Building a Looper inspired by the Soma Cosmos in VCV Rack

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00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - The basic setup
03:02 - First test
03:56 - Distortion, filters, and compression
05:52 - Freeze, reverse, and scan
07:22 - Second test
08:39 - Drift
12:02 - Blur
13:57 - Final test
15:56 - Reverb algorithm
18:02 - Granular algorithm
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[@TheNimasan]

Wowww. Cosmos is one of my fav gear of all times. Building it in vcv is mind blowing

[@alifeinyellow]

The more videos you and others make of these things, the more money we save on top of developing an understanding of really cool gear. I want to buy all of these things, but it’s just not practical or possible. I really appreciate being able to emulate so much through VCV. Just gotta ignore the people who hate laptops on stage 😎 Thanks, Omri.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@FlagAudio]

Such a cool video, love the tricks on how to get a bunch of modules to play together so effortlessly...

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks! Prism and Prince are so good for stuff like this

[@CinematicLaboratory]

What a great excercise! I have a Cosmos and it sounds pretty much the same. That Pink Floyd vibe in the final test is wonderful.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey, thanks so much!

[@bigbasspic]

Dear Omri, you are truly the master of the VCV-Universe! Thank you again for this great video 🥰. Have a great Vorweihnachtszeit 🎄

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you! You too!

[@KennyInggs]

This!

[@bricelory9534]

Truly beautiful patch. Very lovely and a great tutorial - thank you very much!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you like it!

[@chitlun]

Love this Omri. It’s screaming for a felt piano, I’m about to make it so, cheers! 🍄

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Have fun!

[@nigelsoden1821]

Absolutely brilliant. VCV is getting to the point that I don't need to buy pedals ( I'm a guitar player ) and could create my own. And where I live, pedals are extremely expensive.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yeah, you can definitely use VCV as a pedal setup. Have a look here - www.youtube.com/@VirtualModular/videos I'm sure you will find this interesting :)

[@waytooslow]

Very nice Omri.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you very much!

[@johntammena1128]

This is fantastic - thanks so much!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@seangarland]

I’m honestly more excited about using this patch for my guitar than synths. Gonna be fun! Thanks for the great video and patch!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Have fun!

[@waveland58]

Great patches. Thanks for posting this video. I'm going to try these out as I've been considering buying a Cosmos.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad to help!

[@valeriobiagini3644]

Very cool knowledge!

[@marcboule]

Excellent! Such a beautiful and inspiring tutorial 🌟

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@michaelgrahl]

As always, fantastic explanation. Thanks Omri for the effort you did.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you liked it!

[@holydiver4728]

Goodness, very inspiring !

[@andreasschmelas]

very inspiring! thanks so much for all you superb content ❤

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@DJminiLibra]

and now an video for Chase Bliss Audio Blooper :) thx

[@Lekan675]

Greate as always

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@dwp2659]

that was awesome! well done!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you liked it!

[@ChoopCgen]

Merci !!! ❤

[@DoktorPavel]

magnificent, the first part with 4 princes of perception gives me strong Radiohead vibe, maybe reminds some pitches from them I’m trying to follow along with my m-audio oxygen and play too, thank you Omri for such inspirational videos, every time i see them i get an urge to play something 😄

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

I recently saw somebody demonstrate that device and you've done a great job replicating it.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks 🙂

[@ursbasteck]

... I was just today thinking about playing around with looping and stuff to take my monophonic hardware synth into chord territory! Great timing :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Have fun!

[@IronPepito]

Impressive !

[@ricksnowden2150]

Thanks Omri. Love this kind of hardware breakdown video. Plenty of tricky pedals out there for you to dissect! Mood? Microcosm? Quick question: which mode were you in for supercell (sorry if I missed it!) thanks again! 🙏🏽

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks! Microcosm is on my list for a long time, but I'm not so sure how to approach it since it can do so much... About Supercell, I'm in the default granular mode :)

[@VirtualModular]

It's difficult to replicate pedals exactly but I had a few goes at the Microcosm and got some very similar sounds using Simpliciter. To be honest, I prefer to try and create new effects rather than emulating existing hardware. VCV is actually far more powerful and flexible than most pedals, for example Cosmos has 4 delay lines but you could easily patch up loads more in Rack. I've used 20+ delay modules on a mid range laptop before! Apart from one or two effects like a clean pitch shift/audio harmoniser VCV can do almost anything.

[@nebulance4289]

Omni, I really love your technique videos and the style of breaking down pedals/gear. I tried this and found that using modules like the Vult Send, the Bogaudio Mix4, and using more CVMix's to add a feedback path to each of the delays to cascade (with some strict limiting on how much you can add), made a much more convincing Cosmos recreation. (in my opinion at least) Wonderful video, and a great starting point for everyone to make some wonderful music with.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks! There's definitely room for experimenting and improving.

[@pauljs75]

Interesting concepts for a setup. Somehow I feel the NOI Sunflower module in VCV may be useful for this kind of thing too, something about cycling between delay signals with it's particular way of mixing adjacent inputs.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I'm not familiar with that one. I'll have a look

[@QuantumSynths1]

This is great. Thank you! Next you could tackle the NDLR. That would be very cool to have in VCVRack!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

It's on my list for a long time now... I'll see what I can do

[@chrisarndt8251]

Amazing..

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@youareatube8]

Sounds amazing for such a simple patch! I would also like to see a patch based on the rhythmicon drum machine from Theremin 1930

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@toslinked]

I think you just saved me 600 euros.

[@angrytoken]

wow 😮😮😮 thanks for new toy 🧸

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Have fun!

[@vsmi-vintagesynthsmadeinit997]

Always wonderful! Thx you! I could start with AN audio input module for input external hardware synth too?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks! Yes, you can also use external gear via the Audio module

[@mwvm_music]

Sounding great. I used to do something similar in bidule if anyone remembers that?

[@GrvMUSIC4U]

😮😮😮

[@mylordboudewitz]

As always a great tutorial. What keyboard controler do you use?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks! I use the Nektar Impact LX49+

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

So I approached this a bit differently, thinking hey Soma does some pretty cool ambient/generative/spacey creative stuff how much could this pedal cost on the used market? After waking up in the emergency room from Sticker Shock I am, once again, appreciative of The Master. Love this! Cheers Omri!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Oh man, feel better soon!

[@lucian6172]

When you use the delay module in tempo synced mode it's limited to a maximum of one bar. Is there a way to extend it to 2 bars or 4 bars or maybe 8 bars ?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hi! Yes, there are a few ways of doing this. You can change the PPQ setting in the right click menu to make the clock even slower, or just use a clock division as the clock signal. For example, divided by 4 will give you 4 bars. The delay will need a bit longer to sync up, but then it's rock solid :)

[@lucian6172]

@@OmriCohen-Music Nice. Thanks. I will have to try that but there is also an issue with the feedback. When you set the feedback at 100% it's not supposed to amplify the existing buffer more and more until it explodes. That's wrong. That means that the feedback is way more than 100% but it's not showing the actual number. At least the freeze function seems to simulate the feedback being 100% without amplifying it out of control.

[@angrytoken]

Omri what about make strega make noise in vcv rack? 🙏

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I thought about it, but after having the Strega, I don't think the right modules are available. The Strega has such unique sound via the delay

[@ColinMakesAllTheThings]

Can you do something like this for the Hologram Microcosm ?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I have it on my list, but it can do so much, it's hard to have it all in one patch

[@ColinMakesAllTheThings]

@@OmriCohen-Music That's totally fair.

[@MajesticjjEdits]

What midi keyboard do you have?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's the Nektar LX49+