Arturia has recently released a firmware update to its MiniFreak polyphonic hybrid synthesizer.
Firmware version 2.0 comes with a new wavetable engine, effects and additional enhancements, giving users more ways to create, accentuate and sculpt a raw Freak sound. The MiniFreak V software synthesizer has also been updated to version 2.0 to include these new features.
MiniFreak update delivers a significant dose of new features and sonic possibilities for existing hardware and software users, with an expanded sonic palette, new FX and more.
Changes in MiniFreak 2.0
- Wavetable engine: Including 32 wavetables and 64 new patches to extend the raw potential of your sound, this update brings one of the most powerful engines to MiniFreak (available for Oscillator 1 only).
- Super Unison: Transform a simple patch into a Supersaw monster with Super Unison FX. This chorus-type effect can stack up to 6 copies of a sound on top of a dry signal, for unmistakable width.
- Enhanced custom LFO: Users can now decide if the LFO rate corresponds to a single step, or the entire Shaper curve, empowering you to create more nuanced, evolving, and expressive modulations.
- Favorites panel for hardware users: Save up to 64 of your favorite presets and access them with ease. Enter the favorites panel by pressing shift + save, store a patch by pressing save + selecting a sequencer slot and recall a saved patch with a step button press.
- New sound store for MiniFreak V: Software users can make the most of a brand new Sound Store with two paid banks with 64 patches and three free banks with 32 patches at launch.
- Additional enhancements to Macro Edit mode for greater real-time control over modulation amounts.
- Osc Freerun OFF, which now apply to Bass, Harm and SawX.
- Clock Send and Transport Send for hardware users, which can now be toggled on and off.
- You can now control the instrument volume with MIDI CC7.
The update is free for users of the MiniFreak hardware synthesizer and MiniFreak V.
More information: Arturia