Arturia MicroFreak 2.0 Firmware Update Adds a New Oscillator and More

Playlist:
Tutorials | MicroFreak - Episode 6: Update 2.0 - What's New
NAMM 2020: Arturia MicroFreak v2 Update - CatSynth TV
Arturia Microfreak - 'Noise Osc' soundsets. 10 free presets for Firmware 2.0 - Anton Anru
Arturia MicroFreak Noise Oscillator demo - Hunart©
MicroFreak V2 0 NAMM 2020 - Pedals4Synths
Arturia MicroFreak v2.0 firmware update - what's new? - Molten Music Technology
Microfreak 2.0 - New Firmware! New Oscillator Type! New Features! - Oscillator Sink

"MicroFreak receives new oscillator and more in 2.0 firmware update

On top of announcing KeyLab Essential 88 and KeyStep Pro at NAMM 2020, French audio pioneers Arturia have also revealed a surprise update to their incredibly popular MicroFreak digital synth.

The MicroFreak 2.0 update adds several exciting new features and functions, refines some existing ones, and fixes a few minor bugs.

New Features
New Noise oscillator: morph between particle noise, white noise, and a metallic noise that’s reminiscent of a synth cymbal. An exciting new voice that will open up powerful new drum and percussion possibilities in MicroFreak.


Chord Mode: by holding the Paraphony button and playing some notes, you program the chord, then replay the shape with a single key.

Scale quantization: In the Utility settings, you can activate scale quantization to your favorite scale. When activated, the “white notes” on the keyboard play whichever scale you have selected. No more wrong notes!

Sequencer streamlining: in 2.0 firmware update, you’re now able to easily copy Pattern A to Pattern B in an instant.

Matrix initialize: before 2.0 firmware update, if you wanted to clear the Matrix of all routings, you’d have to manually do it. Now you can just hold the Shift and perform a long press on the encoder, and it will clear!
64 New Presets: Loads of exciting sounds to explore using the new oscillator and features.

Improvements
MicroFreak now displays visual feedback even when Local Control is off.
The synth’s Local Control now also translates USB to MIDI Out.
The release of currently playing presets are now cleared when switching to a new one.
The Record LED now blinks on each beat, instead of on 16ths.

Thanks to MicroFreak’s digital mind, the team at Arturia will be able to offer more exciting updates and improvements like this over time, ensuring that MicroFreak is always fresh and relevant.

To update your synth, simply connect it to your computer, load up the Arturia MIDI Control Center, and hit the 'update' button for MicroFreak."

Bastl Pizza v1.1 - Full Video Manual and Example Patches

video upload by Oscillator Sink

"Bastl have just released the first major firmware upgrade for their digital VCO: Pizza.

The Pizza from Bastl is a flexible and cool sounding digital VCO based around FM (phase modulation) with variable wave shapes, ring modulation and wave folding. Beneath its simple interface, it is a module that urges you to approach it from many different angles to explore its surprising depth.

In this video I have attempted to create a comprehensive video manual, followed by a selection of example patches, showing the module in a wide variety of guises.

Transparency notice: This module was provided to me by Bastl for free. They have not asked for and have not been given any editorial oversight for this video and I have not been otherwise paid for making this video.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:42 - Teaser of sounds to come
00:03:23 - Disclaimer
00:04:19 - The FM Core
00:08:37 - The Octave Oscillator
00:11:20 - Introducing Detune
00:12:35 - Linear vs. Exponential Detune
00:15:16 - Introducing the Ratio Oscillator
00:16:17 - How custom ratios work (the theory)
00:25:31 - How custom ratios work (the practice)
00:36:45 - Pitch knob functions (octave, detune, fine tune and coarse tune - new in v1.1)
00:42:29 - The outputs (Main, Octave, Pulse and Ratio - new in v1.1)
00:44:33 - Switching the Pulse output to Ratio mode
00:46:34 - Introducing Shape
00:46:54 - Shape modes: Wave
00:53:33 - Shape modes: Fold
00:55:59 - Shape modes: Ring
01:00:23 - Introducing Ctrl
01:01:58 - Ctrl: Octave
01:03:10 - Ctrl: Detune
01:03:54 - Ctrl: Exponential FM
01:05:32 - Ctrl: Linear FM
01:08:53 - Ctrl: Ratio Oscillator Select
01:10:15 - Ctrl: Ratio Oscillator Exponential FM
01:11:47 - Ctrl: Octave Oscillator Select
01:12:46 - Ctrl: Octave Exponential FM
01:13:24 - Ctrl: Second FM Index (series)
01:15:16 - Ctrl: Second FM Index (parallel - 3-op mode, new in v1.1)
01:17:48 - Ctrl: Shape (second Wave, Fold, Ring control)
01:19:11 - Ctrl: Inverting VCA
01:20:44 - Ctrl: Envelope + VCA (full-voice mode, new in v1.1)
01:24:41 - Sync input: “classic sync sounds”
01:27:16 - Sync input: phase reset for clean attacks
01:29:34 - Ext input
01:34:07 - V/Oct input: quantized and unquantized
01:36:16 - Example patch: Standalone FM Bass using Envelope Mode
01:41:18 - Example patch: Pizza as a Virtual Analogue VCO
01:46:23 - Example patch: Digital West-Coast Synth
01:50:54 - Example patch: Kick, Bass, Percussion (at once)
01:55:46 - Example patch: Processing a Drum Break Through Pizza
02:02:02 - Example patch: Pizza as an LFO
02:11:07 - Example patch: Sequencing an External Input
02:15:30 - Example patch: Lovely Ambient Sines
02:20:28 - Example patch: FM Drone"

