5 Ways to Use Beads From Mutable Instruments

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Mutable Instruments' Beads is a granular texture synthesizer and a successor to the company's ever-popular Clouds Eurorack module. What's that mean in practice? Beads is an audio playground, letting you sample and transform audio in real time in endlessly creative ways. Fess Grandiose is here to show just five of the approaches he likes to take with the instrument: using Beads as a delay, reverb, and pitch-shifting effect; using it to repeat or splice beats; and using it as an oscillator.
Timecodes
0:00 - Features Overview
4:52 - Using Beads as a delay effect
7:09 - Using Beads as a reverb effect
8:08 - Using Beads as a shimmer reverb
9:24 - Using Beads as a pitch shifter effect
10:55 - Using Beads as a beat repeater
12:39 - Using Beads as a beat splicer
14:00 - Using Beads as an oscillator

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@musicsoundgear Жыл бұрын

LOL. I saw a Mutable Instruments thing in a KZfaq video, so I thought I would check out what it was. That is the most complicated thing I ever saw musically. I'm 6 minutes into the video and I still don't know what it does.

@blackdunes1 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome rundown! Thank you ✨

@wes2819 3 жыл бұрын

many thnx for this clear overview

@NICUofficial Жыл бұрын

Putting your voice through it was SO awesome. I feel like you could do sound design for an entire Sci-Fi feature film with this one module alone LOL I worship Mutable Instruments tbh but I have a long, long way to go before Beads is intuitive for me. Truly one I would rate in the "advanced" category (or maybe I'm just an idiot). Anyway, exploring is half the fun of modular :)

@walrtbstudios5430 2 ай бұрын

There are sweet spots but they seem few and far between. The trick (for me) is to feed a wide variety of sounds into it, play with the knobs and see what happens. I’ve had great results with- of all things- the Glitch Storm series of microprocessors from Spherical Sound Society. Oddly, I had the same trouble with Clouds until my fourth(!) try, when I bought the MSW Monsoon with Parasites loaded. I shan’t be selling that (as I did the other three).

@supercompooper Жыл бұрын

This was more helpful than you possibly could imagine ☺️

@NicleT Жыл бұрын

Very insightful and inspiring! Great video.

@mcshafty1 3 жыл бұрын

Cool. This is the clearest overview of this module that I've seen. I've had a Clouds for a couple of years and it still baffles me. Beads sounds great

@whiterottenrabbit 2 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? THIS is the clearest overview you managed to find? How the fuck did you missed Divkid's video? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7FobM-Qx824lWw.html

@mcshafty1 2 жыл бұрын

@@whiterottenrabbit I dunno duderino. Just managed to miss it. But I still have my Clouds 😊

@DJRickDawson 3 жыл бұрын

can also set it up to do volume shaping/sidechaining with a 4/4 kick.

@callesjonell5943 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about the latency of the pitch shifting when you used the microphone. Sounded like the processed sound was really late, lots of latency. Or are there other settings where you get a more instant response?

@fessgrandiose 3 жыл бұрын

You can increase the Density to get rid of that.

@whiterottenrabbit 2 жыл бұрын

5:06: counterclockwise, got it!

@TheNimasan 2 жыл бұрын

if you turn dry/wet fully clockwise patch gate into seeds and v/oct into pitch and ja short tap on seeds, you enter a the vca mode! you dont actually need an extra vca!

@earthman_ Жыл бұрын

Very helpful 🙏🏼

@tris421 9 ай бұрын

Nice vid!

@whyyoumakethissohard 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you say counter-clockwise while turning the knob clockwise?

@pixelatedbeatz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!!

@jedgould5531 3 жыл бұрын

To know what it’s doing, I like to hear a dry signal first not only wet.

@fessgrandiose 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@KindDas 2 жыл бұрын

somebody knows whats the name of the audio output the row over beads?

@cardboardmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Rainmaker or Beads?

