Mutable Instruments Beads ‘texture synthesiser’ // ULTIMATE GUIDE to Clouds v2!

Welcome to my ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BEADS a Eurorack module from Mutable Instruments. In this video I’ll be taking you through all the settings and controls with technical run downs, raw sounds and LOTS of musical patches and applications. I always aim to pack demos full of ideas and use cases both technically and musically so I hope you enjoy the video and learn a few things.

My Beads Patch Cookbook outlining every patch in this video in detail is exclusively available for Patreon supporters. Head to https://www.patreon.com/divkid to get a copy.

Beads is the follow up to the discontinued Clouds module from Mutable Instruments. It’s labelled as a ‘texture synthesiser’ and it’s core function is real time granular synthesis. It can also be a delay, media emulator (tape), beat slicer, pitch shifter and it has a built in reverb. When you’re not processing external sounds or frozen sounds you’ve locked into the audio buffer it will load wavetables giving you a bonus wavetable oscillator that still goes through the granular processing and reverb. Compared to Clouds it’s far higher quality, has more features, better control layout with no menus and less button press/hold functions.

Info, manual etc - http://bit.ly/mutablebeads

THINGS TO CHECK OUT FROM THE VIDEO
Info on granular synthesis - http://bit.ly/granularsynthesis
Thoreau’s cabin - http://bit.ly/thoreauscabin
Rotating Pitch Shifters - http://bit.ly/rotatingpitch
Karplus Strong Synthesis - http://bit.ly/standford-karplus
Music concrète - http://bit.ly/musicconrete

OTHER MUTABLE INSTRUMENTS DEMOS
Blades https://youtu.be/msCWWV89uV0
Ripples https://youtu.be/GOsI4iidr48
Stages https://youtu.be/B8FwJUq5qsk
Marbles https://youtu.be/GEF51zAUr5c
Plaits https://youtu.be/_zYwdcYECdg
Ears https://youtu.be/MALTYSPhMrY
Rings https://youtu.be/O0IHt1JiRvk
Warps https://youtu.be/iRLU5B4V-Jw
Clouds https://youtu.be/IjcDnax9yLY
Elements https://youtu.be/uqfSDk7cpbc
Streams https://youtu.be/UEkjscJIIxI
Shelves https://youtu.be/GTSXQ-Tpg7Q
Peaks https://youtu.be/qR82LP9MuM0
Branches https://youtu.be/hVKx_OWhwF8
TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS

00:00 Hello and patch previews

02:21 Verbal and graphical run down of Beads and how granular synthesis works

05:41 My Beads Patch Cookbook PDF

06:07 Patch Break - Rings into Beads & VERB BLISS

DENSITY & SEEDING GRAINS OF AUDIO

06:32 Latched density - auto grain creation

08:31 Clocked density - dividers and probability

09:33 Gated & Triggered density & turning Beads into a voice

10:55 Patch Break - Fuzzy bass guitar with scattered granular animations

ATTENURANDOMISER

11:24 Internal modulations

12:44 Random modulation as the key to granular synthesis sounds

13:08 External modulations

14:42 Patch Break - Particles of the speech in 12 bit ‘classic Clouds’ mode

15:01 Parameters snapshot for each grain + polyphonic chordal washes

16:03 Patch Break - modulated dry/wet for fading octave particles

16:22 Sound design tip - Synthesising debris from basic impacts

17:12 Patch break - Lo Fi Modular Beats to relax and study to

17:40 Quality settings and their media emulations (hi fi, lo fi, tape emulation)

18:33 Reverb - it’s sound and quality changes

20:04 Sound design tip for cinematic evolving drones

21:21 Patch Break - Ambient guitar with pitch shifting trails

21:47 Making one VCO sound massive with granular top line melodies

23:13 WHAT A BONUS! - WAVETABLE OSCILLATOR!!!

24:45 Patch Break - a pitched down poem about Clouds

DELAY MODE

25:05 How to get into delay mode

25:36 Standard delays

26:47 Multi-tap delays

27:21 Clocked delays

28:23 Quality settings & media emulating delays (tape)

29:17 Rotating head based pitch shifting & internal modulation of delays

29:47 Grungy lo fi ambient machine! Multi-tap saturated tape delays

30:28 Quick & dirty Karplus Strong Synthesis for plucked strings

31:33 Chorus & vibrato

32:39 Comb filter & flanger

33:29 Beat Slicer - think beat repeat, glitch, buffer stutters

35:13 Patch break - swelling grains from wavetables

35:37 Shimmer FX - granular echoes & shimmer verb

37:22 Patch break - Music concrète style sonic collages

37:43 How to time stretch with Beads

39:00 Patch Break - Beads as a multi-FX unit for external gear

39:19 Pitch shifting - quick tips for smooth settings

40:03 Patch break - Scattered percussion and glitch beat

40:25 Assignable CV input for feedback, reverb and mix

41:55 Patch break - guitar wow and flutter with UBER CHARACTER!

42:29 Gain adjustments

43:18 Bask in Beads by itself
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