Woodland Hills, CA, United States
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Mutable Instruments Marbles - Factory (not a clone)Ships with Mork Modular black panel and original silver panel from Mutable Instruments. Currently with the black panel. Includes original box, ribbon cable. Excellent condition. Only used in non-smoking garage studio. Ships with care and fast.Marbles offers three streams of triggers/gates and four voltages, to which multiple behavioural characteristics are applied by turning knobs and receiving voltage. The module's left‑hand side deals with triggers and gates, with the opposite side doling out random and not-so-random patterns. Positioned above this architecture is an apparently simple yet effective tool, Deja Vu, which makes it possible to reuse some (or all) of the random seeding decisions. Impressively, none of this is complicated. So while it's worth ploughing through the manual on day one, the rewards are available from the outset.Connecting an external clock to the module's left side is enough to synchronise Marbles to your modular universe. It also has the effect of turning the large Rate control into a clock divider/multiplier, with the three 't' triggers driving the 'x' voltages generated on the opposite side. You can override this by routing a totally different clock signal to the right‑hand input, synchronising the 'x' voltages to that instead.Trigger patterns are influenced by a couple of three-option buttons, each supported by tri-colour LEDs. Broadly speaking, the first button determines the type of pattern generated while the second handles the speed relationships to the main clock. Via a virtual coin toss, you decide if the current pulse should be output at t1 or t3, or you can control the opposing triggers so they're based on divisions and multiplications of the main clock. There's even an option to generate typical kick/snare patterns at the t1 and t3 outs.Depending on the chosen option, the Bias knob can generate extreme speed bursts, or increase the density of triggers at one output while thinning them at the other. And if regular bursts are just too predictable, the Jitter knob is your friend. Handling all clock stability matters, its central position provides jitter-free output. However, depending on the direction you turn from there, the beats will be either delayed or arrive early, like those of a heavily distracted drummer. At extreme values, the triggers hit Brexit levels of chaos and uncertainty.
Original Price$335
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New Price$295
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