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- ANOTHER Microfreak Update! (Firmware 5.0) READ THE DESCRIPTION
Arturia has done it again and given us yet another giant firmware update for the Microfreak. This update adds four new oscillator types, all of them based around samples! While Arturia has included some samples for you to try the new oscillator types with, you can now use the MIDI Control Center Software to import your own samples! This blows the functionality of the Microfreak wide open, and is going to result in some absolutely phenomenal sounds coming from this budget synth. Be sure to check out the new random key/arp mode as well, it's fantastic! Enjoy the video :)
READ THIS: Arturia will be releasing the firmware on May 30th, 2023
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This is what companies need to do more of. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely!
Loved - and shared - your enthusiasm for this update. Agreed - it’s mind blowing
Thanks!
Thanks for the scoop on this amazing update. When the Minifreak came out I just assumed that would be it for major updates to the Microfreak, and this is as huge as any so far. This little synth is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
I thought that too, happily surprised!
Elektron and Arturia both doing incredible with their firmware updates... was "Grain de Folie" a hint at what was to come?
Definitely makes you stop and think doesn't it!
I want to get into granular and this looks like a very excellent intro on an already super-attractive instrument. Definitely going to look into this update some more. Thanks for taking the time to show it off a bit!
Definitely give it a shot! It's super deep but also not very intimidating :)
Thanks for the release date info! I can't wait!! I love granular! This + the Microcosm should be even more of a perfect combo after this update!
Oh yeah that's going to be a fantastic combination now. I mean it already was, but it's got to be next level!
this little thing continues to be my favorite thing on my desk, thanks for this update!! wouldn't have known until who knows when otherwise
Thanks for watching!
Omg yes thank you Arturia. This will fit perfectly into my new workflow. That synth keeps on giving.
And congratulations for your upcoming marriage. I wish for the two of you a healthy and happy life together.
Much
Thank you so much!
Damn I didn't see this coming. Samples and granular are right up might street and per note randomisation is one of my favourite synth programming tricks. The MF just gets better and better 👌
Turns out you were secretly working with another granular synth hahaha. But yeah this update is awesome!
@@FreeBeat Yes i was 😄 It will be fun to compare them when v5 is released!
nice one,t hank you for that, cant wait for it
Thanks for watching!
Yeahhh can't wait for it! Just checked and not out yet damn :D
Nope haha, May 30th!
Realistic tones were what the Microfreak missed the most so being able to play samples is simply awesome. And the granular synthesis, oh lord this toy/toll neve ceases giving.
Absolutely!
my be the most importent missing features are the fx and no pcm sampler. Reverb/Delay/chrous make the difference. Microfreak sound wet very nice, just take a look at the minidfreak,
Thanks for spreading the good news
Thanks for watching!
The Microfreak was my first "creative" synth back in 2020, and it's still my favorite of all my hardware synths. I wonder if these will make their way to the Minifreak as well (of course, they've still got a bit of catching up to do there).
Yeah I was kind of surprised it wasn't for both!
This is unbelievable.. I've neglected my Microfreak for a couple of months now..Not that I discovered all the sounds on it..FAR from it because it's endless...but I've always said that I wish I could get Choir type vocal sounds...with the sample Oscillator type now It's possible..The granular oscillators are awesome too.. can't wait to get into it again 👍
Yeah the possibilities have been blown wide open! Thanks for watching :)
WOW! Arturia really offers amazing support
It seems that this fw will be released on May 30
Correct, just like it says in the description :)
This update just made me finally move the Microfreak from my wish list to shopping cart… especially if I can get my hands on the stellar edition…
It's definitely gorgeous isn't it!
@@FreeBeat currently I am on a waiting list for it but even with my keystep pro, which i love dearly, i bought a decal for it because the color made the theme of my lab off balance... I know it's ridiculous haha... Even the Eventide H9 i thought to myself why is it white? The released the black limited edition on Star Wars day... purchased immediately hahah... Oversynth also sells decals for the Microfreak but would love to get the Stellar edition... So cool...
I got a microfreak about a week ago and i had just put version 4 on wth! This is great they added full on sampling
It's really amazing what this Synth can do..Endless possibilities..
Oh buddy your timing was perfect!
