Arturia MiniFreak 49 #1 | Winterdagen

video upload by Winterdagen

"Welcome MiniFreak 49!

I've been a big fan of Arturia's synths for a long time. The first ever synth I had was a MicroBrute, and I started my synth videos on this channel with my beloved PolyBrute.

Even though I really liked the Freak-concept, I'd never properly tried one. But when the new MiniFreak 49 came out recently, I knew that this one was for me. I'm a big fan of filter FM and noise filter modulation, and on this new version, you can do so much of this! I also absolutely love the stereo spread from the PolyBrute, so it's amazing to see it implemented here. Next to that, having dedicated knobs for the oscillator parameters is crucial for me, and having the same full size keys on the PolyBrute (minus one octave) is just perfect.

I've been making some first patches and I've been blown away by MiniFreak 49's capabilities, it really is a whole world of inspiration. For this first video I made a patch that makes use of something I also absolutely adore on PolyBrute: quantised oscillator modulation. For the first oscillator, I've set the quantisation to octaves and fifths, and I'm modulating it with a slow LFO. This creates melodies coming out of static chords. I've added the second oscillator as a simple sine wave, to keep the chords grounded, and I added a healthy dose of stereo spread and the beautiful internal reverb set to long mode.

Winterdagen
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