The eight synth contenders
Dec 22, 2020
3 minutes
Arturia MicroFreak $350
RELEASE: May 2019
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 analog emulation, wavetable oscillation, physical modeling and a Modal Resonator for real instruments and drums. A recent update has added a 16-band vocoder too. We said: “it feels like multiple synths
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