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Can we just start calling you a Professional Synthhead Jimmy Rustler? I mean, it isn't easy to rustle me about my purchases, but you came pretty darn close.
Velcum to baad geer, da show dat is now about brand new stuff that was only released a few veeks ago... At first glance this synth hasn't been out long enough for me to know it is actually bad geer. But, vell to be honest, zerr isn't any geer viv vobbly buttons that I haven't already laid to vaste... Next veek the UB-Xa, vich hasn't even been released yet 😮 ... 😂 (No, I don't own a minifreak or micro freak)
Any true Bad Gear fan knows that if you truly watch an episode, it takes 1/2 an hour to view. Edit: I'm so happy to read I'm not the only "meme pauser" here. Instead of feeling like it's only me doing this, it's meme.
Haha, indeed! I watch 1 times through for the synth review. Than dissect piece by piece for the memes haha. Still haven't found a way to properly trace the origin of the video in the final jam thought
I bought one as a 50th birthday present for a friend. Thought I’d give him a chuckle by programming some sounds before I gifted it. I loved the synth. I gave him a Starbucks gift card instead and kept the synth. Am I a bad person 😮?
Why is "Bad Gear" the series that shows every synth in the best possible light? Florian has a gift for making bad gear sound good and good gear sound amazing. Keep it up! Watching these videos is a highlight of my Monday morning procrastination.
The MiniFreak sounded thick. Certainly it's a strong competitor in its price range with state of the art features. Thanks again for another great show!
I have no idea why ppl say its thin and has no bass. They just playing with the init patch? I have the MF as my first hardware synth and love it. I get that its no moog mini with bass tones but its also the price of a loaf of bread and a pack of cigarettes in northern Canada
I was between MiniFreak and Hydrasynth for my first "real" synth (upgrading from Volcas). Both are great options and now I need a Bad Gear for the Hydra!
It’s my first polyphonic hardware synthesizer btw! For someone mostly working with VST’s up till now, it is a great way to step out of “the box”, and experience how intuitive a deficated hardware interface can be, without losing the flexibilty of digital synthesis. My next one will probably be the Korg Minilogue XD, or a (second hand) Prologue, to finally dive deeper into “true” polyphonic analogue synthesis (the PolyBrute remains out of my budget for now, unfortunately). Have you looked into the Prologue already? Should be an interesting piece of gear for your channel as well. ;)
@@AudioPilzwhat do you consider "GUT GEAR"? It would be nice to see instruments that you really think are good... I mean... I own a lot of the Bad Gear but it works for me and the kind of music that I produce ;)
This is why I love your show. I haven't given this thing any thought since the initial launch. Sounds really good. I also regret selling my MS-2000B. 🥺
I bought the Minifreak a month ago after watching dozens of videos on it and the competitors -- to me it came down to the Hydrasynth or Mini. My tipping point was the Arturia V inclusion. it's my first synth and my verdict: I absolutely love it.
I was so happy when the minifreak came out and the used market was flooded with people selling the older microfreak allowing me to buy one for cheap!!! It's my only hardware synth but I'm very happy! :)
Непростительно малое количество подписчиков у контента такого уровня ) Должно быть на порядок больше. Мне, как не носителю языка, иной раз приходится смотреть смотреть на скорости 0.5, чтобы оценить все мемы, которых здесь лютая концентрация ))
Hey Florian, great video again. It is impressive to watch your informative-reviewing-humoristic-sounddesigned-videoediting video's! Maybe some nice suggestions for new episodes: - Yamaha CS6x - Novation A-Station - Yamaha DX-200 - Nord Lead 3 - EMU Xtreme Lead
With all of online hate the Hydrasynth garnered (too digital, too complex, uninspiring presets, etc.), is weird that it didn’t appeared on this show before the Minifreak.
Amazing as usual Florian! I love my Microfreak and have been so tempted by the Mini. I have so much i want though waaah! Oh and big appreciation/thanks for the full screen linger on my CS80 meme! It put a big smile on my face! 😊
I did! From 0:15 to 5:47 to be fair to you. I didn't want to skew the data with the tunes. So much work goes into these videos. I wanted to put a number to the madness. Thank you for the great content!@@AudioPilz
One fun trick I've found with my Minifreak is to use it as a controller for the VST version but pipe the hardware synth audio in to my computer aux in, really fattens up some of the sounds running them in parallel. But I have found one patch that the hardware and the VST handle differently enough that it's just clashing jangle. Great video Florian!
