Arturia Minifreak VST

[Uncle E]

i imagine my view count is about to go up exponentially, cheers

No doubt. This is a tremendous hack to the system.

[Biome_Digital]

If anyone on kvr annoys you with their posts, just listen to their music and it usually helps clear things up imo

haha,

[SLiC]

If anyone on kvr annoys you with their posts, just listen to their music and it usually helps clear things up imo

People here make music?

[martiu]

people here buy vst synths, install it, open it in the daw and press a button on they keyboard until it makes - beep, beep sound, after that they will increase the attack and release time until they got - bbbeeppppp, bbeeppppp sound and thats it

[martinjuenke]

If anyone on kvr annoys you with their posts, just listen to their music and it usually helps clear things up imo

People here make music?

No, only chatting.
Music is over estimated!

[Artie Fichelle]

At this time, even if I have only to pay 49 Euros, I will not buy it. I will wait and see.
As one can guess, I have alot of arturia stuff, but the only one I like to play and dig is pigments.

[Pytchblend]

So this is called MiniFreak V... does this mean it will be bundled in V Collection 10 when that's released?

[EnGee]

Well I spent another 1.5 demo sessions with it tonight, tweaking it from the INIT patch, and I am perhaps more underwhelmed than I was yesterday. There is literally nothing about it I find impressive. The different oscillator algorithms did nothing for me. The obvious point of comparison for me is TRK-01, which straight out of the box feels like it has more to offer from its five "engines" (except polyphony, of course) and it's free. Side-by-side, it blows MiniFreak's sound out of the water.

The output on MiniFreak is also extremely quiet, which probably does it no favours. I also thought the distortion effect was ridiculously tame, no matter how much I tried to drive it, to the point of being useless. The chorus is nice, though.

Again, the overall impression was of a bad 90s ROMpler. The bottom end is almost non-existent in most of the patches, although some can be coaxed out of it if you try hard enough. I just can't work out why you'd bother when there are so many better, cheaper options out there to work with.

So after 2.5 demo sessions, I'd wasted enough time and uninstalled it. I noticed that I currently have none of the 9 Arutira products I own installed, which is a bit sad, I suppose, although I never paid anywhere near full price for any of them. We never used any of them in any of our songs so it's not like I need them.

IMO, this is a good 'another' review. I've noticed the weak output and some other negative points. I will write another post regarding them later today.

[Uncle E]

Why does weak outputs matter on a virtual instrument?

[Digivolt]

Why does weak outputs matter on a virtual instrument?

I would have thought this would be a plus given every Synth and mostly every preset ever made feeling the need to redline everything because louder = better, less gain staging hassle if it's already at a decent level

[EnGee]

It should be 'normal' not so hot and not so weak! (Compared to other synths). Anyway, it does seem without effects/unison ... etc. I will check it later.

[martiu]

Why does weak outputs matter on a virtual instrument?

I would have thought this would be a plus given every Synth and mostly every preset ever made feeling the need to redline everything because louder = better, less gain staging hassle if it's already at a decent level

can it go to 11?

[vurt]

If anyone on kvr annoys you with their posts, just listen to their music and it usually helps clear things up imo

People here make music?

define "music"

[Scotty]

Yep, it always points self.

I like Bones because he has his compass.

[PieBerger]

Yep, it always points self.

I like Bones because he has his compass.