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MicroFreak Firmware 5.0 - Samples and Granular Processing! Full Walk-through.

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The MicroFreak truly is the gift that keeps on giving! This huge firmware update brings sample playback to the mighty little synth along with 3 different granular engines for processing, stretching and mangling the samples. Join me for an in-depth walk through these new features.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:09 - New Feature: Envelope Snap Mode
02:59 - New Feature: Random Key/Arp Mode
06:05 - Introducing the Sample Modes
07:03 - Managing Samples in MIDI Control Centre
10:47 - Selecting Samples
11:16 - Sample Select in the Mod Matrix
12:55 - Introducing the "Sample" Oscillator
13:40 - "Sample": Explaining looping
16:24 - "Sample": Reversing samples
17:34 - "Sample": Modulating start time
19:13 - Introducing the "Scan Grains" Oscillator
23:04 - "Scan Grains": Time-stretching drum loops
24:03 - "Scan Grains": Density control
26:41 - "Scan Grains": Chaos control
28:58 - "Scan Grains": Building a patch
30:58 - Introducing the "Cloud Grains" Oscillator
34:17 - "Cloud Grains": Tempo-synced time stretching
36:49 - "Introducing the "Hit Grains" Oscillator
37:32 - "Hit Grains": the Shape Control
39:50 - "Hit Grain": Bouncing Ball patch
42:44 - Closing Thoughts
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8 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 298

@gurninkelpies Год назад

As someone who doesn't have thousands to spend on gear, i'm grateful for how much value is getting packed into this little machine!

@OscillatorSink Год назад

The continued support of microfreak as a platform is really admirable!

@nerfytheclown Год назад

As someone who has now spent thousands on gear over the last few years; i could not agree more. My $300 Model: Cycles cannot even begin to create the kind of awesome reactionary sound-fields that the Micro comes with out the box! 😂 (But it's still amazing)

@88keyz Год назад

Agreed

@sub-jec-tiv Год назад

@@nerfytheclown Model:Cycles is excellent for making fm percussion.. but this little bastid is great at so many things!

@nerfytheclown Год назад

@@sub-jec-tiv yeah it's fun but it barely escapes being a toy. I just hope it's as quality as it seems, and doesn't end up "a Casio on a plastic beach" too soon.

@Jengalese Год назад

I love that I can buy a piece of gear and new features are added throughout the life of the device. Cool time to get into synthesis

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Arturia treating the Microfreak as a platform for new ideas and features is one of the biggest blessings to the inexpensive end of the synth market.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Please note: I was informed this morning by Arturia that this firmware is not being released now until the 30th of May to give them time to fix bugs, but that it's still being announced today. Obviously with a little more notice I would have edited the video, but there was simply no way for me to get that done. Sorry for the disappointment of having to wait, but hopefully this whets your appetite!

@awpMusic1 Год назад

ah! that's why I can't find it on their website!

@jordans5218 Год назад

Thank you

@synthphilosophy Год назад

Looking forward and the anticipation on its own sometimes brings more joy than the actual thing anyway. We have something to look forward to. This update will fit perfectly in my new workflow. Thanks a lot for the information, as always great content. Much

@JayKaufman Год назад

I saw this and immediately went to update mine, only to find the 'coming soon' banner for the MicroFreak product page. I am much disappoint! Haha.

@grandmasterjo1 Год назад

Hello Jeremy The MF is beginning to sound like the microcosm Would it be redundant to buy the Microcosm at the moment ?

@jonprudhomme7694 Год назад

Everytime I think I have reached peak freak, Arturia drops new features. Very excited to give this a spin!

@Usul Год назад

I am surprised to see this. A typical company would have reserved major upgrades like this for only the most recent product line offerings (e.g. the Minifreak). To see this on the Micro is incredibly satisfying. It feels like Arturia really cares about their customers by continuing to provide additional value long after the purchase has been made. They could have easily just done a cash grab and put all the R&D dollars for this feature in to a Micro 2 version that would require users to buy a whole new unit to get this capability. I keep buying more and more Arturia stuff. Announcements like this make me glad to be a customer. Can't wait for the release.

