratz
Just brilliant as always
Dude that last patch is so good
@RickyTinez thanks so much for contributing videos such as these. To (mis)quote Blackadder II, a synth without making the sound yours is like a broken pencil: pointless, get a sample pack of the presets instead.
Regarding "I'm Stumped" : first assign lfo to pitch but with 0 amount. Then go to the aft/velocity row and over to the "assign 1" slot, hold down the button and turn the encoder until you get LFO->Pitch. then set with encoder. press the Sound Edit button, scroll to "Keyboard" there you can set velocity or aftertouch or both as the modulation source on the matrix.
Cool video, if you're missing a third envelope you can set up one of the LFOs to be an envelope as well. It's a bit clunky but you can definitely make it work.
Even quicker way to get an INIT patch…..save it! For whatever reason, this synth still hasn’t grabbed me. I wonder how it compares in terms of the “not being able to take your hands off it” factor? I just got an OPsix and I swear it just makes me want to play it and tweak for hours! And it’s one of the few synths of the many I have had over the decades that I took immediately as far as learning the ins and outs of it so quickly. So much so that the Prophet Rev2 I bought just prior to the OPsix-I have touched in weeks!
Wow I use .000001% of minifreak. Great video thanks
8:15 Ricky we all want to be like that 😀
Gong - I Never Glid Before ..... class, almost as old as me 🪄🪄🪄🧙♂
i love this guru
"The swans glid across the lake."
Still baffled that they haven’t added the granular engine from the minifreak. I wonder if it’s to avoid the minifreak vst cannibalizing potential sales of pigments vst which also has granular synthesis.
Been wondering the differences between the Minifreak and Pigments, seems like they cover similar features. I know the Microfreak had granular added
@@squarelanguageyeah that’s part of why I feel like the minifreak is being nerfed by not receiving microfreak features, as a vst they want to sell you both pigments and minifreak and if you give minifreak too many features that overlap with pigments, people won’t buy pigments.
that first patch! good god!
Thanks!
Does anyone know what Sakamoto song he is playing throughout this video? EDIT: Found it....'andata' on the album async. Its amazing....listen to it.
I'm glid I watched this video.
Yo Ricky, What's your current synth collection and studio setup like?
They need to add granular and vocoder next…
It will be legendary
Would you also want it to be able to sample in a sound to use? or you'd be ok with drag and drop from the MiniFreak V Software?
@@RickyTinez personally I don’t like using my computer, but I take what i can get
Can someone briefly share your thoughts on getting micro freak instead of this and viceversa? thank you kindly
Hi Ricky, what do you think about the microfreak? worth it?
❤❤❤
please tell me the patch youre playing @ 3:45 is in the pack
Yet another attempt at asking what song you use in the intro
ah! sorry I missed the other attempt. It's "Does It Float" by Otis McDonald. th-cam.com/video/cWRCR5wFFV4/w-d-xo.html
I really appreciate these videos but need to take a break from hearing timbre mispronounced. It's pronounced "tamber" not "timber". That being said, thanks for the excellent content.
I was almost ready to get one of these synth. But tbh none of this sounds very good to me. I suppose if you want non descript house music sounds it's OK but this sounds fairly terrible.
I suggest you watch Bloom Music's 'De-freaking the Arturia minifreak' video which gets into the weeds of making classic style synth tones on the device.
It's a really powerful device capable of making some incredible sounds and there's not really much that competes with it given its price point. The build quality is great too, and super intuitive for tone crafting.
sold all my arturia synths.. wonderful on paper.. buged like no others, with no support. I genuinely don't understand how people can use them. Wasted too much time. I never look at any new arturia tool since. Seeing thatvideo brings back trauma of hours wasted on forum trying to figure out all those bugs...
What bugs did you experience? I haven’t had any on the 2.0 fw
@@MrMb167agreed, this dude is tripping. The Minifreak and the Keystep Pro are amazing.
I just updated the firmware in both last night, and don't have any issues.
To the op, what kind of bugs are you experiencing? If it seems as if it's glitching out on you, as if the power supply isn't working properly, that may be caused by the inefficiency of the power grid where you live.
I had this problem in Panama City Beach, Florida and contacted support, and the dude told me that people in New York were having that same problem.
I'm currently in a different state, and haven't had this problem at all. I actually purchased it used from this company (BH Photo) out of New York City for a little over $400 not long after it first released. I assume that whoever had it before me, thought it was bugged out as well, and that's why I got it for so cheap.
I believe the remedy to this is some sort of power conditioner, but I'm not acclimated enough to say for certain. What I can say is . . .
I love both my Keystep Pro and my Minifreak very much, and will definitely be acquiring more gear from Arturia. I heard a rumor of some sort of drum machine in a similar context to the Minifreak. A DrumFreak, if you will. Whatever that entails. Either way, I can't wait.
Zero issues here
You’re to all over the place without really focusing on the synth. Goodbye. Keep up the work though.
See you later, oscillator
what is he focusing on ? his wooden desk?
My friend, I hope you are well, you seem to look skinnier every time I see you in a new video, I hope all is well and you taking good care of yourself alright? Sending you love and positive vibes. ❤️🙏🏼
Have you ever tried syncing the OP-Z and Digitakt?