MicroFreak V5 - The Granular DrumFreak!
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2023
- In my overview of the new version 5 firmware for the Microfreak ( • MicroFreak Firmware 5.... ) I set out to explain and demonstrate all of the new features. There was one lingering regret though, which was that I didn't turn it into a glitchy, granular drum machine! Well I couldn't let this oversight stand, so in this video let's do just that!
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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!
It's rare (though not unique) in the hardware synth world for an instrument to continue to receive such significant updates for such a long period of time. The way that Arturia have treated the microfreak as a platform is very smart.
This update alone will sell more synths and make more profit. They are always developing new things to sell.
My new favourite synth company. Versatile synths with loads of features and amazing updates years after products are released.
Makes me both hopeful and antsy for the Minifreak update whenever that comes....
And makes me regret selling my microfreak. I just felt limited by one oscillator and three voices and hated the "keyboard"...
Yeah every update I’ve gotten has felt like a gift or getting an entirely new instrument
For free!
I owe my entire music making love to Arturia anymore
Absolutely incredible. It's not every day that you wake up and a synth you already own has turned into a drum machine overnight
Seems like every 6 months the Microfreak becomes my favorite synth again.
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 !
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 😂)
Thank you! Yes, sometimes cool sounds catch me off guard!
14:37
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!)
Good on them for making sure they deliver something polished.
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.
Same it can’t come out fast enough
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!
Same, I ordered mine some days ago as well
Just got mine to pair with the mini. So many filters!
@@MegaTwistDdo you have high noise level
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
The best synth is the synth you already have!
Arturia really pumps out classics left and right, either soft- or hardware. Great presentation!
Awesome. Nice dive into the new capabilities of this great bit of kit!
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 ?!
Oh yes! Your ‘drum machine’ videos are my favorites. It’s a happy Friday. Have a great weekend everybody!
I can't help myself.
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!
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?
That's a neat hack, shame you have to lose two assignable slots and the cycling envelope to do it... Hopefully Arturia will add a feature to remove re-pitching of samples - I'll certainly be asking for it!
[Just noting that the above adjustments are in addition to the Keyboard -> Pitch @ -100 that Osc puts in. Adding the cycling envelope as a second mod source gives it extra range.]
Circling back to finish the recipe with stock sample 42: Drum Breaker: Sample Machine
Key/Arp -> Pitch -100
Assign 1, 2 : Cyc Enc -> Pitch
Key/Arp-> Assign 1: -100
Key/Arp -> Assign 2: -65
Cyc Env : zero rise/fall, hold/sustain 100
Key/Arp -> Wave (sample start): 100
Octave +1
From there it will play a slice per key. (The presets break the loop by automating sample start in the step sequencer.)
@@humanprogram I used your excellent suggestions in my video: ruclips.net/video/wtzsIuFOW7E/видео.html
@@d..d6201 amazing, nice work!
brilliant, really loved the hit grains section!
Simply excellent on turning the MF into a drum brute 😅 at another level. 👌👌👌
I’m just thinking about the loop of sampling into t’ Morphagene, loading into t’ Freak… Rinse and repeat. Excellent video man, cheers!
I'm so excited for this update. 😮
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 :)
Just thinking how it would sound if you also had some orchestral stabs as well as drum samples in the loop...
This update seems like Xmas all over (I got my mf for Xmas last year) feels like this update makes things a whole new toy altogether
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.
You can see from the length of this video that it might not have been a good idea to cover it in that first video!
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!
That's the next Autechre album sorted then ! 🙂
awesome!! i cant wait!!! appreciate your videos on it!!!!
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 the way to avoid the same old boring beats. Weird is good.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Amen.
@@thefalseshepherd3689, 😎
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 😆
Let's gooooo!
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 !
Merci ! Thks ! Lot's of fun incoming
Wow... Just wow.
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 :)
microfeak morphs into almost a 4 voice digitakt - nice
Arturia gave us a super freak drum.machine! Thank you!
Imagine what a "Real" drumfreak could be like...
this is very good.considering getting one now
Continuously inspiring
This is just too much fun!
Yeah! I try to avoid "just sitting and jamming" videos, but I was enjoying myself too much with this one.
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 ...
This is amazing.
can't wait to try this with the volca drum idm pd patch
Oh yeah that would be ace!
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.
I'm already planning to send this nut of feedback to my contact there - it would really elevate the possibilities with this update.
