Astonishingly sophisticated sound-generation module.

Braids, by French Eurorack pioneers Mutable Instruments, is not an oscillator.

It sort of looks like one, with fine and coarse pitch/frequency controls, a v/oct input, and voltage-controllable tone/timbre controls.

It even sort of sounds like one, in as far as it outputs audio.

Mutable Instruments call it a macro oscillator, but even that is an understatement. It’s a hugely sophisticated digital synthesis engine, able to produce and manipulate complex sounds by means of 45 or so fully-realized synthesis algorithms, featuring multiple oscillators, wavetables, filters, VCAs, ring modulators, and so on under the hood.

Any Sound You Like

Classic waves from vintage synths, bells, resonant filters, plucked and bowed strings, vocals and vowel/formant sounds, wind instruments, percussion, noise, granular clouds and more.

Meta-Parameters

'Timbre' and 'Colour' controls affect multiple different parameters per mode, morphing through all the sweet spots and ensuring every sound is lush, gorgeous, and useful.

Built-In Envelope

Using the trigger input and built-in AD envelope, each algorithm can even become a self-contained synth voice. No other modules required.

In short

• Made for Modular, Softube's Eurorack platform. Learn more about Modular

• Macro oscillator featuring 40+ fully-realized digital synthesis algorithms

• Produce millions of different sounds easily — classic waves and telecoms babble, bells and whistles, percussion and ambience

• Just two controls morph through the sweet spots of each algorithm

• Great for triggered percussion

• Awesome for crazy complex waveform synthesis

• Phenomenal for glitchy out-of-control modulated sounds

• Incredibly deep, but easy to use

• It’s like a library of the greatest synth sounds of all time