@olldomu5790 Год назад

yeah this vid made me say WTF 5 firmware upgrades, thats some great care for the customer. ive only got a keystep but yeah im gonna be supporting arturia a lot more. their initial usage of mutables logo and branding without permission (they obv didnt need permission for the oscillator code as its open source) but im totally over my beef with the noise engineering oscs added and fucking five firmware updates

@lorrenaelliott161 7 месяцев назад

I read the "about’ section on the Arturia page while I was doing the update and THESE 2 GUYS are true pioneers… they do this for the love … they get the cash from the software stuff I think… I am officially in love with Arturia …. They are both classically trained musicians AND digital sound design experts. … I can’t wait to see what they come up with next…

@CiabaMusic Год назад

Things you didn't know to want in life: Hologram Microfreak Those grains engines would have been more than enough for a proper firmware update, and then there's a different envelope mode, thise crazy key s&h, and samples! The folks @ Arturia really hit that out off the park, once again! "Everyone needs a Microfreak (and an Ms70cdr to go with it)

@sonicimperium Год назад

Wow, thanks Arturia for continuing to give us these gifts! And thanks Sink for all the demos!

@IpfxTwin Год назад

Fantastic news and an awesome demonstration! This synth is the gift that just keeps giving!

@els1f Год назад

I love Arturia!😭🙌 I don't ever say I love a company, but y'all are SO BADASS with these updates! 👏🔥🔥

@caeliachapin5317 Год назад

Oh hell yeah! I was hoping for another update, but was thinking it probably wouldn't happen. Thanks for this!

@krazywabbit Год назад

I appreciate these kind of updates vs a new paint job. Thank for the demo.

@rodrigolaporte274 Год назад

I bought one when it came out. Then sold it. And a couple years later, seeing how Arturia improved it, I bought it again, and I couldn't be more happy about it

@rayderrich Год назад

I just pre-ordered the Stellar edition of the MicroFreak and look forward to some summer sound exploration. Thanks as always OS.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

I hope you enjoy it!

@chitlun Год назад

Astonishing what they keep coming up with for this little blighter! I love the fact I can sequence my modular with it too. I'm a big fan of the more snappy envelope. Cheers for a great vid Mr OS.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

I'm a snappy envelope advocate too - it will be on by default for most of my patches. Even at longer decay times it gives a pleasing "acoustic" response.

@FreddieShreddieTV 11 месяцев назад

think this might be my new favourite channel. thanks so much. I am now an intermediate user of this synth now. im using it with the roland j-6 (I cant play chords well) its huge with that combo

@petri.. 9 месяцев назад

Was looking for a nice cheap synth and remebered that I had seen this odd little synth in a lot of videos that I hadn't paid attention to and did not know the name of. Now I know that it's name is Arturia Microfreak and it seems to be an incredible piece of gear. I really love the fact that they keep on updating this affordable little music box! Getting mine tomorrow! 🥳❤️

@bilonggrisimmeri Год назад

This does the same as my Roland V-SynthXT, yet sounds completely different. MicroFreak is delightfully raw and glitchy, AND the menu system looks less "divey", despite the Roland having a bigger screen. Atruria are amazing value for money and definitely leading the field.

@dreamsofwidnes8949 Год назад

absolute quality mate. Really clearly explained, top job!

@alonsoroman4907 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for going in such a detail on everything!

@sub-jec-tiv Год назад

Thanks for making this video! Love your channel, keep up the great work!

@TheLordcasio Год назад

FINALLY!! A relevant vid about the update (vs. "what me and my wife are doing"-bs). Thank you for keeping it clinical.

@MyWorstEnemyIsMyself Год назад

This is incredible!!! this new feature will be an amazing feature to dig in, on my future music releases, thank you Osc Sink for this wide and in depth review about this new update, your content as usual es top notch!!!

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Cheers!

@dustyaudio Год назад

Every time I think I’m going to sell this thing… just wow. Thanks for the walkthrough

@ForecastGrim Год назад

Lmao same. Pretty sure it’s never going anywhere at this point.

@teckno_senpai Год назад

loll seriously. i was testing the waters to potentially downscale my setup but NOW?? MicroFreak is going NOWHERE... it's forever GOATED lol. value/quality/feature ratio is just off the charts!

@MattJacques Год назад

Exactly - was assuming I'd dump the Micro for the Mini but at this point the Micro has some legit functionality the Mini doesn't!

@mmmdananananone Год назад

This update is brilliant. I am so glad I bought a Microfreak 3 years ago; I still feel like I'm only scratching the surface of what it can do. The only bugbear for me is the keyboard which has become very glitchy, but I can play it with a MIDI controller for a more satisfying feel.

@humanprogram Год назад

Sounds amazing! Great overview! Dying to get my hands on this, thanks for the deep dive. I’d recently been running MicroFreak thru Syntakt’s effects, and it looks like they’ll be even better friends soon

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Very good friends, especially when you start midi sequencing all of the CV on the microfreak!

@cornishwavesmusic Год назад

Still great to hear you do this Sink even if early, excitement building

@antichicmusic Год назад

wow, do you guys realise, Arturia basically brought an almost entire ensoniq eps 16+ asr 10 wave boy trans waves grain manipulation sampling feature in an update. I was waiting for years for this type of feature to reemerge in a hardware machine. Amazeballs!

