Grooves, Glitches, and Polymeter with the Soma Cosmos Rhythmic Firmware

The Soma Cosmos has multiple firmware versions, offering various types of functionality. The rhythmic firmware gives full control over defining the loop length, and opens up a wide array of tools to manipulate the looped material in intensely rhythmic ways. This particular firmware version also swaps out Drive for a vari-speed control, allowing continuous pitch manipulation across one octave. We'll examine these possibilities, along with a close look at the Erase and Suppressor functions, which can evolve a loop in dramatic fashion.

0:23 Multiple Cosmos firmwares, and the rhythmic + pitch firmware
1:01 Previewing Erase and Suppressor
1:17 Creating an initial loop with user-defined length, Reverse, and Erase
2:03 “Sidechain Erase” with the Suppressor
2:35 Polymetric 8/7 phasing in the second rhythmic algorithm
3:11 Adding reverb and stereo animation with the Blur and Drift knobs
3:46 Vari-speed control with the Drive knob, and starting in half speed
4:13 4/3 phasing with the third algorithm
5:14 Randomized eighth-length slicing with the fourth algorithm
6:21 Sixth-based random mangling in the fifth algorithm
7:09 Chopping the loop into fifths in the sixth algorithm
7:31 Using reverb and feedback for rapid and dramatic loop transformation
8:38 Glitchy and complex slicing with the seventh algorithm
9:23 Revenge of double-speed
9:47 Adding random octave-down drops to the equation with Drift
10:28 Glitching in threes and sixes with the eighth algorithm
10:54 “Fractal pitch shifting” in the ninth algorithm
12:05 The “legacy” Four-Delay algorithm in program 10
12:40 “Redefine the loop length from the legacy algorithm” bug/feature
13:23 The Giant Reverb algorithm in program 11
14:06 Program 12’s multi-stream granular algorithm
14:24 Granular flattery through unblurred overdubbage
15:00 “Freezing” and animating the granular sounds
15:53 Returning to the fourth program, and Collateral Blur Drenching (tm)
16:11 Half speed and assorted choppage
17:22 Filtering, full speed, and zooming in

Many thanks to Supah Dupah
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for hipping me to the "redefine the legacy algorithm loop length" bug/feature

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