Modules
The software modules of the firmware. Each one runs on the Brain and in the editor's simulator alike; its page has the controls, the ports, how it works and patches to try it with.
Oscillators & voices
Complex oscillator
A complex oscillator (Buchla 259): overtones from FM and folding instead of a filter.
v0.5.108
Elements modal voice
Modal synthesis as on Mutable Elements: an exciter (bow, blow, strike) sets a resonator ringing.
v0.5.111
Morph wavetable
A wavetable oscillator that glides smoothly between eight waveforms.
v0.5.108
Plaits macro oscillator
A macro oscillator (Mutable Instruments Plaits): 24 sound models.
v0.5.110
Plucked string
A plucked string (Karplus-Strong).
v0.5.108
Rings resonator
A resonator (Mutable Instruments Rings): strings, bells and bars you strike.
v0.5.110
SID
The Commodore 64 sound chip: three voices and a filter.
v0.5.108
VCO
Oscillator: the source of the tone.
v0.5.109
Instruments
Acid bass
A 303-style bass voice: turn Cutoff, Reso and Env mod while it plays.
v0.5.108
DX7 FM voice
Yamaha DX7: six-operator FM with the factory sounds.
v0.5.108
Electric piano
An electric piano modelled from tine (Rhodes) or reed (Wurlitzer) and pickup, no samples. Soft and hard playing really sound different.
v0.5.108
Fairlight CMI voice
Fairlight CMI: 32 waveforms played one after another, drawn on PAGE 4.
v0.5.108
Ondes Martenot
Ondes Martenot: a nearly pure tone with timbre switches you can combine.
v0.5.108
Synthex polysynth
After the Elka Synthex: two oscillators per voice through a four-pole filter, with chorus.
v0.5.108
Tape strip
The mechanics of a Mellotron: an eight-second tape per key, with wow, flutter and wear.
v0.5.108
Tonewheel organ
A tonewheel organ with nine drawbars: 91 tonewheels always spin, a key taps nine of them.
v0.5.108
Trautonium (Mixtur)
Trautonium (Mixtur): undertones instead of overtones, through fixed formants.
v0.5.108
Filters & shapers
Ladder filter
A Moog-style ladder filter: 24 dB low-pass.
v0.5.108
Low-pass gate
Low-pass gate: filter and volume together, with the after-glow of a vactrol.
v0.5.108
Tube
A valve amp: warm, asymmetric distortion that breathes with your playing.
v0.5.108
Wavefolder
Wavefolder: folds the wave back for overtones (West Coast).
v0.5.108
Delay & reverb
Beads texture synthesizer
Beads (Mutable): cuts what comes in into grains, or turns into a delay or a sound source.
v0.5.112
Clouds granular
A granular cloud (Mutable Instruments Clouds).
v0.5.111
Diffuseur
The loudspeakers of the Ondes Martenot.
v0.5.108
Digital echo
An early-eighties digital echo: repeats with a bit of grit.
v0.5.110
Elements reverb
Plate reverb (from Mutable Instruments Elements).
v0.5.108
Hall reverb
Large reverb: a hall, room or church with a long, living tail.
v0.5.113
Plate / spring reverb
Plate or spring reverb.
v0.5.110
Shimmer reverb
Reverb with an octave up in the loop: a shimmering cloud.
v0.5.110
Modulation effects & EQ
BBD chorus
Analogue bucket-brigade chorus: wider and warmer.
v0.5.110
Parametric EQ
A mixing-desk style parametric EQ.
v0.5.108
Rotary speaker
A rotating speaker (Leslie): horn and drum each spin at their own speed.
v0.5.108
Stereo phaser
Stereo phaser: sweeping notches, offset between left and right.
v0.5.110
Vibe
Uni-Vibe: four phase stages around one lamp, a lopsided, breathing sweep.
v0.5.108
Modulation & control
CV math
Does sums with control signals: adding and scaling.
v0.5.108
LFO
A slow oscillator for movement (vibrato, wah, sweep).
v0.5.109
Pads
Push buttons.
v0.5.108
Slope
A function generator: rise and fall, as an envelope or LFO.
v0.5.108
Stages segment generator
A chain of segments: envelope or LFO (Mutable Instruments Stages).
v0.5.109
