The keyboard is great. Its actually based on a 18th century keybed.
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Wonder if itāll be reliable to play live, in a sweaty dark scenario? Hopefully will be ok with practice.
Playing forum catch-up and really pleased to see the early-doors marketing mixup was resolved amicably. I wouldāve loved to have been in the Arturia staff canteen on Friday to see the dev team shooting daggers at the marketing folks whoāre sheepishly pushing peas around their platesā¦
Iām sure I heard that due to improvements in electrics manufacturing that Electricians are using much less black tape these days and as a result the main reasons for sales are for covering nipples. Iām sure the electrical tape manufacturers are over the moon about this synth.
Itās definitely on my horizon too so can foresee that angled strip above the keys getting covered and Iām pretty sure Iāve got a MI sticker that I got with my Plaits that would cover the garish āMicro Freakā logo on the back.
Iām presuming that the CV/gate outs on this will output from the sequencer too which will make this a pretty excellent sequencer for eurorack - in fact, for the cost of the fancier eurorack sequencer you could nab this.
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I really like to use the keyboard & sequencer with my eurorack. Thatās why I feel how this is dirt cheap for the features! If youād like to get a touch keyboard for eurorack the options are:
Verbos (869 ā¬)
Sputnik (549 ā¬)
I had a Future Retro 512 (849 ā¬) once but I had to send it back - the quality was awful:
Do the math!
Totally get where youāre coming from. I was keeping an eye on the new Teenage Engineering touch-keyboard and was hoping that there wouldāve been more videos on it but, like you say, compared to the features of the MF and youāre not needing to break out the calculator to figure it outā¦
Not sure if the TE one has pressure sensitivity.
Just listened to some more demos of the Freak, it sounds really nice, but I canāt help thinking it looks like Grandpas accordian with all the peacocks and what not.
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MicroPeacocks ā¢
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Canāt wait for the macrame version.
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Arturia got the memo that the 90s are back in a big way among the youth.
Did no one here get the memo?
The 90s is all over Bushwick. My kids in Australia are 90s everything.
Not just Smashing Pumpkins 90s but Prodigy 90s.
Iām assuming thatās why they did a 90s style promo.
The 90s are back.
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I wish decent raves came back as well.
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That thing is pretty
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Yes, I mean freaky in a good wayā¦ Itās waving its freak flag highā¦ 
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The touch keyboard is a great feature from a sound design stand point.
Super-fast action for attacky/percussive stuff, the ability to slide your finger(s) around for gliss/hammer on/quick trills, poly aftertouch as a mod source and easy control of modular.
Interface is one of the most important things when making sound as whatās in front of you changes your ideas and your playing style.
Having another way to interact with sound at this price is a real boon imo.
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Iām really sorry asking this dumb question, but where to get these modules exactly? Tried to google it and looked in their User Library, found some references in Michael Hetrickās Euro Reakt pack and thatās it.
btw, there are m4l implementation of Clouds and Braids as well
Finally got around to watching some vids. In SonicState it seemed the mod matrix can do all four of the osc parameters. Wow.
And then Cuckoo for the sound showcase at the end. Double wow.
Iām not aware of all the Braids modes being available in the Reaktor UL but if they are Iād be keen to see. There is some Mutable code within EuroReakt but I donāt recall it as being necessarily Braids modes only. You have to open each individual Block and read itās Help to know which take code (fully credited of course) from Mutableā¦ there is also code from various things like Supercollider patches with various flavours of random etc. Plus, itās always worth reading his Help on those Blocks as they are very informative.
As far as I recall there is something about those M4L incarnations which mean that they will only work on Mac. I discovered this after spending a couple of hours scratching my head trying to get them to work on PCā¦ I shouldāve RTFMād.
I reckon the good people at Elektron are taking note of the reaction to this bit of kit, might mean those of us hankering for an updated MnM type jobby will get our wishes fulfilled in the not-too-distant future.
lol