I canāt understand why they chose to have so few preset slots. 192 is nothing. Iām used to 2048 on my Digitone. I know its a cheaper synth, but they could at least include 500 preset slots. This is the biggest turn off for me when it comes to this synth.
On the Arturia page they write that its include 128 factory presets and that It has 64 user slots. Really hoping that the factory presets can be deleted because 64 slots its not much.
Yeah, hoping all patch slots can be user?
192ās ok for me as long as itās simple drag/drop to switch em out/back em up. Not Midi sysex or a flakey librarian etc.
Yeah, that would be nice, hoping for that.
I have a noob question as well. I have noticed that it only has a single master output. Does that mean that every sound including pads are going to be in mono? Or is it some kind of single stereo output?
I guess it must be mono? There arenāt fx which would benefit from stereo, either.
In some videos, sebastien from arturia said 256 slots. This needs to be cleared up
From the specs on arturia.com:
Synthesizer with 192 preset slots and 128 factory presets.
I know that. Thatās why i say it must be cleared
Yeah, but itās more likely that he claimed wrong than the official website.
Yep! I cleared all Mutable code ports with Emilie. Weāre in frequent contact and everything is MIT-licensed, but I still wanted to make sure that it was cool. Additionally, Stephen at Noise Engineering approved the SumSyn port, Andrew at Nonlinear Circuits approved his ports, and Sandy Small approved my re-use of his wavetable code. I link to the original code (or product descriptions) in each Blockās help file, along with citations in the included dissertation.
Euro Reakt is inherently open-source, so people can still see how I did the ports and reuse them in their own Reaktor projects. Itās been great to see portions of the code popping up in extremely creative ensembles and racks.
I got a chance to check out the MicroFreak while I was at NAMM. From my brief time with it, I can say that itās very fun and easy-to-use. The size, weight, responsiveness, and price point are all very appealing (not to mention, the CV connectivity). I didnāt get a chance to dive into the mod matrix⦠when youāre toodling around on a device at NAMM, thereās generally a line of people behind you watching you, plus the MicroFreaks were connected to speakers instead of just headphones.
i donāt know, since itās the product designer⦠i just asked arturia and will let you know
Sounds good
Between this and the Sonicware ELZ-1 for me, two great sounding digital synths, Iāll have a hard time choosing but choose I must. Hopefully in the meantime Elektron wonāt come along with a digital synth to make the choice even harder
while waiting for their answer, i found where he said it:
https://youtu.be/rPUmbDSOx4w?t=402
The interesting thing is that heās scrolling to see how far he can go, it seemsā¦
All this talk of digital synths got me firing up my good olā Monomachine today
Oh, okay, thatās really nice! Itās gonna be interesting to hear what they say.
Coincidentally I did the same but that was because I was finally getting around to checking out the Autechre sysex⦠and feeling that I really should be investing more time in what I have rather than lusting over new stuff like this. Thatāll pass and I can get into the lustful mode againā¦
I think the packaging says 192 but there currently are 256 slots in the prototype I was showing at NAMM.
We probably had room for more so we put them
Will it do sysex dump of the current preset? Thatās what I use to store the sound with the project; the first 4 bars are reserved for sysex dumpsā¦
First of all I must say that you guys at Arturia has really made something interesting and unique with the MicroFreak. 11 different types of oscillators in such a small package are really something special combined with the analog filter and mod matrix!
I just have 3 questions.
Why does it have so few preset slots?
Is it possible to delete the factory presets in order to store your own presets in all of the preset slots?
I noticed that it only has one master output. Will everything be in mono including the pad sounds?
Thanks in advance!