Sam Ash announced fresh stocks of the Arturia MiniFreak, a polyphonic hybrid synthesizer that delivers six‑voice polyphony through a compact architecture combining dual digital engines with analog filters. With a wide range of oscillator modes distributed across two digital sound engines and per‑voice analog filtering, the MiniFreak is for sound designers and electronic music producers who need a portable instrument with extensive sound‑shaping capabilities.
More information is available at https://www.samash.com/arturia-mini-freak-digital-synthesizer-a571001xx
Music production increasingly favors instruments that combine analog filtering with digital flexibility and advanced modulation, especially in compact setups. Reflecting this shift, Sam Ash points to the MiniFreak’s dual-engine architecture as a clear example of how modern synth design meets those demands. Engine 1 delivers a wide range of digital oscillator modes—including Virtual Analog, FM, Granular, and Wavetable—while Engine 2 expands creative control by either layering with Engine 1 or transforming it through processing modes such as Comb Filter, Destroy, and Ring Mod.
Users can stack engines for compound timbres or feed one into the other for layered interplay, with paraphonic mode enabling up to 12‑voice operation. Polyphonic state‑variable analog filters and VCAs are integrated throughout the signal path, keeping the hybrid design central to the instrument.
A modulation matrix with seven sources and multiple destinations enables animated, evolving textures. The 37‑key velocity‑sensitive keybed with aftertouch supports expressive control, while two LFOs with custom shaping provide per‑voice modulation options. A 64‑step sequencer with four modulation lanes, a cycling envelope, and assignable LFO shapes supports experimentation, allowing users to introduce ratchets, octave shifts, and real‑time mutations within patterns. These features support both polyphonic and paraphonic configurations with real‑time parameter automation.
“With over 20 different oscillators to choose from, players will have no shortage of waveshapes on hand,” said a gear expert at Sam Ash. “The MiniFreak has a better-feeling keyboard that allows you to take your sound design even further with the onboard Mod Matrix and a full set of digital effects.”
Sam Ash also highlights the synth’s integrated three‑slot digital effects section, which includes a selection of effects such as chorus, phaser, flanger, reverb, delay, distortion, bit crusher, EQ, multiband compression, and vocoder.
The Arturia MiniFreak has a list price of $649 and is now available on the Sam Ash store at a limited‑time price of $599. The included MiniFreak V plugin extends the hardware’s architecture into DAW‑based workflows, mirroring its sound and modeled analog filters in software and supporting preset compatibility between hardware and plugin.
About Sam Ash
Established as a family‑owned music store in Brooklyn in 1924, Sam Ash Music has grown into a national retailer of musical instruments, pro audio, and DJ gear, and is now part of the Gonher Music Group.
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