I'm a Minifreak and So Can You 

if this is the minifreak imagine a macrofreak

I like this post-embargo long view kind of stuff. Anyone can get pumped for a synth on drop date, but it's cool to see if someone still cares after the hype wears off.

What amazing synth, I’m falling in love with the warm an dirty sound. Thanks for the demo.

Love the exploration of these awesome presets. You share so much of your excitement, pride, and sometimes the thrill of rediscovery. I feel like you show the value of the MiniFreak so clearly in this video.

I wasn't sold on the minifreak, but this really changed my mind. There seem to be a lot of sound design options in there. Would love a video on how to actually design some of these things. Especially how to get the expression controls into it. Really cool stuff!

How incredibly good this sounds in different genres is pretty mind blowing

I love your presets! They’ve helped me with my own work a lot already. Great video demonstration, as usual!

Presets: beautifully crafted. Content ID: expertly dodged. Love that Trent sound.

Love seeing how you're rediscovering your own presets. They're really really good. 🌟

I used to own a Microfreak. Loved the sound, wasn't so fond of hardware. Purchased a Minifreak VST as soon as it became available for everyone, and I'm a happy freak now. Really enjoy your presets, Jeremy, especailly the pads.

This video is like a proof of concept for an album I would put in my main rotation for 20 years

Nice to see a RMR review of this one. I liked your comment about how basically everyone in this community has already reviewed it on YT ha ha. But once again you have your own take on it and your audience like me appreciates seeing / hearing your take on it. Cool presets. Thanks for posting this!

This thing is a future classic. I will order one as soon as possible. All the best Jeremy!

I use a Microfreak that I already find incredible. The Minifreak pushes things even further it's surreal. We live in a blessed era for synth musicians.

I’m constantly learning new approaches with my Minifreak; great video here!

My girlfriend got me a Minifreak for Christmas last year. This thing is soooo good! I didn’t realize until this video you’d made any presets. Thank you for doing a badass job and making such informative videos. This is my first actual hardware synth.

Very nice video about 'The Frog' Jeremy🙂 This is such an amazing and versatile piece of gear for the price, but not only that, just an amazing synthesizer with LOADS of possibilities that will never bore you. Feel honoured to have created a couple of factory presets next to your ones 😎

SO glad you're covering this awesome synth! I promise not to buy one... 😬

Dude! I've been gravitating to your patches ever since I grabbed the minifreak. Excellent stuff!

Funky Klav has been labelled as "Percussive Keys" in the Arturia MiniFreak V plugin, which makes more sense. Nice sounds! Thanks for contributing these.

Expertly crafted!!!

awesome demo!

Great patching Jeremy. I was lucky to get early but im in euro and have had an eager ear to the ground for an expanded Microfreak wxkeys. You got great music taste as well 🎉 Hope you guys are enjoying the rural life... Justxwait, it gets better n better as you become acquainted with the nature on whole new levels while immersed. Congrats on the new pup too 👍

These presets are awesome!

Great vid. I can see one in my future. Love your passion when you hear something you like.

Best Minifreak video. You just made me buy the thing!

Fantastic video! Love my MiniFreak, had it since mid November and every day I find out new things to try out! I really hope they'll also make a VST of the MicroFreak...

AAAAH I ACTUALLY PLAYED SEVERAL OF THESE IN A GUITAR CENTER AND HAD NO IDEA YOU MADE THEM! I was waiting for the nice folks to process the gear i was selling (line was long) and jammed out on destro and 5th element for like 40 minutes !!

Great presets jeremy! Specially the transpiano!!!!!!

Hey, a useful review just when I'm thinking about buying one of these! Dope! :D

love the pads and the trans piano is just pure fire! thanks, Jeremy

For those of us who don't have enough space for more hardware, it's also available as a £99 VST. Which is nice.

I already love my microfreak, but hearing all of that, and seeing how well everyone has taken to it, I guess I'll be figuring out a minifreak soon enough. Thank you for showing your presets and showing what a cool range you can get into with them!

