Arturia MicroFreak

The MicroFreak is a synthesizer manufactured by French music technology company Arturia and released in 2019.

[2] This digital oscillator is then fed into a multi-mode analog filter, giving the MicroFreak its hybrid sounds.

The MicroFreak has 22 distinct sound engines (as of the 5.0 update),[3] which are:[4] Of those, 12 are made by Arturia (Basic Waves, Super Wave, Harmonic, Karplus-Strong and Wavetable, Noise, Vocoder, User Wavetable, Sample, Scan Grain, Cloud Grain, and Hit Grain), 7 are made by Mutable Instruments (Virtual Analogue, Waveshaper, Two operator FM, Formant, Chords, Speech and Modal) from their "Plaits" eurorack module,[6] and the remaining 3 are made by Noise Engineering.

[7] Arturia made available user installable firmware updates for the MicroFreak with additional features and improvements in the years after the original release.

[11][12] According to the music production website MusicTech it has "an enormous amount to offer and will really reward exploratory use".

MicroFreak Vocoder (top left in white) is located above a MatrixBrute (bottom left)