Arturia MINIFREAK49 Polyphonic Hybrid Synthesizer 49-Key

Push Every Sound Further

MiniFreak 49 is a sound design playground that rewards curiosity. Filter FM drives the analog filters from smooth to feral, and the sweet spots are everywhere in between.

Voice Panning turns basses and pads into something huge, while deep modulation keeps patches in motion. Expanded hands-on controls bring both engines and all three FX slots closer to the surface, making it faster to shape, colour, or disrupt a sound without breaking the flow.

Touch, Press, Transform

The new XYZ touch matrix brings real-time performance, modulation, and navigation onto one surface.

Slide across it and press into it: a single touch moves several parameters at once, with pressure as a third dimension.

With direct colour-coded modulation assignment, swipeable preset browsing, and eye-catching visualizers that show the sound moving, every patch invites you to reach in and reshape it.

Range You Can't Plan For

MiniFreak 49 moves effortlessly between the familiar and the unexpected.

Its two digital engines offer 30+ oscillator modes spanning Virtual Analog, FM, wavetable, granular, sample-based, and physical modelling synthesis.

Every voice runs through its own analog filter, so even the strangest sounds come out with weight behind them.

A refreshed library of expertly designed presets gives you more places to begin. Start somewhere you recognize. End somewhere you don't. Everything in between is a sweet spot.

Room to Play

49 full-size semi-weighted keys, with velocity and mono aftertouch, provide room for chords, melodic lines, and fast two-handed playing, with the response to shape each note as you go.

Aluminum pitch and modulation wheels sit where your left hand lands. Hands-on sequencing and arpeggiation keep ideas moving.

MiniFreak V carries everything into the DAW when it's time to finish the track.

Features

Keyboard & Performance

• Polyphony: 6 voices

• Keybed: 49 full-size semi-weighted keys

• Velocity Sensitivity: Yes

• Aftertouch: Mono aftertouch

• Pitch & Modulation Wheels: Aluminum

• Display: 1.3-inch OLED

• Engine Controls: 3 direct engine-access buttons per oscillator

Sound Engines & Oscillators

• Sound Engines: 2 digital engines

• Oscillator Modes: 30+ modes

• Arturia Oscillator Modes: Particles, Lick, Frozen, Raster, Skan, Hit Grains, Cloud Grains, Sample, Wavetable, Noise, Superwave, Harmo, KarplusStrong, BasicWaves, AudioIn, MultiFilter, SurgeonFilter, CombFilter, PhaseFilter, Destroy, and FM/AM

• Mutable Instruments Oscillator Modes: V.Analog, Waveshaper, Two Op. FM, Formant, Chords, Speech, and Modal

• Noise Engineering Oscillator Modes: SawX, Harm, and Bass

• Engine Processing: Engine 2 can process Engine 1

• Audio Input Routing: Through the voice architecture

• Filters: Polyphonic analog state-variable filters

• VCAs: Polyphonic analog VCAs

• Filter FM: Audio-rate Filter FM from either engine

Modulation & Sound Design

• Envelope: 1 per voice

• Cycling Envelope: 1 per voice

• LFOs: 2 per voice with user-customizable shapes

• Touch Matrix: XYZ touch matrix

• Touch Matrix Functions: Visual feedback, modulation assignment, preset browsing, and Freak Control

• Freak Control: Macros, Gate, and Spice

• Freak Control Layouts: Bipolar and vector

• Custom LFO Shapes: Draw directly on the XYZ touch matrix

• Voice Panning: Selectable stereo spread algorithms

Effects

• Digital FX Slots: 3

• FX Algorithms: 13 available in each slot

• Vocoder Effects: Self Vocoder and Ext In Vocoder

Sequencer & Arpeggiator

• Sequencer: 64-step

• Automated Modulation: 4 lanes

• Performance Arpeggiator: Octave jumps, ratchets, repeats, and Spice & Dice

Memory & Presets

• Sample & Wavetable Memory: 256 MB

• Factory Presets: 350

• User Preset Slots: 162

• Preset Compatibility: Original MiniFreak presets

Connectivity

• MIDI: In, Out, and Thru

• USB: USB-C

• Sustain Input: Yes

• Audio Input: Yes

• Clock Connectivity: In/Out

• Audio Outputs: Stereo

Included Software

• Software: MiniFreak V

• DAW Integration: Full integration

• Preset Management: Supported

• Hardware Control: Bidirectional

Box Contents

• Synthesizer: MiniFreak 49

• USB Cable: USB-A to USB-C

• Power Supply: Included