Arturia has release v5 firmware for the MiniFreak, adding user sample and wavetable import, plus a new Factory Bank v5.0 with 23 new presets.
Features:
- User sample import – import your own WAV, AIFF and FLAC samples and reshape them with MiniFreak’s sample-based engines, including granular processing, for unexpected textures and custom sound design. 12-bit / 32 kHz, up to 6 seconds.
- User wavetables – Import mono wavetables from your favorite libraries, including Pigments, and twist them on the fly with the Wavetable engine. 24-bit, 512 points for wide compatibility.
- New factory presets – 23 brand new presets bringing exclusive new sample and wavetable content, for you to explore with your favorite Freak engines.
Availability:
Arturia MiniFreak v5 is available now as a free download.
It would be cool if someone could get the Prophet VS waves in there. What a great update. My fave mini key synth is still the Hydrasynth Explorer but really if you’re into small form factor synths, you have to consider this. Also, Espen Kraft and others have made some very good vintage synth style patches that bring the MF back into traditional bread and butter synth sounds which is nice. It’s a very capable instrument and I hope they make a full size version, like how their Polybrute 12 is positioned relative to the rest of the Brute range.
They’re probably out there somewhere. All else fails, find a friend who’s been using Reaktor since the beginning. They included the original VS waves as a part of the sample library back then.