Arturia MicroFreak 5-stars Reviews

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7 years ago

buy it & experiment

Very good features in general, many options for external gear to be combined/connected.

Lacks build in effects but it's not that important sine you can buy a cheap(or not) reverb/delay pedal etc .

Generally it's open to more experimental players/producers,

It's not your average synth due to the specially designed keyboard.

All in all a very capable fresh synth!

Also you can do crazy things with the matrix.

7 years ago

Most inspiring and fun synth in the last 10+ years

While its basic structure is "just" a regular synthesis, this Freak has a very unusual approach to user interface and features. It's definitely not Micro, but Mega. The built-in presets are great, they give you a nice overview of the capabilities and functions.

The keyboard is strange and weird but in a good way. It's pretty easy to touch a (random) key by accident and it can cause some unexpected but good sounding result. This is also a bit of a weak point of it because it's hard to reproduce the randomly good sounding mistakes.

Don't expect this to be the next Juno or Oberheim, but it has its place in the palette of great and fun synthesizers. To me it was a no-brainer. Would buy it again.