Arturia MicroFreak Review and Tutorial: Everything you need to know, including all 12 sound engines

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Every major feature and a few minor ones reviewed and explained... Check prices here (affiliate links help the channel): ► MicroFreak on Sweetwater: https://imp.i114863.net/bLvjk ► MicroFreak Vocoder on Sweetwater: https://imp.i114863.net/vX1Ej ► Gooseneck Mic for MicroFreak: https://imp.i114863.net/dx35k ► Microfreak on Thomann: http://bit.ly/Thomann-MIcroFreak ► MicroFreak on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2EfqBYd If you just want to hear what it sounds like, here's a video I made with all 160 factory presets: ► https://youtu.be/FS3jburtVsQ Want to get all my tips in one convenient place including those to come in the future? Check out my In-Complete Book of Electronic Music Ideas, Tips and Tricks (hint: it's in-complete because it's always being updated…): ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/loopop Other places I hang out: ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loopopmusic ► Web: https://loopopmusic.com ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loopopmusic ► Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/loopopmusic My music: ► Bandcamp: https://loopop.bandcamp.com ► Spotify: http://bit.ly/LoopopOnSpotify ► Apple Music:http://bit.ly/LoopopOnAppleMusic Timeline: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Is it paraphonic or polyphonic? 1:45 Overview 3:50 Sound engines 4:20 Basic waves 5:40 Superwave 7:10 Wavetable 9:05 Harmonic oscillator 10:00 Karplus Strong 10:50 Virtual Analog 11:45 Waveshaper 12:30 Two operator FM 13:20 Formant Engine 13:55 Chords 15:05 Speech 17:05 Modal resonator 18:00 The SEM filter 20:30 Exploring the touch keybed 24:00 Modulation sources 24:30 Envelope 26:10 Cycling Envelope 28:40 LFO 29:30 How the Mod matrix works 32:25 The Arpeggiator & Sequencer, and the Spice and Dice functions 39:50 Misc, pros & cons Want to email me personally? ► Ziv (at) loopopmusic.com NOTE: Occasionally I’ll try out affiliate marketing and include affiliate links. This means that I may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via affiliate links. The content of this clip is entirely my opinion, and was not paid for or dictated in any way by the company creating the gear. Without addressing the particulars of products shown here as they might be under NDA, gear shown on this channel may be either sent by the manufacturer, on loan for review or bought at a discount. ​