Arturia MicroFreak

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#1135

The neutron doesn’t have a built in sequencer that I know of (if it does I wish I knew about it when I owned one!)

#1136

Yes, sorry if I wasn’t clear on this, I meant just the Crave has a sequencer. I have a Neutron too and it would still be a good choice as long as it can be sequenced elsewhere. :smiley:

#1137
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#1138

Last night I discovered that you also can plock the goddamn thing! After months it still not ceases to amaze me. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#1139

New FREE MicroFreak Soundbank :slight_smile:

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#1140

Just tried inputting 16 triggers on a 1 bar on Digitakt MIDI track along with a program change (to MicroFreak) on each step: program change is lightning fast on MicroFreak.

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#1141

No problem at all? Even on a long run?

#1142

Not once during half an hour :slight_smile:

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#1143

Good news. Thank you for testing it. Very appreciated!

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#1144

Whaaaaat??! I’m so looking into this right now! The microfreak is such an amazing beast, still in honey moon phase with this synth after 6 months. It’s an all sweetspot synth with a deceptively simple design and yet quite deep in synthesis despite the limitations.

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#1145

With an Elektron Sequencer or by itself?

#1147

On the microfreak itself. From the manual:

13.2.1. Step-time recording of modulation

To record modulation in step time:

  • Select the sequence into which you want to record events.
  • Make certain “play” is off and turn on step recording by pushing the record button.
  • Turn the Sequencer Rate knob until you are on the first step of the sequence, or select another step in the sequence if that’s where you want to add events.
  • Now turn a knob you want to record. While turning the knob nothing will be recorded, but you monitor what is happening. Once you’ve found a knob position that you want to record, let go of the knob. MicroFreak will take a snapshot of the knob and store it with the step.
  • Turn the Sequence Rate knob to the next step and move the same knob to another position you want to record. Continue to do this until you’ve filled every step with a snapshot.
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#1148

Thank you!

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#1149

Yeah, you can edit the sequencer steps in every thinkable way in step recording mode. Plock, transpose etc.

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#1150

The wicked bonus:
Start an Arp
Mess around with Spice
You can then export this as a sequence (Shift+A/B)
The only way to actually grab the Spice function.

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#1151

Have been spending hours on this thing :slight_smile:

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#1152

Yep
Only Volume and preset selector cannot be “p-locked”

#1153

Sometimes i start jamming and wind up with the spice and dice taking me to some really cool rhythmic variations and i’ve been wondering how to recreate them without being stuck with a static recording, i think you’ve just helped me write a bunch of music.

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#1154

I had a microfreak for a little bit. Reading this stuff makes me realize I didn’t give it a fair chance. Rock on

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#1155

I am in the process of making patches for the MicroFreak.
If anyone is interested, I will put them here for download :slight_smile:

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