A few months ago, I posted here asking about a small footprint synth to replace some of my gear, mostly because of my small apartment. However, a few weeks ago I said “fuck that” and created a very small synth studio in one of my closets, precariously perched upon packages and packing supplies. I then purchased a microfreak.
I gotta say, I really should have bought this thing sooner. It’s been such a blast making patches and messing with the many oscillator types, toying with the matrix in whatever way I can figure out, and the touch sensitive keys with aftertouch are such a game changer.
I got it for what I feel to be a steal at 300 bucks from a local synth shop in my city, and it’s just so worth it.
Lately, I’ve been using it in conjunction with the liven xfm, and I think the pairing is quite nice. Maybe a bit lo-fi, but who doesn’t love a bit of crunch on the drums and bass?
Long live arturia! I am now a fan.
Yeah! I love mine too! My favourite 2 things about it are the spice/dice feature and the keyboard.
Putting a subtle cutoff and (very subtle)lfo->pitch on the key patch is a great way to add movement and feel into your playing.
The spice and dice in combination with the pattern random makes it my go to synth if I want to mess with arps. Just put on a cool arp, set it to pattern random, mess with spice and dice and you’ve got the start of a new song