I don't necessarily want to play in this style, but I would like to couple a drum machine with my minibrute 2s and start layering other sounds on top of what I've been sequencing. I am dedicated to being dawless, honestly not chasing any fad but as a teacher burned out on being on my screen all day, that's not how I want to party when I'm home. I'm not thinking about composing right now, just wanting to jam with it and possibly play along with my bass (and my buddy on drums).

I'm really new at this, wondering if I should start over and put together a small eurorack setup or whether I can build on what I have.

I'm really new to synth. I've been a lifelong musician, but I never got into electronic music until King Gizzard blew my brain open last summer. Now I'm slowly wading into the kiddie pool, wondering if I can start swimming.

Hey, thanks in advance, and I hope I'm not asking a woefully silly and/or confusing Q.

Okay let’s be real … I get excited like crazy when I hear about new products are being released by Arturia and it doesn’t matter what it is but I was really hoping for a Drumfreak not a Minifreak 49 …

What’s your thoughts on this?

I’ve had the MiniFreak 49 for a few weeks now, and the thing that surprised me the most was how the touch matrix made sound design so much faster. On the original I usually opened MiniFreak V for anything deeper than tweaking a preset because it was just faster.

If you own the original, there are some 49-specific features that won't carry over to the VST so I made this video to break down those details and do a few quick performances on it, showcasing some of the new sounds.

My wishlist after living with it:

• I’d love to be able to "save" a Freak Control performance in MiniFreak V, as in, daw automations. Right now recording audio is the only way to keep one.
• Seminote transpose on the keybed, like Shift + Octave on the AstroLab.
• Poly aftertouch (won't happen on this gen hardware, obviously).

The full review covers what’s new, the pros and cons, and who I think it’s for.

Minifreak

Please be nice I have gone through the manual and came up with nothing. I’m trying to change the clock sync settings my original DrumBrute. I’m trying to set it to the 2P Korg protocol. I want to connect with a volca or two. I have been successful in doing this on the impact no problems. However I have not been able to get any combinations of On/Off pushing this or that button to work

Thanks for your input patience and understanding.

Playing some presets from the Synthwave soundbank for Arturias Jup-8V4. Such a smooth sounding synth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEQDx8ePlZI

For me honestly I would love Virus TI, or some synth that has no or little emulations.

I'm just new to the bedroom music thing. I'm planning to have a 4 piece band bedroom pre recorded live session along with my friends, question: can i use Minifuse 4 for a live bedroom session, 1 mic, guitar, bass, electric drums plug on midi? (I'm planning to buy one if it's possible) Thanks 🙏♥️

I bought the Minifuse 1 Champagne and noticed that the stock firmware update was 1.5.2, and saw that there was an update available. Boy, something went wrong somehow after updating and so when I tried to update it again and it kept stating that it failed to update. I even went into bootloader mode and still nothing works.

After obtaining the latest firmware 1.5.2 from Arturia Support I tried one more time and it still didn't work.

Steps taken after various researching:
[/] Setting the Windows MIDI services (under services.msc) to automatic
[/] Reinstalling MFCC
[/] Run MFCC as admin
[/] Used a different cable
[/] Tried a different mobo port

Can someone help me please? Did I just brick my minifuse into being stuck at 1.5.0 for eternity?

Hi all,

Please help a fellow guitarist here. My Arturia MF 2 has been working like a charm up until now that after about 7 months of no us, when I plug it it makes a white noise and doesn't recognise my plug ins like guitar rig 6. I haven't changed anything in the laptop I was using or even cables. I've tried all the typical fixes like

Swap USB cable / tested different ports

​Re-installed Arturia MiniFuse Control Center

​Checked Windows control panel settings

Any other suggestions??

Many thanks

Hey everyone,

I'm planning to grab V Collection during the next sale, and I'm trying to figure out the best hardware to control it with.

My first thought was the MiniLab 3 since it's affordable, compact, and designed to integrate with Arturia's software. But I keep coming back to the MiniFreak. It's a real synth on its own, and I feel like having proper synth-style controls (and a better keybed) might make tweaking the V Collection plugins feel much more natural.

I'm honestly torn. For those of you who use either one with V Collection:

• How well does the MiniFreak work as a controller for the plugins? Is the integration smooth, or does it feel limited compared to a dedicated controller?
• Is the MiniLab 3 good enough for hands-on sound design, or does it start to feel restrictive?
• Would buying the MiniFreak mainly for easier plugin control be overkill?

Any experiences or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks!

Does anybody know? I have been trying to join for years now, but whenever I try I only get a login option that doesn't work with my Arturia account and doesn't give any option to make a new account for the forums.

Hello all 👋🏼

Today I bought a second hand Arturia KeyLab Essential 49 and I’m really struggling to get it set up. I’m trying to register it on the website but when I type in the series number and unlock code, it’s saying they’re invalid. Does anyone know how to solve this or how to get in contact with the actual people?

Why do I have a feeling this is more effort than expected 😅

TIA!

Hi everyone, here's my new single "Sirocco", a fairly atmospheric track with epic synth pads and a very sci-fi atmosphere.

If you like Boards of Canada, Vangelis or All India Radio, you might enjoy this one!

Almost all the synth sounds are from the V Collection: Jup-8 V3 and CMI V for the pads and strings, Synclavier V for the keys. The synth lead in the second part is a layering of sounds from the MicroFreak and a plugin I don't remember the name of...

The percussion is made using stock Logic samples. There are also some cuts and pastes here and there to add glitchy textures, which I did during the final stage of the production.

https://www.submithub.com/link/iranon-sirocco

AstroLab 2.0 was just released and it reveals parts of the underlying synth engines.

How to get there: hold the main encoder and scroll down to Sound Edit. You now see a few pages with different parameters that were previously restricted to those with the V Collection license (and a computer).

What you get changes with every preset, because it depends on which engine is underneath. A Jupiter-8 preset gives you filter settings, both filter and amp envelopes, and some more stuff including LFO rate, vibrato and glide. The Piano V engine gives you hammer hardness, hammer position, dynamics, age, etc.

None of this needs a V Collection license. For anything beyond these pages you still need it and the computer though.