We say...
A Mutable Instruments Beads in excellent condition, with original box.
Manufacturer's Description
Realtime granular processor with built-in CV-controlled random modulations.
A reinvention of Mutable Instruments Clouds, with hardware and software redesigned from the ground up, free of modes and bloat.
Audio acquisition
- Stereo I/O with automatic level detection.
- Manual override of the level detection.
- Automatic mono/stereo switching through patch cable detection.
- Recording time: 4s (48kHz 16-bit, stereo) to 32s (24kHz µ-law, mono).
- Four quality modes, with different tone and reverb characters:
- 48kHz 16-bit
- 32kHz 12-bit with Clouds emulation
- 24kHz 12-bit with a hi-fi dry signal path
- 24kHz µ-law with cassette emulation
- The FREEZE button and the gate input freezes the content of the recording buffer, allowing you to dive into its sonic details.
- Auto-saving of the FREEZE buffer.
Granular synthesis
Three grain generation modes:
- Latched (continuous), with a periodic or randomized rate, tracking V/O.
- Gated, with bursts of grains triggered by the press of the SEED button or an external gate.
- Clocked, with randomization or division of an external clock or trigger signal.
Four grain parameters:
- TIME. Temporal position within the buffer.
- SIZE. Grain duration from 0.03 to 4 seconds, forward or backward playback.
- SHAPE. Morphing between four key shapes of the grain envelope: solid rectangular, snappy decay, smooth bell, or reversed.
- PITCH. With V/O tracking.
Attenurandomizers
Available for each of the four parameters of a grain, sampled each time a grain is started:
- Direct CV control.
- CV control of the amount of gaussian randomization.
- Internal randomization with an independent, uniform or peaky, random source.
Delay
- Control of both the base delay clock rate (DENSITY), and its multiplication (TIME), with optional random taps.
- Tap tempo with the SEED button or an external signal.
- Enveloping of delay repeats, with the SHAPE setting.
- Pitch shifting of the delayed signal, controlled by PITCH.
Signal flow
- Feedback path delay: 1 sample.
- Independent knobs for feedback, dry/wet amount, and reverb amount.
- CV input assignable to each of these three parameters, or to variable combinations of them.
- When unpatched, the R output is summed to the L output.
- Optional generation of a gate signal on the R output.
Specifications
- All inputs: 100k impedance.
- Audio codec: 24kHz, 32kHz or 48kHz, 24-bit.
- 16-bit CV capture.
- Processing rate: audio-rate for the SEED and FREEZE inputs, 4kHz for the CV inputs.
- Latency: 0.25ms.
- CV input range: +/- 8V for grain parameters, +/- 5V for density (with V/O tracking) and assignable CV.
- Internal processing: 32-bit floating point.
How much is my shipping?
Shipping is automatically calculated before you submit your payment information. Simply add items to your cart and proceed to the checkout page, where you'll be offered shipping options and their prices. In the UK, 'next working day' shipping is free to most parts of the UK if the order value is over £150, and £5 otherwise. We can also ship on a 'next working day before 12pm' service, which costs £6 for orders over £150 and £7.50 for orders under £150.
Certain areas of the UK, including the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Northern Ireland and other offshore islands, may have higher shipping charges and slightly longer delivery times due to surcharges applied by the courier and reduced service availability in those areas. We try to keep these costs to a minimum.
Do you ship to my country?
Almost certainly - the site will give you an estimate of shipping costs if you add an item to the cart and then enter your country and postcode. If you have specific requirements (such as if you prefer UPS over FedEx, for example) then let us know in advance and we'll try to work something out for you.
Shipping methods
We use a combination of DPD and Royal Mail for the UK, and for international orders it's either DPD, DHL, FedEx, UPS or Royal Mail depending on where you are in the world. If you have a particular preference then try to let us know BEFORE you order so we can look into it for you. Please note that there may occasionally be additional shipping charges if you live in a remote area, depending on what surcharges are applied by the shipper. We'll get in touch to discuss this with you in such cases.
Dispatch times
For UK orders, we normally dispatch the same working day if we get the order before 16:00. If you have a really urgent situation then of course drop us an email before ordering and we'll always do our absolute best to accommodate you.
Please note that 'next day' delivery is an aim, not a guarantee. The vast majority of orders shipped on a 'next day' service do arrive the next day, but occasionally couriers experience unforeseen delays due to weather or traffic conditions etc.
For international orders, we normally dispatch the same day if we get the order before 13:00 but again, occasionally it might be the next day before we can send it out, and sometimes the couriers may come to collect a little earlier than scheduled which would also push an order into the next day.
Saturday/Sunday delivery
If you're in the UK and you order before 16:00 on a Friday then we can send something for a Saturday or Sunday delivery with DPD. This is FREE for order values over £350, £5 for order values between £75 and £250, and £7 for order values under £75. (NB: this applies to UK mainland addresses only). Please note that any orders placed after 16:00 on a Friday will ship on the Monday.
International shipping times
Most orders are delivered within 3 to 5 working days if sent on a courier service. Royal Mail services can take a lot longer and are often less secure.
Pre-orders
If a product is listed as a pre-order, it means we've ordered it from the supplier but it's not physically in stock yet. The product listing will include an estimated shipping date based on the best information we have from the supplier, but do bear in mind this is subject to change and is not a guaranteed date.
If you place an order containing a mixture of in-stock and pre-order items, we'll normally hold off on shipping anything until the pre-order item(s) have arrived, rather than splitting it into multiple shipments. If you need the in-stock items sooner, we'd recommend placing separate orders. As always, please get in touch if you have questions.
Product Overview
We say...
