Arturia MicroFreak Touch-Plate Synthesizer

A keyboard with no keys to push down.

Your fingers land directly on patterned circuit-board plates instead of moving piano keys. Those touches steer a compact synthesizer that mixes digital sound-making with an analogue filter. The row of bright controls invites small experiments that can quickly turn into very strange noises.

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WHY IT CAUGHT OUR EYE

Its flat, exposed touch keyboard makes playing feel closer to handling an electronic instrument panel than a miniature piano.

BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the original MicroFreak model 570101. Use headphones or a suitable external sound system; it has no built-in speaker. The listing includes a power supply and MIDI adapters, not a microphone bundle. The independent photograph shows the standard instrument.

Original MicroFreak, model 570101, standard black-and-white touch keyboard with orange controls; MicroFreak Only, not Stellar, Vocoder edition or MiniFreak.