I admit I am a Somasynth fan 😆. This setup has grown in more than a year, I was so fascinated by the musical potential of each of these synths that I couldn't help but buy them🥲

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it can be sometimes, it depends on how complicated is the harmony you want to play, or how gradual you want the transitions to be. Imagine it like a piano, it is very easy to make a sound, but to play a complicated composition you need to study a little 😄. It is VERY easy if you want to do ambient tho; it’s like the easiest synth for that in my opinion.

Terra does not have a looper built in; you can use the delay fx to build some short repetitions that can sound as a loop but if you want a real looper you have to use an external device. Cosmos is a strange looper itself, it does not loop in the traditional way, but that’s why I like it.

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Thank you! Can’t wait to see messeiver in action!

You’re right, my bad. Will fix this in future videos!

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I like to make the filters on the snare and hht channel cry 😆, feed that into cosmos and you have a nice organic ambient sound.

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J'ai assemblé les lumières moi-même. Le matériel est tout disponible sur le web, bandes LED, profilés aluminium et connecteurs.😄

@@Organismo_music merci, je regardais sur aliexpress, des rubans de 6w maximum,le rendu est beaucoup plus sympa que les rubans led fournis avec l’illuminator

Grazie davvero per i complimenti! Soma per me è stata una vera rivoluzione nel mercato dei synth e penso che dia veramente la possibilità di suonare la musica elettronica.

@@Organismo_music approfitto per chiederti, è possibile usare un sequencer esterno per controllare Terra? Non mi è molto chiaro da internet

L’unico modo di “controllare” (parola abbastanza delicata da usare quando si parla di SOMA 😆) Terra con dispositivi esterni, è tramite la funzione “Omnichord” inserita nell’ultimo firmware update. Puoi usare una tastiera esterna (o qualunque cosa che generei messaggi di nota midi) per riprogrammare in tempo reale i 12 bottoni capacitivi sulla destra. Il problema è che Terra riprogramma i bottoni secondo l’ordine in cui le note vengono inviate, quindi se mandi un accordo DO-MI-SOL, troverai do sul bottone 1 mi sul 2 e sol sul 3. Non serve a nulla mandare sequenze arpeggiate o mandare sequenze di note come melodie perché se le note non sono sostenute, ogni volta che terra riceve un midi note-off la nota successiva riprogrammerà il bottone numero 1. Insomma puoi usare questa funzione per programmare più velocemente la tastiera di Terra senza usare il tuner interno, ma non per suonare terra dall’esterno, questo non è mai possibile. In alternativa se imposti una sequenza arpeggiata usando uno degli algoritmi con arpeggiatore, puoi mettere in hold le note su terra e dalla tastiera esterna puoi cambiare la sequenza suonando degli accordi. Facendo così l’arpeggiatore seguirà la nuova sequenza di note (questa è una cosa che accade istantaneamente, quindi puoi usare il sequencer di una daw per mandare fuori il midi in tempo reale, sincronizzato col bpm del pc)

Thank you! I really try to maintain the performative aspect in my videos (for better or for worse), because I believe that one of the strengths of Somasynths instruments is that they have to be played in every way. Even Cosmos, although it is an instrument that evolves spontaneously, needs to be played. obviously transitions are the most difficult things to achieve in real time, accustomed as I am to music produced in the studio (automations, mixes, etc.) I realize that managing certain transformations with just two hands becomes complicated.

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I’m trying to build “organismic lights” ad well (ad Soma teaches us 😆), I’ll have to find a better solution than pulsar-23 when it comes to translate midi messages into cv. The Terra’s algorithm is number 8 of polyphonics (3 leds lit in the bottom row), synthesis modulated by noise

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merci beaucoup! il y a beaucoup de démos de "Terra" utilisé comme ambient machine, j'aime l'utiliser comme piano 😁

@@Organismo_music oui c’est super. J’aime bien , 👍 Pour ma part j’utilise un lyra8 avec le cosmos pour le côté ambiant.

Lyra est la prochaine sur ma liste de courses

@@Organismo_music je viens d’en prendre un deuxième (je vais l’utiliser avec un deuxième ornament8 que j’utilise), j’utilise le premier avec un cosmos. Je pense que pour tes vidéos c’est un excellent choix. Faut il avoir des bases en piano pour utiliser un terra? ce synthé a l’air super mais je ne suis pas pianiste.

@@bleuandroid oui bien sûr, j'espère pouvoir l'ajouter à ma configuration à l'avenir

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Thank you! You know I’m a fan of Terra so I really enjoy to play and study it a lot. Illuminator makes videos funnier to watch; now I’m looking for some more intriguing lightning setup.

Cosmos + some noise it’s a really cool combo in my opinion. You can appreciate the chaos of Cosmos without having the feeling of dissonance produced by traditional sounds

This has been my first live electronic performance ever, so I was a bit nervous. It was all improvised, but in the end I'm happy with the result. I'm glad you enjoy it!

@@Organismo_music keep doing it! The success is to keep practicing and playing every week… and if you can…press record every time you have time to practice.

Most of my videos came from a real time session in my studio

@@Hessencemusic Yeah! that's what I love to do as well

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thank you! Soma for me has been the start of my journey into ambient and electronic music. I love their concept of "organismic music" and the fact that you have to touch their instruments to play, and not just push some buttons 😆. I use pulsar for making ambient too, you don't necessary have to be aggressive with it. It just requires a lot of practice and experiments.

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Thank You! Terra was really love at first touch for me, I could never leave it 😆. but I also understand that it can become difficult to manage, each sound can become "cumbersome" during the arrangement.

I had already tried Cosmos in the past and was surprised by the sound it produced, but I wasn't very happy with the contribution it made to my setup at the time. I bough it two weeks ago and now that I'm 90% switched to Soma instruments (only saving one keyboard that I use for felt pianos), I find that Cosmos is perfectly in line with what you can expect from using Somasynths. Like every Soma instrument, the choice requires a compromise between control and chaos; but by studying and experimenting I have always found a way to use these instruments in a way that reflects my ideas of sound and music. I find it particularly nice to try to make these instruments sound not in the way you "expect from Somasynths" but "in the way you don't expect", because at the beginning I too thought I had to "bend" to the ways of use expressed in the manuals ; I then realized that Soma's philosophy can be adapted to your own way of playing. perhaps this is the essence of the "organismic" music that Vladimir seeks to export I have yet to explore the cosmos rhythmic firmware well; let's say that from a workflow point of view, if you use it as a looper, it guides the entire cyclical aspect of the performance and needs to be followed in its evolutions, otherwise you risk doing things that are too disconnected.

I'm really starting to get into the Cosmos. I wasn't sure at first but being able to swap firmware enables you to access a more traditional style looper besides the proper madness. I find it works especially well with my Enner.

@@matthewtunnicliffe201 Yeah you just have to get used to that kind of looping style. For many years we had worked with traditional looper with infinite possibility for synchronization, and so we are used to think in a more "quantized" way. I find Cosmos to be very close to the "classical music" way of thinking about tempo in general, it frees you from metronome bound, but lead to more unpredictable behaviors that you have to accept.

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I'm using "ILLUMINATOR", a device from Somasynths that let's you control 12v led strips (or any other 12v device) via CV signals. Here I have hooked up illuminator to pulsar-23 channel's envelopes so that every time a sound is triggered on pulsar, a led strip is powered on and then off, following envelopes. on the left-bottom corner of pulsar you can see the 4 attenuators that I have used to control the volume of light of each colored led. Thank you for your comment 🙏!

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