Arturia MicroFreak Hybrid Synthesizer + Gooseneck Microphone

Product Description for Arturia MicroFreak Hybrid Synthesizer and Arturia Microfreak Gooseneck Mic

Package Includes :

1 X Arturia MicroFreak Hybrid Synthesizer

1 X Arturia Microfreak Gooseneck Mic

Arturia MicroFreak Hybrid Synthesizer

MicroFreak

Experimental Hybrid Synth

A synthesizer like no other, MicroFreak is a peculiar, exceptional instrument that rewards the curious musician. It blends wavetable and digital oscillators with analog filters. It features a unique poly-aftertouch flat keyboard. It adds controlled randomness to sequences. This isn’t a revolution, it’s a mutiny.

Un Grain De Folie

Whether you’re looking for your first, affordable hardware synth or are a collector looking for original sounds and unique interface, MicroFreak is the synth you need. This out-there little music machine features a versatile digital oscillator so you can create rare and interesting sounds with ease. Modes like Texturer, KarplusStrong, Harmonic OSC, and Superwave give adventurous musicians the chance to explore totally new, unheard possibilities. Like having dozens of synths in just one instrument, both wild-eyed newcomers and seasoned professionals will fall in love with MicroFreak’s flexible, powerful synth engine.

Small But Fierce

MicroFreak packs so much in to such a compact instrument, you'll wonder how we did it. We'd love to say it was magic, but it was pure skill and passion. Physical modelling, wavetable synthesis, virtual analog, there is nothing as complete and exciting as the MicroFreak oscillator on the market. It's hard to believe from such a small synth, but here it is, ready for you to explore. Excite your creativity and reward your curiosity with a large, diverse sound palette. MicroFreak features 11 awesome oscillators, 4 bespoke Arturia engines, and 7 modes from our friends at Mutable Instruments. There's a little freak inside you, and this instrument will bring it out.

The Best Of Both Worlds

Even though MicroFreak has a digital oscillator at its heart, “opposites attract” as the saying goes. That’s why we’ve included a lush-sounding analog filter. Inspired by the trailblazing 12-dB Oberheim SEM filter, you can make MicroFreak’s filter scream or whisper to taste. The filter is state-variable, and can even auto-oscillate! You can use this is any way you like, from taking the edge of the razor-sharp wavetable sounds, or automating the cutoff by modulating it with keyboard pressure or the in-built sequencer.

Taste The Spice, Throw The Dice

MicroFreak is packed with unique, exciting features that let you create music with a fresh perspective. Record up to four automations, edit notes per step or use the innovative Spice and Dice sequencer functions to find happy accidents. Add randomization to create evolving, original patterns, and virtually rewire and reconfigure its signal chain and controls with the 5x7 modulation matrix. This truly is a budget-friendly synth like no other.

“That’s a funny looking keyboard”

That’s right, it is. It isn’t really even a keyboard. It’s a PCB. Super-flat, with no moving parts. You bet. Better than a traditional keyboard, actually. Of course, it’s not only pressure sensitive, but also offers poly-aftertouch. This means each key can control parameters in a different way depending on how much you touch. You can also use its USB, MIDI, and CV outputs to control instruments in your DAW and modular synths. This also means that you can also use MicroFreak as a controller to experience polyphonic aftertouch with cutting edge software instruments.

Arturia Microfreak Gooseneck Mic

MicroFreak Vocoder Edition Fluent In Chaos

A 16-band vocoder with accessible real-time voicing controls. A detachable gooseneck microphone. A slick new aesthetic. MicroFreak Vocoder Edition takes unhinged hybrid carnage and cranks it up a notch - sing to the tune of pandemonium and lose control.

Limited Edition

No ordinary Freak. No ordinary Vocoder. There’s nothing ordinary about it.

16-band Vocoder with detachable microphone

Accurate replication of the human voice via 16 frequency bands, and an easy-to-use gooseneck microphone for comfortable, instant vocoding.

New Vocoder Engine With 16 Colorful Presets

Combine the Vocoder mode with MicroFreak’s wild features and manipulate your sound like never before. Sequence vocal melodies, modulate voice parameters with the LFO, and much more.

Connect External Sound Sources

Process external instruments and sounds through the Vocoder mode for unique formant textures - simply connect to the headphone input via 3.5mm TRRS.

Limited-Edition White Finish With Swan Graphic

A new look for your favorite Freak. The casing, control panel and center strip has been given a makeover to complement its radical new voice.

Microfreak Just Got A New Voice

The uniquely unpredictable MicroFreak formula but not as you know it.

Sing alongside glistening digital textures. Add paraphonic harmonies to external sound sources. Scatter spoken word across sprawling modulated sequences. This is your voice and your sound - spiced, diced and warped beyond recognition.

Step Up To The Mic

A simple, removable mic attachment that lets you sprinkle your voice into the mix.

A gooseneck design means quick position adjustment, with easy connection straight into the headphone socket. The fitting also allows you to connect headphones at the same time.

The utility menu lets you set your preferred mic gain and noise gate settings.

The human voice consists of complex, unique harmonics. A 16-band Vocoder design ensures that these harmonics are detected, filtered and replicated accurately.

Speak your mind and MicroFreak will respond in kind

The Vocoder Engine

We’ve created an entirely new mode to harness the Vocoder’s 16-band power.

The Vocoder engine features 3 waveforms - sawtooth, pulse width and noise - while the Timbre and Shape knobs adjust the 16 frequency bands to twist and transform your voice.

MicroFreak Vocoder Edition goes beyond robot vocals. 16 new presets give you instant access to android translations, crystalline harmonies and vibrant formant sequences galore.

Vibrato Treble

Soft textural chords harmonizing a vocal line, with a touch of tremolo-like wobble.

Syncopatrix

An energetic offbeat rhythm twisted into a subtly-modulated chord sequence.

All in one

A full track, with rhythmic and melodic elements, processed into curious harmonic textures.

StrumFreak

Choppy guitar strums resynthesized, resulting in a slick chord sequence with formant qualities.

Harmonized Hats

A trap-influenced beat, complete with triplet hi-hats, slowly moving through waveforms.

Crying

A simple vocoded chord voicing shaken up with a looped envelope-style effect.

A New Dress Code

First impressions make a difference. MicroFreak has always been out to make a statement, and the Vocoder Edition is no exception.

The control panel has been given a makeover. The center strip boasts a bold new Swan graphic, while a sleek white finish makes this limited edition Freak stand out from the crowd - as if it didn’t already.

The Freak Within

Behind the revamped appearance and microphone attachment is the same lovable maniac that set the synth world spinning.

Sparkling digital and wavetable oscillators collide with velvety analog filters. A unique poly-aftertouch PCB keyboard combines with a distinctly freaky arpeggiator   sequencer. Bathe your mix in sonic hysterics with the erratic mod matrix or the unique Spice   Dice randomizers. MicroFreak is out to break the rules. It's an unpredictable instrument for the adventurous. An adrenaline rush for the thrill-seeking musician. A mind-bending tool that dares you to stray from the path and think differently. Freak out.