MicroFreak V5 - The Granular DrumFreak! 

Thank you Arturia! Instead of creating the next great device they can sell for a profit, they take a flexible platform like the microfreak and reward their customers with free updates that are transformative and inspiring. Thus creating customers for life! Cheers!

Absolutely incredible. It's not every day that you wake up and a synth you already own has turned into a drum machine overnight

Please be aware that Arturia have delayed the release of the v5 firmware until the 30th in order to fix up some bugs. Also if you like the samples, they are from my own packs which you can get get: oscillatorsink.gumroad.com/ priced as "pay if you want" (which includes free!)

This is amazing. i’ve been looking to get a drum machine, you just reduce my Gas to nothing in 17 minutes of inspiring knob turning. thanks

This update and the new stellar skin are what sold me, honestly don’t know why it took me this long but I’m excited to get lost!

Seems like every 6 months the Microfreak becomes my favorite synth again.

Long time listener, first time caller: this video (and jam!) is utterly brilliant. Thanks for creating it 🙏🏻 (edit: that “crikey” at the autechre moment = priceless 😂)

This is the way to avoid the same old boring beats. Weird is good.

HOT DAMN! 🌶🔥 From around 13:48 to the end is pure madness, and I love it! This is coming from the MicroFreak - are you freakin kidding me?! Can't wait to get me hands on this update.

That's the next Autechre album sorted then ! 🙂

Awesome. Nice dive into the new capabilities of this great bit of kit!

Brilliant! This crossed my mind watching yesterdays vid. To fully flatten out the keyboard to pitch, and theoretically make even slices of drum breaks possible (?!), I found you can use the Cycling envelope and 2 assign slots as an extra offset. 1. Set cycling envelope to 0 rise and fall, max sustain, on run. 2 Set assign slots 1 and 2 to the Cyc Env->Pitch matrix slot. Key/Arp-> Assign 1 @ -100 depth, and Key/Arp Assign 2 @ ~ -70. Totally flat keyboard! Then, In theory Key can then also modulate Sample Start Point (“wave”?) to slice a break that would play without pitching up per key, just maybe?

brilliant, really loved the hit grains section!

Simply excellent on turning the MF into a drum brute 😅 at another level. 👌👌👌

I'm so excited for this update. 😮

Oh yes! Your ‘drum machine’ videos are my favorites. It’s a happy Friday. Have a great weekend everybody!

When you started sequencing i immediately thought of "Robert Armani- Hit Hard" a great techno song of the 90's. Love what youve done to show us here. Thank you !

Wow, that's awesome, looking forward to having this update getting to us mortals to enjoy! Thanks for the amazing vids on this update, looking forward to some more as you experiment with stuffs :)

thanks so much for this - was considering buying one of these as wanted to trigger samples live on stage and you're the only place I found the answer to the question of if you could assign different samples to different keys!

I’m just thinking about the loop of sampling into t’ Morphagene, loading into t’ Freak… Rinse and repeat. Excellent video man, cheers!

INCROYABLE ! We, all of us, now, are knowing/understanding, why, as u r playing into this video, you are smilling at the same time !! Arturia match it again ! again ! again ! with this second video you made, people are going to spend MILLIONS HOURS on MCFK ! I'm sure of that ! MILLIONS HOURS ! ....forgotting to give foods to their pets/animals, forgotting their meet with their boyfriend or girlfriend, or, going to their job and answering to the phone or their e-mails ... ...! A very dangerous firmware here !!!! all is, also, about control possibilties here !!! isn't it ?!

Arturia gave us a super freak drum.machine! Thank you!

Nice update and looks very usable too.

The whole time I was watching your last video I was thinking about trying this exact setup out when I can get my hands on the new firmware haha. Great stuff.

Damn, I got in from work and watched this as a pre-bed head tickler but that beat made me wide awake and want to grab my synths lol 😆

awesome!! i cant wait!!! appreciate your videos on it!!!!

Thanks! I couldn't find any samples so I individually recorded my favourite drum kits from my DAW and exported them one by one as WAV file. It's a bit tedious but it works!

Arturia really pumps out classics left and right, either soft- or hardware. Great presentation!

Merci ! Thks ! Lot's of fun incoming

Man could easily rock a dance floor with that riddim🔈🔈🔈 Pure heat right there🔥🔥🔥 Been looking at this synth for a while now, after having a play on one a few years back when it first landed. Was super impressed with it back then. Am even more so now! So much so that they could have just released this synth to the market as is and it would still be impressive. Go on wid ya bad self MicroSuperFreak 💪🏾

This is just too much fun!

this is very good.considering getting one now

microfeak morphs into almost a 4 voice digitakt - nice

So if Arturia would be so kind as to make it possible to completely turn off the pitch tracking we could have a different sample per key and if we prepared then by pitching then as we want then to sound and put them in the correct order we’d have the possibility of a different note for each key. Oh boy this will be amazing if they do update the range note compression to go to zero.

can't wait to try this with the volca drum idm pd patch

Continuously inspiring

Awesome !!: The first 3 mn ! It makes me think that if we try "to think"... a little bit, we can find some amazing wayS, to ... ... think (and play) with such this "MACHINE"... Merci beaucoup for all your "insiding" tips/tricks ...

Watching this makes me think Arturia need to release a Freakin Drumbrute!

