Modulating modulations
Evolved from the oscillator mixing section of Mutable Instruments’ desktop hybrid synths, Warps is designed to blend and combine two audio signals.
A variety of wave-shaping and cross-modulation methods – some of them emulating classic analog circuits, some of them purely digital – are provided by the module.
With Warps, the cross-modulated sound can be sculpted with control voltages along 4 dimensions: by controlling the amplitude and distorting the input signals, by smoothly scanning through the collection of modulation algorithms, and by adjusting a timbre parameter controlling the brightness/harshness of the modulated signal.
Since many classic cross-modulation effects work best when the carrier is a simple waveform – for example, a sine wave for ring-modulation or a buzzing waveform for vocoding – Warps includes a digital oscillator offering a handful of classic waveforms. This internal oscillator, which tracks V/Oct and supports through-zero FM, will replace the carrier audio input – freeing up one oscillator in your system for other duties!
7 signal hybridization algorithms
- Crossfade.
- Cross-folding.
- Digital model of an analog diode ring-modulator.
- Digital ring-modulation.
- Bitwise XOR modulation.
- Octaver/comparator.
- 20 band-vocoder.
Everything under CV control
- CV control of modulation algorithm selection, with crossfading between adjacent algorithms.
- CV control of each input’s amplitude, with emulated analog saturation.
- V/O CV control of the internal oscillator (when enabled).
- For each algorithm, CV control of timbre richness/brightness/distortion.
Built in carrier oscillator
Audio input 1 can be replaced by an internal digital oscillator with through-zero FM.
Available waveforms: sine, triangle, sawtooth, pulse, filtered noise.
Specifications
- Input impedances: 100k.
- Audio inputs and outputs: 16-bit, 96kHz.
- CV inputs: 12-bit, 1.6kHz.
- Internal processing: 32-bit floating point, 576kHz (32kHz for the vocoder).