Arturia MicroFreak, Paraphonic Hybrid Analogue Digital Synthesizer

Arturia MicroFreak Experimental Hybrid Synth

A digital synth 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.

Firmware V4.0 elevates this hybrid desktop synthesizers status as a sound design powerhouse even further:

• New WaveUser sound engine
• Allows for user wavetables(!!)
• 64-new presets
• Sequencer Unison & Chord Voices
• Faster Oscillator Encoder Response
• ....and more!

Firmware update (May 2023) adds Granular Processing & Sampling

Un Grain De Folie / A touch of madness
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 pos-sibilities. Like having dozens of synths in just one instrument, both wild-eyed newcomers and seasoned profession-als will fall in love with MicroFreak’s flexible, powerful synth engine.

We’re in this together
While it can be fun to play with yourself, things can get more exciting when there’s two. We love to collaborate, so we’re exciting to bring you the first collaboration between Arturia and acclaimed modular synth pioneers Mutable Instruments. Among the multiple modes of MicroFreak’s synth engine, you’ll be able to select the much-loved Plaits oscillator and with added paraphony.

Now you can enjoy the same otherworldly sounds, the same modes, and with the same pa-rameter controls as the iconic Eurorack module, but from a self-contained, performable hardware synth.

The best of both worlds
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 au-tomating the cutoff by modulating it with keyboard pressure or the in-built sequencer.

Wait. Did we mention that MicroFreak has a sequencer? And a mod matrix? Things are about to get seriously interesting...

• Wavetable and digital oscillators 
• Analogue filters
• Huge variety of sound possibilities
• Poly-aftertouch flat keyboard 
• Arpeggiator and sequencer
• 128 factory presets and space for 64 user sounds; 
• Crystal-clear OLED screen
• 5x7 modulation matrix
• Paraphonic mode
• Collaboration with Mutable Instruments
• USB, MIDI, and CV outputs
• Use MicroFreak as a controller to experience polyphonic aftertouch