SOMA ORNAMENT-8, User Manual

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ORNAMENT • 8 USER MANUAL
The ORNAMENT allows you to create loops of any length, with a minimum of 2 steps or cells.
If you need a loop length of, for example, 64 steps, you need to take eight ORNAMENTs and
merge their cells into one chain.
Music is impossible without pauses or rests. Switch any cell from positive mode to pause
mode (middle position of the toggle switch). Now the corresponding LYRA voice will no
longer sound. However, the cell is still involved in the creation of the rhythm, because the
trigger pulses at its inputs and outputs continue to be transmitted. This mode of operation
is useful when you need to turn off some of LYRA’s voices, or in order to use cells for other
purposes. Please note that when this cell is switched to negative mode, the rhythm also
does not change — only the mode of operation of the cell outputs is inverted. Let's return
this cell to positive mode by flipping the switch up again.
TRIG
inputs are capable of receiving a signal from any number of
TRIG
outputs.
TRIG
outputs are able to transmit a signal to any number of TRIG inputs.
Using this property, we will complicate LOOP a little, but at the same time we will
immediately go beyond the territory of ordinary linear sequencers. Send a trigger with
TRIG
3
not only to TRIG
4
, but also to TRIG
5
. Press SET of any of the LOOP cells
to start the ORNAMENT. Set the
TIME
5
value of the fifth cell so that it lasts longer
than the fourth cell. Switch LYRA to the mode so that voices 3 and 4 modulate voices 5 and
6. We will increase the modulation level with the MOD knob
5
,
6
. Now the result of the
FM synthesis between 4 and 5 voices of LYRA is clearly audible, when both of these voices
sound simultaneously.
Experiment with the duration of the fifth cell. If the duration of its sound is about equal to
the sum of the durations of the sound of the first four cells that formed a loop, this cell will
sound almost constantly. However, if you put cell 5 in a negative mode of operation, then
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