So not only the Bass Station II but now also the MIcrofreak has the AFX mode now :) great jam! I've already used the Microfreak (before v5) for noise percussion, but this is definitely the next level :)

Truly amazing! 😎🙌🥳

They Def deserve more sales from their support. Unfortunately, i returned the Stellar version due to high noise. Bought the older one instead for half the price used hahaha

Great trick, I look forward to trying it. On a side-note, I would like to comment on your use of the Spice function. I see you changing the Spice level each time you ask the machine to make a change to the sequence. Sorry if that was deliberate, but I am not sure that you are using it at its most. Indeed, the way I understand it, the Spice intensity (that you chose through the pitch bend stripe) defines the amplitude of the changes that are made to the sequence. But then, in order to apply changes of that same intensity, you need to press the Dice button. In other words, the Spice parameter lets you define what intensity of change will be applied to a sequence, and each time you press the Dice button, you "roll the dice" to apply a series of such changes to the sequence. With a small value of Spice, each new sequence will differ from the previous one by small changes in the note placements, and with a large value of Spice, large changes of note timing will be applied to each new sequence. Hopes that clarifies a point. My apologies if you knew that already. Keep up sharing great ideas !

This is amazing.

I feel the need for a second Microfreak coming on ! or maybe a third ? Great Demo ,thanks !

Man I was gonna do this when the embargo ended.. kudos lol❤❤

Wow... Just wow.

Awesome!!

ALL HAIL OSCILLATOR SINK THE GR8 SYNTHESIS GOD 🎹👾🔈🔉🔊

damn it's hacky, but so much power. i know i would jam out with this

Great vid! I'm wondering what this update paired with the new Analog Heat +FX would be like up against a Hydrasynth!

Genius!

Hi love this video! Subscribed, thank you so much for this content. Can I ask on what did u base the bank of sounds you added to the Microfreak? Is it a specific library? Thank you one more time!

Was coming to say LOVED YA PREVIOUS vid about the new firmware, but have ya sussed the Type Scan 'Hack' ( i get to play too) ???? and HERE YOU ARE!

This is the way.

So I can get rid of my circuit rhythm and stop saving for a Poly-end Play…. May 30th can’t come soon enough for me and my Microfreak…. 😊

YES!! Thankyou! I was wondering if I could load multisamples (one sample per key like drum kits)on this unit with the version 5 update. Now while this feature which is as old as samplers are, can be very good for drums, I have always related "samplers" with my VOCAL clips. Sooo.. being able to load different vocal clips per key will make this synth faaaar more fun than I could have ever imagined when i first bought my Microfreak back in 2019 when it came out lol!

Nice.

I love you so much

11:11 - Nice!

any news if it will be possible to sample through the microphone input (headsphones output)?

Amazing possibilities! How is your sample put together that you use?

fun ! thx !!!

Thanks a lot for this interesting demonstration. I tried to assign the sample function to the keys but it unfortunately didn’t work for me. Could you tell us, which keys you exactly did activate to get this across? When I am at Key/Arp point and have pressed Assign 1 I cannot select the matrix routing for sample function.

So jealous! I got a microfreak way before they did all this

Great 👍👍👍👍👍❤

How someone who counts „kick 1 2 3“ instead of „kick 2 3 4“ can program such brilliant stuff goes beyond my stuck-up head😮

That offbeat percussive synth/drum noise sounds like a cyber-chimpanzee 😂 🎵 *BOOF-EEEH-DA-BOOF-DA-BOOF-DA-BOOF-DA!…* 🎵 🦾🐵🍌

Bob Harris makes great lofi beats

could you do something similar in a single sample by mapping the keyboard to the start sample point as well rather than the sample pool?

Ty for this, also what outputs to the pc from arturio is it ? Not too clever with that. Anyones help appreciated 🙌

What are the drums samples you used theyre super cool

hype

Hi- how did you get the sampler to load - and then use the grain sampler? I thought the two different “engines” couldn’t be used simultaneously? Basically the first few minutes of the video was very quick for me

By controlling the modulation amount of the sample/type I guess we can mute only some of the drums

I know you, and I knew this was coming. You've done a fantastic job on the opsix and I have all your drum kits as well as synth pack.

I have a key question. Once I have created my sequence of drum sounds, can I get to play on top of it with (for example) a sound from the preset?

Oh yes ,oh yes...

I can’t seem to find Sample as an option in the Key Arp part of the matrix… maybe I have to update again…

sounds similar to the volka drum , however the volca ui suits better to drums

Calm down, Arturia. I’m still working out the last OS update!

i got an sh-4d and was thinking of selling this. maybe not lol

So you can create drum beats with the micro freak synth, right? Billy Bee McConnell. Asking you the question.

i thought you were going to bring in a sample of a drum kit and scan the grains

I could't find v5 on Arturia's site. How can we reach it?

Still waiting for a polyfreak

It seems I do not need a Publison DHM89 after all.

Can you modulate the sample selection with the sequencer's modulation tracks?

imagine shift+master=preset volume.... still waiting for them to add this shortcut! PLZ!

tout ça pour ça...

Does the MicroFreak have an audio in?

Excellent video. Crank you mic up a little bit cause on headphones it can be painful trying to listen to u and the MF clonking away. 😅

I made a follow-up video showing how to take this even further for breakbeat mangling: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wtzsIuFOW7E.html

Freaky stuff.

Whys your microfreak screen so lo-fi?!

This video was part of my decision to buy the MF. - I got the MF a week ago, since then I tried, I read the manual, I watched x YT vids & goodled x times : "How to assign different samples to different keys on the MF" : - n o t h i n g - please, can you point me to a video or the page in the manual? - or somebody?

great video, fyi cant read a thing on your screen, resolution is horrid.

Nice what you can do with that. Though i would rather use a Volca Drum or a LXR02 or a 1010 Blackbox for that.

ATTENTION MIDI CENTER CRASHES ON UPDATE AND KILLED MY MICROFREAK! STOP USING THAT UPDATE. MY DEVICE IS BROKEN AND DEAD NOW!!!!

god damn it! stop whispering. thank you.