Where did you see this variant?
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Iām guessing itās monophonic sample playback?
No, I believe it too is 4-voice. Oscillator Sinkās vid covers in detail, the different modes etc too.
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samples are mono 32khz, you can play 4 voice paraphony.
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Thatās pretty cool. Iād like to see some demos of cool textural patches using just samples with the MF.
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Also note - preset slots expanded to 512! This is brilliant - with all the different sounds it can make and especially with these new osc engines itās great that they did this! Top marks Arturia!
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I wish it was 1000 but I do concur, devs we need more mem slots across the board for everything
Ohh, interesting! Iāve never worried about balanced connections on any of my gear, even bigger more expensive stuff. I have no idea what most of my cables and connectors are! Unbalanced I would guess.
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Iāve also used the headphone out for convenience with the NTS-1 and it was fine
Wow, Iām very happy I didnāt sell my MicroFreak when I bought the MiniFreak.
They are both brilliant synths and the micro got even better than it already was!
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Happy to know library is expanded to 512 presets. When I got it I deleted most of them but stuffed all the memory with my own library. Now itās full ^_^. Canāt wait to update with V5 firmware and go crazy with samples and breakbeats! Snappy envelopes are very welcome too.
I sold MF thinking that I will get MnF. I ended up not buying one because it felt a bitā¦ like an afterthought. Kind of like a half baked bigger plate version of the original.
Now I miss MF.
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I just got a Minifreak and I love it! The poly effects alone are a huge plus and make it a complete self contained instrument. Iāve struggled with my Digitone but this is giving me all the sounds I want right out of the bag I think itās a real winner. Would pair nicely with a Microfreak too if you sacrificed one of the layers to give the micro some effects.
Interesting to read about the quietness of the micro too, thatās defo not an issue with the mini so Iām guessing they improved whatever that issue was.
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It is actually quiet, but thereās also the Preset Volume parameter!
quietness of the micro
Balanced cable fixes that. Output jacks are low quality, maybe they leak the signal somehow. But it got way better after swapping the cable.
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Makes sense, although youād need a destination that also supports balanced input so I assume it wouldnāt work for everyone/all situations.
I have my Minifreak set to 50% master volume and itās louder than my AR so they must have done something to improve that. I wonder how the Minifreakās audio input handles the Microfreak Iāve not explored feeding it anything yet - I feel like theyād want them to work together but it doesnāt mention if the input is balanced.
Edit: Ah the inputs not balanced, if anyone can test that combo Iād be interested as Iām tempted to pick up a micro but thatās how Iād want to use it. I guess with the volume of the mini being quite beefy that you could reduce the Osc volume to compensate and crank the master? 
Sold my Microfreak two months ago, just to reduce the amount of stuff that was overwhelming me. Missed it ever since, and now this updateā¦ ordered a new one!
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I think itās just down to their adopting a balanced out with relatively low output to push through it, exacerbated by the paraphonic paradigm for some use cases
The vanilla output of a typical engine is approx -31dB with the right cable - whereas in a quick applesānāoranges comparison itās -23dB (+8dB) for a single vanilla Syntakt digital voice
So the Microfreak is quiet, but some of the perceived quietness can be down to folk rocking a vanilla unbalanced cable and using its paraphony - that takes another 12dB off
Hereās a quick record of the Freak with an in-situ cable swap mid record (I also play with/without paraphony) so toggling between 1 and 4 voices can account for 6dB on top of the 6dB you expect when doubling the signal with a symmetric Balanced output
Unlike on the Elektrons which adopt so-called impedance matched ābalancingā to handle noise floor and compatibility - they do not benefit from a balanced cable (nor get level gain) except for the purposes of noise floor by cancelling out some āflippedā noise (as opposed to a flipped full signal)
Not posting this in direct response to your post per se, just wanted to illustrate what was mentioned above and that the MF has āproperā balanced output, unlike our beloved 
s which elect to prioritise compatibility
hereās the MF (ST below)
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ā¦just wait until 30th of may. then youĀ“re able to update.