Hey Florian, how long does it take you to put a video together? Between the jams, shooting video, and the **crazy** amounts of memes and clips you put in your videos I'm shocked how consistently you keep up a weekly schedule, you're a consistent beast! Wonderful video as always, you make wallets cry worldwide.
The minifreak was my second synth after the Roland SE-02 and I love it. A lot of the presets are definitely oriented to more digital sounds but it can emulate classic sounds a lot better than I expected!
The jams are killer on this one! I really my Microfreak. I think I'll try the plugin Minifreak next time it's on sale rather than shelling out for the hardware, but I'm tempted.
I bought this as a gift for a friend and had a chance to play with it (and also with the VST). I believe this is a very competent little synth, there is lot to like in it. Very easy to make sense of the synth engines (esp in the VST, which has a few screens :D), compact size and very nice mini keys that are actually playable (unlike the Korg Wavestate, with full size but unplayable keybed). I would consider buying one for me, but I can't justify the use. Your demo was amazing BTW!
Great video!!! I bought the Polybrute (my first poly synth)before MINI came out and still haven't recovered, so I grabbed the VST for $40 when it first came out. Arturia has been an amazing addition to my sound.
I love my freak! As a beginner it's a beautiful toy, the presets are great, mingling with the sh*tload of oscillators is a joy. You could have mentioned the additional filters in oscillator 2, which can do some really interesting stuff, even to a "boring" saw wave. If Arturia holds up the standard regarding firmware updates like on the micofreak, this beast has a bright future.
Will there be a final full size synth in this arturia line? Maybe with 12 voices and full size keys? A Maxifreak or even a Superfreak? As a microfreak and polybrute owner I would be tempted but slightly freaked out by the prospect
@@treetopjones737 it helps to ensure you won't get any note priority interruptions when playing big chords (even up to 8-10 notes) with long tails, and you can even have two sets of normal-sized chords ringing out without interrupting each other. Or just the flexibility to double-up the 12 voices into 6 bigger ones for most uses, but being able to split them up when you really need to.
Great vid as always. I think I must have pre-empted you a bit when I suggested this synth a couple weeks back, depending on the lag between when you make these vids and when you upload them. I really liked this little synth, and was very tempted. I already own a Polybrute, yet somehow I still feel attacked..... Love your work my man.
Vienna has always been the place for musical forward thinkers. Where Mozart engineered his operas, Falco played his bass, Florian shows the "wooooorld" what is possible here in Vienna! I am convinced, the next caditate waiting for its transformation will be the Walzer. The "Schrammel-Sequencer" will most probably be an Viennese invention following our great tradition. 🙂 👍
You can compensate for the small screen by connecting it to your PC or Mac and running the Minifreak V plugin and connecting the two. Then you get the full graphical feedback when you start messing around with the parameters.
Haha! Having a Microfreak already, I did skip the Minifreak and went straight to the Polybrute. Yeah, it was finance wrecking, but it's a great sounding beast ... er ... brute! Great fun as always! Cheers!
@@AudioPilz I mustn't. I've bought a Syntakt and Digitone in the last 2 weeks. But to be fair I did sell my OP1 Field just today so there is cash burning a horrible great hole in my wallet and GAS prevention straight jacket
Gotta say, I do like what the MiniFreak has on tap. While I'm generally not a fan of minikeys due to so many years of playing the piano, since I haven't actually used the keys I'm not holding such against it. I'll wait until I'm at the store deciding whether to buy one or not, and to see if I can live with such. I did live with the flaws of the Akai Max49 for some time, after all!
We've had the Microfreak and the Minifreak. When will Arturia finally give us the next logical step? When will they give us the Freak?! If that happens, I hope you'll be able to do a video on it because I know you'll do it justice! :D
Thanx for yet another awesome episode Florian. The _microfreak is tempting, but at this price point I can get the whole mini keys experience with the hydrasynth explorer - which would be my first choice. Btw, that movie behind the 3rd jam, looked out there. Love, from Down Under.
