Macro oscillator
Voltage-controlled digital oscillator featuring 33 synthesis algorithms from 8 categories:
- analog VCO emulation
- direct digital synthesis
- vowel/formant synthesis
- 2-operator FM
- physical simulation of tubes and strings
- wavetable synthesis
- filtered/coloured/pitched noise
- granular/particular
Bonus features include a note quantizer, sample/bit rate controls, and a basic AD envelope to modulate the timbre when receiving a trigger.
http://mutable-instruments.net/modules/braids/
This Module is discontinued.
$399 submitted Apr 9th 2013, 14:01 by pichenettes | last Change Sep 29th 2016, 18:40 by pichenettes
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What a great sound source the Braids is! A great variety of basic oscillator sounds that could easily spice up any patch or track. META-mode, which allow you to modulate between the different oscillator types, is worth the price for it alone. Easily a 5/5.
0ne of my favorite vco's - simple to dial in just what yer lQQking for - sounds farken great
For my first ever modular it was my Oscillator of choice. Having lots of old analog synths and more modern ones, I just wanted something a bit different then "just" an ordinary VCO. Looking forward patching it in!
Owners and potential owners of Braids may be interested in Bees-in-the-Trees, which is alternative open-source firmware for the Braids module. Bees-in-the-Trees adds lots of internal modulation capabilities, extends the range of external modulation destinations, and even provides a simple step meta-sequencer, all running inside your Braids. Full details, installation instructions and compiled firmware images are available at http://timchurches.github.io/Mutated-Mutables/.
Bees-in-the-Trees v3.9 modified firmware for Braids is now publicly available - see http://timchurches.github.io/Mutated-Mutables/ for details. Apart from dual internal LFOs/envelopes, v3.9 adds a meta-sequencer, a complete virtual Music Thing Turing Machine implementation, quantisation of note CVs to a wide range of scales, and external CV control of many different parameters (but not all at once). Like the official Braids firmware on which it is based, Bees-in-the-Trees is completely open-source and available free-of-charge.