@DesiLofi Год назад

Listen to Kayne West unreleased mixtape he did in 1997 it’s in RU-vid he did that with a ensoniq, I got a MC707 and if I wanted to do hip hop sampling like Kayne is that possible now? I always wanted a Microfreak , finally gonna get oneb

@antichicmusic Год назад

@@DesiLofi hi, not sure about the mc707s features, but I think what you are referring to is classic sample lifting off records or other sources, i.e. crate digging. This mostly involves straight sampling and rearranging short beats or loops by repitching at lower or higher keys and or rearranging snippets to make new loops and riffs from otherwise known recordings without going into the granular level. Although there are some artist that took it to extremes. I think an Akai MPC would be a suitable modern day device what you would be after. Very quick for chopping rearranging chops and beats.

@AntlerBranching Год назад

ooph! oh, hell yeah! am so excited about this. thanks, as always, for such a thorough walk-through. 🖤

@OscillatorSink Год назад

You're welcome!

@victorroberts4637 Год назад

❤ Wow! This is such an awesome update! And awesome demo! Micro freak is the best investment I’ve ever made :)

@LandonBalk Год назад

This thing just keeps getting cooler!

@cheapnoiseinthehouse5578 Год назад

Man! Arturia is killing it!

@RJJNY Год назад

Thanks so much for this video, has proved extremely helpful. The new possibilities are so vast as to be almost incomprehensible, appreciate your ability to both comprehend them and explain to those of us a little slower on the uptake. I had no problem with the update using the latest version of Midi Control Center on a Mac, but the Microfreak did start behaving weirdly at one point while playing around with samples - resolved after switching it off and on again. Would be so helpful to have an option to turn off the keyboard pitch entirely to allow a set of samples to be played from multiple keys without pitch shifting, hope that can be added in a future firmware update (unless there's a way I've missed). My compromise has been to pre-shift the pitch of each sample before importing.

@peterjessop1878 Год назад

Now this is a nice surprise on a Wednesday afternoon.

@pthelo Год назад

I'm 40 seconds in and I can tell this is a MAJOR update!

@Curious_Skeptic Год назад

First amazing update on any machine this year!!

@rainbow_mess Год назад

Plugging in the microfreak and then getting 'no updates' is one of the tragedies of my life. Sounds amazing though!! Thanks for giving it a full walkthrough - can't wait for it to release on the 30th :)

@lachiebradshaw6617 Год назад

Haha! Same!!! Released on the 30th and not today.

@85bryanc Год назад

I am blown away. What is happening in the synth world! What other product can you buy where manufacturer actually improves the existing product over time. We live in a throw away society so to see things like this and the updates that elektron is pushing to their devices seems unheard of. This truly fills my heart with joy. I can't wait to get my hands on this update 😍

@DonSmiths Год назад

Synthstrom Audible's Deluge is another shining example of a high quality electronic instrument manufacturer. Frequent firmware updates to an already amazing instrument and they're even doing hardware retrofits for their updated OLED displays - and they just announced open sourcing their firmware. Another incredible company (like Arturia). Totally agree with you about being filled with joy. Real proud of the people in these companies.

@G.Man- Год назад

@@DonSmiths Let's hope InMusic & Co don't end up buying them out...

@artephank Год назад

Amazing. Now Arturia, port it to Mini :) BTW, they are marketing geniuses. Prime example how to make previous generation not obsolete. And they included sample start and loop modulation - which most modern hardware samplers are lacking (unfortunately)

@anonymoushuman8344 Год назад

The way they stagger the new firmware features, it seems Arturia is using the micro to help market the mini and vice versa. They're hoping people who have one or the other will buy and keep both.

@artephank Год назад

@@anonymoushuman8344 exactly. Marketing masterclass.

@videolandlubber Год назад

Brilliant walk-through! Thank you!

@larsfrosznielsen3536 Год назад

Thanks a lot for going through the new things

@OscillatorSink Год назад

You're welcome!

@mikemeengs5720 Год назад

Great video...thanks! (This video is probably getting tons of plays right about now!)

@grainyday Год назад

freaking hell you released the video faster than Arturia . by 25 minutes :)))) amzing stuff !

@MattJacques Год назад

So awesome! But no fair not dropping it today... happy to work through the bugs and have a 5.1 come out May 30th! 😆

@QuantumKatmusic Год назад

thankyou for this walkthrough, everyones making videos blabbing about how great it is and no one is showing how to utilize any of it, so thankyou for taking the time to make something usefull, content creators these days...so excited to have something new to make a video with, so much oversaturation, nice to find something usefull

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Thank you! A lot of people don't seem to have the patience for more technical/in depth demos, and I get that, but I try to make videos that I'd want to watch and that I'd find useful.

