Mutable Instruments Beads User Manual page 2

3/14/2021
One way of picturing how Beads operates is to imagine a tape loop, on which incoming audio is continuously
recorded.
Every time you request a grain to be played (in reaction to a trigger, a button press, periodically, or randomly),
a new replay head positions itself along the
If this replay head doesn't move, the audio will be played back at the original pitch and speed, but if it moves
closer to, or further away from the record head, the signal will be replayed at a different speed and pitch. This
replay head has its own amplitude
amplitude.
Now imagine up to 30 replay heads
being record- ed on the tape so that all these little replay heads can freely move along and gather sounds.
And there's a reverb...
Beads does not use tape, but RAM. In this manual we use computer-science terminology and refer to
this virtual piece of tape as a
RECORDING QUALITY AND AUDIO INPUT
Recording quality is chosen with the selector button [A].
The Cold digital setting most accurately reproduces the sonic character of the late Mutable Instruments Clouds.
The Sunny tape setting runs the dry audio signal at a bright and clean 48kHz.
The Scorched cassette
Beads operates in mono or stereo
When patch cables are inserted or removed, Beads monitors for five seconds the level of the incoming signal
and adjusts the input gain
adjustment process. The input gain is
limiter kicks in.
One can manually restart the gain adjustment process by pressing and holding the audio quality selector
button [A] for one second. Holding this button
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tape.
envelope, and it will leave the tape once the envelope has reached a null
flying along the tape. Imagine you can stop the incoming audio from
recording buffer.
setting emulates wow and flutter.
depending on whether one, or both, of the audio inputs
accordingly, from +0dB to +32dB. The input level LED
chosen to leave some
[A]
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headroom, but in case of big level changes, a
while turning the feedback knob
(1) are patched.
(2) blinks during this
[J] allows manual gain
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