# Clouds - Gills version **URL:** \ **Category:** Share Your Patch\ **Tags:** gills\ **Created:** [December 28, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155 "2024-12-28T12:24:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ktttttt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ktttttt/32/305_2.png) [@ktttttt](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/ktttttt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/1 "2024-12-28T12:24:01Z")
thanks to Émilie Gillet (not Oliver Gillet) from Mutable Instruments for creating Clouds. This patch is based on Clouds by Mutable Instruments. There are 2 modes in this patch: granular or delay/stretcher. Button S1 to freeze. Button S2 does different things in different modes. Button S3 to switch modes. Button S4 to center pitch. download here: [clouds.axp](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/ll5pysfWBYNHPaXEJsbK6YUHyFb.axp) (32.5 KB) Page 1: Granular Regular mode for Clouds. Button S2 triggers a grain sample. 1. Position 2. Size 3. Pitch: Button S4 to center pitch 4. Density: At 12 o’clock, no grains are generated. Turn clockwise and grains will be sown randomly, counter-clockwise and they will be played at a constant rate. The further you turn, the higher the overlap between grains. 5. Texture: smears the signal 6. Dry wet mix 7. Spread 8. Feedback 9. Reverb 10. Limiter gain Page 2: Delay/Stretcher Pitch-shifter/time-stretcher mode in Clouds. Button S2 sends a trigger signal and creates a clock-synchronized loop (when FREEZE is enabled) or stuttering effect – equivalent to applying a tempo-synchronized decaying envelope on the POSITION parameter. All parameters are the same except for knobs 4 & 5 4. Smear: smears the signal 5. Lpf/Hpf: low-pass/high-pass filter ---
**Author:** ![IrregularShed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/irregularshed/32/78_2.png) [@IrregularShed](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/IrregularShed)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/2 "2024-12-28T17:25:34Z")
I’ve always loved Clouds, the textures you can get out of it are absolutely stunning. I can see I’m going to have to build an extension for my DIY half-a-Gills to provide some more controls now… ---
**Author:** ![Ksoloti](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ksoloti/32/71_2.png) [@Ksoloti](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/Ksoloti)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/3 "2024-12-29T13:17:10Z")
Does the clds object work well? It seems to eat a lot of DSP. Might need some optimization (has been on my list) ---
**Author:** ![ktttttt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ktttttt/32/305_2.png) [@ktttttt](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/ktttttt)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/4 "2024-12-30T10:22:13Z")
Right now the patch works well, though I’ve tried the following routing and the DSP load went 100% quickly: gills encoder integer output → logic/change → trig input for clouds ---
**Author:** ![Ksoloti](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ksoloti/32/71_2.png) [@Ksoloti](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/Ksoloti)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/5 "2024-12-30T11:58:58Z")
I remember vaguely something like this happening here, too. The mutable range of objects was a quick port IIRC with the sidenote that “any bugs are your own”. I started going over the code some time ago, other things got in the way but still on my list! ---
**Author:** ![Omnichordman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@Omnichordman](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/Omnichordman)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/6 "2024-12-30T18:25:51Z")
Very nice, thanks for the effort! It is quite heavy on the CPU, overshooting with certain parameter-values. I took the freedom to make a Big Genes Version. It comes in two flavors. With and without pot-smothing. [clouds-BG.axp](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/e2bz4CLIF79QTCLbu6isLoobwD0.axp) (34.3 KB) [clouds-BG-noSmoothing.axp](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/tzFyQL0yhIHCEXAPu3aj3sLML2H.axp) (33.2 KB) ---
**Author:** ![ktttttt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ktttttt/32/305_2.png) [@ktttttt](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/ktttttt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/7 "2025-02-16T03:41:20Z")
autotune with Clouds: [Auto-cloud (autotune & harmony)](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/auto-cloud-autotune-harmony/220) ---
**Author:** ![ktttttt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ktttttt/32/305_2.png) [@ktttttt](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/ktttttt)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/8 "2025-04-21T19:18:07Z")
> [@Clouds - for Big Genes](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-for-big-genes/306): > > first Big Genes patch. let me know if there’s any problems [clouds bg.axp](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/95FAAIgsoAc4DNy7yWSOphDqKrK.axp) (25.4 KB) thanks to Émilie Gillet (not Oliver Gillet) from Mutable Instruments for creating Clouds. This patch is based on Clouds by Mutable Instruments. There are 2 modes in this patch: granular or delay/stretcher. Button S1 to freeze. Button S2 does different things in different modes. Button S3 to switch modes. Button S4 to center pitch ---
