A keyboard that responds to the way you touch it
The distinctive part of MicroFreak is under the fingers. Its exposed capacitive keys sense touch rather than the motion of conventional piano keys. A player can use touch as an expressive input while a digital oscillator and an analogue filter shape the sound.
In practice. MicroFreak uses a flat capacitive keyboard as part of how a player shapes sound.
What to keep in view
Features depend on firmware and settings. MicroFreak and MiniFreak have different keyboards.
A different way to play a note
The control surface gives the fingers a different kind of feedback from a moving key. Arturia provides per-note expression, so what a finger does on one note can matter independently of the others. That makes the way a chord is played part of the sound design.
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