Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness

  / audiopilz  

Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Arturia Microfreak. Is Le Freak a revolutionary hybrid synthesizer or yet another buggy nightmare?

Thanks to Klangfarbe for letting me use one of their floor models
https://www.klangfarbe.com/
  / klangfarbewien  

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:09 Overview Arturia Microfreak
01:17 Buchla - style keyboard
01:47 Oscillators (Mutable Instruments)
02:10 Oscillators, Updates, Vocoder (Arturia)
02:50 Oscillators (Noise Engineering)
03:12 Polyphony/Paraphony 1
03:21 Analog Filter (Oberheim SEM - style)
03:37 Polyphony/Paraphony 2
03:48 Envelopes (ADS, Cycling Envelope), LFO
04:30 Modulation Matrix
04:54 Step Sequencer, Parameter Automation, Spice & Dice
05:33 Arpeggiator
05:40 What else??? (Connectivity, Current Firmware, Bugs)
06:20 Hate
06:42 Jam 1 (Electro Funk)
07:39 Jam 2 (Trap Music)
08:25 Finale (Proto Techno)
08:53 Verdict