10 Basic Types of Synthesis with the Arturia MicroFreak | Reverb 

I love this mans voice. Not too loud and not too soft. It’s the ultimate synth tutorial voice

1- Subtractive: 0:42 2- FM: 4:13 3- Sample-Based: 5:37 4- Wavetable: 6:50 5- Vector: 8:03 6- Additive: 9:05 7- Spectral: 9:54 8- Physical Modeling: 11:14 9- Granular: 12:38 10- West Coast Style: 14:00

wow. I just clicked on this because I'm interested in the microfreak and Im suuuuupernew to making music, haven't even bought my first synth yet. And hearing you explaining what one is able to do with the sound, how to use it, even though I probably understood less than half almost made me cry a couple of times because it's so amazingly beautiful. I'm in awe of how we are able to create with sound in this way. Thank you so much for this video!

First it's Justin Delay and now Tone Jay whats next? Tom Soundgoodizer?

TFW when Tone Jay casually drops the most devastatingly concise explanation of what 'Sustain' actually is and you spend the next 20 minutes sitting on your couch, staring into the middle distance, thinking about how you've been looking at ADSR all wrong for years.

Tone Jay did a great job with this tutorial. Look forward to seeing him doing synth videos again.

excellent demo, it not only shows the capabilities of the microfreak but I learned so much about synthesis from it. Sometimes people throw around jargon but there's not much integrity to what it means or how it's made, this one explains everything so well.

Thank you for the clear and well presented explanations. Learned a lot tonight.

Fantastically done. I like his style of speaking and the information was great.

Really great way of showing what the Microfreak can do! Great job!

Great intro, demo and explanation of the sound sources!

Super clear explanations and not boring at all !

These are some of the most fine sounding patches I ve heard on the freak!

Just a fantastic demo! Thank you!

Very good tutorial.Tons of info an examples.Well done.

Thank you! Super informative video!

Tone is amazing. So enjoyable to listen too. Learned a lot. Thank you 🙏🏽

My man Tone Jay looks like a synthesized Forest Whitaker

Such a clear and defined explanation on synthesis. Thank you!

The last host has to be Reeve Herb.

Excellent video. Thanks!

great great job! Thank you! Great overview of synthesis techniques!

I just got this synth, thanks for the tutorial/review.

Thanks for making these videos

Thanks for this video!

Great video. Well done!

6:53 That rug really ties the room together.

fantastic tutorial. Thanks!

Nice demo, and explanation

Great synthesis overview... The physical modeling I think is one of those I am really looking forward to playing the most. I am supposed to receive my Microfreak today.

Awesome explanation!

This dude just incredible.

Awesome video!!!!!!!

This guy is nerdy as fuck and I love him for it

Nice video, thanks

Everything i've ever wanted. and i just happen to have a minifreak on me! Thanks!!

Thank you!

Thank you for this : )

very good video, make more videos of synthesizers and their uses. greetings from Argentina!

what a great freaking video! where were you a few months ago!? Great stuff! :D

That’s just so awesome. I’m no musician but I’m ordering one of these. It will be easy to add intros and stuff to my video editing.

Nice review of the Freak Tone! ;-)

More microfreak please!

Nice tutorial!

Thanks, really trying to figure out how to make music with devices like these and more,and this seemed like a good start, hard to pinpoint what’s going on in a lot of other videos for me.

Buying one off reverb!

Nice!

Very cool

We’ll done!

The third , being the position in which the exciter excites the resonant body....I have a vivid imagination.

Damn, tight work here... this was some really nice info!

🔥🔥

I want to buy a korg digital but I can't decide. I do like the bladerunner sounds but I also like ambient strings, horns or piano and reverb. Which one would be a good to start with?

Great work. I'll be back.

on the vector synthesis example what is the use for the microfreak? the four waveforms are coming from the dixie. Also, on the sampling example, the microfreak is only working as a midi controller?