100%
Totally! ❤
Wow it’s a bit over my head but sounds interesting , so being as it’s has a polyphony of 4, could you also get a round robin of notes in the mix somehow ?
@@OscillatorSinksuggest polychain plz
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
Truly amazing! 😎🙌🥳
Thanks!
ALL HAIL OSCILLATOR SINK THE GR8 SYNTHESIS GOD 🎹👾🔈🔉🔊
Man I was gonna do this when the embargo ended.. kudos lol❤❤
I feel the need for a second Microfreak coming on ! or maybe a third ? Great Demo ,thanks !
A Microfreak orchestra!
Awesome!!
Watching this makes me think Arturia need to release a Freakin Drumbrute!
DrumFreak! And then DrumFreak Impact a year later
Great vid! I'm wondering what this update paired with the new Analog Heat +FX would be like up against a Hydrasynth!
Sample Hydra into this, process, then warm/perform with AH+
damn it's hacky, but so much power. i know i would jam out with this
Genius!
Nice.
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!
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!
Yeah, I really regretted not mentioning it in my original video. Just be aware that (at the moment at least), you can't avoid repitching the samples across the keyboard. I'm going to feedback to Arturia asking whether there's the possibility of them adding a feature to disable that...
ya that seems like a bit of an oversight to not be able to disable repitching.
A little, perhaps, but also - this not a "standard" use case. Nevertheless I hope they pick up on the feedback.
@@OscillatorSink My dream future features after the previews for this update would have to be an option to deliberately map samples to specific keys, and the ability to sample in via the vocoder input. I imagine there has to be memory or read/write limitations preventing either from being possible though, but I can still dream.
@@dylantreisman621 yeah I feel like if it was possible to use the vocoder to sample in, they wouldn't have missed that opportunity. Might be an actual hardware limitation
I love you so much
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…. 😊
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!
Thanks! They were all from sound packs I've released I think. They're on gumroad and they're all free (although you can pay if you want!) oscillatorsink.gumroad.com/
This is the way.
Yeah, drum machine all the things.
fun ! thx !!!
11:11 - Nice!
The highpass, low end trick never fails to impress!
hype
any news if it will be possible to sample through the microphone input (headsphones output)?
Not currently in this update.
Bob Harris makes great lofi beats
Great 👍👍👍👍👍❤
Cheers!
By controlling the modulation amount of the sample/type I guess we can mute only some of the drums
Amazing possibilities! How is your sample put together that you use?
As in how do you get the sample bank on the microfreak? I show that in my other video on the update.
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.
You need to switch the Type knob to sample select mode first (shift+ turn type) and then assign to the type knob. You will also probably want to have a sample selected in the middle of the sample list as a starting point.
@@OscillatorSink I did that, but I just get different pitch on the same sample. I did set the amount to 100 in the Matrix. What did I miss to do?
Okay I forgot to assign to the Type knob. Now I have different sounds. Great!! Thanks a lot!!!
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?
Yeah, I don't see why that wouldn't work, although all of the samples would need to be the same size I think.
I've tried this a long time ago and it doesnt really work as there's no sample accuracy in finding the start point. You only have 128 different available start points and it rarely lands in the right place
You can make a long sustaining texture, and then it doesn’t matter where you start. You use the envelope for the amplitude of course. Add a click or other impact transient on the beginning and there you have it, evolving sample percussion. I’ve done this for other samplers and it’s fun to design the texture wav.
So jealous! I got a microfreak way before they did all this
Just upgrade your microfreak's firmware - yours can do this and it's a free upgrade!
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😮
I was counting the number of times I was pressing the rest button rather than counting out the beat, the beat was abstract at that point.
@@OscillatorSinkI figured that (after rewatching several times). It would just never occur to me to not count the beat (lifetime acoustic instruments player who dabbles into electronic) anyways, supposed to be funny, no offence meant 😉
What are the drums samples you used theyre super cool
Thanks! They're actually all from my own sample packs: oscillatorsink.gumroad.com/
They are priced as "pay if you want" (which includes free!).
@@OscillatorSink thats so sick thanyou sm
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?
No. You can play other drum sounds from the patch you're in (which might include pitched samples) as long as you have polyphony left, but you can't load up another preset.
Thank you very much!@@OscillatorSink
sounds similar to the volka drum , however the volca ui suits better to drums
Oh yes ,oh yes...
Yes.
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
(At the 4 minute mark) - thanks for any further information
@@craigwood8862they are not being used simultaneously, but they both make use of the same samples and the sample selection works the same way. So for the purposes of the "spreading the samples across the keyboard" trick, that works identically in all 4 sample engines so you can do it in one engine and switch to any of the others.
