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@@mooted5513 I used the CV loopers in this patch, but I haven’t experimented with using the audio version yet. If it’s between the zoia and cosmos I’d pick zoia all day, empress algorithms sound good and you could create a complex and interactive delay that does whatever you want and mimics the cosmos probably. I really only like the granular algorithms on the cosmos, its workflow tends to be more about seeing what creativity you can get out of its constraints rather than the freedom and open ended possibilities of the zoia. The zoia does have pretty bad UI that takes a while to learn though.

@ Awesome, appreciate the response. Funny how we ended up with a very similar setup. (Matriarch, Terra, Pulsar, Lyra, …)

Thanks! Check out the patch notes in the description, it’s trigger based random values from the zoia and a pair of cv loopers.

@@Bobo Thanks! Glad you liked it, yeah there definitely aren't too many videos showcasing the utilities. My first impressions of it are positive, hope to use it with more stuff soon. I like the different distortion circuits they all seem somewhat dynamic and dependent on the signal being processed, the linear amplifiers are great, more attenuators is very nice to have alongside pulsar. A few criticisms would be, photoresistors aren’t very useful to me as another modulation source, I wish the momentary switches could latch or toggle, and the CV touchpads don’t have normalled voltage sources like the ones on the pulsar.

@@Bombmotion Thank you so much for the explanation and hope to see even more from you ☺️

@@jon_gee Thanks I’m glad you liked it, it took a while to balance the timbres but I’m pleased the pace/space stood out to you, I was really happy with how the Lyra took the phaser fx and how the CV looper for the melody introduced little portamentos and other artifacts

I remember this performance being pretty spontaneous when I recorded it, I do put a lot of forethought into planning the tuning I’m going to use with the Lyra but the rest of the performance is more spontaneous, the cosmos half was totally improvised. Tuning is super important on the Lyra not just for creating interesting harmonies, but because it’s also an FM synth at its core. Looking back at my patch notes in the description it’s clear I wanted both chords to be pretty intelligible by voicing one by thirds and one by fifths a bit like you would do on a piano, to have good bass root notes and upper harmony I could distort with FM for texture for cosmos sampling. So really I was creating a sort of ‘sonic palette’ for myself to explore during performance. There are some interesting parts in the Lyra’s manual where it talks about beginning with the Lyra in one state, taking it to another, and then bringing it back to its original state. I tend to incorporate that sort of idea a lot into my performances to create interest or evolve ideas in a compelling way. After spending some time with the Lyra you start to sort of recognize some of the more complex and nuanced interactions, like how the different modulation depths or envelope sensitivities interact with the hold knobs, or how carefully touching the sensors can create softer attacks to notes. it’s an instrument that rewards you for spending time with it, some of the controls are more prone to chaotic or inharmonious results so it’s just a matter of navigating what’s appropriate for that point in the performance.

@ really appreciate you detailed response, particularly so long after you posted the video. You clearly have a strong understanding of the Lyra but also of musical ideas.

@@4nks Thank you! Glad you liked it, I just got the jaspers stand recently it really made things more ergonomic, I love it.

@@Bobo Thank you! glad the notes were insightful to you and you liked the performances, the Lyra is a very unique and inspiring instrument

@@phantazzor it’s normal size, I just have big hands 😉

Thanks, glad you liked it! They do pair well together, the cosmos does a good job of adding stereo image to the Lyra. The cosmos is basically just a weird delay pedal, so in terms of combining the cosmos with reverb, it’s pretty much the same as any delay / reverb combination and you have to adjust them to taste or so things stay intelligible. I have an eventide space and often use them together. The cosmos does also have a built in ‘reverb’ mode but it’s pretty useless as a traditional reverb because it all super long fixed decay times and you can’t adjust any of its other parameters. i wish they would replace it with a different algorithm in the next firmware.

Thanks! Glad you liked it, I was really happy with how the zoia brought things together in this one. I think my impression of the terra is positive overall. I love how easy it is to transpose pitch during performance, going up and down multiple octaves is really seamless and i find myself exploring higher and lower registers more readily as a result. I find the microtonal tuning super useful for getting in tune with other unstable analog synths too. I do wish it had a few things, like an attack control for the parameter sensors. Sometimes its difficult to control the initial attack with them while also playing notes. I also think the gyroscope is utterly useless and I wish it had some CV I/O or something instead. Some of the algorithms also suck, the drums / cymbals one is the worst to me personally. The transposition presets are also pretty difficult to understand at first. That being said I don't really get the issue with limitations because this instrument seems pretty niche and obviously designed to fill that solo / pseudo acoustic role. It isn't gonna do bread and butter subtractive synths sounds or be versatile in a traditional way cause it isn't intended to be. Personally I find limitations somewhat empowering in the context of synths, they force you to get the most out of what you have and fully explore the tools available to you, and SOMAs whole design philosophy is essentially just that, explore and see what you find. I do find their penchant to not fully explain things in the manual frustrating. I think being informed of the technical nitty gritty is useful even if performance is intended to be more experiential. I also think SOMA is deliberately moving in the direction of creating instruments that people need to dedicate themselves to learning physical playing techniques with. Terra requires you to learn the very nuanced touch of the sensors and it certainly takes some practice to get good results. They've just announced the Flux instrument too and that seems very similar, I'm excited by SOMAs take on a Theremin style instrument but I don't have much desire to learn the physical playing techniques required so I would probably find it limiting without dedicating myself to learning to perform with it.

