Softube Braids by Mutable Instruments - Electronic Delivery

The Softube Braids by Mutable Instruments is a software version of the French Eurorack pioneers Mutable Instruments' Braids. Braids is not an oscillator. It sort of looks like one, with fine and coarse pitch/frequency controls, a v/oct input, and voltage-controllable tone/timbre controls. It even sort of sounds like one, in as far as it outputs audio.

Mutable Instruments call it a macro oscillator, but even that is an understatement. It’s a hugely sophisticated digital synthesis engine, able to produce and manipulate complex sounds – classic waves from vintage synths, bells, resonant filters, plucked and bowed strings, vocals and vowel/formant sounds, wind instruments, percussion, noise, granular clouds and more – by means of 45 or so fully-realized algorithms, featuring multiple oscillators, wavetables, filters, VCAs, ring modulators, and so on under the hood.

Each mode is a different algorithm, and produces a different variety of sounds as you turn the two tone controls, Timbre and Colour. These controls are pre-programmed to do different things per algorithm, often adjusting multiple parameters in the set-up at once to tour the sweet spots. And of course they can be CV controlled.

Using the trigger input and built-in AD envelope, each algorithm can even become a self-contained synth voice. No other modules required. But bring other modules in and you can make pretty much any instrument you could imagine.

In a sense, Braids can be looked at as both an encyclopedia of classic synthesis techniques, and a tool to bring them into the present-day, with tremendous sound-quality and ease-of-use to match.

Features:

• Macro oscillator featuring 40+ fully-realized digital synthesis algorithms
• Produce millions of different sounds easily – classic waves and telecoms babble, bells and whistles, percussion and ambience
• Just two controls morph through the sweet spots of each algorithm
• Great for triggered percussion
• Awesome for crazy complex waveform synthesis
• Phenomenal for glitchy out-of-control modulated sounds
• Incredibly deep, but easy to use
• It’s like a library of the greatest synth sounds of all time
• Requires Modular