If you're unsure, it might be worth watching my more in depth video on the sample modes - as I say in this video, I'm skimming over some things that I previously covered in depth in that other video.
@@craigwood8862here's the other video: ruclips.net/video/kDuambYViYs/видео.htmlsi=ZDiPzuGqEuosfVep
@@OscillatorSink OK! I’ll try a few things on my mf and look at your other content. Thanks for the help!
Calm down, Arturia. I’m still working out the last OS update!
Ty for this, also what outputs to the pc from arturio is it ? Not too clever with that. Anyones help appreciated 🙌
To do what with it?
Still waiting for a polyfreak
I can’t seem to find Sample as an option in the Key Arp part of the matrix… maybe I have to update again…
You need to be in sample select mode (shift and twist type), then assign it by holding one of the three buttons in tbe matrix and twisting type.
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 think I want to sample all my drum converted synths into PO sample packs now.
Death, taxes and oscillatorsink turns it into a drum machine.
@@OscillatorSink I bet you could even turn a DFAM into a drum machine! I kid, I kid. 🫠
That offbeat percussive synth/drum noise sounds like a cyber-chimpanzee 😂
🎵 *BOOF-EEEH-DA-BOOF-DA-BOOF-DA-BOOF-DA!…* 🎵 🦾🐵🍌
i thought you were going to bring in a sample of a drum kit and scan the grains
Start position is another way to do it, but it's far harder to do it accurately. Hmm, I might see if I can do some kind of meaningful beat slicing though. It might involve some maths though!
i got an sh-4d and was thinking of selling this. maybe not lol
It seems I do not need a Publison DHM89 after all.
I could't find v5 on Arturia's site. How can we reach it?
Same, is this already online for the public?
Sorry, it's not out until the 30th - they've delayed it to fix some bugs.
@@OscillatorSink that clears it out, great video still!
So you can create drum beats with the micro freak synth, right? Billy Bee McConnell. Asking you the question.
As I demonstrated in this video, that is correct.
Does the MicroFreak have an audio in?
Yes, as part of the headphone jack. But it's for the vocoder, not sampling.
imagine shift+master=preset volume....
still waiting for them to add this shortcut!
PLZ!
Can you modulate the sample selection with the sequencer's modulation tracks?
Haven't tried actually, but it should do - anything that can go into the mod matrix can also go into the mod tracks.
I made a follow-up video showing how to take this even further for breakbeat mangling: ruclips.net/video/wtzsIuFOW7E/видео.html
tout ça pour ça...
Sorry it wasn't to your tastes I guess?
Whys your microfreak screen so lo-fi?!
Because it's very zoomed in and my camera isn't very good.
Most technical and useful reviews as always so never apologize 😆
Wondering if you can have sample collection assigned per preset? Otherwise must do libraring a lot plugged up to PC ..
You load a bank and that's what's on there for the time being. I talk about (and show) it in my other video.
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. 😅
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?
You can't. Not directly. I show it in this video - you can modulate the sample slot in the mod matrix.
you re amazing@@OscillatorSink thanks for the quick reply! - and yes, I re-watched that part 5 times, but I don't know what to do. - I wish there would be a walk-through, or/an own vid clip ... a kindergarten-level-tutorial in shoegaze speed ... quasi for me...
@@thorstennesch1 do you know how to assign a control to one of the "assign" columns in the mod matrix?
thank you sir! so I went back into the manual, searching "assign sample", found it on p.39 and I took it from there. This will do. thank you so much & have a great day !
Freaky stuff.
great video, fyi cant read a thing on your screen, resolution is horrid.
Yeah, that's the camera I have to work with + the tiny screen. Sorry.
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!!!!
Have you tried putting it in bootloader mode and sending the update again? Hold Arp+Oct+Shift as you power the synth on to put it in bootloader mode. MCC should detect it and you can send the firmware again.
@@OscillatorSink Yes I could save the device. As problem was midi center crashed which is not ok and I told arturia guys about it.
god damn it! stop whispering. thank you.
I record these videos in the evening when my child is asleep in the next room, because that's the only free time I get to record them, so, no, I'll continue to speak quietly. thank you.
You are free to: a) not watch my videos; b) make your own, louder videos if that's you're preferred style, but *this* video is on *my* channel, and I'll do what I want.
@@OscillatorSink ... relax you little baby. i actually like your videos.