I really like this synth. It beats the pants off a lot of my bigger lads. Flexible and quirky. Only let down when I first got mine was firmware update brickage and RMA. These things happen, but also happened with the replacement. Somehow I managed to recover it by retrying about 10 times (it was a slow Sunday). No idea why it suddenly was alright, but all good in the end. I tend to favour my Hydrasynth when it comes to digital goodness, regardless of the MiniFreak's analogue filter, but it's still a lot of fun to mess about with and I've spent hours at a time with a big smile on my face throughout using it.
hey Professor going in fairly hard but I appreciate it.. I almost bought a mini freak but decided to get two Plaits clones instead.. I have a ton of gear but the only piece I own as far as I know that is on the Bad Gear lineup is my four TX81Z's which of course is understandable.. keep these extremely fair truthful reviews flowing.. 🤘😁
My first piece of hardware... I feel all warm whenever I see those goofy little keys You mentioned Hydras at the end... another Glen Darcey family which ticks boxes 👀
When I want to know anything about something ... I first search your channel! All I want to know covered, to the point, and I can 👉hear👈 it, also in context. Perfect! This was just the practical side haha. Great to watch! Thank you for all your efforts!! Keep up the good vibes!! 👾👾👾
Just got mine three days ago. Impressions: 1) Holy crap this thing is heavy. But solid heavy, it's a good thing. It won't move around the table while playing 2) Everything sounds like going through an invisible high pass filter. 3) Putting the compressor as the first effect in every sound helps a lot. 4) There are lot of interesting modulations you can do with those touchstrips. 5) That preset sounds a lot like Depeche Mode's "Damaged People". 6) I haven't seen a 64 step sequencer like this in other synths. It's good. 7) If Arturia added a vocoder in the next software upgrades, it would go from good to great. 8) The font and the screen are tiny. I have a larger screen in my smartwatch. I need to use this synth with my reading glasses and under a lot of light to see the text and remember where the functions are, which aren't laid in a logical way. I find myself hating the clicky shift key - It's a shift key, and you need to click it down to access functions. 9) The capacitive buttons are a little hard of hearing, but you can change their sensitivity in a seting hidden in the utilities menu. Just give me rubber buttons. 10) However, in spite all the good things it has, it made me want to play with my Wavestate. And that's a weird feeling: it's a cool synth which offer many possibilities of sound design, but after 48 hours I'm starting to feel that it's just basically a large OP-1.
Woah, definitely didn't expect the Minifreak to be featured here. Been Eyeing this since its release, Can't really decide on a first FM synth between it and the Opsix.
Blown away by this synth. On a preset w random arp and an lfo moving between 2 ‘oscillator’ models this thing practically makes the music all by itself. Great/very good fx, 64 step sequencer. Maybe not butter smooth like a peak or prophet 6, but man this thing is a feast of interesting tangents in what a synth can offer (and in a very intuitive way unlike the long spec sheet of big workstation). A grand slam! Being able to open many instances of the vst version in a daw is like the icing on the cake
I got vst version and have been liking it so far. Don't think I'd get the hardware version, but have been contemplating adding a MicroFreak to pair with it.
I like the Microfreak for my dawless/daw setup is better and yeah the new update has got WAV samples (translates to importing amiga sounds and Many of the Sample CD I have got into the Microfreak). My Gear: Novation Mininova Arturia Microfreak Elektron model Cycles Sonicwarez - Liven 8-bit warps Behringer - TD-3 MO (modded out 303) 1010 Music - Fireball (I've added all of my Custom Vital and Access Virus ti Wavetables into it) Behringer - RD9 (909) Behringer - Crave
thanks yeah the Minifreak could not fit in my setup because I need things portable to carry when I'm doing live shows or on tour for a reason and With a laptop running Bespoke and Sun Vox on Linux@@AudioPilz
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Can we just start calling you a Professional Synthhead Jimmy Rustler? I mean, it isn't easy to rustle me about my purchases, but you came pretty darn close.
And no I'm not buying a polybrute, thanks very much...
Still wanna see SidStation, an original MiniMoog and the Sound Blaster 16 default MIDI sounds...
Velcum to baad geer, da show dat is now about brand new stuff that was only released a few veeks ago...
At first glance this synth hasn't been out long enough for me to know it is actually bad geer.
But, vell to be honest, zerr isn't any geer viv vobbly buttons that I haven't already laid to vaste...
Next veek the UB-Xa, vich hasn't even been released yet 😮
...
😂
(No, I don't own a minifreak or micro freak)
Any true Bad Gear fan knows that if you truly watch an episode, it takes 1/2 an hour to view.
Edit: I'm so happy to read I'm not the only
"meme pauser" here. Instead of feeling like it's only me doing this, it's meme.
That's the way!!!
Facts!
