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Mutable Instruments | Yarns
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Yarns
User manual
OVERVIEW
Yarns is a MIDI to CV interface. Thanks to its flexible architecture, it can manage up to 4 voices of polyphony
or up to 4 individual channels. Yarns embeds an arpeggiator, a note sequencer, and an euclidean pattern
generator.
INSTALLATION
Yarns is designed for Eurorack synthesizer systems and occupies 12 HP of space. It requires a -12V / +12V
supply (2x5 connector), consuming 2mA from the -12V rail and 60mA from the +12V rail. The red stripe of the
ribbon cable must be oriented on the same side as the “Red stripe” marking on the printed circuit board.
CONTROLS
At the right of Yarns’ display is an encoder which is used to increment/decrement values and scroll through
options. The typical way of modifying Yarns’ settings is to scroll through the list of settings, click the encoder
to select one of them, then rotate the encoder to increment/decrement the value of setting, and click again
once you are done. Yarns’ display is small, so settings names are abbreviated into 2 letters code (VR =
“Vibrato range”). To ease navigation, the unabbreviated form of each setting or value scrolls on the display
after a few seconds of inactivity.
Below the display are 3 buttons, whose primary functions are to control the sequencer:
REC starts and ends step-by-step recording.
START/STOP starts and stops the sequencer.
