Mutable Instruments - Plaits - Stereo Demo Jam 

that's great to hear thanks Noah

It’s a great module. It’s a necessity in my travel case as it covers so many bases.

I think this is also about to become my first module! Great video, thanks!

Instablaster

Thanks, it's definitely packed with a wide range of sounds and they modulate nicely too.

I do like a module that comes along and makes you take a few things out sometimes. There's usually a few a year that have that wow factor.

braids is cool to , has phase distortion ( casio cz ) and vosim synthesis, which are missing in plaits

Nice to see those expanded on.

Nice one, should be hitting shops globally this week I think.

Thanks Re Heller :)

Definitely borrows from a few of them. Braids, Rings, Streams, Elements Easter egg mode, Tides etc.

cheers Thomas.

thanks

:)

Olivier is great on all fronts so I'm glad to see things doing so well.

Yep

Clouds? How is there a clouds mode?

​@@VictorSteiner they are maybe referring to one of the particle algorithms?

Braids and the WTx4 mode got a lot of use from me so I can see doing the same.

i honestly never heard a fully sounding chord from the module, of course poly is a hassle because any good polysynth usually combines each voice with a tuned LFO/VCO2 giving you more overall frequency body and a fuller sound.pre filter, pre-vca). unfortunately, while very versatile, to achieve this with modular (especially analog) takes a little more than just microtonal pulse-rythms sped up by a few 100x (which the braids seems to perform here.... ... hat tip to adam neelys video about harmonic polyrhythms )

@@mynameismynameis666 dafuq

Yeah more powerful, better sounding, better interface and cheaper. Win win.

:)

Great.

Ordered within minutes of hearing about it! I had just parted company with my Clouds module to fund another purchase, then this cropped up!

James Stiff Haha. Probably would have been minutes for me, had I been able. :-)

I think many will have ordered quickly.

Same

I may ditch my Rings for a Plaits.

thank you, I appreciate that.

Thanks Arjun, appreciate that.

cheers Tim.

I'm sure modular grid is flooded with racks having these planned into them.

I hope the shops all ordered enough!

fingers crossed

Hi Super Frog! glad to hear it, thanks for the comment and glad the video are helpful.

haha I've been tripping over my words with it while filming with some many saying "plates".

I don't beleive the hype myself, but I love this module so much that I got its predecessor in mind now :)

You don't wrap a belt around speakers and your head?

Hi Gareth, really appreciate that cheers! You can't get the envelope out of the Aux output. It might be possible with an adjustment of the code. So when it becomes open source and people start to adjust it and make alternate firmwares that may be possible.

DivKidVideo thanks for your reply. I hope so, it would come in handy for me at least. :) Going to try get a pair of these when they next become available.

Cheers for the comment.

Cheers

nice one.

DivKidVideo yes, I was ready to order a second Rings because I love it so much, but this makes more sense in the long run ... great demo as usual, cheers mate 👍🏻

Two! I was just thinking of a second haha.

Let's not mess about eh... I'm 90 percent certain that I'd want a second one right away, so I thought I'd just get on with it!

haha

Did the chat other on Facebook help with this one? I replied over there.

Nice one, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

I definitely plan to do more videos with Plaits just got a lot of work to get through at the minute and not sure when I'll get to those at the minute.

There's a good few options for musical, mass sweet spot, great tones in eurorack definitely.

This definitely strikes me as a "new to Eurorack" comment. They don't call it "Eurocrack" for nothing. There's all too many wonderful, amazing, delightful, musical modules: but this is a very versatile, great module at a wonderful price. I'm trading in three modules I don't have room for for this one in a few hours, and I'm very excited! Thanks for your videos, as I'm hoping to figure this one out a bit more quickly than I spent figuring out the ones I've got. It's not going to happen the way I want, probably, but I'll get there eventually. If the OP meant "is this a great choice for a starter oscillator," absolutely. But there are fifty great modules for every module one knows about, at least. If not three hundred. So many fantastic choices: that's what made Eurorack hard for not-rich people. Martin Gore from Depeche has a wall of his home studio that is just wired up with what looks like over a thousand modules and he is always getting more/expressing guilt over what he correctly calls his "addiction." It's a challenge to stop wanting more.

agreed , cv to decay , also missing in STREAMS -

Definitely.

cool! thanks for the head up

I'm sure this will be around for some time. Olivier doesn't kill things off that quickly!

Never seen a hot cake stall but I believe so :)

I think a lot of people will currently be looking at expanding semi modular systems with some eurorack. It's a great time with a tonne of options for doing so.

haha

Good morning, I do try to get modulation and/or audio onto the oscilloscope (Mordax DATA module) as much as possible. What would help is watching a lot of my other videos about modulation modules. It's not just about the modules themselves but the patching, synthesis and how they work. I know that doesn't help immediately, but if watching a few LFO videos really gives you grasp of some potential LFO uses then you hear some modulation in a video like this you'll recognise what's going on. I do often do patch breakdowns that zoom the camera out and look at the wider patch exclusively for my Patreon supporters that might help. All that said, I'll try to bear that in mind for a more direct affect for you.

I mean, I feel like I know reasonably well what you can do with LFOs and modulation in general, but with a video like this (and pretty much any gear video over 10:00), I'm generally jumping through it, trying to get an idea of what it can do, rather than getting a complete overview (I suspect this is something a lot of people do). So a lot of the time I'm going to miss the part where you explain what modulation sources you're using, and it's pretty hard to jump back and find where you describe what you're using, because it could have been 30s ago, or it could have been 10 minutes ago. Time stamps might help, but I guess that would also be quite a bit more work. Can't you do 2 audio and 2 CV channels with the Mordax simultaneously? I mean, the pitch/trig input are pretty obvious from the audio, so it's basically just the timbre/morph channels that are interesting here...

