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    The eight synth contenders

    Apr 02, 2020 3 minutes

    Arturia MicroFreak £233

    RELEASE: May 2019

    1 Freak certainly stands out from the crowd. It has fairly robust feel next to some of the more plastic offerings here, and a more leftfield Buchla Easel-style 25-key capacitive keyboard. Inside you get a 4-part paraphonic architecture, a 12-mode digital oscillator covering a multitude of raw ingredients including analogue-emulation, wavetable oscillation, physical-modelling and a Modal Resonator for real instruments and drums. We said: “it feels like multiple synths in one. If stuck for ideas, quickly

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