Mutable Instruments

Size: 16hp
Power Usage: +12V: 100mA ; -12V: 15mA.

Braids is a voltage-controlled monophonic digital sound source.Most of the timbres it generates are so complex that approaching them with a classic analog modular setup would require a full case of oscillators, filters, VCAs, waveshapers and ring-modulators - that's why we call it a macro-oscillator - intricate digital synthesis algorithms wrapped in oscillator's clothes.Each algorithm is controlled by two continuously variable parameters, Timbre and Color, both of them voltage controllable. Very often, these parameters simultaneously affect several dimensions of timbre, creating very complex movements which would be hard to generate with a traditional setup.