27- The Arturia MiniFreak- LFOs
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the LFOs found on the Arturia MiniFreak.
The theme was created out of presets and crafted patches over an assemblage of fragments of GarageBand loops. For all intents and purposes, it is a MiniFreak-Only composition.
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Very informative, thanks for posting!
The more I watch your vids Marc, the more I want tooo run out & get this kit, only thing stoppin' me are the friggin' mini keys it has but since the good folks at Arturia are makin' some great MIDI controller's these days with full size keys my hangups (with the mini keys) seem tooo melt away & fade off into the distance, so does my longing for a PolyBrute¡ once again & one more time, udahman, Udahbest, Doty UrgUrU thanx again dude.
What is wrong with minikeys? People talk about them like they're the worst thing ever. I find them perfectly good for synthesizer use, especially when they have velocity and aftertouch/pressure modulator controls available. I don't know off the top of my head whether this has those features (the little Hydrasynth does, and I wish more synthesizer-building companies would follow that practice), but I suspect it must have at least velocity. That's the minimum, for me.
On the form of the keys themselves, I find small keys fun to use for quick runs and for wide chords impossible on full-sized boards. Yes, for piano they would be a concern, but who puts minikeys on a piano? If we're not talking mechanical action, the size doesn't matter much, beyond the requirement that adult fingers can manage to play it. The adjustment to the smaller size happens very quickly, so "muscle memory" concerns don't hold much weight.
Am I forgetting some damning shortcoming here? There are bad keybeds in every configuration, but also good ones. Arturia, for example, makes pretty good keyboards in all its sizes. Yamaha is another that has offered some really solid small boards.
An advantage of the small ones is that they tend to be inexpensive. The drawback is they tend to be cheaply made. Happily, that drawback is not universal.
@bitegoatie Nothing at all is wrong with them. I have the Hydrasynth Explorer and the Minifreak and they're pretty similar, aside from the fact that Hydrasynth has polyphonic aftertouch and the Minifreak has monophonic aftertouch.
Sorry folks but tooo each his or her own; mini keys are just petpeeves of mine. I just can't get over or around the babes in toyland kiddieish flimsa of'em¿you lose any aspect of dexterity in your playing. I'm a church organ/piano player at the heart of my center, that's what I cut my teeth & learned my lessons on. I guess if I had long stringy type fingers, it might not be that much of a issue but I have short fat stubbly digits & like tooo tickle & tinkle the ebonies & ivories close tooo the felt if you get my drift, so I need a little more room tooo chop it up and down the stairs, no chopdogginit for me when instead of hittin' one note or key attatime' ya tend tooo turn the corner on those quick multis tooo soon and there ain't no key follow, velo-mix, velo-switch, voice allocation or what have u to help get out of the way of your own hands that tend tooo force overcorrectness & slight cobbleresque slop. Especially when trying tooo avoid playing double notes at once with that human condition of opposable thumbs thanx kid's¡!
@@bitegoatie O&BTW that's a big myth that size matters. Only if you don't know what you're doin' & even if that happens tooo be the case it all really comes down tooo arbitrary surface action or varied terms of endeavorable arbitrary dexterity dude(s)
I should point out that what was originally called “mini keys” was a dimension set that was truly awful, and these are what started out being called “slim keys,” which are merely smaller, but proportioned keys. I prefer full sized keys myself, but I adapt to these rather readily.