@dewdop 3 жыл бұрын

I was curious about price and it looks like this synth retails for around $360 US

@zippy-zappa-zeppo-zorba-etc 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of getting a synthesizer. Now I'm thinking of sticking with guitar.

@dewdop 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@radical_ans 2 жыл бұрын

This is like masters level synthesis. There are tons of cheap entry level synths out there if you wanna get your feet wet.

@zachary963 2 жыл бұрын

Lol. Try the Crave by Behringer. It’s actually easy to use lol. I’ve been on guitar and bass only for a decade and just got a Crave and it’s awesome

@decapitateallcops3214 2 жыл бұрын

Sux this video is in mono

@Savvier 3 жыл бұрын

make will grain it

@fessgrandiose 3 жыл бұрын

so this is your thing huh

@TR-707 Жыл бұрын

the module that ended the company

@livelooper 3 жыл бұрын

I had Beads on the 'must have' list until I watched this. Pretty good demo, but every sound screams "digital". In the event of someone doing a vid which shows that Beads can take analog sounds and mess with them without imposing that digital vibe I'll put it back on my wanted list. ( not against digital as such )

@billB101 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, it is digital, it's granular synthesis but you use the scorched earth setting to get a nice lo-fi analogue sound from this for sure. I also like to run a parallel output from Beads to distortion and overdrive and subtly ( or not so subtly ) bring that back into the mix with the original signal just to get some harmonic distortion going too.

@livelooper 2 жыл бұрын

@brucepercy . Useful suggestions, but what I want is something *more* hifi, not less. It's possible, if you ever get to hear the very first Curtis Roads pieces where he was discovering granular synthesis then the sound is radically different to modern implementations. It's just down to how good the programmer is at dsp. Warming it up with filters and distortion afterwards is a good idea, of course, just not the end result that I'm after.

@samuelgeorge7090 7 ай бұрын

It is very digital. Sometimes difficult to avoid artefacts but they can be quite interesting. Kind of program-dependent. I use it to create layers and textures which complement analog voices. Patching for feedback can create cool spectral morphing and weird bass swells. I'm liking Magneto delay and FM pads alonside it at the moment.

@livelooper 7 ай бұрын

@@samuelgeorge7090 Yes, I wouldn't want a whole mix of digi stuff, but throwing it in with the analog creates a nice contrast. With Beads I think that it works on things like human voice and acoustic instruments better, as you get that it's a processed sound. ...but when processing an analog oscillator it just sounds like the lamest virtual analog imaginable.

@BCTGuitarPlayer 3 жыл бұрын

Millions of guitarists, like myself, but how do synthesis experts & novices use their knowledge? Other than movie landscapes...

@zachary963 3 жыл бұрын

All sorts of waves. Classic rock, like The Who and Rush, new wave like Depeche Mode, alternative rock like The Cure, dance music like Junkie XL, and I’m sure video games and TV shows.

@BCTGuitarPlayer 3 жыл бұрын

@@zachary963: I remembered synth a lot during the 70s but haven’t seen it incorporated into things as much, since then. Until I really got thinking about it. I want a Korg Minilogue and have done some absolutely amazing things with it but have never incorporated it into any of my music because I’m more of a hard rock n blues player. But I’ve always really liked it and that’s why I watch you from time to time. Thanks for getting back.

@CaseJams 3 жыл бұрын

Here. I did a rock track on modular using an enhanced clouds clone (predecessor to beads) and the Sam sampler module he has three to the left in his case kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etp0lqtit87FfIk.html

@ryanpwm 2 жыл бұрын

You know there’s all of electronic music right? Ya know, with extraordinarily large festivals and audiences. There’s more synths than guitars in modern music and that’s been true for a long time.

@Dogboy73 9 ай бұрын

Everyone's videos are way, way better than anything I've managed to get out of Beads. Amazing sounds. I just can't get it for me. Constantly wrestling with this module 😕