Bad Gear - Arturia Microfreak - Le Freak

Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world&most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Arturia Microfreak. Is Le Freak a revolutionary hybrid synthesizer or yet another buggy nightmare? Thanks to Klangfarbe for letting me use one of their floor models Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 01:09 Overview Arturia Microfreak 01:17 Buchla - style keyboard 01:47 Oscillators (Mutable Instruments) 02:10 Oscillators, Updates, Vocoder (Arturia) 02:50 Oscillators (Noise Engineering) 03:12 Polyphony/Paraphony 1 03:21 Analog Filter (Oberheim SEM - style) 03:37 Polyphony/Paraphony 2 03:48 Envelopes (ADS, Cycling Envelope), LFO 04:30 Modulation Matrix 04:54 Step Sequencer, Parameter Automation, Spice & Dice 05:33 Arpeggiator 05:40 What else??? (Connectivity, Current Firmware, Bugs) 06:20 Hate 06:42 Jam 1 (Electro Funk) 07:39 Jam 2 (Trap Music) 08:25 Finale (Proto Techno) 08:53 Verdict