Good video, the microfreak is cool but I wouldn't have done a video on types of synthesis to show its features and use some modules to fill in the gaps, I know this is to showcase the microfreaks features there's a lot more to different types of synthesis than what is shown here, I'd rather watch a video series where you guys show different types of synthesis using iconic synths that you sell on reverb where you take time to explain what is really happening instead of this video just basically trying to sell the microfreak to viewers.

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this guy has probably forgotten more about synths than ill ever learn. great vid though i love my microfreak. i get more enjoyment out of it than anything else.

Where's Justin Delay? I like that guy. No offense to you of course this was an awesome video.

Sample and Granular is now in the Microfreak

1:41 John Carpenter ! 1:44 John Carpenter...2:00 average Italian Giallo

Hello... can i work with the microfreak as a midi controller? I mean to work on a virtual synth i the ipad and control it with the microfteak...? Tnx.

whats that string sample at 6:06 ? sounds super familiar

3:17 Talks about the LFO, shows us a close-up of the analog filter controls.

Wave synth not explained very well.....elaborate pls.

Since when were the early DX’s/DX-7 preset synths? Even the PSS570 has a modifiable synth section! Great video otherwise. Back in the day we knew that to sound interesting and not like everyone else with the same synth, we’d have to spend months learning and years honing our sound with a give you synth or synthesis type. Lots of producers used presets because, well, they weren’t synthesists(!) but the DX7 is still a deeply interesting synthesiser today, but you do need a lot of time (largely not an issue back then because most people owned 2 synths tops, and no computer), or a very good visual editor

yo where's my boy William Kirk?

@2:41 Oxenfree? 🤔

I wanna hear more Mozart grains.

I’m surprised at all of the reviews of the $299.00 MicroFreak, that plug into the Mono output with $299.00+++!of software and stomp boxes. I like the MicroFreak, but I think my ~20 year old microKorg has been doing more for a lot less for a long time. It’s worth another look.

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Fking dead at these comments

Seems like a great "toy" to play with :P

What I've learned is that you can't get a job at Reverb if your name isn't an audio pun.

If Mozart was alive today...

His name is "tone" lulz

My name is Jeff Sharp. The ‘F’ is silent.

Every time I see his right arm ...the tattoo freaks me out...

Sounds too tiny

WARNING: this keyboard malfunctions. Getting a hold of Arturia support is very difficult and they have left me hanging for weeks after sending it in to be fixed. I really wish I had bought something that worked instead of this thing. It really seems like a cool keyboard, but don't be fooled by the video and marketing...it is a barely functioning toy that will not hold up in any kind of professional environment.

OMG. The MicroFreak is nothing more than a (digital) wavetable synth with some common modulation options. Yes, it uses subtractive methods, but so do all wavetable synths, and the source oscillators are all digital. Are some "analog modeled"? Ok. Yes. Great. As for FM?! Wow! FM as a CONCEPT is little more than an LFO. The magic of FM comes from complex multi- operator synths with complex algorithms. To say that there's real FM in the MicroFreak is like saying that there's real analog in a JP-8000. Vector synthesis? Come on! Morphing wavetables using 2 dimensional control isn't vector synthesis. The Wavestation, for example, literally transformed digital waveforms in real time NOT using tables. PCM sample manipulation? Ok. Not wavetable. Physical modeling? Please! Start with Karplus- Strong (which isn't here) and you begin to see PM. Sample based? Ok. Sure. But, in reality, at a wave level, wavetable IS sample based synthesis... Therefore, for a short duration, most wavetable synths technically ARE granular...but nobody calls the Blofeld a "granular" synth? Lol! Lastly, I won't even comment on WC other than to say that wavefolding ≠ WC synthesis any more than LP filters = "subtractive". Nice way to sell MicroFreaks, but hardly an honest depiction of synthesis architectures.

This isn't really an educational and technically accurate explanation of different types of synthesis; it just pretends to be until you pull off the Scooby Doo mask and you realize it's just an infomercial for one specific keyboard. Lame.