Well, this is the very first clip I watched, curious, on this topic. Frankly, I believe it is one of the best - even though I cannot know what other people have done already or will present in the (near?) future. A very fun transportation of that wow-effect, arturia’s product policy envokes at the side of users and interested people. I built my first sampler on myself in 1983, and so I have quite solid experience with rise and fall in different styles of digitized audio. You made indeed a entertaining snapshot of this newerly added features - on a entry level (!), set the pro-allures aside, encouraging viewers to take the tool ... and act like a fool. Yeah, rock‘n roll, this is made for pure fun... quod erat demonstrandum. No techblabla neccessary. Just use it... eeeeh basta. :D
Thanks s o much for watching!
Wow this small synth is just a beast now ! I hope they add this to the minifreak aswell soon
Yeah I'll be interested to see if it comes to the mini. Thanks for watching!
I have both and would love to see this update for the minifreak as well.
13:05 I noticed you having the same problem I have - keys stuck on after you finish playing. For me this got so bad I’ve had to abandon the Microfreak entirely. (Will definitely use it with a controller after this update though!) The engineers couldn’t reproduce the problem and couldn’t fix it… and this video here is the first confirmation I’ve seen that it’s not just my fingers being haunted or something! Have you ever found out what causes this or how to reduce it?
Great video as always though 🎉
Yeah I'd imagine it's one of the bugs that they are still ironing out. We'll find out on May 30th!
So glad i have a Mf. Its my one and only standalone synth and the gift that keeps on giving!
That's awesome! Thanks for watching :)
I was kinda sad when the minifreak surfaced a month or so after I bought my microfreak.
This update makes me definitely less sad. 😊
Absolutely, talk about outstanding support!
Hey, congrats on your upcoming tour… I mean, wedding!
Haha thank you!
I just bought one! Great fun in the tutorial. If you can please tell me how I can obtain the Neil Peart samples, I’d be grateful! I’ll send you a letter he sent my dad back in the 90’s. Pretty neat. Thanks again!
Sadly I'm not sure if it's available anymore, this is where I bought it
sonicreality.com/details.php?ProductID=4432
@@FreeBeat Thanks a ton! Great show.
Oh my gosh! The day from hell! This video is great news though! I’m pretty sure Venus theory mentioned this a while back but they were still looking for bugs. I’ve been sick as hell the last day and night (especially night), my 2017 IPad home button broke and won’t unlock the machine. So I’m reduced to using my IPad mini because the big stuff IPad M2 and Android 12 tabs are busy being part of my gear! Lol. I don’t want Netflix and Prime on them. Anyway, this update will be great demonstration for my MIDI video, hopefully out soon (both the update and my video)! I really appreciate you going to the trouble of posting this! I’m sure Arturia would appreciate any bugs you come across! Just shows how updatable 2018 synths can be instead of replacement models every single year! This will be my LAST PSR from Yamaha! They haven’t improved shit since it’s release! Peace brother!
Thanks as always for watching!
WOW, this is increddible! Arturia is the best. Thank you for the review. I hope for you there will be a lot of stuff to “play” with. 😂
Thanks so much!
Do you know when it becomes available? That will be a legendary day🙌🤙
May 30th, just like it says in the description 😉
Hey ! Thank you for the nice preview, and congratulations for your marriage. Do you think we could expect to be able to sample directly from the MF in a future firmware ? As it already has an input for the vocoder. That would turn the MF into a very versatile little machine, for on the go creation
I have no clue, that would be absolutely insane wouldn't it!
Soooo thinking about this… you could load a whole kit of drum samples, set the Key/Arp appropriately to change the Sample per key. Playable kit on a some of the keys?!?
😳 uhhh yeah I think that would work! It would probably take some fiddling around with both the sample and the modulation parameters, but I think you could get some really cool stuff going on.
now the only massive feature lacking is processing live audio through thr vocoder input
That would be awesome!
Incredible!
Now…how long until this is on the Mini?
And how long until the Mega (or whatever they’re going to call it)?
A week ... Tops🎉
I have no clue on either of those haha, I'm just happy it came to the Microfreak first!
I was printing out the manual last week and ran out of ink before I could get very far. Great timing!