A Mutable Instruments Beads in excellent condition, with original box.
Manufacturer's Description
Realtime granular processor with built-in CV-controlled random modulations.
A reinvention of Mutable Instruments Clouds, with hardware and software redesigned from the ground up, free of modes and bloat.
Audio acquisition
- Stereo I/O with automatic level detection.
- Manual override of the level detection.
- Automatic mono/stereo switching through patch cable detection.
- Recording time: 4s (48kHz 16-bit, stereo) to 32s (24kHz µ-law, mono).
- Four quality modes, with different tone and reverb characters:
- 48kHz 16-bit
- 32kHz 12-bit with Clouds emulation
- 24kHz 12-bit with a hi-fi dry signal path
- 24kHz µ-law with cassette emulation
- The FREEZE button and the gate input freezes the content of the recording buffer, allowing you to dive into its sonic details.
- Auto-saving of the FREEZE buffer.
Granular synthesis
Three grain generation modes:
- Latched (continuous), with a periodic or randomized rate, tracking V/O.
- Gated, with bursts of grains triggered by the press of the SEED button or an external gate.
- Clocked, with randomization or division of an external clock or trigger signal.
Four grain parameters:
- TIME. Temporal position within the buffer.
- SIZE. Grain duration from 0.03 to 4 seconds, forward or backward playback.
- SHAPE. Morphing between four key shapes of the grain envelope: solid rectangular, snappy decay, smooth bell, or reversed.
- PITCH. With V/O tracking.
Attenurandomizers
Available for each of the four parameters of a grain, sampled each time a grain is started:
- Direct CV control.
- CV control of the amount of gaussian randomization.
- Internal randomization with an independent, uniform or peaky, random source.
Delay
- Control of both the base delay clock rate (DENSITY), and its multiplication (TIME), with optional random taps.
- Tap tempo with the SEED button or an external signal.
- Enveloping of delay repeats, with the SHAPE setting.
- Pitch shifting of the delayed signal, controlled by PITCH.
Signal flow
- Feedback path delay: 1 sample.
- Independent knobs for feedback, dry/wet amount, and reverb amount.
- CV input assignable to each of these three parameters, or to variable combinations of them.
- When unpatched, the R output is summed to the L output.
- Optional generation of a gate signal on the R output.
Specifications
- All inputs: 100k impedance.
- Audio codec: 24kHz, 32kHz or 48kHz, 24-bit.
- 16-bit CV capture.
- Processing rate: audio-rate for the SEED and FREEZE inputs, 4kHz for the CV inputs.
- Latency: 0.25ms.
- CV input range: +/- 8V for grain parameters, +/- 5V for density (with V/O tracking) and assignable CV.
- Internal processing: 32-bit floating point.
Technical Specs
Shipping Details
How much is my shipping?
Shipping is automatically calculated before you submit your payment information. Simply add items to your cart and proceed to the checkout page, where you'll be offered shipping options and their prices. In the UK, 'next working day' shipping is free to most parts of the UK if the order value is over £150, and £5 otherwise. We can also ship on a 'next working day before 12pm' service, which costs £6 for orders over £150 and £7.50 for orders under £150.
Certain areas of the UK, including the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Northern Ireland and other offshore islands, may have higher shipping charges and slightly longer delivery times due to surcharges applied by the courier and reduced service availability in those areas. We try to keep these costs to a minimum.
Do you ship to my country?
Almost certainly - the site will give you an estimate of shipping costs if you add an item to the cart and then enter your country and postcode. If you have specific requirements (such as if you prefer UPS over FedEx, for example) then let us know in advance and we'll try to work something out for you.
Shipping methods
We use a combination of DPD and Royal Mail for the UK, and for international orders it's either DPD, DHL, FedEx, UPS or Royal Mail depending on where you are in the world. If you have a particular preference then try to let us know BEFORE you order so we can look into it for you. Please note that there may occasionally be additional shipping charges if you live in a remote area, depending on what surcharges are applied by the shipper. We'll get in touch to discuss this with you in such cases.
Dispatch times
For UK orders, we normally dispatch the same working day if we get the order before 16:00. If you have a really urgent situation then of course drop us an email before ordering and we'll always do our absolute best to accommodate you.
Please note that 'next day' delivery is an aim, not a guarantee. The vast majority of orders shipped on a 'next day' service do arrive the next day, but occasionally couriers experience unforeseen delays due to weather or traffic conditions etc.
For international orders, we normally dispatch the same day if we get the order before 13:00 but again, occasionally it might be the next day before we can send it out, and sometimes the couriers may come to collect a little earlier than scheduled which would also push an order into the next day.
Saturday/Sunday delivery
If you're in the UK and you order before 16:00 on a Friday then we can send something for a Saturday or Sunday delivery with DPD. This is FREE for order values over £350, £5 for order values between £75 and £250, and £7 for order values under £75. (NB: this applies to UK mainland addresses only). Please note that any orders placed after 16:00 on a Friday will ship on the Monday.
International shipping times
Most orders are delivered within 3 to 5 working days if sent on a courier service. Royal Mail services can take a lot longer and are often less secure.
Pre-orders
If a product is listed as a pre-order, it means we've ordered it from the supplier but it's not physically in stock yet. The product listing will include an estimated shipping date based on the best information we have from the supplier, but do bear in mind this is subject to change and is not a guaranteed date.
If you place an order containing a mixture of in-stock and pre-order items, we'll normally hold off on shipping anything until the pre-order item(s) have arrived, rather than splitting it into multiple shipments. If you need the in-stock items sooner, we'd recommend placing separate orders. As always, please get in touch if you have questions.
