Mutable Instruments Veils 2020

4 VCA with separated output

Who said you never have enough VCAs?

Veils provides four VCAs with an adjustable response curve and offset control.
Veils’ outputs are daisy-chained, allowing adjacent groups of 2, 3, or all 4 channels to be mixed together.

CONTROLS and I/O

For each of the 4 channels:

• Response curve, from exponential to linear.
• Offset applied to the CV, from 0V to +8V.
• Modulation CV amount (normalled to a constant voltage).
• DC-coupled control input and signal input.
• DC-coupled signal output.

The cornerstones of modular patches

VCAs are absolutely essential in a modular system, for example for:

• Shaping the amplitude or timbre of a tone with an envelope.
• Animating a mixture of several oscillators.
• Controlling the amount of filter modulation with a random source or a touch controller.
• Applying an envelope on the linear FM signal hitting an oscillator.

An updated classic

• More compact footprint (10-HP), with sliders instead of knobs for the main gain/CV control.
• Gain indicator LED.
• Positive offset control (0 to 8V) for direct use of bipolar modulation sources.

Specifications

• All inputs DC-coupled.
• All inputs handle audio-rate signals.
• Input impedance: 100k for all inputs.
• Gain scale: a +5V CV translates to a gain of 1 (0dB), both in linear and in exponential mode.
• Large gains above +20dB (sufficient for amplifying line-level signals) achievable in exponential mode.
• Offset control adding an adjustable voltage from 0 to 8V to the gain CV.
• 50 mA +12V
• 50 mA -12V
• 0 mA 5V
• Depth: 25 mm
• Width: 10 HP