Mutable Instruments

Lineup 26 / 30 in corpus

Lineup transcribed from https://pichenettes.github.io/mutable-instruments-documentation/ ↗, last checked 2026-05-13.

• Beads discontinued granular-processor

  Granular audio processor that creates textures and soundscapes by continuously recording incoming audio into a buffer and replaying layered, transposed, and enveloped fragments (grains) with up to 30 simultaneous replay heads, plus reverb.

• Blades discontinued 18 HP

  Dual multimode filter with CV-controlled overdrive/wavefolding per channel and continuously variable routing between single, parallel, and series configurations.

• Blinds discontinued 12 HP

  4-channel voltage-controlled signal polarizer. Each channel is a four-quadrant multiplier acting as a VCA with through-zero (inverting) capability. Outputs are daisy-chained for mixing.

• Braids discontinued 16 HP macro-oscillator vco
• Branches discontinued 6 HP

  Dual Bernoulli gate that randomly routes incoming triggers to one of two outputs based on a probability setting, with toggle and latch modes.

• Clouds discontinued 18 HP granular-processor
• Ears discontinued 4 HP

  A contact-microphone front-end and envelope follower with built-in piezo mic, high-impedance audio input, amplified audio output, envelope CV output, and gate output.

• Edges discontinued 20 HP vco

  A quad chiptune audio generator featuring three aliasing-free square/pulse oscillators and one noise/triangle voice, each with gate input, individual output, and an optional built-in step sequencer.

• Elements discontinued 34 HP physical-modeling

  Full-blown modal synthesis voice with three exciter generators (BOW, BLOW, STRIKE) feeding a resonator that models vibrating structures such as plates, strings, bars, tubes, and bowls.

• Frames discontinued 18 HP

  Four-channel voltage-controlled mixer/animator under digital control: the FRAME knob (with CV) scans through up to 20 stored keyframes — snapshots of the four channel gains — and interpolates between them, turning Frames into a macro VCA-bank and a complex modulation source.

• Grids discontinued 16 HP

  Topographic drum sequencer — 3-channel trigger generator that derives rhythmic patterns from a 2D map of drum loops learned from electronic music data, with per-channel density control, CV-controllable X/Y map position, and optional Euclidean sequencer mode.

• Kinks discontinued 4 HP

  A 4HP multi-function utility module with three independent sections: a precision inverter and rectifier (SIGN), an analog logic gate pair (LOGIC), and a sample-and-hold with built-in white noise source (S&H).

• Links discontinued 4 HP

  A 4HP utility module with three sections: a 1-to-3 buffered multiple for clean CV distribution, a 2-input precision adder with two outputs, and a 3-input averaging mixer suited for audio mixing without clipping.

• Marbles discontinued 18 HP random-cv-generator

  Marbles is all about randomness – generation of random events, or randomization of external CV/Gate signals. The module is organized as three sections: the t section generates and processes clocks and triggers, the X section generates and processes voltages, and the DEJA VU section imposes structure, in the form of repetition, upon all the events generated by the two other sections.

• Peaks discontinued 8 HP

  Two-channel, general-purpose trigger processor: translates incoming triggers or gates into envelopes, synchronized periodic modulations (LFO and tap-LFO), or drum signals.

• Plaits discontinued 12 HP macro-oscillator vco

  A macro-oscillator with 15 synthesis models spanning virtual-analog, FM, wavetable, additive, granular, modal-resonator and Karplus-Strong string-machine physical modeling, noise, and percussion. Three master controls (HARMONICS, TIMBRE, MORPH) rebind their meaning per model.

• Rings discontinued 14 HP physical-modeling

  A resonator module that transforms an external, unpitched excitation audio signal into a full-bodied pitched sound, implementing modal synthesis, sympathetic strings, and extended Karplus-Strong string resonation.

• Ripples (original) discontinued 8 HP vcf
• Shades 2020 discontinued 6 HP
• Shelves discontinued 18 HP

  A voltage-controlled four-band EQ filter with low-shelf, high-shelf, and two parametric tone controls, all sweepable over the full audio range and CV-modulatable. The parametric sections are realized as state-variable filters with individual LP, BP, and HP outputs.

• Stages discontinued 14 HP

  Segment generator with flexible input/output layout. Each of 6 segments can be independently configured as ramp, hold, or step, and grouped via gate jack detection to form complex multi-segment envelopes, LFOs, step sequences, and more.

• Streams discontinued 12 HP lowpass-gate

  Dual voltage-controlled filter and amplifier (VCFA) with multiple dynamics manipulation modes including envelope generation, vactrol emulation, envelope following, and compression.

• Tides 2018 discontinued 14 HP

  Digital tidal modulator — a function generator with three ramp modes (AD envelope, looping LFO/VCO, AR envelope), four output modes, and a wide palette of waveshapes with shape, slope, and smoothness controls.

• Veils 2020 discontinued 10 HP

  Quad VCA with adjustable response curve (exponential to linear), per-channel positive offset control, and daisy-chained outputs for mixing adjacent channels.

• Warps discontinued 10 HP ring-modulator

  A cross-modulation meta-modulator that blends and combines two audio signals using a variety of algorithms (crossfade, wavefolding, ring modulation, XOR, vocoder, and more), with an internal digital oscillator that can replace the external carrier signal.

• Yarns discontinued 12 HP midi-source

  MIDI to CV/Gate interface with up to 4 voices of polyphony or 4 independent channels, featuring a 64-step sequencer, arpeggiator, Euclidean pattern generator, and multiple tuning systems.

• Ripples 2020 ↗ discontinued
• Shades (original) ↗ discontinued
• Tides (original) ↗ discontinued
• Veils (original) ↗ discontinued