Mylar Melodies On Mutable Instruments Plaits

Mutable Instruments seem to be able to consistently release modules that everybody wants. Previous modules of theirs are regularly on the top seller lists of Eurorack dealers worldwide.

The new Plaits module is the replacement to their best selling Braids module (see above), and is described as a Macro Oscillator.

Design whiz Olivier Gillet has simplified the structure, removing the screen and menu system but still manages to offer 16 deep synthesis methods:

• Two detuned virtual analog oscillators with continuously variable waveforms.
• Variable slope triangle oscillator processed by a waveshaper and wavefolder.
• 2-operator FM with continuously variable feedback path.
• Two independently controllable formants modulated by a variable shape window (VOSIM, Pulsar, Grainlet, Casio CZ-style resonant filter…).
• 24-harmonic additive oscillator.
• Wavetable oscillator with four banks of 8x8 waves, with or without interpolation.
• Chord generator, with divide down string/organ emulation or wavetables.
• A collection of speech synthesis algorithms (formant filter, SAM, LPC), with phoneme control and formant shifting. Several banks of phonemes or segments of words are available.

Plus 8 models for noise and percussion

• Granular sawtooth or sine oscillator, with variable grain density, duration and frequency randomization.
• Clocked noise processed by a variable shape resonant filter.
• 8 layers of dust/particle noise processed by resonators or all-pass filters.
• Extended Karplus-Strong (aka Rings’ red mode), excited by bursts of white noise or dust noise.
• Modal resonator (aka Rings’ green mode), excited by a mallet or dust noise.
• Analog kick drum emulation (two flavors).
• Analog snare drum emulation (two flavors).
• Analog high-hat emulation (two flavors).

In this video Mylar Melodies fires up Plaits and jams as only he can.

As with many Mutable Instruments products, demand outstrips supply, they are scarce - with new shipments expected in June 2018

More Information

• https://mutable-instruments.net/modules/plaits/
• Mylar Melodies Channel

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