Something around right now ?
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Aww yeah! Very cool update. Thank you!
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Very cool update; the superunison is very cool, especially since it doesn’t cost any voices. Also the new osc sounds great!!
Sequencer STILL behaves really odd when running in synchronized mode with the hardware and plugin though. Sometimes it records itself. Sometimes it deosn’t step properly. Sometimes it randomly resets. Sometimes the controller lanes work on the software but not the hardware, sometimes the opposite. Almost never is it displayed as running and in sync between hardware and software.
Pretty sad they still haven’t fixed it properly.
Where’s the wavetable import?
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Still waiting on what Arturia promised us last year, telling us it’s “coming soon”.
The preloaded wavetables and samples are far beyond stale by now,
This. Again.
“coming soon”…
crickets
https://www.arturia.com/products/hardware-synths/minifreak/update
→ Looks interesting! But when will the new minifreak V be available for download so we can actually perform this update?
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Haha, the website was rolled back today (nice try!), but this is what the link referred to yesterday:
And it’s back.
A new update for MiniFreak V is also available.
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Oh no. Now people will have to find something new to moan about 
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Sadly, this…
Some Thoughts on the 5.0 Update…
The video doesn’t explain how to create or set up user wavetables—in the case of the Microfreak the ASC had built in support for this.
Also, the video mentions 12-bit and 32 kHz for the samples, which gives it a pretty lo-fi character… but then again, the Minifreak isn’t a sampler per se.
What did confuse me a bit, though, is the mention of a maximum sample length of 6 seconds. The Microfreak supports longer samples—for example, the accompanying video shows a 9-second sample—but even longer sample lengths are or were possible. Why was a 6-second limit added here?
Best Regards Frank
Note: The MicroFreak processes 16-bit, 32 kHz samples with a maximum length of 24 seconds.
And here’s the explanation for the 12-bit and the 6 sec.: (from a AI—but you have to press for more details, otherwise it’ll “lie” to you):
“It’s not the number of basic oscillators or the filter, but rather the data throughput in RAM during polyphonic granular modulation and the additional load from the stereo effect processors that forced Arturia to settle for 12-bit resolution in the MiniFreak.”
If that’s the explanation, then I understand why it took a little longer. It seems the built-in hardware (2 ARM CPUs) for the sample-based playback and granular synthesis system had its own performance issues that needed to be resolved, and reducing the sample buffer to 6 seconds and 12-bit resolution was likely one step toward that solution.
I don’t know why there’s a 6 second limit, but it’s not THAT. That’s just mumbo jumbo. The LLM has absolutely no knowledge of how any of that works and hallucinates freely. Just out of curiosity, I asked Gemini and it spewed even worse BS, and when pressed it admitted that it was just making it all up (the LLMs are yes-men and will output anything to please the prompter).
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Oh yes!
Gemini confidently informed me that the emphasis screw on an LA2a is for preventing sub bass from triggering compression and that a DBX160a has a faster attack time than a UA 1176…
Take with a bag of salt…