I've been time stamping and making indexes with time links in the latest lot of videos so that should help. You can input anything on the DATA but they all share the same time setting. So a time set to show and LFO won't then show audio with any other than a thick messy waveform. Slowing the time down on the DATA to show the audio wave then wouldn't show you much of the CV signals. So unless I went for two DATAs I can't show both on that at once.

Yeah, right, fair enough. Well, what you do present is definitely appreciated, and I look forward to more, and maybe improvements as the tools improve :)

cheers Nosa.

I use the maths to modulate the model parameter. I generate an lfo and adjust the corresponding maths channel attenuverter to control how far the leap to another model is (negative will scroll backwards and positive will scroll forwards). Any lfo coupled with an attenuverter should do this.

This comment made me buy that setup. Have everything besides rings

I haven't yet, might do at some point but I was thinking of more deep dives into the various modes in separate videos.

The event boss doesn't sync and learn a tempo. It just works with the events you give it at the input.

I believe after comments from some users, Tony from Make Noise and general feedback that Easter eggs and bonus hidden modes are gone from all new modules.

Should just be Plaits. I think what you’re hearing is the morph control changing the waveform via the internal envelope

Maybe. I'm hoping I can pick up a cheap used Elements now that Plaits is out there

Hi John. PM me and we can discuss a fair price.

It's not Elements at all really. Tonally there's some similarities as there is with Rings and also Tides as an oscillator. Elements is the only module that offers it's left hand side, a complex and varied exciter section to go with a resonator. I think that's really under looked. Of course in use if you're finding it similar, go for it.

That's helpful. Thank you. I definitely could still dive deeper into my Elements. I'll give it some time before jumping ship.

ssshhhh, I want a silly-cheap Elements ;-)

Yeah same with the word Timbre, American English and English English are often different.

Them Colonials!

@@sunilsolanki no u

i guess no, at least theres no obvious way.

no it can't. But it's a bonus thing really as opposed a main key feature. You can modulate the level input though so using another envelope you can control amplitude more freely.

Right on, may have to snatch one of these up in the future. Sounds very nice!

not at all. I have a Braids and a Rings and both are capable of so many things that I often feel like I want a 2nd. I think this will fill that need on both accounts.

Really tempting to get this one or something different such as the Iteritas (which is on my toplist for a long time now) !

not at all, sonic improvements, interface improvements. I'll still be using Braids as well though.

Cheers Tony.

Yep, no processing in or out of the rack. Signal path with Plaits into Praxis Snaker Charmer to output to my sound card.

Yeah that long development time shows. Huge improvements all round.

haha! A little four voice with them could be great.

:)

and the Kid..too...cauz its hard to explain things!

nice one.

haha

main out panned left, alt out panned right.

@@DivKid is the alt out the AUX?

yeah the AUX output gives different signals to the main output. Different for each mode.

@@DivKid Thanks for explaining that!

Not every bit of it but it definitely improves on it sonically and in terms of interface and the third modulation point.

I feel braids is a more lo-fi, crude and quirky... and with the bit reduction and drift and such. There's a warm place for braids in my heart. Still holding back on bees in the trees, but it's coming.

both!

rings is more sound processor than oscillator rly

if you dont plan on using rings external in, get the plaits instead or (if youre really into modal synthesis) an elements.

Hmm... I think I'm gonna go for Plaits because of the versatility, but telharmonic plus rings would be beautiful. ARGH! I have an optomix so could I get that plucky sound from rings I like... so I'm probably going for the Plaits. Thanks m8

tELHARMONIC + Rings is definitely otherworldly.

No, but if anything it's a bonus to be able to turn this into a voice on it's own. It's a module, so get it into a VCA/filter/folder etc and use modulation to get things moving nicely. You can put envelopes into the level input, so any CV-able envelope will do the trick. Just bear in mind it's a bonus feature for quickly getting percussion that's all.

DivKidVideo sure, but in terms of easy results from one module i don't need cv over mode, but more decay. i see you manually modulating this param all the time in the video. if they simulate an lpg and praise it as a feature, i guess it's more then a bonus. it's always nice to free my real lpg/cvEnv for other purposes.

While I get your point I do disagree, this is an oscillator an improvement re built version of the macro oscillator concept that Mutable originated with Braids. You can use LPGs, VCAs, envelopes etc external to the module. If you lost features from the core tone/mode controls you wouldn't be able to replicate those with other modules. I aren't sure they advertise it as a main feature particularly, but I haven't kept up with how that's been presented by the company.

Ok, good to know. Any way that can tie into the oscillator function? Plaits follows on Braids nicely in terms of weaving hair, weaving sound type thought processes.

I'll take a reference to something sounding like Aphex Twin.

Had this experience last night with the 2op FM, the module is instant full stop, only just got the module btw, amazing.

tom brah ... tim berrrrrr ... tam bu ... tam bru

harsh commentary on the youtube / Facebook modular video scene :)

on each mediocre comes a stellar one! The jams that often seem mediocre to me are the ones that are almost totally mono. My ears get saturated too fast when there is no stereophonic sound or any dynamics. So I am really pleased that you use the stereofield and proper dynamics in this demo! ;)

Totally understand. I really like mono for a lot of things, but no reason not to explore stereo when given the chance. This isn't meant to be stereo in anyway but some of the modes definitely work great patched that way.

haha :) please familiarise yourself with the differences in English English and America English pronunciation. dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/timbre :)

similarly: dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/plait

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