New Minifreak Firmware 2.0 - Wavetables, Super Unison and More!

video upload by Arturia

"Firmware 2.0 take your MiniFreak further with new ways to sculpt, accentuate and shape your sound. This update delivers a significant dose of new features and sonic possibilities for existing Mini Freak hardware and software users. With a new wavetable engine, Super Unison effect, Favourites Panel, LFO modulation and more."


video upload by Oscillator Sink

"Merry Minifreak 2.0 Firmware Day! In this video we'll be taking a look at the new features in this firmware including the new Wavetable oscillator type and Super Unison FX and building a patch using these new featrues.

Transparency Notice: Arturia kinda provided this unit to me for free for the purposes of making videos. They have not asked for, neither have they been given, any editorial oversight into the contents of this video.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Sound Store
01:46 New Effect - Super Unison
02:48 Super Unison - Controls
07:19 Super Unison - Sub Types
12:19 Super Unison - Compared to other FX
14:14 Mod Matrix Macros
17:25 LFO Waveshaper Improvements
20:24 Wavetable Oscillaor
20:35 Wavetable Oscillator - Caveats
21:42 Wavetable Oscillator - Controls
24:09 Selecting Wavetables
24:48 Auditioning the Wavetables
30:39 Building a patch with the new features
44:32 Outro"

MiniFreak V2 // Wavetables, Superunison. and other delights!

video upload by Starsky Carr

0:00 intro
0:58 Superunison
4:30 Wavetable Oscillator
10:40 LFO Shaper
12:45 Favourites Panel
14:01 Assigning Mod Matrix to Macros

Arturia Minifreak OS V2.0 Update! FREE UPDATE! | No Talking | #minifreak #minifreak2

video upload by DKS SYNTH LAB

_Introducing MiniFreak firmware 2.0 and MiniFreak V 2.0

MiniFreak update delivers a significant dose of new features and sonic possibilities for existing hardware and software users, with an expanded sonic palette, new FX and more.

Here’s what’s included:

New engine: Wavetable
Including 32 wavetables and 64 new patches to extend the raw potential of your sound, this update brings one of the most powerful engines to MiniFreak (available for Oscillator 1 only).

New FX: Super Unison
Transform a simple patch into a Supersaw monster with Super Unison FX. This chorus-type effect can stack up to 6 copies of a sound on top of a dry signal, for unmistakable width.

Enhanced Custom LFO Users can now decide if the LFO rate corresponds to a single step, or the entire Shaper curve, empowering you to create more nuanced, evolving, and expressive modulations.

A favorites panel for hardware user
Save up to 64 of your favorite presets and access them with ease. Enter the favorites panel by pressing shift + save, store a patch by pressing save + selecting a sequencer slot and recall a saved patch with a step button press.

New sound store for MiniFreak V
Software users can make the most of a brand new Sound Store with two paid banks with 64 patches and three free banks with 32 patches at launch.

And more
Minifreak update also comes with additional enhancements to Macro Edit mode for greater real-time control over modulation amounts. As well as Osc Freerun OFF, which now apply to Bass, Harm and SawX. Clock Send and Transport Send for hardware users, which can now be toggled on and off. Finally, you can now control the instrument volume with MIDI CC7"

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Korg Drumlogue - Feature FAQ and Full Beatmaking Workflow

video upload by Oscillator Sink

"Korg's brand new hybrid drum machine is finally here. In this video I will provide an "FAQ" overview of its features and then demonstrate said features by building a beat from scratch.

