Mutable Instruments - Blinds
- Order number: 160158
- Depth: 25
A voltage controlled polarizer can be used for more than scaling and inverting CVs but due to its nature as a four quadrant multiplier it is also a VCA which not only attenuates but also inverts the signal. You might as well use it as a ring modulator!
Blinds contains not less than four of such polarizer circuits which all can generate an offset voltage, too.
Each channel consists of a polarizer which, unlike a VCA inverts negative CVs instead of muting them.
Per channel there's a signal input, a signal output, a potentiometer for setting the polarity and gain and eventuelly a CV input with a small polarizer for scaling the modulation.
The outputs of the four channels are cascaded and are mixed from top to bottom; an inserted cable will interrupt the mix. Example: if a cable is plugged to output 2, only channels 3 and 4 are mixed.
HE: | 3 |
TE: | 12 |
Depth: | 25 |
Power consumption +12V: | 70 |
Power consumption -12V: | 70 |
With a background as a software engineer at Google, Émilie Gillet began her journey on synthesizer design on 2010 offering DIY kits for the (now discontinued) Shruti, Ambika and Anushri hybrid digital-analog synths. Quite rapidly an enthusiastic community was formed via a very vibrant forum. By 2013, seeing the potential of the format, she moved completely to eurorack releasing the much acclaimed Braids macrooscillator and Clouds texture (granular) synthesizer, one of the most cloned modules so far. As with the previous desktop synths, all firmware and schematics are avaialble online under open-source license. Émilie continues to run Mutable Instruments single-handedly from a small apartment in Paris.