r/MicroFreak

Well, while was sleeping the vote was cast and people mostly don’t support this project having paid aspects. I wasn’t trying to be greedy, I just wanted to bring something game changing to the community and was hoping for some financial support to keep going. I truly appreciate the attention to the project and it still feels important so I’m glad I shared and that in itself is part of the beta. I want you all to have access to these features and I don’t want to gatekeep and I want the project in the good graces of our community, so I will be opening up the project for free for everyone and move to a donation based model. I hear you guys and i respect you. In the end, I want you to use it and I want to leave a legacy more than to have dollars. I am absolutely not here to prey on anyone’s work or you. I hope you all accept my apology and that I am learning as I go and I’m listening to you. It will take a few hours or maybe a day and I’ll have to project updated to reflect these decisions. Thanks again for all of your responses. ✌️🧡

So I'm currently waiting on a arturia minifreak to pair with digitakt 2...just wondering if i wanted to stay dawless and layer different patches from the minifreak into a pattern in assuming I'd just sample different patches ...then add then as track.... I'm guessing it would be a bit more straightforward to use ableton and just record the different patches in live...but i have no audio interface and never used a daw

Hey!

I always thought it shouldn’t be impossible to add new audio engines to the Arturia MicroFreak, especially since several of the stock ones originally came from Mutable Instruments. So this week I spent some time digging into it and ended up building this tool:

https://doriamxyz.github.io/FreakSwap/

What it does is replace one of the MicroFreak’s stock audio engines with another one adapted from Mutable Instruments Plaits.

There are quite a few Plaits models that never made it into the MicroFreak. Some are somewhat similar to engines that are already there, while others behave pretty differently.

The workflow is pretty simple:

1. Pick a new engine.
2. Choose which original engine to replace from the available options.
3. Download the modified .mff file and installation instructions.

Everything runs locally in your browser. There’s no account, no app to install, and your firmware file isn’t uploaded anywhere.

The website also doesn’t connect to or flash the MicroFreak directly. You install the modified firmware manually afterwards using Arturia’s MIDI Control Center.

For now, the number of stock engines that can be replaced is still limited, and this first version supports one replacement at a time, so you can’t necessarily remove the engine you use the least. I preferred to prioritize having as many new engines as possible available to try.

Ideally, I’d like to be able to add engines instead of replacing existing ones, but I still haven’t found a way to make that work properly. Maybe later? Maybe Arturia sees this and eventually gives us an SDK so we can do it the right way?

It probably goes without saying, but this is completely unofficial, and modifying/flashing firmware always comes with some risk. Back up your presets first, and of course, use it at your own risk.

I’d love a vst that sounds/ acts like them. iPad user

I connected the microfreak on a few pedals and synched it with the syntakt. What an amazing combi.

I always like watching people drop their videos on reddut and I finally made a video with lasers in an abandoned fabrique and I wanted to share it with you guys.

I hope you like it and please let me know what you think of it. Have a great weekend.