Transparency Notice: Korg kindly provided me with the Drumlogue for the purposes of making video content with it, but they have had no editorial oversight on this video's content, nor have they requested any.

Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:03 - Feature overview/FAQ
00:13:49 - Making a finished beat from scratch"

Drumlogue - My First 3 Beats
video upload by Oscillator Sink

"Here are my first 3 beats made with the Drumlogue. Any saturation or compression you hear is coming from the Drumlogue itself - the only processing applied in post is some very gentle shelving EQ on the master bus and a master limiter to bring up the overall volume (which is hardly doing any work, just catching the occasional volume spike.

Beat 1 is probably the most conventional of the 3 beats, using most of the tracks "normally" - of interest though is the "bell/piano" riff which plays at the start (and through much of the track) which is actually the High Tom analogue track, essentially "pinging" the filter with the resonance nearly maxed out. The bass synth part is the Multi channel in VPM mode for some FM-like goodness. The master track is set to compressor mode and set very very aggressively, but then dialed back with the wet/dry control for parallel compression fattening action.

Beat 2 is an exploration of distortion with distortion and bit-crushing on most of the tracks, and the boost Master effect providing even more grit. I've also routed the reverb and delay into the Master effect so that the can both contribute to the texture; this is why the kick sounds like an explosion. The 'windy' synth line is the Noise Multi Engine mode

Beat 3 was an experiment to see how sliced beats might be able to be handled. Obviously the slices had to be prepared outside of the Drumlogue, but once that was done, importing them and sequencing the slices using motion sequencing on the sample tracks was easy enough. I'm using two sample tracks here - one set up just to handle kicks and the other set up polymetrically with lots of probability to handle everything else. The two sample tracks are set up as a choke group so that the kick samples always cuts into whatever the other one it doing. The Master effect is set up to do big pumping compression, side-chained to the kick (which is bypassing the compressor). The acidic bassline is the Nano user oscillator type on the Multi channel.

Transparency Notice: Korg kindly provided me with the Drumlogue for the purposes of making video content with it, but they have had no editorial oversight on this video's content, nor have they requested any.

Chapters
00:00 - Beat 1
03:39 - Beat 2
06:51 - Beat 3"

Vermona DRM1 Videos by Oscillator Sink

Published on Jun 16, 2017 Oscillator Sink

Vermona DRM1 In-Depth Demos and Tutorials by Oscillator Sink

Published on Jul 15, 2017 Oscillator Sink

Korg Monologue Videos by Oscillator Sink

Published on Aug 27, 2017 Oscillator Sink

Free DeepMind Patch Pack 1 From Oscillator Sink

Published on Mar 4, 2018 Oscillator Sink

Get the patches here: http://www.oscillatorsink.com

Playlist:
Behringer DeepMind - Free Patch Pack 1 (Patches 1-20)
Behringer DeepMind - Free Patch Pack 1 (Patches 21-40)
Behringer DeepMind - Free Patch Pack 1 - Installing Your Patches

Stylophone Gen X-1 - Halloween Horror Vibes

Published on Oct 31, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"Happy Halloween! All sounds in this video come from the DubReq Stylophone running into a Digitech Polara Reverb pedal, with no further processing. There are a total of 5 multitracked layers."

Creating Halloween Horror Vibes with the Stylophone Gen X-1

Published on Oct 31, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"Transparency Notice: The Stylophone Gen X-1 was kindly provided to me by DubReq."

Korg Monologue - Let's Build... A Drum Machine!

Published on Sep 20, 2017 Oscillator Sink

"In this video we check out how we can turn the Korg Monologue into a great drum machine!

If you haven't already done so, you should check out the previous video in this series before diving into this one. You can find it here" [see this post]

You can find additional posts featuring Oscillator Sink here.

Arturia Minibrute 2S - One Box Techno Jam

Published on Mar 23, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"I was recording some tutorial videos for the Arturia Minibrute 2S today (and they're coming soon!), but while I was experimenting with ideas for a tutorial things got... a little out of hand!

This jam is one take, all sounds coming from the Minibrute 2S going through a Digitech Polara reverb. As you can see - the patching is fairly extensive and I'm making use of some of the extra modes on tracks 3 and 4 of the sequencer, but it turned out to be a great patch to make some live, improvised techno with!

Anyone who follows the channel knows that I'm a big fan of "one-box" challenges - well the Minibrute 2S passes with flying colours! I'll come back to trying to patch up something similar another time.