Haha, indeed! I watch 1 times through for the synth review. Than dissect piece by piece for the memes haha. Still haven't found a way to properly trace the origin of the video in the final jam thought
Naw dude… 29 minutes 😂
yep i am starting to roll it all the way thru one time and then go back for a second life after laughing-death 👍👻
I bought one as a 50th birthday present for a friend. Thought I’d give him a chuckle by programming some sounds before I gifted it.
I loved the synth.
I gave him a Starbucks gift card instead and kept the synth.
Am I a bad person 😮?
About as bad as the gear;)
Did you get them a $600 Starbucks card?
@@zackcolbourne6921 yeah, and they programmed some great coffee sounds with it!! ☺️
To be fair friendship can have it’s healthy limitations especially when it comes to Arturia synths, I have the micro freak, I should review it really🤔
@@zackcolbourne6921 second prize - a $1200 starfucks card
Just got mine yesterday. Very pleased.
Thanks!
Hey Matt, thank you for the support!!!
The sheer amount of synth specific memes this guy manages to shove into a single video is mind boggling
Thank you so much!!!
this is getting personal
❤️❤️❤️😔😔😔❤️❤️❤️
3:16
@debu206. Are u French?
Always has been 🌍👩🏿🚀🔫👩🏿🚀🌌🛰️
What does that mean? How many of your devices are Bad Gear?
The best wine, bread, frog, and horse around.
I’m so glad that it’s ticking all the boxes at first glance
It usually does;)
I'm anticipating the day a product is so bad that it doesn't tick the boxes, but most designers just aren't that bad
Has there ever been an episode where the gear DIDN'T "tick all the boxes" at first glance?
another masterpiece, bravo!
so glad to see this machine get put through the bad gear gauntlet - the ed banger nod for the finale was *chef's kiss
Thank you!!!
The presets in this video are actually really really good ❤
This synth might be on my list for the future 🙌❤️
Definitely worth a shot!
It's the epitome of freakyness!
I sold mine because it was very hard to get to something I like. your mileage may vary^^
@@couchcamperTMare you blaming your tools? 😉
I am blaming the uninspiring sound my other tools don't produce. You may not know the concept, it is called "taste"@@sub-jec-tiv
Why is "Bad Gear" the series that shows every synth in the best possible light? Florian has a gift for making bad gear sound good and good gear sound amazing. Keep it up! Watching these videos is a highlight of my Monday morning procrastination.
Thank you so much!!!
pretty sure that's the point....
He makes bad gear sound amazing and good gear sound amazing.
No such thing as "bad gear" just bad artists
He shit on the Moog Muse pretty badly on a recent episode. He genuinely seems to hate moog.
Dearest Florian,
Thank you for continuously making this wor-orld a better place.
Warmest regards,
Rocco
Thank you so much, Rocco!!!
The MiniFreak sounded thick. Certainly it's a strong competitor in its price range with state of the art features. Thanks again for another great show!
Thank you!!!
I don't know if I'd say state of the art, but I agree that it seems awesome!
I have no idea why ppl say its thin and has no bass. They just playing with the init patch? I have the MF as my first hardware synth and love it. I get that its no moog mini with bass tones but its also the price of a loaf of bread and a pack of cigarettes in northern Canada
@@slipknotboy555it has the best step sequencer in a keyboard. Ever. (My first synth was a 101 in 1983, I’m serious) 😅😂
@@sub-jec-tiv The Mini Freak *definitely* punches well above it’s weight as a synthesizer.
These jams are absolutely jaw dropping and beautiful ❤️ the rest of the video is incredible as always 🙌
Thank you so much!!!
Bad Gear man has once again sold me on something I wasnt even thinking about.
Sorry bout that;)
another wonderful episode, and some exceptionally good jams! thx always pilz, your contribution to our community is of immeasurable value
Thank you so much!!!
I was between MiniFreak and Hydrasynth for my first "real" synth (upgrading from Volcas). Both are great options and now I need a Bad Gear for the Hydra!
Actually did a jam on the big Hydra for the Klangfarbe channel;)
I have the Hydrasynth and frankly if I could do it over again I'd go with the Minifreak.
@@apoclypse The only correct choice is BOTH! lol
@@AudioPilz ....searching....
@@jboulderct
I was trying to avoid that...
I got this one a couple of months ago after trying the VST demo. It hasn't disappointed me since, and only gets better the more I get to know it.
👍👍👍
It’s my first polyphonic hardware synthesizer btw! For someone mostly working with VST’s up till now, it is a great way to step out of “the box”, and experience how intuitive a deficated hardware interface can be, without losing the flexibilty of digital synthesis.
