When Arturia announced the MicroFreak in January of 2019 I said “there's nothing stopping Arturia from adding more oscillators down the road through firmware updates.” ...

Vocoder V Source: Choose from a voice input or internal sample playback to act as vocoder modulator signal. (Image credit: Arturia) Software vocoders can be frustratingly disappointing and confusion ...

Arturia's MicroFreak Now Comes With a Vocoder So You Can Synth Your Vocals: It's also finished in white with orange, gold, and swan-like details.

Well, the MiniFreak just got freakier, as Arturia drops another free update for existing owners, and an entirely new version of the synth to boot: MiniFreak Vocoder Edition.

Arturia has given the "spontaneous algorithmic synthesizer" MiniFreak another firmware update. The main new feature in version 4.0.0 is that the synthesizer becomes a vocoder.

Arturia V Collection 8 is somehow even more comprehensive. It adds emulations of the Juno-60 and E-MU Emulator II as well as a 16-channel vocoder. The Jupiter 8 and Rhodes instruments are also ...

Well, the MiniFreak just got freakier, as Arturia drops another free update for existing owners, and an entirely new version of the synth to boot: MiniFreak Vocoder Edition.