Mutable Instruments Clouds Manuel utilisateur

Clouds/Parasites

illustrated manual

Audio quality

Hold the Blend parameter/Audio quality button for one second, then

press it repeatedly to choose a recording quality.

The current quality setting is indicated by a red LED.

Rate: 32Hz

Resolution: 16-bit

Channels: Stereo

Buffer time: 1s

Rate: 32Hz

Resolution: 16-bit

Channels: Mono

Buffer time: 2s

Rate: 16Hz

Resolution: 8-bit

Channels:Stereo

Buffer time: 4s

Rate: 16Hz

Resolution: 8-bit

Channels: Mono

Buffer time: 8s

The Story

This was put together based on what I could find online. It’s only intention is to make the

module clearer to me. It is not intended as a replacement fo the original material.

Mutable’s own manual can be found at

http://mutable-instruments.net/modules/clouds/manual

The Parasites manual is at

https://mqtthiqs.github.io/parasites/clouds.html

Modes

Hold the Blend parameter/Audio quality button for five seconds until a

LED lights up in yellow.

Then, repeatedly press the Blend parameter/Audio quality button to

select between the four following audio processing engines – the current

one is indicated by a glowing yellow LED.

Granular Processing

Pitch-shifter/time-stretcher

Looping delay

Spectral madness

Oliverb

Resonestor

Mode: Granular Processing

Granular Processing: Controls

A. FREEZE button. This latching button stops the recording of incoming audio. Granu-

larization is now performed on the last few seconds of audio kept in memory in the

module.

B. Blending parameter/Audio quality button. Selects which of the blending parameters

is controlled by the BLEND knob and CV input, or selects one of the four audio quality

settings.

C. Load/Save button. See the “Advanced topics” section in the original manual.

D. Grain POSITION. Selects from which part of the recording buffer the audio grains are

played. Turn the knob clockwise to travel back in time.

E. F. Grain SIZE and PITCH (transposition). At 12 o’clock, the buffer is played at its

original frequency. The range of the Size knob has been adjusted to produce much

smaller grains. Fully counter-clockwise, grains are barely hearable spikes; fully clock-

wise, the maximum size is as before.

G. Audio INPUT GAIN, from -18dB to +6dB.

H. Grain DENSITY. At 12 o’clock, no grains are generated. Turn clockwise and grains

will be sown randomly, counter-clockwise and they will be played at a constant rate.

The further you turn, the higher the overlap between grains.

I. Grain TEXTURE. The Texture knob now has asymetric shapes of grain envelopes. It

morphes between: square, ramp up, ramp down, triangle, and triangle with diffuser.

Fully counter-clockwise, the square shape has particularly sharp edges and may click.

This is desired (more glitch!); if you want the old behaviour, turn the knob up a little bit

until the click disappears.

J. BLEND knob. This multi-function knob is described in the Blending parameters sec-

tion.

K. Indicator LEDs. They work as an input vu-meter. When FREEZE is active, they moni-

tor the output level. Soft-clipping occurs when the last LED is on. They can also indicate

the quality setting (red), the function assigned to the BLEND knob (green), or the value

of the four blending parameters (multicolor).

NOTE: To cope with the additional computation, Grain polyphony has been reduced a

bit. This should not be noticeable.

Granular Processing: Inputs and outputs

All CV inputs are calibrated for a range of +/- 5V. Voltages outside of this range are

tolerated, but will be clamped.

1. FREEZE gate input. When the input gate signal is high, stops the recording of incom-

ing audio, just as latching the FREEZE button would do.

2. TRIGGER input. Generates a single grain. By moving the grain DENSITY to 12

o’clock, and sending a trigger to this input, Clouds can be controlled like a micro-sam-

ple player. An LFO or clock divider (or even a pressure plate) can thus be used to sow

grains at the rate of your choice.

3. 4. Grain POSITION and SIZE CV inputs.

5. Grain transposition (PITCH) CV input, with V/Oct response.

6. BLEND CV input. This CV input can control one of the following functions depending

on the active blending parameter: dry/wet balance, grain stereo spread, feedback

amount and reverb amount.

7. 8. Stereo audio input. When no patch cable is inserted in the right channel input, this

input will receive the signal from the left channel.