If you're interested in how the patch is set up - let me know in the comments and I'll see if I can squeeze a video in before I tear the patch down.

Transparency Notice: The MicroBrute 2S was kindly provided to me by Arturia."

Update:

Arturia Minibrute 2S - One Box Techno Jam - Patch Walk-Through

Published on Mar 27, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"A few days ago I posted a one-box jam on the Arturia Minibrute 2S which combined, drums, bass and drones in one patch. I asked if people wanted a walk-through of the patch - they did, so here we are!

In this video we look at making the drum sounds, how we can route them so that we're not beholden to the main amp for envelopes and take a look at two of the alternative uses for sequencer tracks 3 and 4."

New FREE Korg Minilogue Patch Packs! "Lo-Fi Textures" & "Twopointohone"

Published on Oct 3, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"Details on the patch pack can be found on Korg's website: https://www.korg.com/us/products/synt...

The Minilogue can be a lot of things, but when I first laid hands on it I was immediately drawn to the sounds I was finding that were a little less than pristine. Sounds that were a little dirty, a little dark, sometimes crunchy, noisy or wobbly - but the character of the synth always shone through and made me feel warm and fuzzy as I explored them. I decided to lean into this idea and seek out sounds where it was the imperfections that gave them their appeal; that’s where the Lo-Fi Textures Patch Pack comes from.

These 50 new patches draw inspiration from the wow and flutter of an old reel-to-reel, worn-out VHSes, the spaces between radio stations and circuits operating beyond their original purposes: unstable, fragile, nostalgic and warm."

BONUS FREE Korg Minilogue Patch Pack! "Twopointohone"

Published on Oct 3, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"Details on the patch pack can be found on Korg's website: https://www.korg.com/us/products/synt..."

Korg Volca FM Patch Pack 01 - FREE!

Published on Dec 2, 2017 Oscillator Sink

"I'm proud to present my first, free patch pack for the Korg Volca FM!

You can download the patches from: http://oscillatorsink.com/"

See Oscillator Sink's FM tutorial videos here.

Exploring Oscillator Sink's New, Free Minifreak Patch Pack: Deserted Lands

video upload by Oscillator Sink

"Check out my new EP 'The Shuddering Machine' here: https://oscillatorsink.bandcamp.com/a...
Thanks for supporting the channel!

The new 2.0 update for the Minifreak and Minifreak-V includes the introduction of the sound store and I'm really happy to say that one of the free sound packs available at launch was one that I created called "Deserted Lands". You can install it via the Minifreak-V software or hear some short samples on Arturia's website here: https://www.arturia.com/sounds

In this video I'll explore each of the patches in the pack and talk a little about the intent behind them."

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 A Darkening
00:02:52 A Warmth
00:04:25 Algalic bloom
00:06:02 Bad tempera
00:07:30 Badnews
00:08:34 Bonez v Hornz
00:10:26 Chewd Tape
00:11:50 Creeping Fear
00:13:56 Declockgen
00:15:03 Doomfloot
00:16:34 Dynobreaking
00:18:26 Easele
00:19:44 Ermpet
00:21:45 Gazed
00:24:10 Gravikeys
00:25:28 H4RP-C-KORD
00:26:59 Klang 1965
00:28:49 Odyseq
00:31:38 Pumpchange
00:32:52 Quiet Chat
00:35:14 Resody
00:38:09 Screechnmoan
00:41:01 Sigh and Halo
00:43:12 Slight Excite
00:46:09 Solar Oh
00:48:40 The Chapel
00:50:31 The Pinganing
00:51:40 They Sang
00:54:18 Trancemission
00:56:02 Unbidden
00:58:48 Unponent
01:00:06 XOR-XOR

Korg Monologue - Let's Build... Drums and Percussion!

Published on Sep 16, 2017 Oscillator Sink

"In this video we check out how we can create drum and percussion sounds on the Korg Monologue!"

You can find additional posts featuring Oscillator Sink here.

Elektron Digitakt: Monster Mono-synth?!

Published on Mar 9, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"The Elektron Digitakt is a wonderful sampler, sequencer, groovebox... thing! But what if I told you that it's also a monster mono-synth? The rantings of a mad-man? Well maybe! But when you consider that each of its eight sampler tracks can be set up to act as a highly configurable oscillator by looping short, single-cycle wave-forms, the prospect of an 8 oscillator mono-synth starts to sound somewhat appealing!

In this video I take a look at setting up the Digitakt to act like a mono-synth and walk through building an 8-oscillator mono-synth patch from scratch."

