Node Reference

MNodes comes with over 330 nodes. Think of nodes as building blocks you connect with cables to create your own sounds and effects. They are grouped here by what they do, just like the node browser inside the app (and the search box still finds any node by name). Pick a category to see every node in it, along with its settings and the connection points where cables go in and out.

Sound Sources

• Oscillators: the basic tones that make sound (Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square, Pulse, Phase) plus the noise generators.
• Instruments: ready-to-play voices and synths you can start using right away (FM, Additive, Subtractive, Wavetable, West Coast, Drum Synth, Karplus-Strong, Vocoder, Formant, and more).
• Samplers: play back your own recordings: the Audio Player and Granular.
• Envelopes: shape how a sound fades in and out over time: Envelope (ADSR), Trig Envelope, AHD Envelope, Multi Envelope and Envelope Follower.

Processing

• Filters: sculpt the tone by boosting or cutting frequencies: Filter, Parametric EQ, Resonator, Crossover, AllPass and Formant Filter.
• Effects: add space and movement: reverbs, delays, chorus, looper, pitch shift, Beat Repeat, Freq Shifter, Convolver, AM / Ring Mod, FM and PM Operators, and other time and tone effects.
• Dynamics: control how loud or quiet things get: Compressor, Expander, OTT, Maximizer, Limiter, Noise Gate, Transient Shaper, Dynamic Shaper and Transient Splitter.
• Distortion: add grit, warmth or crunch: Clip, Tanh, Atan, Cubic, Foldback, Rectify, Asym Drive, Bitcrush, Tube Saturation, Waveshaper.
• Stereo Tools: place and widen sound across the left and right speakers: Pan, Panner, Stereo Width, Mid/Side Router, Mid/Side Decoder, Swap L/R, Phase Invert.

Control & Modulation

• Modulation: signals that move other controls automatically: LFO, Random CV, CV Glide, CV Delay Line, Random Float/Int/Bool.
• Sequencers: create rhythms and patterns that play in time: Clock, the Pendulum, sequencers, step tools, pattern steps and the clock dividers.
• Pitch: work with musical notes and tuning: CV To Freq, CV Octave/Transpose/Detune, CV Scale, the micro-tuning quantizers and the Scala Keyboard.
• Math & Logic: do simple calculations and decisions with values: arithmetic, comparison and logic nodes (Add, Multiply, Clamp, Greater Than, Gate, Select, Probability, and more).
• Values: hold and adjust single numbers, text or switches: Float/Int/Bool/Text values, Slider, Curve, CV Value, Signal and text tools.
• Routing: steer signals down different paths: CV Switch, Input Select, Route Sequencer, Sample & Hold, Last-Changed, the virtual wires (Audio, CV, Data) and Pass / CV Pass.

MIDI

• MIDI: work with notes from a keyboard or sequencer: MIDI I/O, generators (Keyboard, Chord, Arpeggiator, Riff, Looper, File Player), editors (Velocity, Transpose, Note Filter/Remap, CC tools), Merge and Panic.
• Convert: translate signals from one kind to another: bridge between Audio, CV, Data and MIDI (MIDI To CV/Data, CV / Data To MIDI, Audio To CV/Data, Data To CV, and more).

Building & Interface

• Widgets: the controls you see and touch on the front panel: sliders, knob, combo, XY pad, buttons, shapes, image, film strip, sample map and view.
• Subgraphs & Modules: bundle part of a patch into one tidy, reusable node: Subgraph and its ports, Module, Poly Module and the PolyVoice helpers.
• Utilities: handy everyday helpers: Audio In/Out, Gain, signal math/util, Comment, Colour, Frame, Transport, Recorder.
• Analysis: see and measure what your sound is doing: Oscilloscope, Analyzer, Meter, Stereo Image, CV Scope, Print, plus the Reactor Core and Mandelbulb visualisers.
• Plugin Host: load one of your own third-party VST3 / AU plugins and use it inside MNodes.