Big M83 vibes on the last patch - super cool machine and patches!

Oh man! I didn't know you made presets for this, I inadvertently used a bunch of yours during jamuary :) Very good stuff!

Good stuff. I think this is way more useful to the folks who bought this, plus those looking than the day 1 deluge of template reviews.

I can’t wait for the Rick James signature edition “Superfreak” to come our in 2035.

Definitely need one of these soon-ish

A fantastic demonstration of how powerful is this synth. I have the MikroFreak and I wasn't sure if it would be redundant to get the Mini but they seem they can be a great companion to each other.

This is dope. I have a Micro running through a Beebo, and it is super fun. Highly recommend for folks that want the sounds without having the time or talent to do all that programming.

Really stoked you have patches in the factory bank. Had to rewind to make sure I heard you correctly!

That'll make some awesome heavy Prodigy style music... nasty distortion 🤯

The synth I didn’t think I needed but recently purchased, about 3 min after watching this video.. 👍

Ok stop already. I will buy it 😂. Brilliant sounds. You have talent 😂

Excellent video… I just wanted to add that you can quantize any signal in the Wavestate as well with the mod-processors or whatever they’re called. I’ve got a patch where I quantized the pitch bend for example.

These presets are inspiring. I’m going to go take them apart! Also I love the little red shadow on the keys. Yup.

Daz the first time I seent a real man treat sat freaky synth like a Man. Well done amigo. I didn't know it had beats up in derr?

18:40 I want more of this heartbreak

I'm glad you made this video because even as someone who's bought a ton of arturia software, I kinda ignored the wave of videos that came out about the Minifreak a few weeks back because it looked like a million other basic analog synths. And it's not that AT ALL. Judging by this video it's one of the most interesting I've heard in a long time. Now the question is whether to get the actual keyboard or just the VST, hmmmm...

I've been messing around with just the VST and loving it! Would be curious to hear your thoughts on the solo VST vs. the hardware

Arturia make some lovely stuff and the Minifreak is stellar.

Wowwwwww at 8m that preset is DEADLY.

The VST is great. Don’t see a huge need for the hardware version. You can get the vst without paying 4x the price for the hardware. The filter is analog rather than the digital vst filter but otherwise the sound is identical. I had the microfreak before but I sold it to get the minifreak’s VST and it was 100% worth it imo. The build quality of the microfreak was pretty cheap anyway so I didn’t see a huge appeal for keeping the physical synth around if I can do everything it can do and more in a VST.

I love the minifreak V. Snagged it with V collection 9 on the cheap.

Yoooo, k-strong for CLAV sounds? That’s BRILLIANT. I know a guy who might be into making use of that…

So much to say after seeing this. All the feels! This synth simply blows me out of the water. Thank you so so much for this amazing demo. Gorgeous presets, Jeremy. Right at 20:00. Oh my goodness. And 21:24 sold me on this machine. Ever since I heard the "African Qween" preset on the Polybrute I've been hoping for something less expensive where you could do kick-a** arpeggiation. I think this is it!

I love you Jeremy

Hey there! Awesome video about the MiniFreak. I only have the VST but I’m loving it. Since I’m new to synths, could you explain how you set your macros to be able to change the brightness of the sound?

*holy molies*

damn I haven't paid much attention to this synth and maybe i should have! lots of coverage here. Would be an incredible first piece of hardware for beginners too that said I am not buying one for myself, i just don't need it! I know a few people who might though haha

Nice! I love my polybrute for all of the modulation I can get and open things up! Now I want this dang thing too lol nice patches

I also like the merfox thumbnail 😁

Jeremy, the VST IS generally available now. Not just for hardware owners.

I get that presets can serve the function of showing what a synth can do, but honestly I vastly prefer presets that are more like alternative 'init' patches that can be tweaked. I wonder if there are preset packs like that for the minifreak.

Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah vibe @ 15:00 cheers mate!

