Controlled chaos, repeatable randomness

Audio buffer acquisition

• Stereo I/O. Even with a mono recording buffer, a wide stereo output can still be simulated by randomly panning grains or through the stereo reverberator.
• Stereo pre-amp with a gain range covering modular and line levels.
• Recording buffer size: 1s (32kHz, stereo) to 8s (16kHz, µ-law, mono).
• The FREEZE button and the corresponding gate input freezes the content of the recording buffer, allowing you to dive into its sonic details.
• 4 memory slots for storing and recalling buffers.

Granular synthesis

• Grain generation time base: periodical, randomized, or externally clocked.
• The POSITION knob selects from which part of the recording buffer the grains are extracted.
• Grain size from 16ms to 1s.
• Up to 40 to 60 concurrent grains (depending on recording buffer resolution).
• Transposition from -2 octaves to +2 octaves, with V/O tracking.
• Grain envelope continuously variable between boxcar, triangle and Hann functions.
• CV inputs for all grain parameters, individually sampled and held by each grain. For stochastic, Xenakis-style explorations, try feeding random voltages to those!
• Diffusion network with 4 All-pass filters to post process the granularized signals.

Post-processing ("blending") settings

• Dry/wet balance.
• Random panning amount.
• Feedback amount.
• Reverb amount.

Specifications

• Input impedances: 100k.
• Audio input gain range: line level to modular level.
• CV range: +/- 5V. CVs outside of this range are simply clipped.
• Internal processing: 32kHz, 32-bit floating point. RAM Recording buffer uses 16-bit (high quality) or 8-bit µ-law (low quality) resolution. (Information is taken from an official Mutable Instruments website) This module on Modular Grid 8 hp wide, 25mm depth