What is Ovum? (And how might one use it?)

video upload by Oscillator Sink

"Ovum, from Crows Electromusic is an analog oscillator bank containing 5 freely tuneable oscillators. It is a simple instrument suited to drones and ambient, but becomes most interesting (in my opinion) when paired with other instruments. So join me on this calm voyage of discovery as we get to know Ovum and how you might pair it with other instruments.

Check out the Ovum here:
https://crowselectromusic.com/

Chapters
00:00 - Introducing Ovum
04:57 - Ovum plus Overdrive
07:51 - Ovum with Meng Qi Wingie 2
13:35 - Ovum as Sample Fodder (with Elektron Digitakt)
21:36 - Build Quality and I/O
23:10 - Ovum as a Drone Sidecar (with Lyra-8)
27:41 - Ovum as a Pedal Tone Oscillator (with Monlogue)
31:02 - Criticisms, Wish-Lists and Final Thoughts"

#Synthuary2020 / #Jamuary2020 - 01

Published on Jan 1, 2020 True Cuckoo

"The idea with Jamuary is to get going with what you have, and to help get comfortable sharing and performing little jams, and to get to know each other and appreciate what everyone is doing in the electronic music independent scene. Post a little music snippet every day of jamuary, or for as many of the days that you have the energy to. Browse the hashtag and get inspired. Get to know musicians you had never heard about, and perhaps even make some friends along the way."

CLICK FOR MORE »

de la Mancha basic65

"basic 65 is a monophonic synth, inspired by the classic 80s home computer, the Commodore 64 and its legendary SID chip. Building on the waveforms and signal path of this famous chip, basic 65 adds further features and options to take things a step further.

The double arpeggiator allows complex versions of that retro 8-bit game sound and the modulation options inspire experimentation via the mod envelope and 2 comprehensive LFOs. Pulse width modulation, ring modulation and oscillator detune/sync are key ingredients in the signature sound. Throw in some pitch drift, bit drift, a sprinkle of dirt and randomisation and you have a wide range of lofi, chiptune, retro-tastic sounds at your disposal.

This version is the update to the popular basic 64, redesigned from scratch, with many improvements, new features and all new presets. basic 65 was co-developed with sink, who also made the amazing presets.


features

• Monophonic synth in VST format for Windows based hosts
• 3 oscillators with pulse, saw, triangle and noise waveforms
• Pulse width can be modulated by envelope or both LFOs [NEW - pwm modulated by envelope]
• Each oscillator can be sync’d to another and/or ring modulated by another
• Each oscillator has its own ADSR envelope and can be routed to filter individually
• Resonant filter with low pass, high pass, band pass and notch modes [NEW - notch mode added]
• 2 tempo-sync Arpeggiators in series for complex arp sounds [NEW - 2nd arp, added arp patterns]
• Arp tempo, range and note length can be adjusted [NEW - more tempo-sync options, note length knob]
• Modulation envelope can control pulse width and pitch of individual oscillators as well as filter and dirt [NEW - modulates pwm, cut-off, res, dirt]
• 2 tempo-sync LFOs with wide range of waveforms, including random [NEW - more waveforms, more tempo-sync options, added phase]
• Both LFOs can control pulse width and pitch of individual oscillators [NEW - individual oscillator pitch and pwm]
• One LFO also controls filter and dirt, the other can modulate the depth and speed of the first LFO [NEW - modulates res, dirt and LFO1]
• Envelopes are non-linear and can be retriggered from zero or smoothed on each new note [NEW - separate smooth for amp and mod envelopes]
• Pitch drift models instability with variable depth and frequency [NEW - depth and frequency added]
• Options for 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16 bit audio with randomising feature [NEW - added randomising, added 4 bit and 12 bit]
• Developed with SE 1.1, so no problems with multiple instances [NEW]
• 128 presets by sink covering arps, leads, bass, drums and lofi sounds [NEW - all new presets]
• basic 64 is also included in the download"

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/basic.htm

How To Kick (a discussion of kick drum synthesis)

Published on Dec 23, 2019 Oscillator Sink

"Welcome to the first video in a series where we'll be talking about drum and percussion synthesis. Throughout the series the Volca Drum will be used for the examples, but the ideas discussed will happily translate to many other synths.

We're kicking things off (ha ha) with kick drums - the centre-piece of beat based electronic music. Starting with the classic 'all-in-one-oscillator' approach, we'll expand on that to look at how having separate voices for the 'thwack' and 'boom' can really help you tailor your sound."