My next one will probably be the Korg Minilogue XD, or a (second hand) Prologue, to finally dive deeper into “true” polyphonic analogue synthesis (the PolyBrute remains out of my budget for now, unfortunately).
Have you looked into the Prologue already? Should be an interesting piece of gear for your channel as well. ;)
You're really going through everything I own eh? :-D. Can't wait to see and hear this one!
Nothing personal;)
@@AudioPilzwhat do you consider "GUT GEAR"? It would be nice to see instruments that you really think are good...
I mean... I own a lot of the Bad Gear but it works for me and the kind of music that I produce ;)
This is why I love your show. I haven't given this thing any thought since the initial launch. Sounds really good. I also regret selling my MS-2000B. 🥺
❤️❤️❤️
I've got one and love it. Very versatile and extremely enjoyable to work with. Great synth
Thank you!!!
It always cracks me up when you say you aren’t good at playing keys and then proceed to make a banger track! 😂🤘💪❤️
Dude is an amazing composer
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz Bad Gear Jams, Vol. 1-10, will be the 21st century electronic classics
The jam on this one is nutty dude. Incredibly cool track
My most anticipated episode yet!!!!!!
It was about time!!!
visual analogy for after touch blew my head of. yh, grass has after touch. love it
Thank you!!!
I bought the Minifreak a month ago after watching dozens of videos on it and the competitors -- to me it came down to the Hydrasynth or Mini. My tipping point was the Arturia V inclusion. it's my first synth and my verdict: I absolutely love it.
Nice!!!
So happy to see you do this one! 🎉 I love your videos so much! ❤
Thank you so much!!!
I was so happy when the minifreak came out and the used market was flooded with people selling the older microfreak allowing me to buy one for cheap!!! It's my only hardware synth but I'm very happy! :)
Great choice!
I really love your video style!
"Polaroids of the Pyramids" is so sample worthy - deserves it's own track.
Agreed!!!
Непростительно малое количество подписчиков у контента такого уровня ) Должно быть на порядок больше. Мне, как не носителю языка, иной раз приходится смотреть смотреть на скорости 0.5, чтобы оценить все мемы, которых здесь лютая концентрация ))
Ive never wanted a synth more! Sounds fantastic!
👍👍👍
Nooooo at 2:53 you unlock an old old memory... That Course was awesome !!!! Thank you !!!
Hey Florian, great video again. It is impressive to watch your informative-reviewing-humoristic-sounddesigned-videoediting video's!
Maybe some nice suggestions for new episodes:
- Yamaha CS6x
- Novation A-Station
- Yamaha DX-200
- Nord Lead 3
- EMU Xtreme Lead
Thank you so much!!! Great suggestions!!!
With all of online hate the Hydrasynth garnered (too digital, too complex, uninspiring presets, etc.), is weird that it didn’t appeared on this show before the Minifreak.
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
@@AudioPilzNoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! 😭
Sweet! I'm on the fence on getting the deluxe.. maybe outside your norm on for 73 keys.
Amazing as usual Florian! I love my Microfreak and have been so tempted by the Mini. I have so much i want though waaah! Oh and big appreciation/thanks for the full screen linger on my CS80 meme! It put a big smile on my face! 😊
Great meme, thanks!!!
The sound is good. The mix is good. The review is good. Good luck
Thank you!!!
I think this thing sounds great. Mine will be here next week.
A meme every 4.2 seconds, on average. That, my friend, is impressive.
Thank you so much!!! Did you actually count?
I did! From 0:15 to 5:47 to be fair to you. I didn't want to skew the data with the tunes. So much work goes into these videos. I wanted to put a number to the madness. Thank you for the great content!@@AudioPilz
One fun trick I've found with my Minifreak is to use it as a controller for the VST version but pipe the hardware synth audio in to my computer aux in, really fattens up some of the sounds running them in parallel. But I have found one patch that the hardware and the VST handle differently enough that it's just clashing jangle. Great video Florian!
Thanks!!! Great technique!!!
Excellent demos/tunes. This synth has real character and good sound. Less sold on the packaging though.
Thank you!!!
its a great synth, really approachable and easy to use.
I like the packaging and features but not the sound haha
@@Grant82gc To each their own I guess 👍 I hate mini keys with a passion.
Not only did I smile, but I entertained the possibility of buying this freaky mini! Great video!
Thank you!!!
