{"id":13155,"date":"2021-02-21T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=13155"},"modified":"2022-04-22T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T01:50:13","slug":"beads","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/produit\/beads\/","title":{"rendered":"Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Specifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>14 HP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>100 mA +12V<\/li>\n<li>10 mA -12V<\/li>\n<li class=\"muted\"><em>?<\/em>\u00a0mA 5V<\/li>\n<li>25 mm deep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<div  class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-right  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling ' ><a href=\"http:\/\/mutable-instruments.net\/home\/\" class=\"avia-button av-343oz7-d08faef153f9f1ee15d20f9d8e679cc0 avia-icon_select-no avia-size-small avia-position-right avia-color-theme-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >More information<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beads is a realtime granular processor with built-in CV-controlled random modulations.<\/p>\n<p>A reinvention of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.modulargrid.net\/e\/mutable-instruments-clouds\">Mutable Instruments Clouds<\/a>, with hardware and software redesigned from the ground up, free of modes and bloat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio acquisition<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stereo I\/O with automatic level detection.<\/li>\n<li>Manual override of the level detection.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic mono\/stereo switching through patch cable detection.<\/li>\n<li>Recording time: 4s (48kHz 16-bit, stereo) to 32s (24kHz \u00b5-law, mono).<\/li>\n<li>Four quality modes, with different tone and reverb characters:\n<ul>\n<li>48kHz 16-bit<\/li>\n<li>32kHz 12-bit with Clouds emulation<\/li>\n<li>24kHz 12-bit with a hi-fi dry signal path<\/li>\n<li>24kHz \u00b5-law with cassette emulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>FREEZE<\/strong>\u00a0button and the gate input freezes the content of the recording buffer, allowing you to dive into its sonic details.<\/li>\n<li>Auto-saving of the\u00a0<strong>FREEZE<\/strong>\u00a0buffer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Granular synthesis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three grain generation modes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Latched<\/strong>\u00a0(continuous), with a periodic or randomized rate, tracking V\/O.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gated<\/strong>, with bursts of grains triggered by the press of the\u00a0<strong>SEED<\/strong>\u00a0button or an external gate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clocked<\/strong>, with randomization or division of an external clock or trigger signal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four grain parameters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TIME<\/strong>. Temporal position within the buffer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SIZE<\/strong>. Grain duration from 0.03 to 4 seconds, forward or backward playback.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SHAPE<\/strong>. Morphing between four key shapes of the grain envelope: solid rectangular, snappy decay, smooth bell, or reversed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PITCH<\/strong>. With V\/O tracking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Attenurandomizers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available for each of the four parameters of a grain, sampled each time a grain is started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Direct CV control.<\/li>\n<li>CV control of the amount of gaussian randomization.<\/li>\n<li>Internal randomization with an independent, uniform or peaky, random source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Delay<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Control of both the base delay clock rate (<strong>DENSITY<\/strong>), and its multiplication (<strong>TIME<\/strong>), with optional random taps.<\/li>\n<li>Tap tempo with the\u00a0<strong>SEED<\/strong>\u00a0button or an external signal.<\/li>\n<li>Enveloping of delay repeats, with the\u00a0<strong>SHAPE<\/strong>\u00a0setting.<\/li>\n<li>Pitch shifting of the delayed signal, controlled by\u00a0<strong>PITCH<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Signal flow<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feedback path delay: 1 sample.<\/li>\n<li>Independent knobs for feedback, dry\/wet amount, and reverb amount.<\/li>\n<li>CV input assignable to each of these three parameters, or to variable combinations of them.<\/li>\n<li>When unpatched, the R output is summed to the L output.<\/li>\n<li>Optional generation of a gate signal on the R output.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Specifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All inputs: 100k impedance.<\/li>\n<li>Audio codec: 24kHz, 32kHz or 48kHz, 24-bit.<\/li>\n<li>16-bit CV capture.<\/li>\n<li>Processing rate: audio-rate for the\u00a0<strong>SEED<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>FREEZE<\/strong>\u00a0inputs, 4kHz for the CV inputs.<\/li>\n<li>Latency: 0.25ms.<\/li>\n<li>CV input range: +\/- 8V for grain parameters, +\/- 5V for density (with V\/O tracking) and assignable CV.<\/li>\n<li>Internal processing: 32-bit floating point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"product_cat":[217,106,76,213,148,273],"product_tag":[209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}