Modular Add-On: Mutable Instruments Braids by Softube

Rather than a conventional oscillator, Braids works as a sound-generation engine built around more than 40 digital synthesis algorithms. Softube describes the range as covering classic waves, telecom-style babble, bells and whistles, percussion and ambience.

Each algorithm behaves like its own instrument. Turning the Timbre and Colour controls morphs through the sweet spots of that algorithm, and both controls can be driven by control voltage, which makes the module suited to modulated, glitchy or rapidly changing sounds.

Braids has a trigger input, and its built-in envelope lets an algorithm respond to triggers on its own. Developer Softube notes that Braids is particularly suited to triggered percussion and complex waveform synthesis.

Because the add-on runs inside Softube Modular, it is meant to be patched alongside other modules. Connecting it to other modules is how you extend it beyond a single voice.