Hey Florian, how long does it take you to put a video together? Between the jams, shooting video, and the **crazy** amounts of memes and clips you put in your videos I'm shocked how consistently you keep up a weekly schedule, you're a consistent beast! Wonderful video as always, you make wallets cry worldwide.
magicians do not reveal their tricks so simply my man
teamwork
Thank you so much!!! It's usually a week;)
Lol “Modern Talking” at 1:41. I love this channel! 😹
@@AudioPilzsuch a hard worker UA-camr. I can tell the hard work.
The minifreak was my second synth after the Roland SE-02 and I love it. A lot of the presets are definitely oriented to more digital sounds but it can emulate classic sounds a lot better than I expected!
👍👍👍
The jams are killer on this one! I really my Microfreak. I think I'll try the plugin Minifreak next time it's on sale rather than shelling out for the hardware, but I'm tempted.
Thank you!!!
Jus type "minifreak VST torrent" into any search engine ;)
Who has the money to shell out for software these days!?
I bought this as a gift for a friend and had a chance to play with it (and also with the VST). I believe this is a very competent little synth, there is lot to like in it. Very easy to make sense of the synth engines (esp in the VST, which has a few screens :D), compact size and very nice mini keys that are actually playable (unlike the Korg Wavestate, with full size but unplayable keybed). I would consider buying one for me, but I can't justify the use. Your demo was amazing BTW!
Can I be your friend as well?
Thank you so much!!!
I do love the way Arturia do business 😆
They're amazing with firmware updates and support.👍
;)
this is awesome! I'm really thinking about getting this and its perfect!
👍👍👍
Great video!!! I bought the Polybrute (my first poly synth)before MINI came out and still haven't recovered, so I grabbed the VST for $40 when it first came out. Arturia has been an amazing addition to my sound.
Thanks!!! 40 bucks is really nice!!!
@@AudioPilz Exactly Right? Especially when it sounds like this!!!!
I pulled out my KP2 this morning to play around with is vocoder as well
Doesn't sound so bad!!!
@@AudioPilz it really doesn't
slaps roof of Florian's computer
This bad boy can hold so many *m é m ė š*
Meme Machine!!!
"the real paradigm shift has happened elsewhere" wow that's good writing.
Thank you!!!
The VST to hardware syncing is a huge bonus for patch design. I really enjoy using it in my projects.
Danke Synthmeister 😎🤟
its power hungry though
Bitte!!!
Seriously, I love your videos dude. They're always so funny and you know your shizz
(you're also a stealthy good musician)
This doesn’t seem like bad gear, more like a nice review.
It does come with a few limitations;)
@@AudioPilzlimitations breed the best creations 🎉❤
I think I'll wait for the "Mega Freak" 😉. Love the channel!
Thanks!!! Behringer UltraPhreak
I love my freak! As a beginner it's a beautiful toy, the presets are great, mingling with the sh*tload of oscillators is a joy. You could have mentioned the additional filters in oscillator 2, which can do some really interesting stuff, even to a "boring" saw wave.
If Arturia holds up the standard regarding firmware updates like on the micofreak, this beast has a bright future.
I had the comb filter in there for a short sound, great stuff
When I listen the opening music it feels more iconic everytime
Thank you so much!!!
Will there be a final full size synth in this arturia line? Maybe with 12 voices and full size keys? A Maxifreak or even a Superfreak? As a microfreak and polybrute owner I would be tempted but slightly freaked out by the prospect
Arturia is more and more involved with physical gear, so hopefully...
SuperFreak would be much appreciated!!!
@@AudioPilz freakydeaky!
You have 6 fingers on each hand?
@@treetopjones737 it helps to ensure you won't get any note priority interruptions when playing big chords (even up to 8-10 notes) with long tails, and you can even have two sets of normal-sized chords ringing out without interrupting each other. Or just the flexibility to double-up the 12 voices into 6 bigger ones for most uses, but being able to split them up when you really need to.
Great vid as always. I think I must have pre-empted you a bit when I suggested this synth a couple weeks back, depending on the lag between when you make these vids and when you upload them. I really liked this little synth, and was very tempted. I already own a Polybrute, yet somehow I still feel attacked.....
Love your work my man.
Thank you!!! Great suggestion!!!
Vienna has always been the place for musical forward thinkers. Where Mozart engineered his operas, Falco played his bass, Florian shows the "wooooorld" what is possible here in Vienna!
