Arturia MICROFREAK Experimental Hybrid Synthesizer

The uniquely unpredictable MicroFreak but not as you know it. MicroFreak Vocoder is a peculiar, exceptional instrument that rewards the curious musician. It blends numerous wavetable and digital sound engines with analog filters. It features a unique poly-aftertouch flat keyboard. It adds con-trolled randomness to sequences. This isn’t a revolution, it’s a mutiny.

This out-there little music machine features a versatile digital oscillator so you can create rare and interesting sounds with ease. Modes like Texturer, KarplusStrong, Vocoder, and Superwave give ad-venturous musicians the chance to explore totally new, unheard possibilities. You can even upload your own wavetables. Like having dozens of synths in just one instrument, both wild-eyed newcomers and seasoned pro-fessionals will fall in love with MicroFreak Vocoder’s flexible, powerful synth engine.

With MicroFreak Vocoder’s oscillator modes, variety is the aim of the game. Alongside the 8 native oscillator types, you’ll find a selection of open-source algorithms from modular pioneers Mutable Instruments, as well as a handful of unique modes from LA Eurorack wizards Noise Engineering. En-joy the sonic flexibility of modular, with the same parameter controls and boosted with paraphony, but in a self-contained, performable hardware synth.

Inspired by the trailblazing 12-dB Oberheim SEM filter, you can make MicroFreak’s filter scream or whisper to taste. The filter is state-variable, and can even auto-oscillate!

Record up to four automations, edit notes per step or use the innovative Spice and Dice sequencer functions to find happy accidents. Add randomization to create evolving, original patterns, and vir-tually rewire and reconfigure its signal chain and controls with the 5x7 modulation matrix.

Features

• Synthesizer with 256 preset slots and 224 factory presets
• 14 Digital oscillator with variable mode, including Mutable Instruments Plaits engines and new Vocoder mode
• Analog State Variable Filter, 12dB/octave, resonant, Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass
• ADSR envelope
• Cycling Envelope offering two modes: Envelope, LFO
• LFO with Sync: Sine, Tri, Saw, Square, Random, Slew Random
• Modulation matrix with 5 sources and 7 destinations (3 custom destinations)
• Monophonic or Paraphonic modes - Up to 4 voices
• Chord mode lets you program a chord shape and play it on any note
• Scale Quantise lets you set a specific scale for the white notes to simplify the creative process
• 25-key capacitive keybed with polyphonic aftertouch
• Capacitive touch strip
• Crisp OLED display for editing and parameter values
• Powerful arpeggiator
• Up, Order, Random, Pattern modes
• Spice & Dice Gate randomisers
• 64-step sequencer: 2 patterns per preset, 4 automation tracks per preset
• CV / Gate / Mod outputs
• USB, Clock and MIDI in and out
• 6.35mm master and 3.5mm headphone output