About: I’m happy to share that I’ve contributed around 25 presets to the new Arturia Microfreak V3.0 update with the cool digital oscilators by Noise Engineering. They are known for some crazy digital modular modules. MicroFreak, by Arturia is a very cool little hybrid synth. It does a lot and is super intuitive to use and performative. I have been a big fan since it was released and find that it sounds and works like no other synth that I have in my studio. It can play up to four voices for some cool paraphony. The modulation matrix is awesome and allows you to route five sources to seven destinations.
I also made a demo track completely produced with the custom presets based on the Microfreak Noise Engineering synthesizer engines. All the presets come with the new update including midi sequences.
Check all information about the Microfreak update on Arturia’s website here.
Also read further on the Noise Engineering website to know what it is all about and read everything about their new digital engines for the Microfreak.
Microfreak V3.0 Noise Engineering Engines
Bass: Something to do with sine waves and cosine waves, modulators, saturation and wavefolding. The result is a solid bass thump that gets nicely folded and torn apart with the Fold knob and then melted with Saturate which acts on the cosine wave. The Noise control phase modulates between the two oscillators in opposite phase and is added between the folds.
SawX: A recognisable sawtooth wave with “Saw Mod” phase modulation and “Shape” chorus. This does exactly what you imagine it will and has a really lively sound. The Noise control sets the amount of phase modulation by sub-sampled white noise.
Harm: A harmonic oscillator that adds harmonics/partials to a fundamental frequency. Spread sets the relation of partials and Rectification adds a sort of half fold to each partial. Noise sets the amount of phase-modulated noise and master clip level.