I am convinced, the next caditate waiting for its transformation will be the Walzer. The "Schrammel-Sequencer" will most probably be an Viennese invention following our great tradition. 🙂
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I’m here for whatever Wien has to give us.
Prost!!!
I think I actually spotted a Kontragitarre in one of the last videos…
Dude this is some amazing music you made this episode!!
Thank you!!!
dang that screen is tiny but all the little animations look so crisp and smooth! Nice job, Arturia UI team
You can compensate for the small screen by connecting it to your PC or Mac and running the Minifreak V plugin and connecting the two. Then you get the full graphical feedback when you start messing around with the parameters.
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@@YouHaventSeenMeRight getting the K88 for piano does the same!! And reads plugins!
Dude! It's like ha ha ha funny meme.. ha ha ha funny meme... Hot damn! That jam at 7:02 is FIRE!! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!!!
Haha! Having a Microfreak already, I did skip the Minifreak and went straight to the Polybrute. Yeah, it was finance wrecking, but it's a great sounding beast ... er ... brute! Great fun as always! Cheers!
Thank you!!!
the brute series isn't really the same as the freak series, although I wouldn't say no to a PB
@@randommcranderson5155 Oh, definitely not the same. I'd actually like to eventually have a Minibrute 2S. They're all differently animals.
My minifreak came with the vst free. Eh I absolutely love the synth, highly recommended. Love your channel.
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The first jam hits hard! Nice!
Thank you!!!
I was just thinking I needed this synth. Maybe I shouldn't watch. BUT I CANT HELP MYSELLLLLLF NOOO
Surrender to the GAS!!!
@@AudioPilz I mustn't. I've bought a Syntakt and Digitone in the last 2 weeks. But to be fair I did sell my OP1 Field just today so there is cash burning a horrible great hole in my wallet and GAS prevention straight jacket
I love this instrument so much. Just pure inspiration.
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Love it! The most entertaining review 👏👏👏
Thank you so much!!!
lmao how do people think the minifreak is bad? it sounds ABSOLUTELY phonomenal
You know the drill, one person’s Bad Gear…;)
It's no Peak or Take 5 lol. It's a $500 or so synth that sounds maybe $450 to me.
Gotta say, I do like what the MiniFreak has on tap. While I'm generally not a fan of minikeys due to so many years of playing the piano, since I haven't actually used the keys I'm not holding such against it. I'll wait until I'm at the store deciding whether to buy one or not, and to see if I can live with such. I did live with the flaws of the Akai Max49 for some time, after all!
Akai Max49? Forgot about this one!!!
We've had the Microfreak and the Minifreak. When will Arturia finally give us the next logical step? When will they give us the Freak?! If that happens, I hope you'll be able to do a video on it because I know you'll do it justice! :D
I also want all the freak.
With Arturia, it has to be "Le Freak" anyway.
@@manuelgilbert1119 J'ai besoin du Freak entière, s'il vous plaît!
Make it full a 7 octave keyboard, they can call it the Super Freak ( RIP Rick James ).
Thank you!!! Le Freak!!!
The end jam sounded genuine amazing and I wish I could create that
I still say this is the working class person's Buchla Music Easel. A whole sonic ecosystem with an inexhaustable supply of terrain to explore.
Great analogy!
Thanx for yet another awesome episode Florian. The _microfreak is tempting, but at this price point I can get the whole mini keys experience with the hydrasynth explorer - which would be my first choice.
Btw, that movie behind the 3rd jam, looked out there. Love, from Down Under.
Thank you so much!!!
ah, the MiniFrench, I mean..Freak. c'est tiquingue tout les boxes
def solid banger at the end tho!
les boîtes
I really like this synth. It beats the pants off a lot of my bigger lads. Flexible and quirky. Only let down when I first got mine was firmware update brickage and RMA. These things happen, but also happened with the replacement. Somehow I managed to recover it by retrying about 10 times (it was a slow Sunday). No idea why it suddenly was alright, but all good in the end. I tend to favour my Hydrasynth when it comes to digital goodness, regardless of the MiniFreak's analogue filter, but it's still a lot of fun to mess about with and I've spent hours at a time with a big smile on my face throughout using it.
Wow, didn't know about the update stuff! Thanks for posting!
I want one of these more now than I did before watching the vid - great synth I reckon
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hey Professor going in fairly hard but I appreciate it.. I almost bought a mini freak but decided to get two Plaits clones instead.. I have a ton of gear but the only piece I own as far as I know that is on the Bad Gear lineup is my four TX81Z's which of course is understandable.. keep these extremely fair truthful reviews flowing..
