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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

This looks pretty wild as all of Soma’s products do

Description / Cosmos – SOMA LABORATORY

COSMOS is a drifting memory station designed to work with meditative states through music. The design of the controls, functions and generated soundscapes are intended to evoke, in both performer and listener, states and experiences inherent in meditation, such as limitless space, fluidity, spontaneous development, presence, the ability to hear, tranquility, the experience of subtle harmony and happiness enveloping the whole world.

From a functional point of view, COSMOS is a large array of sound memory, in which recorded sounds undergo constant recombinations, spontaneously generating an ever-changing soundscape. This is achieved in three ways — by a mathematical shift based on the relationships between large prime numbers (the size of all delay lines are different primes), an asynchronous operation of the LFO, and modulation with a slowly changing chaotic signal. As a result, it allows the endless layering and processing of various sounds, as in a looper, but without an intrusive, repetitive loop.

COSMOS generates rich, fluid and evolving soundscapes perfect for ambient music. Using COSMOS, you can play an entire meditative solo concert while being in a spontaneous flow and without using studio-prepared sequences, backing tracks and other things that can’t be a reflection of the “here and now”.
 
This looks pretty wild as all of Soma’s products do

Description / Cosmos – SOMA LABORATORY

COSMOS is a drifting memory station designed to work with meditative states through music. The design of the controls, functions and generated soundscapes are intended to evoke, in both performer and listener, states and experiences inherent in meditation, such as limitless space, fluidity, spontaneous development, presence, the ability to hear, tranquility, the experience of subtle harmony and happiness enveloping the whole world.

From a functional point of view, COSMOS is a large array of sound memory, in which recorded sounds undergo constant recombinations, spontaneously generating an ever-changing soundscape. This is achieved in three ways — by a mathematical shift based on the relationships between large prime numbers (the size of all delay lines are different primes), an asynchronous operation of the LFO, and modulation with a slowly changing chaotic signal. As a result, it allows the endless layering and processing of various sounds, as in a looper, but without an intrusive, repetitive loop.

COSMOS generates rich, fluid and evolving soundscapes perfect for ambient music. Using COSMOS, you can play an entire meditative solo concert while being in a spontaneous flow and without using studio-prepared sequences, backing tracks and other things that can’t be a reflection of the “here and now”.
Lookss cool, but all of the video links on their site are set to private.
 
This looks pretty wild as all of Soma’s products do

Description / Cosmos – SOMA LABORATORY

COSMOS is a drifting memory station designed to work with meditative states through music. The design of the controls, functions and generated soundscapes are intended to evoke, in both performer and listener, states and experiences inherent in meditation, such as limitless space, fluidity, spontaneous development, presence, the ability to hear, tranquility, the experience of subtle harmony and happiness enveloping the whole world.

From a functional point of view, COSMOS is a large array of sound memory, in which recorded sounds undergo constant recombinations, spontaneously generating an ever-changing soundscape. This is achieved in three ways — by a mathematical shift based on the relationships between large prime numbers (the size of all delay lines are different primes), an asynchronous operation of the LFO, and modulation with a slowly changing chaotic signal. As a result, it allows the endless layering and processing of various sounds, as in a looper, but without an intrusive, repetitive loop.

COSMOS generates rich, fluid and evolving soundscapes perfect for ambient music. Using COSMOS, you can play an entire meditative solo concert while being in a spontaneous flow and without using studio-prepared sequences, backing tracks and other things that can’t be a reflection of the “here and now”.

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ORNAMENT-8 organismic sequencer. Demo (SOMA Lab)

ORNAMENT-8 is an organismic sequencer, or in a broader sense, a synthesizer of behaviour. A unique feature of ORNAMENT is its fully horizontal modular structure that consists of eight equal and independent cells which are special delay lines. It’s in fact an analog computer with a temporal dimension, the behaviour of which is determined by patching and adjusting the temporal properties of each cell involved in the generation of the behaviour.
 
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I'd like to revise that comment, as when I was digging through some of the presets in the HS, I was surprised to find Ring Mod on some of them in a way that didn't sound like it. It's just that every experience I've had has been just one that makes the sound too abrasive for me (which is also why a lot of people love it).

synth ring mod is different than pedal ring mod. so it makes sense.
 
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I finally have something to share with you all! I recorded it last year, almost shared it once via Soundcloud but changed my mind But the other day my wife took some video that I thought could work, so here it is!



I'm torn whether I should say what I used or just let it be for now...


I don’t get why people won’t say what they used... it’s pretty rare that anyone will be able to replicate.
 
My ambient charcuterie board build update 1.
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@lordradish -- I am SO happy to hear it's not cancer! And I may be writing on misphonia later this year, in which case I might want to interview you if you're up for it.

On the board front, I can't help you on generators, but on modulation, if you like your H9, I can say that I waited for far too long to use two H9s together. The programming possibilities are incredible and you can probably achieve most of the modulation etc sounds you want out of it.

@steubig congrats on the Iridium! I will be interested to hear your impressions with / vs the Hydrasynth.

Also, I have an email preorder for the Cosmos sitting in my email drafts folder. Really impressed with how Vlad set it up. I have friends with Soma synths who loooooooooove them. Seems like the build quality is also really good, which bodes well for this one.

One of the things I love after a busy couple days (and this week was a hell of a week) is coming back to this thread. It's always interesting!
 
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Also, I have an email preorder for the Cosmos sitting in my email drafts folder. Really impressed with how Vlad set it up. I have friends with Soma synths who loooooooooove them. Seems like the build quality is also really good, which bodes well for this one.

I preordered. It doesn’t cost anything to get in line. Looks like just what I have been looking for actually. I got up early this morning and was trying to figure out how to do Frippertronics with the Strymon Volante.