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Table Of Contents
1. Welcome and Introduction.................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1. A fascinating adventure..................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.2. About reading manuals..................................................................................................................................................... 5
2. Installation....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1. Usage Precautions................................................................................................................................................................ 6
2.2. Warning ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3. Notice............................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
2.4. Precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:........................................................................ 6
2.5. Register your Instrument................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.6. Connecting the MicroFreak to the World.............................................................................................................. 7
3. MicroFreak Overview................................................................................................................................................. 8
3.1. Front panel overview .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.1. Top Row ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.2. Middle Row..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
3.1.3. Bottom Row.................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
3.2. Rear Panel Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 18
3.2.1. Audio outputs ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
3.2.2. Pitch/Gate/Pressure outputs ............................................................................................................................................................................. 18
3.2.3. Clock input/output .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
3.2.4. MIDI input/output ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
3.2.5. USB/DC IN ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
3.2.6. Power switch ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
3.2.7. Power Connector..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
3.3. Signal Flow ............................................................................................................................................................................. 21
4. The MicroFreak Presets......................................................................................................................................... 22
4.1. Loading Presets................................................................................................................................................................... 22
4.2. Saving Presets..................................................................................................................................................................... 22
4.3. Tweaking the Preset Configurations .................................................................................................................... 24
4.4. Panel.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
4.5. Understanding Digitally-Controlled Analog ..................................................................................................... 27
5. Making Connections................................................................................................................................................ 28
5.1. Control Signals ..................................................................................................................................................................... 28
5.2. The Matrix and its encoder ......................................................................................................................................... 29
5.2.1. Sources and Destinations ................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
5.2.2. Assigning destinations........................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
5.3. Freaky ideas......................................................................................................................................................................... 33
6. The Digital Oscillator.............................................................................................................................................. 35
6.1. The oscillator as a sound generator ...................................................................................................................... 35
6.2. The Parameter Controls................................................................................................................................................ 36
6.3. Oscillator types: An Overview................................................................................................................................... 36
6.3.1. Basic Waves Oscillator (BasicWaves)......................................................................................................................................................... 36
6.3.2. Superwave Oscillator (SuperWave) ............................................................................................................................................................. 37
6.3.3. Wavetable oscillator (Wavetable) ................................................................................................................................................................. 38
6.3.4. Harmonic OSC (Harmo)....................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
6.3.5. KarplusStrong (KarplusStr) ................................................................................................................................................................................ 39
6.3.6. Virtual Analog (V.Analog) ................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
6.3.7. Waveshaping oscillator (Waveshaper)..................................................................................................................................................... 40
6.3.8. Two operator FM (Two Op.FM) ......................................................................................................................................................................... 41
6.3.9. Granular formant oscillator (Formant) ....................................................................................................................................................... 41
6.3.10. Chords (Chords) ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
6.3.11. Vowel and speech synthesis (Speech)...................................................................................................................................................... 43
6.3.12. Modal Resonator (Modal) .................................................................................................................................................................................. 44
7. The filter: sound in close-up ............................................................................................................................... 45
7.1. Modifying sound.................................................................................................................................................................. 45
7.1.1. Low Pass Filter ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 46
7.1.2. Band Pass Filter.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
7.1.3. High Pass Filter ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
7.1.4. Cutoff frequency......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
7.1.5. Resonance or Q ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
7.2. Animating sound................................................................................................................................................................ 47
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