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Thank you!!! Love the TX!
7:00 if by "autopilot" you mean.....4 minfreaks and 6 hands (35 fingers), the. YES! great review, love you lots.
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My first piece of hardware... I feel all warm whenever I see those goofy little keys
You mentioned Hydras at the end... another Glen Darcey family which ticks boxes 👀
❤️❤️❤️ Yeah, plenty of people suggesting Hydras!!! Thanks for the suggestion!
Great content as usualy. Congrats amigo! Greetings from Brasil.
Obrigado!!!
Mine comes in today ! Can't wait !
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When I want to know anything about something ... I first search your channel! All I want to know covered, to the point, and I can 👉hear👈 it, also in context. Perfect! This was just the practical side haha. Great to watch! Thank you for all your efforts!! Keep up the good vibes!! 👾👾👾
Thank you so much!!! Happy to hear that!
Just got mine three days ago. Impressions: 1) Holy crap this thing is heavy. But solid heavy, it's a good thing. It won't move around the table while playing 2) Everything sounds like going through an invisible high pass filter. 3) Putting the compressor as the first effect in every sound helps a lot. 4) There are lot of interesting modulations you can do with those touchstrips. 5) That preset sounds a lot like Depeche Mode's "Damaged People". 6) I haven't seen a 64 step sequencer like this in other synths. It's good. 7) If Arturia added a vocoder in the next software upgrades, it would go from good to great. 8) The font and the screen are tiny. I have a larger screen in my smartwatch. I need to use this synth with my reading glasses and under a lot of light to see the text and remember where the functions are, which aren't laid in a logical way. I find myself hating the clicky shift key - It's a shift key, and you need to click it down to access functions. 9) The capacitive buttons are a little hard of hearing, but you can change their sensitivity in a seting hidden in the utilities menu. Just give me rubber buttons. 10) However, in spite all the good things it has, it made me want to play with my Wavestate. And that's a weird feeling: it's a cool synth which offer many possibilities of sound design, but after 48 hours I'm starting to feel that it's just basically a large OP-1.
i love the memes on this videos. you are great man!
Thank you!!!
Another one I may have to get. This sounds right up my alley. A lot of the demos I watched didn't quite showcase how nasty this thing can get.
Thanks!!! Nasty as hell!!!
Wow am i glad i bought the micro freak!
Brilliant 😎👍 6:09 this is why this synth is high on my wishlist.
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The LFO Man picture, brilliant!
Thank you!!!
Best sounds in years but still Bad Gear. You know the drill.
One person’s Bad Gear…;)
It's an amzing little beast! As your second jam clearly shows :-) I love mine!
Thank you!!!
Woah, definitely didn't expect the Minifreak to be featured here. Been Eyeing this since its release, Can't really decide on a first FM synth between it and the Opsix.
The OP6 is definitely more powerful in the FM department
Blown away by this synth. On a preset w random arp and an lfo moving between 2 ‘oscillator’ models this thing practically makes the music all by itself. Great/very good fx, 64 step sequencer. Maybe not butter smooth like a peak or prophet 6, but man this thing is a feast of interesting tangents in what a synth can offer (and in a very intuitive way unlike the long spec sheet of big workstation). A grand slam! Being able to open many instances of the vst version in a daw is like the icing on the cake
Nice technique!!!
I got vst version and have been liking it so far. Don't think I'd get the hardware version, but have been contemplating adding a MicroFreak to pair with it.
Micro is a great choice!!!
Yep, that's truly superfreak. I've had it for about a year.❤❤❤
I've bought it for christmas as my first hardware synth. THIS IS FINE!
Nice first synth!!!
I like the Microfreak for my dawless/daw setup is better and yeah the new update has got WAV samples (translates to importing amiga sounds and Many of the Sample CD I have got into the Microfreak).
My Gear:
Novation Mininova
Arturia Microfreak
Elektron model Cycles
Sonicwarez - Liven 8-bit warps
Behringer - TD-3 MO (modded out 303)
1010 Music - Fireball (I've added all of my Custom Vital and Access Virus ti Wavetables into it)
Behringer - RD9 (909)
Behringer - Crave
Nice collection!!!
thanks yeah the Minifreak could not fit in my setup because I need things portable to carry when I'm doing live shows or on tour for a reason and With a laptop running Bespoke and Sun Vox on Linux@@AudioPilz