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Arturia Microfreak Quick Patch Fixes: Michtack, 808 St M8, L9n1 and Quick Review - SynthWizard - 11-16-2019
Arturia Microfreak Quick Patch Fixes: Michtack, 808 St M8, L9n1 and Quick Review
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>14 - Michtack25 - 808 St M826 - L9n1</p> <p>These are jacked and janky on the latest firmware. (1.1.2.390) Apparently they worked earlier. I wouldn't know. New to the MFreak game.</p> <p>First, if your presets are write-protected, and they will be unless you or somebody else changed things: Utility>Misc>Mem Protect and set it to OFF</p> <p>For a quick fix of these three broken patches, head to each patch and hit the "Type" button three times to change to HPF. Then save the patch. (Long-hold "Save" for quick-save.)</p> <p>Rinse and repeat.</p> <p>Optional: Undo the Mem Protect change.</p> <p>I was so reluctant to get this synth. I already have the Korg MS2000, Behringer DeepMind 12, Arturia Microbrute, Moog Theremini, and a couple of drone synths, and limited space. My wife was encouraging me to get it, mostly because she's looking for an excuse to buy unneeded toys herself.</p> <p>Fine. I did it. Some guy was selling this unopened for $250 on Reverb. It arrived a few hours ago. I poked around on it for five minutes--long enough to know I was experiencing bugs. My previous experience with the Arturia Microbrute (and months of lurking in Microfreak discussions) correctly led me to believe a firmware update might fix things.</p> <p>Updating firmware was easy enough. Haven't run into a problem since. ...I mean, other than the broken patches. I googled around for a bit and found no solutions, so I poked the Freak for a minute and lucked into the HPF fix after only a minute.</p> <p>I still only have a half-hour or so on the Microfreak, but I already know I love it. It's so small, light, and versatile. I have an Akai MPK Mini Play for travel keyboarding, but I think I'll use this for some of my key-poking on the go in the future, instead.</p> <p>I'm especially fond of the presets as jumping-off points for creative song and/or patch making. I know enough about synths to know what much of the Microfreak panel does, but I look forward to learning more.</p> <p>If you're on the fence about the freak, just get one. Blame me. I'll be making noise on this at the Synth Band Dot Com thing tomorrow.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/uncoolcentral"> /u/uncoolcentral </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/dwzigu/arturia_microfreak_quick_patch_fixes_michtack_808/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/dwzigu/arturia_microfreak_quick_patch_fixes_michtack_808/">[comments]</a></span>