Yeah absolutely

@@Bombmotion thanks! Seems like a silly question in hindsight.

@@RyanHarris77 All good, sometimes the nuances of a piece of gear aren’t apparent till you get hands on with it or ask. I’ve been overall very impressed with the 8step program, it syncs well to both midi and analog clocks, it’s simple and direct to operate, has memory presets, and pairs great with the Lyra cause both have 1/4” cv connections.

Glad you liked it! The TS coverters on the ornament are bidirectional, so you can go directly into the ornament from the zoia and convert from TS to alligator. Just zoia cv out > ornament TS converter > alligators to 2x pins. There tends to be some voltage drop on the ornament when you connect multiple pins together onto one of the converters so you may have to adjust the output range accordingly. I was using my mordax data inbetween to make sure everything was behaving as expected, I noticed the voltage drop especially on the triggering from the pulsar outputs on the ornament. They're +10v but connecting them all to the same output pin (cause i only wanted to use one CV in on the zoia) dropped the level significantly.

@@Bombmotion I didn't know they are bidirectional! That is a very useful fact. I have noticed the voltage drop with multiple connections. Yesterday I tried something which didn't work: I figured it would be possible to build a kind of primitive lfo, with one cell positive and the other negative, because then the trig of the second cell should start from +10 volts and go down. But somehow it didn't work, it was rather fast even at slow settings.

I would like to have a network of Ornament-8 users, to learn more about it. It is quite hard to understand occasionally, especially the pass and X2 pins.

@@theproblembelief7549 That’s a cool idea, it’s definitely a unique tool and I’d enjoy seeing more of these behavior / logic tools from SOMA. I think I’ve tried to do the same thing before, basically a crude triangle LFO with two cells one inverted, I remember not being able to make it smooth enough to use it the way I wanted. The 2x input is definitely a little deeper than it seems there’s a part in the ornament manual that alludes to using it for only part of a cells duration or turning it on/off asynchronously to create timing variations. Personally I find the CV input pin to be the most unpredictable, especially if you create feedback loops of cv in / out between cells. That being said one of the most interesting ways I’ve used the ornament is as an unstable clock. create two looping cells one to be used as the clock pulse with shortest possible duration, and use the other to control the time between pulses, add CV in modulation and things get crazy.

Thanks! Love the matrixbrute, it was the first big analog synth i got. The filter sections are so much fun and i love how easy it is to set up modulation and complex routing on it, wish I had the space and money to justify a polybrute. The matriarch is really cool and sounds great but compared to the brutes you need a lot of other modules to do similar ideas, also the CV implementation is kind of a mess and I find myself constantly having to reference the manual. Different VCA modes have different voltage ranges, some patch points are bipolar while some are unipolar and are a mixture of +/-5V and +/-8V or even +10V. The keyboard is really nice and the stereo filter & delay are amazing and make anything sound good.

Exactly! Wow! It very cool...but thinking about what else you could get for thr 4K. Lol. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.

Just the normal factory default firmware

Thanks! Glad you got one too its a pretty inspiring instrument, very tactile and sensitive. Mine is EU#45. It took a day or two to try out all the different algorithms and get a grasp of the controls, next I wanna try out out with the cosmos and try syncing some of the arp patches to external sources.

@@Bombmotion When did you both sign up on the waiting list? I added my name in January.

@@evanseesred I think some time last winter? not sure exactly, as soon as it was announced

@@Bombmotionso did I. Did you like suddenly get an email to pay for the order or something? Or did you somehow pre pay and been waiting ?

@@GirlfightClub You sign up for the waiting list on their website, then when your turn comes they email you and confirm you're still interested. If you say yes you give them your shipping information and pay for it and they mail it to you. This is the third thing I've ordered from them, shipping from EU SOMA was pretty fast only like 3 days once my turn came, my pulsar took like a month to come from Russia. I'm also signed up for the list for their next instrument, reflex, did as soon as it was on their website.