Yes, I owned one maaaaaany moons ago. 
Sadly I donāt have the time for more than one synth at a time, really. Focused on learning the MF which is just perfect for the amount of time and space I have these days. My Polar is in storage!
I think I might try the wavetable modes in Factory (Sugar Bytes) on my iPad if I need a less harsh sound. 
The Details page for the Arturia MicroFreak says that that Wavetable mode ācontains 16 wavetables to explore, with room for more in the future.ā So maybe there will be more variety later.
Thatās great news! Hope they deliver.
I wonder if the MF was rushed out a bitā¦maybe to arrive before Superbooth?
More wavetables is not the only future thing mentioned on that page.
MicroFreak currently contains 12 oscillator types, but weāve left room for more to be added in the future!
So what other oscillators would you all like to be added?
Not sure where Arturia actually filmed this ā the place looks like it costs a million, but the synths for this productijon were only $1200. Three MicroFreaks and an Impact.
It is one of those over the top promotion videos, but worth a peak if for nothing more than seeing the movements used in the camera shots.
first i would like more words for talk
Something granular for example
Simple sample player oscillator to make pitched, polyphonic synth sounds from short recordings (birds! Bugs! Saying āahā into a microphone!).
As long as we could load them in via USB I wouldnāt even be mad that the MicroFreak canāt sample. Lol. 
Iād also like to see another modal oscillator that leans more towards Rings. The current modal oscillator leans more towards Elements to my ear, which is great, but it doesnāt reflect some of the nice sounding Rings modes/components. Would be nice to have more of Rings in the box beyond whatās captured in the current iteration of the modal algorithm.
Can anyone who was experiencing jumpy encoders comment on the level of improvement with the new firmware.
Is the bug just āimprovedā (aāla Blofeld) or fully squashed?
Iāve noticed itās better now. But havenāt played that much since I updatedā¦
I noticed a bit of the jitters with some of my encoders, but it wasnāt as pronounced as what some people had experienced. I think.
After upgrading Iāve found the machine to be a much smoother ride than before, in ways that are hard to describe. Like the ride after you get your wheels aligned, and brakes and tire pressure checked?
Iām very happy that Arturia got it out so soon, although I really wish manufacturers would just release something thatās as good as possible rather than āEh, good enough, fix it on the back endā types of releases.
Iām still really digging mine. So much to explore. Editing sequences is SO well thought out - itās a breeze once you understand it (thatās what I explored a bit today). Better than editing parameter locks on Elektrons, IMO.
before or after the firmware upgrade?
Before. No issues after.
After the update the issue seems to be gone here too, but I have worked on the synth maybe for one or two hours only after the update, though.
Has anyone opened theirs yet?
Hack-a-Freak?
Iāve had the env-cutoff value jump one or two times in the +/- 5 hrs Iāve used it after upgrading. Huge improvement compared to first firmware. Almost completely solved, Iād say.
Iām very happy with how this synth works now, I keep making sounds on it and keep playing them.
Can someone try assigning the Arp/Seq rate to the Mod Matrix and report back?
According to the manual, that knob can be a target but I canāt get it assigned. When I turn the Rate knob it actually starts changing the value rather than assigning it to the Mod Matrix.
Thanks!
Edit: it looks like I can get it to work if itās not receiving clock, but that shouldnāt be a limitation since the LFO Rate knob is still assignable even when syncedā¦?
It works with me, have only used it without ext clock until now. Only problem I found was when a modulator is assigned to the arp rate it becomes impossible to adjust the midpoint of modulation by using te rate knob itself: the display shows the modulated valueā¦ (especially noticable when modulating with random LFOā¦)