Mutable Instruments Clouds - Manual

Audio quality
Hold the Blend parameter/Audio quality button for
one second, then press it repeatedly to select the
recording quality. The current quality setting is
indicated by a red LED.
Rate Resolution Channels Buffer time
32kHz 16-bit stereo 1s
32kHz 16-bit mono 2s
16kHz 8-bit µ-law stereo 4s
16kHz 8-bit µ-law mono 8s
Changing audio quality erases the recording buffer.
Saving and loading buffers
Up to 4 frozen audio buffers can be saved and reloaded.
Saving
1. Hold the Load/Save button for one second.
2. Press the Blend parameter/Audio quality button
repeatedly to select one of the four memory slots. The
selected slot is indicated by a blinking red LED.
3. Press the Load/Save button to confi rm.
Blending parameters
The BLEND knob and CV input can control one of these
four mixing and post-processing parameters:
Dry/wet balance
Stereo spread/random panning
Feedback amount
Reverberation amount
To select which parameter is controlled by the BLEND
knob and CV input, press the Blend parameter/Audio
quality button. The current parameter is temporarily
indicated by a green LED.
When turning the BLEND knob, the color of the four
status LEDs temporarily shows the value of the four
blending parameters (from black when the parameter is
set to its minimum value to green, yellow and then red
for the maximum value).
It could happen that the position of the knob does not
match the value of the parameter. If this is the case,
turning the BLEND knob clockwise (resp. counterclock-
wise) causes a small increase (resp. decrease) in the
value of the parameter, and turning it further causes
larger changes, until the value progressively catches up
with the knob’s position.
Clouds
Texture synthesizer
Loading
1. Press the Load/Save button.
2. Press the Blend parameter/Audio quality button
repeatedly to select one of the four memory slots. The
selected slot is indicated by a blinking green LED.
3. Press the Load/Save button to confi rm.
If you press the Load/Save button by mistake, do not
press any button for a few seconds and the module will
return to its normal state.
Tips and patch ideas
• If you need a rapidly changing noise source to ran-
domize grain position or pitch, try using one of the
audio outputs through a multiple.
• Very dense clouds sound best when at least one pa-
rameter receives random modulations. Otherwise,
the identical echoes created by the repeating grains
will sound like a feedback comb fi lter.
• Raw material like sawtooth or sine waves sound
very good, especially with heavy random modula-
tion. Experiment with capturing many short wave-
forms and using them as a kind of wavetable.
• Contact microphones, touch controllers or random
sources are Clouds’ best CV friends!