Monsoon
 
Monsoon is a granular audio processor based on the open- source hardware and firmware for Clouds, a discontinued Eurorack module by Mutable Instruments. It creates textures and soundscapes by combining multiple overlapping, delayed, transposed, and enveloped segments of sound, taken from an audio recording buffer.
 
Clouds differs from other granular Eurorack modules in that it focuses on the real-time processing of audio sources from your modular system itself, rather than the playback of pre- recorded samples from a storage device. It rewards the freezing, fragmentation and dissolution of the unexpected instant, rather than the careful planning of what might very well not come.
You can find more information on Clouds at https://pichenettes.github.io/mutable-instruments-documentation/modules/clouds/
 
Why Monsoon over Clouds?
Monsoon’s primary difference lies in Clouds’ four blend mode parameters: Wet/dry mix, stereo panning, feedback amount, and reverb amount. While Clouds provides a single knob and a blend-mode-switch button, Monsoon gives each blend parameter its own knob and its own CV modulation input.
 
The four main control parameters, POSITION, DENSITY, SIZE, and TEXTURE, are changed from knobs to sliders. The slider knob contains a red/green LED which displays the corresponding CV modulation value.
 
Additionally, Monsoon cuts the size of the module from 18HP down to 12HP.
More information and full manual available on the left side under MANUAL.