Mutable Instruments Beads User Manual page 6

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The LED under each of these knobs indicates the amount of modulation they receive from the assignable CV
input (7).
Press the button [M]
button and turn the knobs [J],
8. Audio output. While the recording buffer can be mono or stereo, Beads' signal processing chain is always
stereo. If the R output is left unpatched, both L and R signals are summed together and sent to the L output.
If one of the grains' parameters is randomized, or if the grains are generated at a random rate, their
pan position will also be randomized.
Hold the button [M]
signal on the R output. A patch cable will have to be inserted in the R output for this to work without affecting
the L output!
BEADS AS A DELAY
Setting the grain SIZE [G]
one grain remains active, forever, continuously reading from the tape.
The base delay time (and slice duration) can be manually controlled, tapped, or set by an external clock.
Manual control
If the SEED input (4)
delay time is freely controlled by the
At 12 o'clock, the base delay time corresponds to the
shorten the delay time up to
delay will have an additional, unevenly spaced, tap.
Clocked or tap-tempo control
If an external clock is patched into the
delay time will be set as the interval between the taps or clock ticks.
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to select to which of these 3 destinations the CV input
[K] and [L] to individually adjust the amount of CV modulation.
and press the SEED button
knob fully clockwise (∞)
is left unpatched, and if the
DENSITY
audio rates, for flanger or comb-filtering effects. From 12 o'clock to fully CW, the
SEED
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[C] to enable (or disable) the generation of a grain trigger
turns Beads into a delay or beat
SEED button [C] is latched (slowly fading in and out), the
knob [D] and CV input (5).
full buffer duration. Turn the knob further away to
input (4), or if you rhythmically tap the
(7) is assigned. Or hold this
slicer. Effectively, only
SEED button, the base
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