Edit: Delayed reaction... Samples!!!!??? They spoil us.
They really do!
Now we know in what device we have to put the sample of the “sample something community contest” 🙂. Hopefully they release this for the minifreak too.
Oh dang I just realized I could do a whole season of sample something with the microfreak haha
Right after I add a Roland SP-404 mk2, Arturia updates the MicroFreak. I actually have the Minifreak V yet was pondering the MicroFreak as a hardware compliment and this would've helped its odds.
I think the 404 and the micro freak would actually make a pretty good pair, as long as you also have a computer to take samples from the 404 and put them into the freak! Could probably get some really cool stuff going that way, especially if you then ran the microfreak back through the 404 for the effects!
Ok this synth as played on my mind for ages , so I just pre ordered a stellar, should arrive at the end of the month , now you are talking to a op-1 user here me also a sh201 , s-cat Casio , ect I use a zoom 4npro for recording live samples , how do I get them samples onto the micro freak when I get it ? Any video help appreciated , thx for a great channel
Nice, I hope you like it! Just like I say in the video, you use the midi control center software to load samples into the microfreak :)
So if I update it I won’t be able to use the older presets it had?
Very nice. This will keep me busy with sound design for a while. Unrelated, are the key pads on your Microfreak wearing away?
I think the metal and connectivity will remain the same but the color wears off
@@d3tuned378 Oh yeah, that would makes sense
It's just cosmetic :)
@@FreeBeat it gives it character!
@@FreeBeat good to know, thanks!
Where can I get the update? I'm in South Africa and all I get on the Arturia site is "Soon Available". 🤨
If you look in the description it says it comes out May 30th 😉
Nice! so scan is start point? Cause it would be great to mod the LFO with start point.
Scan is the first parameter for the scan grains oscillator type, start point is the first parameter for the other three. All of them can be modulated with whatever you want :)
@@FreeBeat I can't wait for this update
I let same comment as on Arturias video.. can you export the arpegios or sequences into DAW/MPC? There is a bug in previous firmwares.. main issue on Microfreak imo 😊
I'm actually not sure, I've never tried!
Why is there no update on the site????????
Great that you received the beta version. You have so much energy, I guess that's why Arturia picked you for the job. Another thing that convinces me that you actually like the product is that we see wear out in your Minifreak 😎, which tells me how low use I give mine 🤣
Yeah, Freebie has a pile of videos showing off the freak. Arturia likely knows how much attention he sends their way.
Thanks so much! Yeah I really do love the arturia products that I have, both the ones they sent me and the ones I purchased myself. This update is really something else though, I would have never expected to get such a huge feature so far into the life of a budget synthesizer.
@@CatFish107 totally!
Whah wha what? Outstanding news.
Ooof $350 for a firmware update?
Hehe hehe.
@@CatFish107 the update is free
@@CatFish107 i can see why you thought that, but he was referring to the cost of the Microfreak synth itself.
@@LeVoisin38 I know that, thus my giggles at the end of my comment. I was just being a bit silly
Yeah it is!
Wait - the microfreak has internal memory?? Whats the capacity? How many samples can be loaded? What format? How do you load them? Tutorial video on loading samples please!
We've known about internal memory for a while, we've had the user wavetable engine for a year or so now, maybe even longer. Like I say in the video, you load the samples via the midi control center software. According to the software, you have 128 slots, and just over 200 seconds of sampling time.
great video! Does the black microfreak have the vocoder in it?
Yes, just update it if it’s not there already. I think it was released in 3.0
all the microfreaks of any color the are the same hardware. The original was blue. the white was the v3 firmware launch and came with the gooseneck mic. v5 is this new 'stellar' version. not sure if it comes with the gooseneck mic but the internal hardware of the freak is the same.
Yup they're all the same :)
Wow, the Microfreak just got EVEN BETTER. Samples and granular, they have pretty much all the synthesis bases covered in a $350 synth. Was those hanging notes toward the end a bug? Hopefully they fix that before they release the firmware to the public.
They are continuing to fix bugs
Yeah it's just a little bug, I'm sure they'll have it sorted out for the proper release!
wait a second... so the print fading out in the "keys" is not affecting the touch control functionality?
Yeah it's just cosmetic haha
❤
Thanks for all you do Michel!