@chinchillas Год назад

I've been wantin a sampler with an analog filter, especially a granular one. this is so cool

@thewistfulsnail Год назад

Really atmospheric tones with this new update! Can imagine this being perfect for ambient and lofi music. The drum samples mangling could be great in dnb and dubstep

@OscillatorSink Год назад

I will be going predictably ambient with this update for sure!

@theaudioeng Год назад

Can’t wait for the Mini Freak port for us Mini guys! 🎉

@olldomu5790 Год назад

youve got a voice as soothing as mylar melodies. so relaxing. great video. need a freak

@beatnikcafe Год назад

I think I have had the MF from almost the beginning or it belonged to a friend before he gave it to me, but it was well worth the price and would still be today, in my opinion Arturia has perfectly balanced the release of a new product with significant updates to continually add more value. I hope this translates to new sales of the Minifreak and Microfreak and also increases brand loyalty among their many customers. I for one think very highly of their products and approach to software and hardware design. As also, this was a wonderful and inspiring review/demo. I hate to admit but even though I think the Microfreak is amazing I still have considered letting it go, mainly because I like to keep my setup as minimal as possible. The added oscillators and sample playback will be another reason I won’t be getting rid of it anytime soon.

@FloChai Год назад

What an exciting news. Can’t wait for the 30th❤

@tangentpuppet Год назад

Omg wow sooo cool! Can't wait until this update is released.

@wallygator57190 Год назад

Was already awesome gets marvelous now! It's one of my favorite gear.....

@jeffryarchambeau5441 Год назад

I bought a second Microfreak for keyboard-split goodness instead of a Minifreak. I know it's not the same... the Microfreaks are MORE! Especially with this update.

@db3944 Год назад

Wow. So its a sampler now? What a gift!!

@OscillatorSink Год назад

It sure does!

@randommcranderson5155 Год назад

its a sample player, not a sampler

@mister36 Год назад

The visualization of the loop parameter was very handy.

@annother3350 Год назад

Great sound at the end there!

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Thank you! It was essentially a variation of the patch I showed in the Cloud Grains section - sounds like this just fall out of these new modes.

@xii226a 9 месяцев назад

Oh My Krishna this is too crazy good I can't even THANK YOU ARTURIA ❤

@tantzeknut Год назад

Just an awesome update. Looking forward to release date

@benoitgoncalves5026 Год назад

Such nice explanation, thank you

@whirrings Год назад

This is very cool, thanks for demo, can't wait to dig in - at the end of the month! 😀☹😆😩😂

@ParadiseFound909 Год назад

Incredible !!

@HenritheHorse Год назад

Might finally buy it after this update!

@infn8loopmusic Год назад

I am so excited for this. What in the world could be better than new free toys for my favorite toy 🤣👋

@Turbo_TechnoLogic Год назад

Jeeez I'm gonna check the Midi Control Center every day hoping they release it earlier than 30th May :D

@wiskybiz Год назад

In the top right corner above the save and utility buttons are written the words 'Grain de folie'. Translated from french it means 'Grain of madness'. Quite fitting. (There may be a black sticker mysteriously covering these words.)

@treetopjones737 Год назад

"We all go a little mad sometimes." - Norman Bates

@jimistixxdrums Год назад

Thanks so much for your videos. Respect to the NIN

@OscillatorSink Год назад

I had to do it (badly, and incorrectly).

@GOICOBA Год назад

That manual is gonna be a monster after this update :D

@genmce Месяц назад

I’m very much enjoying your mf videos, thank you!

@alban6101 Год назад

Wahou !!! I'm french and i mean..., i'm so proud of ARTURIA ! You can imagine it easily, ... * I Like your videos about Microfreak insider... ...ing, if i could say.. As i'm an intuitive person, sometimes, i was sure Arturia will enhance this "machine"... And it's here, again, just after the MiniFK

@liquidlimbs Год назад

Amazing...🚀

@InkyDaCaT Год назад

Drum loop it epic😂🙌 thanks you😉💗🌟🙌

@grandmasterjo1 Год назад

Who said Christmas comes once a year 😂 With Arturia and Santa Claus like Osc Sink the gifts keep coming. Thank you Arturia the MF suddenly turns into a better beast. Thank you Osc Sink for the over view of this magical update. ❤❤❤❤

@tr606 Год назад

This is the very best news

@martijnvandervelde2166 Год назад

I cannot wait for Arturia to release an update that will allow for sampling internal sounds or external sounds via the microphone making this a true standalone and on-the-go machine.