Heartbreak is my favorite patch

Good stuff, thanks for the video! I honestly kinda wish the Minifreak was available as a desktop module. Not a lot of space for keyboard synths in my apartment.

This definitely takes the crown from the microKORG for a compact affordable first synth. More knobs, more intuitive controls, and the menu-grid in the top left communicates things better than the Korg’s manual lookup table front. As much as I love my microKORG, and feel no real need for this; if I was just getting started in this year this would definitely be my first synth.

For the price I think this sounds great. To me it sounds better than a Hydrasynth Explorer. I think at the end of the day though I'd rather only spend 1/3 of what a Minifreak costs and just get Arturia Pigments 4.

Apparently Arturio go release da Crakin minifreak software version without the need of the hardware and because you guys suggested it makes me wanna join the TUBE CULT 🏆🗽

Dude, how do you not get one? Incredible

This thing sounds massively hugely big

Ah so good. You should do a Trent sound design class.

The micro was a lifetime of exploration. I guess this is made for afterlife usage.

😍😍😍

looks like my request has been answered haha, only 9 hours after the comment too!

I live in a giant bucket.

Glad to see a longer video on the minifreak that isn't on embargo day 😁

I can hear a lot of Pigments DNA in there. Which is only a good thing. I got it for 99 bucks add-on to the v9 collection and it’s awesome.

My understanding is that the presets are the reason why Roland d50 is held in such high regard after so long. Some people near worship the guy who created some of those presets lol.

Good synth. Good presets. Good Jeremy. Edit: no K.K. Slider patch, 0/10

Hi Jeremy thanks for the video. For a first ever synth, would you recommend the minifreak over the microfreak? Considering I can afford any one but don't plan to buy any other gear for a long while. Is the minifreak worth going the extra mile? Thanks.

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.

16:15 sounds totally like something from Fez. Call the preset Fedora 😀

I still have issue deciding between this and Hydrasynth Explorer 😢

Pleasing Colbert reference in the title.

You bless us peasants with your sound design me lord 😂

I don't really understand arturia's launch of this device - nothing was ready, no manual, vst was still under development, etc. Not sure why they launched before they were ready. I did buy the actual minifreak hardware and love it, so I guess it doesn't matter that much. When they update this with a wavetable oscillator it will be amazing too. Main wish is the return of the capacitive keyboard (I loved that thing on the microfreak) or MPE - that would have made this thing even more expressive. Still trying to figure out if having a minifreak means its time to sell the microfreak or not. Even though the minifreak is without a doubt better, there's something about the tiny microfreak that I love, and I'm very comfortable with it at this point.

Reminder to myself. Make 2 voice samples of Jeremy pronouncing the words “huge” and “pump”.

I don't know... but this freaky synth doesn't move my feet, as there are more than few others in the same price range that I enjoy more. Like Korg Modwave and OpSix, or those Modal or PWM synths. Not to mention various soft vintage synth collections from Arturia or UVI.

I get D50 vibes from this video

It's either that or stay in the dungeon masonic Hall?

Any other synths around this price that you'd recommend? It would be my first synth in like 15 years, and I'm really wanting to get back into it

Any thoughts on how the minifreak stacks up against the minilogue(not monologue) or maybe microkorg? I'm looking at adding a decent expressive synth to get into more live playing.

I got the minifreak a year ago (nov 2022) I don't see your patches, maybe I need to upgrade the firmware? I've never updated it, so maybe thats why.

This or the Hydrasynth Explorer? I'm looking for a compact synth with keys to use beside a groovebox for a small live setup

If you act now you can get two minifreaks 4 da Price of one fo just, $99.99 pesos? (Software that is)

Plaits is pronounced like plat with short vowel sound. Like the hairstyle. get it cause it is a sequel to Braids.

at 1: 42... I have to stop you right there. You are a little too humble or maybe just too familiar with the scope you have to create something new. That juicy sound .... well.... I could write a song around that. I want more new ground. Sound design is one of the final frontiers of music. Keep up the great work.

Damn o got Catfished by this thumbnail