Hey-hey!
I just bought the Microfreak, NTS-1, Circuit Track and the B1 Donner. I really want to go dawless, so I want to use a Zoom H1 as a audio interface, and then connect it to my hi-fi stereo, so I can hear it all on my loudspeakers. Have you made a video about this?
Thanks for the inspiration
All the best from Denmark
Anders.
How would you connect everything? I would think you would need more inputs than just the H1 unless you ran everything into the circuit tracks.
Sorry, thats what I was going to do. Im using the CT as a “brain”. So actually I’m just asking if I could use the H1 as an audio interface, and then connect it to the stereo?
@@andersjacobsen5838why not just plug the CT into the stereo?
I got mine used, how do i know what firmware version mine is at?
It'll tell you right at the boot up screen :)
Literally was sampling mine to sell it…. I knew in my heart an update was coming….
Now take the samples you got and put them back into Microfreak hahaha
@@FreeBeat meta, I guess the wave table/user ones will be cool in a granular engine
I almost bought one last week. Then I saw the new Stellar edition and I had to get it.
Awesome, I hope you love it!
The mountain of cool shit makes me want to love the microfreak,
but I can't figure out a good way to get live recording to work effectively. No step display, no metronome/countdown, no way to move segments. If someone has a good method please lmk
I had never considered using the microfreaks internal sequencer for live recording hmmm. That might be a fun challenge for a video idea in the future haha.
Is it also for the minifreak?
Not as of right now, I haven't heard if it's coming to it or not.
I AM LITERALLY VIBRATING
Now you can sample those vibrations and put them into your microfreak!
Too much menu diving for me but this made me want a microfreak a lot more ❤️
Hardly any menu diving at all actually!
@@FreeBeat I’ve realized lately that a Pocket Piano is more my speed. Like zero menu diving 😂 If I get something like this, it’s fun for a little while but I end up selling it.
Bruh 😂 theres like literally 0 menu diving on this device what are you talking about?
@@baqcasanke different strokes I guess 🤷🏼♂️😂
is it possible to change the sample from the mod matrix?
🎉
Just tested it and the answer is yes, stay tuned for today's video!
Hola! A mi no me aparece en la seccion de descargas de firmware, la ultima que me sale es la 4.0.3 ... Sabrias decirme como actualizarlo?? Gracias!!
Hello! It does not appear in the firmware download section, the last one that appears is 4.0.3... Can you tell me how to update it? Thank you!!
🙌🙌🙌
The firmware comes out on May 30th :)
Thank you very much for answering! a hug!
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I need to start back using my MF
Do it!
Are your key pads already wearing out? Dang, I hope that is fixable
It's just cosmetic haha it doesn't affect performance at all.
@@FreeBeat great to hear, thanks for the reply.
I have been trying to find a reason to not like Arturia.
I have the freak and absolutely love it. I have the keystep 37, beatstep, Keylab 61 and over 2000 dollars worth of their software.
They are just showing off at this point. They had me at Microfreak how it was out of the box. With the two latest updates, it's ridiculous for 350
Yeah this is so over the top it's not even funny, my hat is off to them!
What happened to your rate knobs?
I think I've just used them a lot haha.
Yeah, you can’t get enough rate I guess
How do you update without a pc or mac
Cant
Was just about to buy an Elektron Model:Samples, looks like I can do everything I wanted it for (and more!) with this update though. Thank you Arturia!!!! 😅
you still get more different voices and a much better sequencer on the samples. cheers!
the model samples is a multitrack groovebox. There's still a lot of difference between the two products, and they don't really replace each other.
all things I have in other hardware already.
Glad you like the update! Thanks for watching:)
release now 30th May I learn
Correct, just like I said in the description :)
@@FreeBeat ok - missed that!
What the Freak?! 🙃
My thoughts exactly!
h i t g r a i n s 🤪🌿🚬
For watching!
Seriously
Seriously!
ATTENTION MIDI CENTER CRASHES ON UPDATE AND KILLED MY MICROFREAK! STOP USING THAT UPDATE. MY DEVICE IS BROKEN AND DEAD NOW!!!!
Lier, v5 later this year. Stop watching .
I literally said that in the description lol