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What Synth is for Me? (lemm.ee)

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Have a question about what synth - soft or hard - you should buy? Ask here! At least give us an idea about what kind of music you want to make and an inkling of how you want to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I recently bought a Microfreak, and I agree it would make a great first synth for a beginner. It's very easy to get decent sounds out of it very quickly, but it also has a lot of depth if you dig. Very importantly, the modulation matrix is easily accessible and intuitive to use. Lots of synthesizers fail at that aspect.

The only big problem I can imagine would be that it doesn't have any effects and can sound a bit dry without them. If any beginners are reading this and are wondering why they can't get their Microfreak to sound like most demos, it's because everyone on YouTube is running it through at least some reverb, if not a bunch of other effects, too.

[–] Electricblush 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes.

The microfreak loooves some delay and/or reverb.

Im convinced a lot of the presets are made with that in mind as they instantly sound lush and lively when you give them some room to work with.

My second hardware device was a circuit tracks, and the microfreak really revels in the built in effects. They are a really brilliant pairing, the sounds really work well together.

What makes the microfreak still one of my favourites is that sound design on it is so fun, and it's a real happy accident machine.