Mutable Instruments

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Mutable Instruments was a one-person company making some versatile eurorack modules. (It didn't go out of business, said person went on to do other things, for a mix of reasons).

And since everything they made is open source, their modules live on, with a little extra work.

Many have DIYable kits made - see AmazingSynth below.

Some companies have readymade clones.

https://pichenettes.github.io/mutable-instruments-documentation/

https://github.com/pichenettes

Overview

	Mutable Instruments name	What	Variations	VCV Rack name (Audible)	Clones
Voices	Braids	VCO and other voices		Macro Oscillator
	Plaits	oscillator		Macro Oscillator 2	Behringer Brains
	Elements	"modal synthesizer"		Modal Synthesizer
	Rings	Modal resonator, turns unpitched into fuller-bodies bar/tube/strings pitched sounds		Resonator	Berhringer Halos
	Edges	quad chiptune audio generator
Effects	Clouds	granular audio processor / texture synthesizer		Texture Synthesizer; there is also supercell[1]	Behringer Skies
	Beads	granular synthesis
	Warps	signal combiner - fade, fold, ringmod, xor, octaver, vocoder
Triggery	Grids	three channels intended as drum triggers (algorithmic, randomness, euclidean)
	Branches	randomized trigger splitter		Bernoulli Gate
CV and sequences	Tides, Tides2018	function generator (envelopes and more)		Tidal Modulator	Behringer Waves
	Frames	mix things according to interpolating between keyframes		Keyframer/Mixer
	Peaks	function generator (envelope, LFO), and a little 808
	Marbles	rhythm and sequence generator / randomness source		Random Sampler	Behringer Chaos
Filters	Streams	two channels of: VCA and a VCF, with envelope detector and gnerator (verify)
	Blades	dual multimode filter
	Ripples, Ripples 2020	multimode filter			Behringer Surges
	Shelves	VCF inspired by mixer channels
Utils	Veils, Veils 2020	Quad VCA		Quad VCA
	Links	1-to-3 buffered multiple; 2-to-2 adder/mixer(/multiple); 3-to-1 mixer/averager		Multiples
	Stages	multi-stage envelopes / step sequences / LFOs; chainable		Segment Generator
	Kinks	rectifier and inverter; min/max of two values; sample and hold		Utilities
	Blinds	VCA, but negative control will invert ("four-quadrant signal multiplier")		Quad VC-polarizer
	Shades, Shades 2020	Mixing attenuverter		Mixer
IO	Ears	Contact microphone
	Yarns	4-channel MIDI interface

AmazingSynth

amazingsynth.com do DIY kits of many Mutable Instruments modules.