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Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1

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sold an xoxbox to pick one of these new synths up; I was lazy so I got a prebuilt one on ebay. Got it for bass/lead tones/ chiptune-y stuff/ weird sfx and so far I really like it. Digital waves thru analog filter, with some really nice wavetable / formant / lofi osc selections , and a deep but easy mod matrix.


I think its a keeper, definitely be hearing this on future releases :mrgreen:
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cool, let us know how do you find it, how it sounds etc
we want a review man, ahah
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Still have not dug nearly enough into this one.....damn MV8800 keeps grabbing all my time hehe..

high points:
-random. patch. I waste so much time on this, just randomizes all the parameters...its usually somewhere between circuit bent/ghostly noise/dubby drone but that is not a bad thing

-arp is VERY strong - all kinds of patterns, then stuff like "lag" and "monkey" to humanize it, then you can alternate inside with like ragas and such(?) hard to explain, but for example seq 12345678 becomes 123734556718 or whatnot to switch it up.

-chip tuney stuff, very easy to get lofi (some VAs are so clean, hard to make it wonky enough...)

-vocal formant reminds me of a poor man's Virus TI, niiiice.


I will do a little sample pack of sounds from the shruthi-1 thru SP555 effects soon
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do it I always looked for one
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stuff like "lag" and "monkey" to humanize it
humanize the arp? that sounds dope. could you explain how it works? if it's too complicated never mind.
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is it monophonic or poliphonic?
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its a mono

"monkey", "lag" (I think there are others) do things like push the notes slightly off 16ths (or whatever the arp is set on) to make it sound less rigid - kind of like swing but to my ears it is more tweakable and musical.

"....gro (groove): groove template. The options are swing (uneven distribution of pairs of 1/8th notes), shuffle (uneven distribution of pairs of 1/16th notes), push (push the beat), lag (sloppy drummer!), human (humanization) and monkey (humanization + shuffle). This setting only has an effect when amt is set to a non-zero value.
amt (amount): amount of groove to apply."

http://mutable-instruments.net/shruthi1/manual


Will work on that sample pack soon!
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wow! i never heard of arps with parameters like that. think i have to get a shruti just for that sooner or later.
thx for the explanation.
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