MUTABLE INSTRUMENTS BEADS : USED

REINVENTING A CLASSIC Beads is a reinvention of Mutable Instruments’ Clouds. The concept is the same, live granular processing of an incoming audio signal, and the labels on the panel remain familiar. The similarities stop here. The hardware and software have been redesigned from the ground up, with several goals in mind: a crisper and broader sound palette, more control, better playability, and direct access to exciting new features. DOTTING THE I’S AND CROSSING THE T’S Beads’ vastly improved specifications allow a higher audio quality, a longer buffer, the use of better interpolation and anti-aliasing algorithms, and key DSP blocks to run at a faster rate. Granulation can now get into new territories, such as formants, wavetables, hard-sync-like sounds, or crispy noise. The range of parameters, their response to knob turns or modulations have all been refined, for new possibilitiessuch as reverse playback or percussive envelopes. CONTROL, CHAOS AND CHARACTER Control. To trigg