Mutable Instruments refreshes Ripples and Shades for 2020

28 May 2020 by Robin Vincent | Approximate reading time: 1 Minute

MI Shades & Ripples · Source: MI

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Mutable Instruments has quietly given Ripples and Shades an upgrade and a spruced up look to bring them more in keeping with the current line-up.

Ripples refresh

Ripples is a classic analogue 4-pole multi-mode “liquid” filter. Since its release in 2013 it’s been a steady favourite in racks everywhere giving a very pleasing Roland-esque vibe. The built-in VCA on the lowpass output was also very welcome in smaller setups.

MI Ripples

The refresh loses the distinctive coloured knobs and reduces the FM input attenuverter to a smaller knob. But in addition to the aesthetic choices they’ve added a Highpass output, a selectable slope and an overdrive circuit to the input. You could almost call it a Ripples V2.

Shades refresh

This update to the Shades Mixer/Attenuverter module is purely cosmetic exchanging the coloured knobs for white and adding a second LED to each channel. The top LED displays the intensity of the positive half of the signal, the bottom LED handles to negative half.