Cocoquantus
The Cocoquantus is made by 4 parts as
you can see, in the center you have an
array of oscillators and circuits we are
going to call QUANTUSSY, the
QUANTUSSY is perfect for modulating
your recorded material, then you have a
left COCO and a right COCO which let's
say are our "loopers" and then on the
very left of the unit you have an input
section including XLR mic IN and a 1/8"
IN for piezo mics equipped with an
ENVELOPE FOLLOWER OUT (orange).
The toggle switches on the
QUANTUSSY are three ways switches,
center position is audio speed, pointing
inwards the VCOs go LFOs, pointing
outwards VCO behave somewhere
between audio/LFO range (for lack of
better technical term).
Front inputs:
the two jacks in the center of the front of
the unit are both stereo jacks, left
channel of your stereo instrument will be
sent to the left Coco, right channel to the
right Coco.
If you use a mono jack both inputs will
send your audio only to the left Coco.
Tip: want to send two mono instruments
at the same time one to the left and one
to the right?
Input one instrument into one of the two
stereo inputs, you will hear it on the left
COCO, input the other one into the
PIEZO IN (which is mono) and with a
banana cable send it from the white
banana jack to the green banana input
of the right COCO.
Stereo output:
If your use your classic "red and white Y
stereo cable", left COCO goes to the
right channel of your mixer/whatever,
right COCO goes to the left channel, I
usually invert the jacks on my mixer to
have it "right". Also, I always put a stereo
compressor between my Cocoquantus
and my mixer as it's sometimes an
untamable beast, beware the
FEEDBACK volume if you pass 12
o'clock.
Cleaning buffers:
(when you turn it on noise normaly
circulates in the buffers):
- set INPUT GAIN and FEEDBACK
volume fully CCW;
- set SPEED fully CW;
- press LOOP ON/OFF to make it record
(remember: Cocoquantus is recording
when the leds are off), leave it record for
few seconds then press again LOOP
ON/OFF,
your buffer is now clean.
On the Dolby switches:
in up position they behave as suitable
Dolby filters (but I'm still trying to
understand the upper positon, sorry, I
will update when figuring out), the left
one for the IN, the right one for the
FEEDBACK.
In down position:
- if you switch down the left one you
basically mute your input source;
- if you switch down the right one you
have your material over-writing the
feedback loop creating a sort of
punch-in/side-chain effect as long as
your input sound lasts;
- if you switch both down you are
inputting "silence" basically "gating" your
feedback loop with your audio source,
try this with a tight drum machine to get
the idea.
Sync the loop with external gear:
Yes you can!
