Mutable Instruments Clouds Illustrated Manual

Granular Processing: Controls
A. FREEZE button. This latching button stops the recording of incoming audio. Granu-
larization is now performed on the last few seconds of audio kept in memory in the
module.
B. Blending parameter/Audio quality button. Selects which of the blending parameters
is controlled by the BLEND knob and CV input, or selects one of the four audio quality
settings.
C. Load/Save button. See the “Advanced topics” section in the original manual.
D. Grain POSITION. Selects from which part of the recording buffer the audio grains are
played. Turn the knob clockwise to travel back in time.
E. F. Grain SIZE and PITCH (transposition). At 12 o’clock, the buffer is played at its
original frequency. The range of the Size knob has been adjusted to produce much
smaller grains. Fully counter-clockwise, grains are barely hearable spikes; fully clock-
wise, the maximum size is as before.
G. Audio INPUT GAIN, from -18dB to +6dB.
H. Grain DENSITY. At 12 o’clock, no grains are generated. Turn clockwise and grains
will be sown randomly, counter-clockwise and they will be played at a constant rate.
The further you turn, the higher the overlap between grains.
I. Grain TEXTURE. The Texture knob now has asymetric shapes of grain envelopes. It
morphes between: square, ramp up, ramp down, triangle, and triangle with diffuser.
Fully counter-clockwise, the square shape has particularly sharp edges and may click.
This is desired (more glitch!); if you want the old behaviour, turn the knob up a little bit
until the click disappears.
J. BLEND knob. This multi-function knob is described in the Blending parameters sec-
tion.
K. Indicator LEDs. They work as an input vu-meter. When FREEZE is active, they moni-
tor the output level. Soft-clipping occurs when the last LED is on. They can also indicate
the quality setting (red), the function assigned to the BLEND knob (green), or the value
of the four blending parameters (multicolor).
NOTE: To cope with the additional computation, Grain polyphony has been reduced a
bit. This should not be noticeable.

Mutable Instruments Clouds Specifications

General

Brand	Mutable Instruments
Model	Clouds
Category	Synthesizer
Language	English