**Author:** ![psychonaught](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@psychonaught](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/psychonaught)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/9 "2025-05-10T12:03:40Z")
It’s too heavy on CPU for my Big Genes. All I get is fuzz ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ksoloti](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ksoloti/32/71_2.png) [@Ksoloti](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/Ksoloti)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/10 "2025-05-10T12:30:48Z")
Ha geez I always meant to give the clds code a good cleanup - the reverb inside the clds object for example isn’t always necessary and one could save quite some CPU cycles leaving it out ---
**Author:** ![ktttttt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ktttttt/32/305_2.png) [@ktttttt](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/ktttttt)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/11 "2025-05-10T23:20:33Z")
one of my friends is considering buying Big Genes for the Clouds patch. if Clouds gets optimised then I think a lot of people will want Gills & Big Genes. ---
**Author:** ![poetaster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/poetaster/32/560_2.png) [@poetaster](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/poetaster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/12 "2025-11-20T07:35:38Z")
I had taken a look at clouds and it needs some work. I’ve done a bunch of MI ports to arduino for use with the rp2040 (braids) and the rp2350 (elements, plaits, rings, tides) so I was just thinking of looking at clouds since it’s next on my list for the rp2350. For reference: [GitHub - poetaster/arduinoMI: Ports of mutable intstruments eurorack code to arduino.](https://github.com/poetaster/arduinoMI) I based my work on [GitHub - v7b1/mi-UGens: some mutable instruments eurorack modules ported to SuperCollider](https://github.com/v7b1/mi-UGens) volker boehm’s nice ports to supercollider. His version of the MI eurorack sources is clean of hardware dependencies. One thing that was evident on rings and elements is that even running the 2350 at 270mHz it’s tight. I reduce the the number of voices (4down to 2). I’ll go look at clouds now and will open another thread to ask about porting the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Ksoloti](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ksoloti/32/71_2.png) [@Ksoloti](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/Ksoloti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/13 "2025-11-20T07:42:33Z")
It does need some work! It looked like a quick port. Excited to see/hear your findings. ---
**Author:** ![poetaster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/poetaster/32/560_2.png) [@poetaster](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/poetaster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/14 "2025-11-20T08:16:42Z")
One quick question. It looks like all the objects in the contrib context, [axoloti-factory/objects/fx/clds at 1.0.12 · ksoloti/axoloti-factory · GitHub](https://github.com/ksoloti/axoloti-factory/tree/1.0.12/objects/fx/clds) depend/use the objects compiled with core? Is this correct? Should also ask, I’m using the early prototypes (0.4, I believe) boards but I don’t think that should make a difference. Also still using the 1.0.12 axoloti patcher, so I’m not sure I don’t have to shift all that? ---
**Author:** ![Ksoloti](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/ksoloti/32/71_2.png) [@Ksoloti](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/Ksoloti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/15 "2025-11-20T08:23:01Z")
> [@poetaster](#): > > depend/use the objects compiled with core? Is this correct? I think so. They added the mutable\_instruments folder to the actual Core firmware because the MI code uses lots of tables and functions, best to save that with the firmware. ---
**Author:** ![poetaster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/poetaster/32/560_2.png) [@poetaster](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/poetaster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/16 "2025-11-20T08:30:35Z")
Ah, thought so. That makes it a real pita to work with ☹ I have one ‘aggregate” [sluisbrinkie-eurorack-published/Mutable Meta Module at main · niektb/sluisbrinkie-eurorack-published · GitHub](https://github.com/niektb/sluisbrinkie-eurorack-published/tree/main/Mutable%20Meta%20Module) source at [arduinoMI/MMM at main · poetaster/arduinoMI · GitHub](https://github.com/poetaster/arduinoMI/tree/main/MMM) There, the libraries are all discrete (stmlib et. al.) but that sketch includes three and fits in under 3mb total. Is it even possible to do this in the contrib context? EDIT: 1.2mb ---
**Author:** ![poetaster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/ksoloti.discourse.group/poetaster/32/560_2.png) [@poetaster](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/u/poetaster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://ksoloti.discourse.group/t/clouds-gills-version/155/17 "2025-12-01T16:10:10Z")
I just finished the port for arduino and the pi pico2. I’d really like to not have to build firmware for this since I’m doing multiple modules and constantly making corrections. Rebuilding firmware every time would be a pita. In any case, on the pi pico2 clouds runs really well but I am overclocking and running 2 cores.