Mutable Instruments Plaits Quick Start

Plaits

Macro-oscillator

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About Plaits

Plaits is a digital voltage-controlled sound source capable of
sixteen different synthesis techniques. Plaits reclaims the
land between all the fragmented islands of sound produced
by its predecessor, Braids. Its built-in low-pass gate (LPG)
and decaying envelope generator allows it to be used as a
self-contained voice, in particular for percussive hits.

Front panel

Controls

A. Model selection buttons and LEDs displaying the active

model. Each button cycles through a bank of 8 models. The
second bank is focused on noisy and percussive sounds.

B. Coarse frequency control. By default, it covers a range

of 8 octaves, but it can be narrowed down to 14 semitones
(refer to the FREQUENCY knob range section).

C. D. E. Model-dependent tone controls. Their actual func-

tion varies from model to model. In general, TIMBRE sweeps
the spectral content from dark/sparse to bright/dense,
MORPH explores lateral timbral variations and HARMONICS
controls the frequency spread or the balance between the
various constituents of the tone.

F. Attenuverters for the TIMBRE, FM and MORPH CV inputs.

When the corresponding CV input is left unpatched and the
trigger input [3] is patched, the attenuverter adjusts the
modulation amount from the internal decaying envelope
generator. When unplugging a CV input, and if the trigger
input is patched, remember to reset the attenuverter to 12
o’clock if you do not want the internal envelope to take over!

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