9. 10. Grain DENSITY and TEXTURE CV inputs.

11. 12. Stereo audio output.

Mode: Pitch-shifter/Time-strecher

Pitch-shifter/Time-strecher: Controls

A. FREEZE button. This latching button stops the recording of incoming audio.

Pitch-shifting/Time-streching is now performed on the last few seconds of audio kept in

memory in the module.

B. Blending parameter/Audio quality button. Selects which of the blending parameters

is controlled by the BLEND knob and CV input, or selects one of the four audio quality

settings. This engine is quite similar to the granular mode, except that it uses two over-

lapping grains synchronized with the most salient period of the sound. The grains are

carefully spliced so that they mesh well with each other (a technique similar to the “de-

glitching” of early pitch-shifters).

C. Load/Save button. See the “Advanced topics” section.

D. PRE-DELAY DIV/MULT (POSITION). When a clock is sent to the Trig input, the Posi-

tion knob becomes a clock divider/multiplier for the pre-delay: at 12 o'clock, the pre-de-

lay takes the value of the clock length; clockwise, this clock is divided, and count-

er-clockwise it is multiplied following the rates: 1/16, 3/32, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, 1,

3/2, 2/1, 3/1, 4/1, 6/1, 8/1, 12/1 (borrowed from the Echophon). Note that the clock divi-

sion is limited to the largest division not exceeding the maximum delay; beyond this

point, the Position knob will have no effect. Note also that clock synchronization will be

more accurate with the Size knob fully counter-clockwise.

E. F. Grain SIZE and PITCH (transposition). At 12 o’clock, the buffer is played at its

original frequency.

G. Audio INPUT GAIN, from -18dB to +6dB.

H. DIFFUSION (DENSITY) creates a granular diffusion effect based on all-pass filters.

I. LOW PASS/HIGH PASS FILTER (TEXTURE) acts as a low-pass/high-pass filter.

J. BLEND knob. This multi-function knob is described in the Blending parameters sec-

tion.

K. Indicator LEDs. They work as an input vu-meter. When FREEZE is active, they moni-

tor the output level. Soft-clipping occurs when the last LED is on. They can also indicate

the quality setting (red), the function assigned to the BLEND knob (green), or the value

of the four blending parameters (multicolor).

Pitch-shifter/Time-strecher: Inputs and outputs

All CV inputs are calibrated for a range of +/- 5V. Voltages outside of this range are

tolerated, but will be clamped.

1. FREEZE gate input. When the input gate signal is high, stops the recording of incom-

ing audio, just as latching the FREEZE button would do.

2. CLOCK (TRIGGER). Sending a trigger on the TRIG input creates a clock-synchro-

nized loop (when FREEZE is enabled) or stuttering effect – equivalent to applying a

tempo-synchronized decaying envelope on the POSITION parameter.

3. 4. Pre-Delay (POSITION) and SIZE CV inputs. SIZE controls the size of the overlap-

ping windows used for pitch-shifting and time-stretching – from an extremely grainy

“drilling” sound to smooth bits of loops

5. Grain transposition (PITCH) CV input, with V/Oct response.

6. BLEND CV input. This CV input can control one of the following functions depending

on the active blending parameter: dry/wet balance, grain stereo spread, feedback

amount and reverb amount.

7. 8. Stereo audio input. When no patch cable is inserted in the right channel input, this

input will receive the signal from the left channel.

9. 10. Diffusion (DENSITY) and Filter (TEXTURE) CV inputs.

In the Mono quality modes, Stereo spread crossfades between the left and the right

input. Remember that the left input is normalized into the right input, so with nothing

patched in In L, this will have no effect.

Rate: 32Hz

Resolution: 16-bit

Channels: Mono

Buffer time: 2s

Rate: 16Hz

Resolution: 8-bit

Channels: Mono

Buffer time: 8s

Pitch-shifter/Time-strecher: Audio outputs

In the Stereo quality modes, Stereo spread gradually swaps both output channels. Fully

CW, it allows to do ping-pong delay effects: each time the sound is fed back, the two

channels are reversed.

Rate: 32Hz

Resolution: 16-bit

Channels: Stereo

Buffer time: 1s

Rate: 16Hz

Resolution: 8-bit

Channels:Stereo

Buffer time: 4s

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