SOMA ORNAMENT-8, User Manual

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ORNAMENT • 8 USER MANUAL
result will be. Always remember to experiment and create hypotheses that could potentially
lead to interesting behavior.
Additionally, you can diversify this patch using the PASS output. Create a situation where
the trigger will “fly out” of the loop through this output to another loop. And after some
time it will also “fly back in”. This way you can create a "wandering" voice of polyphony,
which will be either in one loop or in another.
You can control cell activity using the SET and RESET buttons. Premature termination of
activity of one of the important nodal cells with the
RESET
button can very radically rebuild
the behavior of the patch. The simplest illustration of this is LOOP . In a regular loop of
four cells with equal TIME lengths, there are two stable configurations. In complex patches,
there may be even more such configurations.
The
CV
output can generate a continuous voltage gradient, unlike the discrete outputs
LYRA and PULSAR , which can only be in high or low states. As soon as the cell is activat‑
ed, the voltage at this output begins to grow linearly. The reset moment (after TIME time
has elapsed) occurs when the voltage on it r10 volts. At this point, the voltage at
the CV output instantly drops to zero. If the cell operates in the inverted mode, then the
voltage on the contrary drops from +10 volts to the ground voltage, and then instantly
rises to +10 volts.
This output can be used as a source of control voltage. Summing it with other outputs, you
can create signals of a complex shape.
Input
CV
allows you to control the duration of the
TIME
generator. Unlike
X2
, this input
allows you to change the duration in the full range of the TIME control and even beyond.
Create LOOP and LOOP with all cells in positive mode. Make the length of the first
loop cells very short. The duration of the fifth cell is 10 seconds, and the sixth is very short.
You can disconnect generators 5 and 6 from LYRA so that its voices remain silent. As a
result, the output of CV
5
will result in an increasing saw. Create a connection CV
5
—
CV
3
and CV
5
— CV
4
. As a result, it turns out that the rate of LOOP is gradually
increasing. Рiс. 8
By creating feedback by connecting
CV
and
CV
, you can achieve extremely unpredictable
pattern dynamics including short stops, after which the movement starts again.
ORNAMENT stops may also be longer. During these stops, the cells retain their state. Sooner
or later one of the cells will change its state and generate a trigger that will bring the whole
system out of the stop.
The ORNAMENT stops completely if all the cells at a certain moment become inactive. Such
situations occur in highly confused chaotic patches. Algorithms and conditions for bifurcation
of behavior in such patches are very complex. The probability of multiple collisions increases
sharply, and at some point they can lead to a complete shutdown of all cells. After that, only
the User can return the ORNAMENT to life by pressing a SET button:)
Try to consider the patches of the ORNAMENT as evolving systems, and study the laws
that govern their development, as they are very similar to the laws that govern our lives.
Vadim Minkin