I just bought a Microfreak, entered on UA-cam to check something, it recommended me the first video and here I am, after spending my Saturday watching the whole series in one go. That was a very thorough explanation of the synthesizer. Thank you, sir.
Hi There. I am also a MF owner and Arturia fan. Don't I just love it when I can only get 5 to 7 minutes into a music demo before clicking pause to go to my MF to try what they are doing and finding myself two hours later chin deep in new sequences with automation. Tadaaaaaaaaa! And paired with my keystep OHHHHMAGAAAWD it's like hot fudge with an ice cream center. Thank you very much for making this unexpected day off (meaning no pay) at least worth the time sitting in my room all day :D Thanks.
I have one of these coming tomorrow and I'm so stupidly hyped! It's my first synth and all the cool stuff this thing's sequencer can do excites me so much.
Very cool! I'm expecting my Microfreak in the mail tomorrow. I have watched all the videos now and I'll know how to use it and do cool things without even looking into the manual. :-)
Thank you very much for this series of videos. You are an excellent teacher. I realize that the instrument is against all the electrical engineering behind the soft authentic tones of anlog synths with being a digital box of circuits - but I don't care, it's great addition to my mostly analogic set. The depths achieved tone wise with the instrument are not cold to my ear and warmth with the instrument is quite effortless to achive. Though I have to admit that without the fairly recent Stellar limited edition I would have not purchassed this synth. Thank you again. 🍎
I watched it all and it went by in 5 min, excellent job. My only request would be that you add the disclaimer that they are on back order for a month because you created a supply/demand issue because of your cool videos...😆👊
thanks for all your helpful and informative videos. amidst all the cool things the sequencer can do, you seem to have missed (and so have all the other review/tutorials) what it can't do: play 4 voices per step independently! i.e., the only way to get get 4 notes on a step is to play them simultaneously, a chord. you can't have 4 separate lines in counterpoint in a sequence. any new note falling on the same step will erase the previous note. this is important to me but i seem to be in the minority since i've heard no one else mention it. it also seems like pretty basic functionality. my volca bass can do it (albeit with only 3 voices) and my pocket operator po-33 can do it! i've taken this up with arturia, they have been very open and understanding - best support i've received, and are working on finding a solution for this shortcoming.
Thanks for Ur series... I've just bought a Microfreak and if u give to us the quick way to use it well, of course, ... Not only. I mean, the various possibilities u explained about how to use it, i've succeeded in transposing its in another Gear ! For ex, here, a Roland MC 505 i have... Do u see, Sir, what i'm talking about ?... Now, it has opening to me New amazing enjoying possibilities in my all music accomplissement with my machines, succeding faster & easier in my needs ! So, MERCI BEAUCOUP MONSIEUR, U match IT ! Alban.
I have one of these synths and for some reason I missed your 2 videos on the sequencer. Thanks for doing these 2 segments. Absolutley amazing information. Thank you. I was sitting here and trying to decide on what modular sequnecer to buy. I had no idea I already had it sitting here. I owe you big time for this video. Some of the things pointed out in this video are absolutely brilliant and MOST of which I didn't see in the manual. Maybe that info is in the manual but I couldn't see it. Best wishes and Thank You.
Spice and dice are great but it would be cool to be able to save those variations to new patterns. And please Arturia, add a metronome function for realtime recording :) Thanks again for the video Marc.
Lawrence Brock I just made the same metronome plea to Arturia on Marc’s Part One video. I also made the same request via their website. I’d love to use 64 steps of sequencing X 2 in realtime and creating a dummy metronome can ruin the groove that’s in your head.
Great tutorial! Thanks! Do you happen to know if the following is possible? Say I have a sequence I made on the keyboard - can I externally trigger it? Say send whole notes from my DAW and have it play the sequence for the duration of that note (like if I was pressing that note on the mf keyboard) instead of playing that note itself? Thanks again!
A decent sequencer, but with some serious flaws. 1. No metronome in live recording mode, so you never know where you are in the sequence. 2. Apparently no way to clear motion data. You can record over them, but this still snaps the value back to where it was set during recording. 3. Appears not to switch from monophonic to paraphonic recording, so notes cut each other off even in para mode. Perhaps these issues will get attention in a firmware update... Still, none of this is a dealbreaker. Still one of my favourite synths. Epic fun.
Very usefull on how to do, thanks a lot, but why don't you make something musical for demonstration ? These weird sequences are mostly painfull for the ears :-)
I use a Zoom ms-70cdr effects pedal to add reverb and other effects to give a wider ambient feel. But it would be nice not to have needed to buy a separate effects unit.
I just bought a Microfreak, entered on UA-cam to check something, it recommended me the first video and here I am, after spending my Saturday watching the whole series in one go.
That was a very thorough explanation of the synthesizer. Thank you, sir.
Thank you for watching!
Hi There. I am also a MF owner and Arturia fan. Don't I just love it when I can only get 5 to 7 minutes into a music demo before clicking pause to go to my MF to try what they are doing and finding myself two hours later chin deep in new sequences with automation. Tadaaaaaaaaa! And paired with my keystep OHHHHMAGAAAWD it's like hot fudge with an ice cream center.
Thank you very much for making this unexpected day off (meaning no pay) at least worth the time sitting in my room all day :D Thanks.
Thank you very much. I have never learned as much from a UA-cam channel as from you, about the micro freak.
Amazing series. This has helped me a lot specially since it's my first synth.Thanks a lot for these videos.
It’s a really good first synth.
“That is not at all what I expected to happen to this” @5:45 THAT is why I love the microfreak. Thanks for the help. I think? Lol.
Thank you so much for these videos on the Microfreak. I have learned so much. Very inspiring. Keep on doing what you do.
