Build and provenance — please read: This is a DIY build, not a factory unit. Twist is the 6HP adaptation of Mutable Instruments' Warps, built from Émilie Gillet's open-source design files released under CC-BY-SA. Panel is black [anodized aluminum]. SMD components Through-hole assembly, testing and calibration done by hand. Not manufactured by or affiliated with Mutable Instruments.

Brand new build Meta-modulator
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!

Ribbon cable and befaco knurlies included