@jordans5218 Год назад

More slap! By far my favorite music machine.

@SebastianGramsss Год назад

Thank you !!!

@profitsandloss Год назад

I hope this makes it to Minifreak!

@KyleBartReidFilm Год назад

Yea! Just bought one.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

I am crossing all of my fingers. The possibilities with layering oscillators with samples + the built in effects are mouth-watering!

@profitsandloss Год назад

@@OscillatorSink Mouth watering indeed!

@fallprecauxionsmusic Год назад

eeeeeeep!! I'm so excited & I just can't hide it!! I'ma keep my microfreak 'cause I bleep I likey!! ooooh, yeeeaah!!

@falazarte Год назад

Just wow!

@night_speed Год назад

Wow that's awesome. So now it basically has AFX mode like the Bass Station II in a roundabout way. Or sample flip on the Circuit.

@geraldhenrickson7472 Год назад

>>>THANK YOU AURTURIA!

@a11pu1poj Год назад

Well this is exciting! excited for the release!!

@pongtrometer Год назад

I’ve wet my pants before you even talked about the sampling…. Snappy percussive random goodness…. Ps are you gonna do a drum kit walkthrough with the synth. Gr8 overview as per usual.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

(check my newest video 😉)

@pongtrometer Год назад

@@OscillatorSink you DON! Topman much thanks in advance, gonna check it now 👾🎹

@halcyonwinds1970 Год назад

I’ve been wanting a MF since it came out but this last update finally compelled me to get one. I’m pretty sure my subconscious just took over for a few minutes and made the purchase without my conscious consent. 😂 I’m not mad though. Can’t wait for it to arrive!🎉

@Spurgte Год назад

Be prepared for extensive troubleshooting because the microfreak is far from a plug and play device

@hughchapman5319 Год назад

gotta love the freak!

@jzno Год назад

Best sNth I EVER BOUGHT! I was always wishing for samples and now granular on top: OH MY GOODNESS!!! It would be great if we could record samples into it via TRRS...guess it's not possible?

@OscillatorSink Год назад

It's not possible in this version, and I would imagine that the re-encoding of the data might be a bit too heavy to be done on the microfreak itself... But then I didn't ever imagine we'd have sample playback so... Who knows?!

@valley_robot Год назад

The only synth I own , sold my room full of gear , I have the freak and an MPC one , more than enough for me

@eyeball226 Год назад

I never would've expected this. Assumed it wouldn't have enough memory for reasonable sample playback.

@baqcasanke Год назад

Right? Being able to affect them real time with the filter and mod matrix is dope ❤

@VII89 Год назад

im watching this with my jaw dropped. Anyone who does not have a microfreak is fucking up. I am even considering to buy a second one to stash it away so i can make sure i have a backup in 10 years, should anything happen to my trust microfreak. I have a lot of amazing pieces of gear...OB6, Rytm MK2, Microcosm, etc....but the microfreak BY FAR takes the cake when it comes to versatility and value for money. Incredible, legendary machine! Thanks Arturia (and i am NEVER a brand-fanboy).

@diarx1 Год назад

Very cool! Hoping one day we might also be able to sample direct through the mic, or with a line in adapter of some kind?

@treetopjones737 Год назад

Line in would be better quality.

@baqcasanke Год назад

It has no line in. But sampling via the mic would still be dope for granular synthesis

@stevewright8201 Год назад

I was just about to sell my microfreak. now im gonna have to get it back out of its the box !

@eyeball226 Год назад

This sample mode seems perfect for SNES style samples (very short, basically just attack+loop). I'm definitely going to rip some instruments from Secret of Mana.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

Hell yeah.

@TheMinecraftbud1 Год назад

Honestly im kinda hyped just for the ability to run any sample through an analog filter

@85bryanc Год назад

That is genius! Might be the thing I do when I get my hands on this update. Cheers!

@eyeball226 Год назад

@@OscillatorSink Just looked up the specs and it's even 32kHz sample rate for the base pitch of the samples (which is also what the SNES sound chip used).

@sub-jec-tiv Год назад

LA Synthesis pan floot baby!!

@KiR_3d Год назад

Very cool update, yeah! It's interesting, could they add some simple internal fx to MicroFreak? I think that here is enough CPU and memory for that. Anyway this update is a great example for other synth developers! Elektron doesn't makes us glad that much about updates )) Behringer's approach is strange (a lot) about this topic: DeepMind's Firmware is somewhere between cool and not ready yet. Although it's pretty cool synth (for thattime at least).