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's 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