{"id":9031,"date":"2018-03-06T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technosynth.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9031\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:52:08","slug":"plaits","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/produit\/plaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Specifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12 HP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alimentation: +12V: 55mA ; -12V: 5mA<\/li>\n<li>25 mm deep<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-22vnzp-8c79b29e883b38d4ca5527bd3f1bceef-wrap avia-button-right  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><a href=\"http:\/\/mutable-instruments.net\/home\/\" class=\"avia-button av-22vnzp-8c79b29e883b38d4ca5527bd3f1bceef av-link-btn avia-icon_select-no avia-size-small avia-position-right avia-color-theme-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-label=\"More information\"><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >More information<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead wrap\"><strong>MACRO-OSCILLATOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plaits<\/strong> is the spiritual successor of <em>Mutable Instrument&#8217;<\/em>s best-selling voltage-controlled sound source, Braids. Not just a mkII version: its hardware and software have been redesigned from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Just like its predecessor, it offers direct access to a large palette of easily tweakable sounds, covering the whole gamut of synthesis techniques. What has changed is the interface: gone are the screen, menu system, hidden settings, and the long list of somewhat redundant synthesis models.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to additional CV inputs, and to the use of 3 timbre-shaping parameters per model, Plaits is straightforward to use, and much closer to the ideal of one synthesis technique = one model. What were fragmented islands of sound in Braids are now part of a continuum of sounds.<\/p>\n<p>The module is very easy to use as a stand-alone voice or percussive source: its built-in low-pass gate allows the module to be operated without a VCF or VCA, and an internal decay envelope is normalled to some of the CV inputs.<\/p>\n<p>Great care has been taken regarding audio quality, anti-aliasing, and CV interpolation, resulting in a richer, cleaner sound.<\/p>\n<p>All this for less HP, mA, and \u20ac\/$ than the original!<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 synthesis models for pitched sounds:<\/strong><br \/>\n* Two detuned virtual analog oscillators with continuously variable waveforms.<br \/>\n* Variable slope triangle oscillator processed by a waveshaper and wavefolder.<br \/>\n* 2-operator FM with continuously variable feedback path.<br \/>\n* Two independently controllable formants modulated by a variable shape window (VOSIM, Pulsar, Grainlet, Casio CZ-style resonant filter&#8230;).<br \/>\n* 24-harmonic additive oscillator.<br \/>\n* Wavetable oscillator with four banks of 8&#215;8 waves, with or without interpolation.<br \/>\n* Chord generator, with divide down string\/organ emulation or wavetables.<br \/>\n* A collection of speech synthesis algorithms (formant filter, SAM, LPC), with phoneme control and formant shifting. Several banks of phonemes or segments of words are available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 synthesis models for noise and percussions:<\/strong><br \/>\n* Granular sawtooth or sine oscillator, with variable grain density, duration and frequency randomization.<br \/>\n* Clocked noise processed by a variable shape resonant filter.<br \/>\n* 8 layers of dust\/particle noise processed by resonators or all-pass filters.<br \/>\n* Extended Karplus-Strong (aka Rings&#8217; red mode), excited by bursts of white noise or dust noise.<br \/>\n* Modal resonator (aka Rings&#8217; green mode), excited by a mallet or dust noise.<br \/>\n* Analog kick drum emulation (two flavors).<br \/>\n* Analog snare drum emulation (two flavors).<br \/>\n* Analog high-hat emulation (two flavors).<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\/O and controls:<\/strong><br \/>\n* 2 model selection buttons, with 8 bicolor LEDs displaying the active model.<br \/>\n* Main frequency control, 8 octaves.<br \/>\n* Three dimensions of timbre control: harmonics, timbre, morph.<br \/>\n* Attenuverters for the timbre, morph, and frequency modulation CV inputs. These CV inputs are normalized to the internal envelope generator.<br \/>\n* Model selection, harmonics, timbre, morph, FM CV inputs.<br \/>\n* Main V\/O CV input, with a large input range (-3V to +7V).<br \/>\n* Trigger input, triggering an internal D envelope, or the exciter for the physical\/drum models.<br \/>\n* Level CV input, controlling the internal digital low-pass gate, or acting as an accent control for the physical\/drum models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[217,76,218,213,239,171,214,47,109],"product_tag":[209],"class_list":{"0":"post-9031","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-digital","7":"product_cat-eurorack-en","8":"product_cat-glitch-en","9":"product_cat-granular","10":"product_cat-bruit-en","11":"product_cat-percussion-en","12":"product_cat-resonator","13":"product_cat-synthesizer","14":"product_cat-vco-en","15":"product_tag-mutable-instruments-en","17":"first","18":"outofstock","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=9031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosynth.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}