Mutable Instruments Plaits User Manual

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MORPH: column index.
AUX: low-fi (5-bit) output.
Four-note chords, played by virtual analogue or wavetable oscillators. The virtual analogue oscillators
emulate the stack of harmonically-related square or sawtooth waveforms generated by vintage
string&organ machines.
HARMONICS: chord type.
TIMBRE: chord inversion and transposition.
MORPH: waveform. The first half of the knob goes through a selection of string-machine like raw
waveforms (different combinations of the organ and string “drawbars”), the second half of the knob scans
a small wavetable containing 16 waveforms.
AUX: root note of the chord.
A collection of speech synthesis algorithms.
HARMONICS: crossfades between formant filtering, SAM, and LPC vowels, then goes through several
banks of LPC words.
TIMBRE: species selection, from Daleks to chipmunks. How does it work? This parameter either shifts the
formants up or down independently of the pitch; or underclocks/overclocks the emulated LPC chip (with
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Mutable Instruments Plaits Specifications

General

Polyphony	Monophonic
Synthesis Methods	FM, Granular, Wavetable, Noise
Outputs	Audio output
Dimensions	12HP
Gate Inputs	1x Trigger Input
Controls	Morph