Chapters
  1. 1 Using this manual
  2. 2 Getting started
  3. 3 Differences from Maschine
  4. 4 The Maschine MK3
  5. 5 The Launchpad Pro MK3
  6. 6 Modulation
  7. 7 Expressive recording
  8. 8 Multi-output plug-ins
  9. 9 DECKARD's own synths
  10. 10 Controlling modular synths
  11. 11 Themes and controller scripts

DECKARDManual

9. DECKARD's own synths

Replicant, a classic subtractive synth with a supersaw, and Plaits, Mutable Instruments' macro-oscillator.

Besides its versions of Maschine’s instruments, DECKARD has two synths of its own. Add them from the + at the end of any chain: Internal ▸ Replicant or Internal ▸ Plaits. Both work as mod-matrix targets.

Replicant

Replicant's controls in the Control area: oscillators, filter, envelopes and modulation.
Replicant.

Replicant is a classic subtractive synth. Its pages are Oscillators, Filter, Amp, Modulation and Super.

Page What’s on it
Oscillators Two oscillators (saw, pulse, triangle or sine), a sub oscillator and noise.
Filter A resonant low-pass, band-pass or high-pass filter, with its own envelope.
Amp The amp envelope. 16 voices, or Mono with glide. Stereo spread and analog-style drift.
Modulation An LFO to pitch and cutoff, and vibrato on the mod wheel.
Super Turns oscillator 1 into a JP-8000-style supersaw: up to seven detuned copies, their detune and their mix.

Plaits

Plaits' controls in the Control area: engine, Harmonics, Timbre and Morph, and the envelope.
Plaits.

Plaits is Mutable Instruments’ macro-oscillator module, built from Émilie Gillet’s open-source code, so it sounds like the module.

  • Engines: all 24, including virtual analogue, waveshaping, FM, grains, additive, wavetables, chords, speech, strings, modal resonators and the drum models.
  • Harmonics, Timbre and Morph take the names the module’s manual gives them for the engine chosen. Virtual Analog, for example, shows Detune, Square and Saw.
  • Envelope: the module’s low-pass gate (Decay and Colour), or a plain gate with a Release.
  • Voices: 1, 2, 4 or 8.

Plaits’ code is © Emilie Gillet, used under the MIT licence, shown in DECKARD’s About box.

Zhora

DECKARD’s third instrument, Zhora, doesn’t make a sound of its own. It plays a modular synth over CV and keeps it in tune. It has its own chapter: Controlling modular synths.

In Maschine

Replicant and Plaits are saved in the project like plug-ins. Maschine can’t play them and reports them as missing plug-ins, but keeps their settings when it saves the project, so they come back when you open it in DECKARD again.