Plaits

Mutable Instruments' macro-oscillator: 16 synthesis models, 8 for pitched sounds and 8 for noise and percussion, with a main and an auxiliary output, an internal decay envelope and an internal low-pass gate.

Key features

• 16 synthesis models in two banks chosen by the two buttons or the MODEL CV input: virtual analog, waveshaping, FM, formants, additive, wavetables, chords, speech; granular, filtered noise, particles, string, modal, kick, snare and hi-hat
• AUX output carrying a variant, sidekick or by-product of the main signal
• An internal decay envelope normalled to the TIMBRE, FM and MORPH CV inputs, its amount set with the attenuverters
• Internal low-pass gate on the LEVEL CV input, plucked by the TRIG input
• V/OCT input from -3 to +7 V; audio output 48 kHz, 16-bit, DC-coupled
• Made from March 2018 to November 2022; the design is open source