User manual
Table Of Contents
- User Manual
- MicroFreak
- Special Thanks
- Thank you for purchasing MicroFreak!
- Special Messages
- Introduction
- Table Of Contents
- Welcome and Introduction
- Installation
- MicroFreak Overview
- The MicroFreak Presets
- Making Connections
- The Digital Oscillator
- The oscillator as a sound generator
- The Parameter Controls
- Oscillator types: An Overview
- Basic Waves Oscillator (BasicWaves)
- Superwave Oscillator (SuperWave)
- Wavetable oscillator (Wavetable)
- Harmonic OSC (Harmo)
- KarplusStrong (KarplusStr)
- Virtual Analog (V.Analog)
- Waveshaping oscillator (Waveshaper)
- Two operator FM (Two Op.FM)
- Granular formant oscillator (Formant)
- Chords (Chords)
- Vowel and speech synthesis (Speech)
- Modal Resonator (Modal)
- Noise Oscillator (Noise)
- BASS Oscillator (Bass)
- SAWX Oscillator (Sawx)
- HARM Oscillator (Harm)
- Vocoder Oscillator (Vocoder)
- The Filter: sound in close-up
- The LFO
- The Envelope Generator
- The Keyboard Section
- Using the Icon Strip
- The Arpeggiator
- The Sequencer
- MicroFreak Configuration
- Using Scales
- Paraphonic Chord Mode
- Connecting external gear
- CV/GATE FUNCTIONS
- Clock sources/destinations
- Controlling External and Modular gear
- About Local Control
- About MIDI channels
- Tutorial 1: Using MIDI to control the MINI V VST synth
- Tutorial 2: Using MIDI to control Modules on VCVRACK
- Using MIDI CC# codes for control
- Tutorial 3: sending CC# codes from the MicroFreak
- MIDI CC# values: an overview
- Appendix A: Speech Oscillator: internal and external control
- Appendix B: The MicroFreak Vocoder
- Appendix C: Cheat Sheet
- Appendix D: CC# Values
- Software License Agreement
- Declaration of Conformity
3.2. Rear Panel Overview
3.2.1. Audio outputs
The headphone output is a standard 3.5 mm TS or TRS jack. The output of the MicroFreak is
monaural. Connecting stereo headphones will merely provide the identical sound on the left
and right sides (i.e., mono).
The Line output is a 6.35 mm TRS jack. It's output is monaural. Use this output to connect to
your amplifier or mixer. Line out is symmetrical/balanced type output. This is a symmetrised
TRS jack, connecting a TRS jack will improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
3.2.2. Pitch/Gate/Pressure outputs
These are typically used together to send electrical signals to an external device such as
Arturia’s powerhouse monophonic analog synthesizers (MatrixBrute, MiniBrute/SE, and the
MicroBrute) or a Eurorack modular system.
The CV output sends a control voltage you can use to control external oscillators. Gate can
trigger external devices. Pressure generates either a pressure voltage or a velocity voltage
depending on the settings in Utility [p.87]: Utility>Preset>Press mode.
Rear Panel Overview
Audio output
CV, Gate and Pressure
outputs
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