This has been an awesome series, I'm sure I'll be coming back to it when I invariably forget what I'm doing in the future
5:56 Just made my entire year. Can’t wait to dig deeper into my Microfreak 😭
I have one of these coming tomorrow and I'm so stupidly hyped! It's my first synth and all the cool stuff this thing's sequencer can do excites me so much.
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
Very cool! I'm expecting my Microfreak in the mail tomorrow. I have watched all the videos now and I'll know how to use it and do cool things without even looking into the manual. :-)
Thank you very much for this series of videos. You are an excellent teacher. I realize that the instrument is against all the electrical engineering behind the soft authentic tones of anlog synths with being a digital box of circuits - but I don't care, it's great addition to my mostly analogic set. The depths achieved tone wise with the instrument are not cold to my ear and warmth with the instrument is quite effortless to achive. Though I have to admit that without the fairly recent Stellar limited edition I would have not purchassed this synth. Thank you again. 🍎
Thank you!
Good work Marc.
Thanks for a great series.. Learnt a lot from these.. Much appreciated...
I watched it all and it went by in 5 min, excellent job. My only request would be that you add the disclaimer that they are on back order for a month because you created a supply/demand issue because of your cool videos...😆👊
Yo! Thanks so much for this playlist. I just got a MF a few days ago, and this was the perfect primer.
thanks for all your helpful and informative videos. amidst all the cool things the sequencer can do, you seem to have missed (and so have all the other review/tutorials) what it can't do: play 4 voices per step independently! i.e., the only way to get get 4 notes on a step is to play them simultaneously, a chord. you can't have 4 separate lines in counterpoint in a sequence. any new note falling on the same step will erase the previous note. this is important to me but i seem to be in the minority since i've heard no one else mention it. it also seems like pretty basic functionality. my volca bass can do it (albeit with only 3 voices) and my pocket operator po-33 can do it! i've taken this up with arturia, they have been very open and understanding - best support i've received, and are working on finding a solution for this shortcoming.
It’s paraphonic, not polyphonic
Great video! very interesting and informative!! Thank you🙏
Thanks for Ur series... I've just bought a Microfreak and if u give to us the quick way to use it well, of course, ... Not only. I mean, the various possibilities u explained about how to use it, i've succeeded in transposing its in another Gear ! For ex, here, a Roland MC 505 i have... Do u see, Sir, what i'm talking about ?... Now, it has opening to me New amazing enjoying possibilities in my all music accomplissement with my machines, succeding faster & easier in my needs !
So, MERCI BEAUCOUP MONSIEUR, U match IT !
Alban.
I have one of these synths and for some reason I missed your 2 videos on the sequencer. Thanks for doing these 2 segments. Absolutley amazing information. Thank you. I was sitting here and trying to decide on what modular sequnecer to buy. I had no idea I already had it sitting here. I owe you big time for this video. Some of the things pointed out in this video are absolutely brilliant and MOST of which I didn't see in the manual. Maybe that info is in the manual but I couldn't see it.
Best wishes and Thank You.
I'm glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Spice and dice are great but it would be cool to be able to save those variations to new patterns. And please Arturia, add a metronome function for realtime recording :)
Thanks again for the video Marc.
Lawrence Brock I just made the same metronome plea to Arturia on Marc’s Part One video. I also made the same request via their website. I’d love to use 64 steps of sequencing X 2 in realtime and creating a dummy metronome can ruin the groove that’s in your head.
Very flexible sequencer - like jamming along with sequence using other voices.
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Do you happen to know if the following is possible? Say I have a sequence I made on the keyboard - can I externally trigger it? Say send whole notes from my DAW and have it play the sequence for the duration of that note (like if I was pressing that note on the mf keyboard) instead of playing that note itself?
Thanks again!
GREAT question! Too bad there wasn't an answer given, unless you have already figured it out??
@@ASH-ou4cg No, haven't figured anything out there yet. I asked on reddit and was told "work on your timing" :/
@@MegaCadr In other words, it probably doesn't work the way we're hoping. Thanks for writing back.
@@ASH-ou4cg Probably not. But maybe arturia will release a future firmware update with it :)
@@MegaCadr We should write to support and let them know. See what they say?
Gas music from Jupiter!
Regarding the video title, video 21 in the series, not video 01 perhaps?
I’m firing my titling guy.
I don’t know binary, but is there any chance 01 is binary for 21? No? Okay.
*hey there is there a way to build patches outside of the MF? thanks!*
A decent sequencer, but with some serious flaws.
1. No metronome in live recording mode, so you never know where you are in the sequence.
2. Apparently no way to clear motion data. You can record over them, but this still snaps the value back to where it was set during recording.
3. Appears not to switch from monophonic to paraphonic recording, so notes cut each other off even in para mode.
Perhaps these issues will get attention in a firmware update...
Still, none of this is a dealbreaker. Still one of my favourite synths. Epic fun.
do you know if they fixed some of these?
Thanks for Microfreak tutorials but this one is a mess.
Cool, that is SOOOOOO digital 2:15
U mean incisive?
Just got a freak and its amazeing...but I feel the squencer requires work...My volca bass has a much better easer to use squencer I think..
Trying to think how to use that in a song, but nothing happens haha. That was freakish.
That’s my fault, actually!
Very usefull on how to do, thanks a lot, but why don't you make something musical for demonstration ? These weird sequences are mostly painfull for the ears :-)
Sequences are awful. I’d much rather play real parts.
if only they had added a reverb..sigh
I use a Zoom ms-70cdr effects pedal to add reverb and other effects to give a wider ambient feel. But it would be nice not to have needed to buy a separate effects unit.