42- The Arturia MiniFreak- The terrifying truth about polyphony, paraphony, and the MiniFreak!

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10 ай бұрын

Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the note count/articulation settings of the MiniFreak coupled with an explanation of synthesizer polyphony and articulation in order to demonstrate the unique thing happening with the Arturia MiniFreak.
The theme was created out of presets and crafted patches over an assemblage of fragments of GarageBand loops. For all intents and purposes, it is a MiniFreak-Only composition.
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@coachangeln 10 ай бұрын

That was one of the most educationally fascinating 17 minutes of my life. Thank you! I own the MiniFreak, and I now look at it with more respect.

@automaticgainsay 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@BreakzTerrorist 6 ай бұрын

you must be terribly uneducated then.

@telogic1 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video Mark, Even as a tester for this synth I have found this series in-depth

@automaticgainsay 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! That's really cool!

@Cubik303 10 ай бұрын

Words matter. Rant justified. I think it’s important to have clear terminology so people can distinguish marketing from reality and have a common understanding for discussion. The topic is fraught with peril but I’m glad you’re shining a light on it.

@X22GJP 10 ай бұрын

Words matter. Experience matters more.

@kjetilschjanderluhr581 7 ай бұрын

Your series on the Minifreak is completely awesome and highly educational at the same time. Well done.

@automaticgainsay 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@0072gldnfngr 10 ай бұрын

This was really good! I’m new to synthesis and it helped. I’ll certainly be rewatching this. Thank you!

@streetlegal008 3 ай бұрын

This is exactly the detail I wanted to know about the MiniFreak's voice settings - so thank you for that. I don't have to understand all of the digital magic - but I wanted to know the kinds of sound options that Arturia were aiming for with this synth. As is often said in these matters : if it sounds good - it is good!

@JGlassy 10 ай бұрын

As a relatively new Minifreak owner, I found this video super helpful. Thanks!

@automaticgainsay 9 ай бұрын

I’m glad to help!

@NoobeyTunes Ай бұрын

Thanks for making this video. It's an excellent demonstration of the different modes. A regular paraphonic synth shares a single filter. Since the MiniFreak has 6 filters, it would try to make the best use of them. So for instance you could press 6 keys in rapid succession and each note gets its own filter. For keys 7-12 it would have to reuse the first/oldest filter for each new note and the key that the filter was taken from would have to combine with another old key's filter. A cheesy name could be "Pair-a-phonic" where each pair of notes could share a filter. This likely isn't exactly correct since the keys-to-filters don't necessarily have to be in pairs. Perhaps hexaphonic polyphony would be more accurate to indicate some kind of rotating recycling/reuse of the filters for the 12 notes.

@automaticgainsay Ай бұрын

I have written, spoken, and produced a lot of content regarding the confusion about what constitutes polyphony, and what, conversely, constitutes articulation of polyphony (filters, envelopes, amps). Companies have vastly muddied the waters of clear description of these various functions, unfortunately, and the telephone effect of the Internet hasn’t helped!

@aseomg 10 ай бұрын

This is the type of nerdiness that's going to get Doty into the Synth Hall of fame 😎

@brianbrill 10 ай бұрын

Piano machine go brrr

@automaticgainsay 10 ай бұрын

You might not believe me, but this is one of my favorite comments in 17 years of doing this.

@GizzyDillespee 10 ай бұрын

Pseudophonic Quasiphonic Metrophonic Hexaphonic Dodecaphonic Hookedonphonic

@rayabsent2087 7 ай бұрын

fk, now im confused again...

@hexwavemusic 8 ай бұрын

Ha that was a great explanation, I always thought the paraphonic name for this was weird but didn't think too hard! Considering the Taiga gor example has a "paraphonic" mode where two notes can be played at once but all sharing a filter and envelope, the minifreaks mode with the same name couldnt be more different than that 😂

@chubbichicken 10 ай бұрын

Split-Osc-Poly-Doubling is what Im calling it 😁 Thanks for another great vid!

@TobyBorrow 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful I noticed this noodling with it 🎉

@LeonIsabel 8 ай бұрын

Nice video man! Does it mean that I can stack 6 sequences on top of each other in mono mode ? And if I split the 2 oscillators, does it mean I could stack up to 12 mono sequences?

@FutureFenyx 9 ай бұрын

Very good video TY

@automaticgainsay 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@FutureFenyx 9 ай бұрын

@@automaticgainsay liked and subscribed! Excellent materials on several synths I own! Happy happy joy joy! =)

@a2zStudios602 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the explanation. Can the mink freak do stereo allocation of voices or oscillators in any of the modes, at all??

@HazeAnderson 10 ай бұрын

Just about any stereo chorus pedal can produce that effect for you.

@jantuitman 10 ай бұрын

It would be interesting to test the “paraphonic” mode further 12:49 have 6 notes permanently held (by an external sequencer) and then play short notes on top of it. That should give information about how the pairing works.

@angelog.spicolaiii8021 10 ай бұрын

...think i might pull the trigger on this thing & Keylab 49 or 61 tooo control it: just can't decide man¿as usual, once again & one more time udahman, Udahbest Doty UrgUrU thanx again dude

@GrootsieTheDog 5 ай бұрын

I dont know if Marc suffers from GAS but it appears he has a serious case of RAS - Ring Acquisition Syndrom.

@automaticgainsay 5 ай бұрын

@WooManMusic2024 6 ай бұрын

Any chance of u doing video for sequencer

@GizzyDillespee 10 ай бұрын

I knew this was coming....

@Wagoo 10 ай бұрын

OH NO! Here we go again! 😅

@jessefoster572 10 ай бұрын

I swear Arturia resurrected Merlin in Brocéliande and have him on their payroll or something.

@dankeplace 10 ай бұрын

You should create your own Wiki called Marcophonic...

@automaticgainsay 10 ай бұрын

ha ha haa

@dankeplace 10 ай бұрын

@@automaticgainsay OK so I was really impressed with this vid, how you explained the multiphonic thing, how it should not be called paraphonic due to many things being involved, ie, the envelope, the filter etc per voice. So I asked Wagoo and I will ask you, since you sacrifice the 2nd OSC to add the extra 6 voices, do you think Arturia could somehow make a pseudo binaural mode like a UDO 6 by had panning the 1st OSC R and then the 2nd OSC L and making these 12 voices stacked in a 6 voice super mode? This is how I see it, I don't know if I have it right but given what Arturia have achieved to get the extra 6 voices, maybe they would be able to get something like this to happen?

@artsolomon202 10 ай бұрын

Its called freak for a reason;)

@infn8loopmusic Ай бұрын

If we dont call it freakaphonic it will be a missed opportunity

@LoveinScarcity 10 ай бұрын

“Big, unusable punch in the face” lol

@0072gldnfngr 10 ай бұрын

2:58☝🏾

@fburton8 10 ай бұрын

Psychophonic?

@HazeAnderson 10 ай бұрын

Splittinghairsaphony 😏... to those who want it to respond like a piano ... just get a piano ... I can play this synth with one finger.

@finctank 9 ай бұрын

I think it’s periperiphonic

@user-cn4or8iq4t 3 ай бұрын

a dictionary description would take less than 30 seconds to read.

@automaticgainsay 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@markaprill6501 4 ай бұрын

Nerd alert. It’s better than paraphonic. If they made up a new term nobody would understand it. We are all impressed with you knowledge of synthesis but I didn’t hear any terrifying truths here.

@automaticgainsay 4 ай бұрын

YES YOU DID