Mutable Instruments

Two rows of mostly Mutable Instruments Eurorack format modules.

Mutable Instruments (MI) based in France is a manufacturer of Eurorack synthesizer modules, founded in 2009 selling DIY kits and owned by the designer/engineer Émilie Gillet. All MI products are are fully open source hardware under a CC-BY-SA license.

Eurorack modules

MI modules do not easily fit the usual synth module categories.

Modulation sources

• Stages, segment generator
• Tides, tidal modulator
• Peaks, envelope/LFO/tap LFO/drum generator

Plumbing

• Blinds, quad VC-polarizer
• Branches, dual Bernoulli gate
• Kinks, mingling and mangling
• Links, multiples and mixing
• Shades, attenuator/offset/mixer
• Veils, quad VCA

Sequencing and control

• Ears, contact microphone
• Frames, mixer/keyframer
• Grids, topographic drum sequencer
• Marbles, random sampler
• Yarns, 4-channel MIDI interface

Sound modifiers

• Rings, resonator
• Ripples, liquid filter
• Shelves, EQ filter
• Streams, dual dynamics gate
• Warps, meta-modulator
• Clouds, texture synthesizer

Sound sources

• Elements, modal synthesizer
• Plaits, macro-oscillator
• Rings, resonator
• Tides, tidal modulator
• Braids, macro-oscillator
• Edges, quad chiptune audio generator

Desktop synths

• Shruthi, hybrid monosynth with a large palette of analog filter boards.
• Ambika, 6-voice hybrid polysynth.
• Anushri, digitally controlled analog monosynth.

Other devices

• CVpal, simple USB to CV/Gate interface.
• MIDIpal, MIDI event processor.

External links

• Mutable Instruments website
• Mutable Instruments forum
• émilie gillet, GitHub repositories
• Mutable Instruments wiki

Firmware hacking

• timchurches/Mutable-Instruments-alternative-firmware-catalogue, GitHub
• Parasites, firmware hacks for Mutable Instruments modules