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Synthesizer

Arturia MicroFreak

Name: Arturia MicroFreak
Brand: Arturia

Arturia · MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer

Price: 230 EUR – 380 EUR

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An affordable hybrid synthesizer offering a selectable digital sound engine ranging from wavetable to physical modeling to vocal synthesis, paired with an analog filter and a distinctive capacitive touch keyboard.

Where available? Go to the best price – 230 EUR About this instrument

About the Arturia MicroFreak

The MicroFreak's digital oscillator section lets a player switch between multiple genuinely different synthesis algorithms - including a version of the same physical modeling engine used in Arturia's more expensive instruments - meaning a single affordable synth covers sonic territory that would otherwise require several separate instruments. Its analog filter, sourced from Arturia's other synth lines, adds warmth and character to the digitally generated waveforms rather than processing them purely in the digital domain.

Its flat, capacitive touch keyboard replaces traditional moving keys entirely, a deliberately unconventional choice that also enables pressure sensitivity per key - an expressive control surface unusual at this price point, reflecting Arturia's willingness to depart from standard synth keyboard design when it serves the instrument's sonic and expressive goals.

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Reverb Arturia MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer 2019 - Present - Black 230 EUR Best price View details
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Reverb Arturia MicroFreak in MINT condition 299 EUR View details
Reverb Arturia MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer 2019 - Present - Black 300 EUR View details
Reverb Arturia MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer 2019 - Present - Black 300 EUR View details
Reverb Arturia MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer 303 EUR View details
Reverb Arturia MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer 317 EUR View details
Reverb Arturia MicroFreak 25-Key Algorithmic Synthesizer 2019 - Present - Black 380 EUR View details

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Sound character of the Arturia MicroFreak

The MicroFreak pairs a digital oscillator (using Mutable Instruments' open-source Plaits engine, offering wavetable, granular, physical-modeling and other algorithms) with a genuine analog filter, so it can produce bright, complex, sometimes glassy or metallic digital timbres that a purely analog oscillator cannot, while the analog filter still rounds off the very top end.

Bright Metallic Modern/Hi-Fi Crisp

Technical data for the Arturia MicroFreak

Oscillator	Digital, multi-algorithm (incl. physical modeling)
Filter	Analog
Keyboard	Capacitive touch, pressure-sensitive
Sequencer	Built-in step sequencer/arpeggiator

Price history for the Arturia MicroFreak

Cheapest seen: 230 EUR · Most expensive seen: 380 EUR

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The history of the Arturia MicroFreak

Arturia's MicroFreak combines a multi-algorithm digital oscillator with an analog filter and an unconventional capacitive touch keyboard, offering broad sonic range at an accessible price.