SNAZZY FX! CHAOS BROTHER MANUAL ! (rev1)! ! ! ! !
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! congratulations on the purchase of your new SNAZZY FX product!!!
Installation: The Snazzy FX CHAOS BROTHER requires +/-12V to operate. It is designed for use with the euro format modular synthesizer system (please see) http://www.doepfer.de/ a100_man/a100t_e.htm. ! To install in your system, find space in your euro-rack synthesizer system, plug the 16pin power cable into the euro- rack style power distribution board, checking the polarity so the RED STRIPE stripe on the cable is oriented to the NEGATIVE12 volt supply line.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE MODULE Chaos Brother! ! important note on module use:! ! X and Y outputs:! ! ! Just like on the DREAMBOAT, The X and Y outputs are outputs which are related but have different phase. Think of it as a pair of signals. In many cases you might just think of them as the A and B outputs.
SECTION A! ! ! CONTROLS! ! 1.chaos control ! ! Intensity increases from left to right! ! all the way left there's no chaotic activity at x/y outputs--it's almost like a sine wave at far left.! ! As you turn to the right your signal becomes more and more chaotic.! ! THINK OF THIS AS THE AMOUNT OF CHAOS IN THE OUTPUT. ! ALL THE WAY LEFT EQUALS NO CHAOS…JUST A SINE LIKE SIGNAL.
Usually you determine the amount of chaos you want to work with then set your speed control to control that signals INTENSITY. ! ! Then (if BEAT LOCKING the CHAOS BROTHER to an outside TRACK, CLOCK, Song, Sequencer, etc you would turn up the CV control to get the desired results.! ! ! 3.
it excels at driving the cutoff or resonance cv input of any resonant filter, wave shaper CV input, PWM input, etc. It also works well with the VC MIXER Cv in or WS CV in of the TIDAL WAVE.! ! 5. Gate Control / (threshold knob)! ! The chaos brother is really good at creating chaotic triggers.
for many patches the optimum way to set things up is to set the speed knob and threshold knob so that the chaotic gates happen once in a while. when set like this the intervals between the gates can be quite surprising.! ! ! HOW IS THIS USEFUl?! ! There are really two general ways of using the CHAOTIC TRIGGERS.! ! The first way is just as a crazy sound effect sort of device. This is what you will get when you DONT plug anything into the CV JACK.
BEAT LOCKING PATCH IDEA #1! ! ! LETS SAY YOU HAVE A SEQUENCE YOU REALLY LIKE OF KICK/ SNARE/ AND HAT. ! All these drums are driven by a master clock.
! A very powerful way to use the BEAT LOCKED chaotic triggers is to set up a bunch of drum patterns on a step sequencer (fill it with as many as it has available. On the MFB SEQ-02 for example this would be 16 patterns.(in bank A)! ! Now the part which is really useful. Set up the sequencer to run from your master clock. Pick One Gate output of the sequencer. Now plug the BEAT LOCKED chaotic triggers into the PATTERN jack of the sequencer.
! ! ! SECTION B:! ! QUICK START/QUICK INFO:! ! my advice :! use the chaos brother anyway you can!!!! ! the CV IN jack/knob:! ! plug audio in!! plug CV into it!! ! plug gates into it!!! ! ! ! on! using:! ! THRESHOLD KNOB & GATE (out) JACK : ! ! ! FIRST THINGS FIRST>>>>>for chaotic gates which are SYNCED TO YOUR SETUP, SYNCED TO YOUR SONG’s MASTER CLOCK, ! MAKE SURE TO PLUG A CLOCK SIGNAL (OR A DIVISION OF YOUR SONGS CLOCK SIGNAL)! INTO THE CV JACK OF THE CHAOS BROTHER!!! ! ! THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND IF
ALWAYS PLUG YOUR MASTER CLOCK SIGNAL INTO THE CV INPUT!!!! THEN USING THE CV KNOB YOU CAN DECIDE HOW MUCH THE CHAOS BROTHER IS LOCKED TO THAT CLOCK.! ! KEEP IN MIND…EVEN WHEN THE CHAOS BROTHER IS BEING FORCED TO “LOCK” TO YOUR TRACK, TO YOUR SONG, TO YOUR BEAT, IT WILL STILL SPIT OUT NON-PERIODIC CHAOTIC GATES.
to RESET clock dividers ! TO DRIVE CLOCK DIVIDERS (TO CREATE A SLOWER CHAOTIC CLOCK)! to trigger envelopes ! or even as a square wave sound source (TURN THRESHOLD KNOB SO THE LED IS RAPIDLY TURNING ON AND OFF)! OR MULTIPLY THE SIGNAL (USING THE 4MS SCM OR QCD) FOR AN AUDIO RATE CHAOTIC SOUND SOURCE! ! USE IT….for adjustable organic rhythm spasms..…with the SNAZZY FX ARDCORE running FAC DRUMS or any other drum player that needs a master CLOCK.
WHEN THE CHAOS KNOB IS ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT, the Chaos Brother is putting out a NON-CHAOTIC SIGNAL. As you turn the Chaos knob father and farther to the right, the signal will become chaotic. And as you increase the Speed knob in relation to the Chaos Knob, the gates will increase, and the changes will get higher in frequency.
! with so many different outs and the ability to lock to your sequence or even the ability to clock your sequence or drum beat, it provides an unlimited pallet of weird changes.
! ! section C patch ideas:! ! patch idea A:! ! A fun experiment with the chaos brother is to set a filter to maximum resonance/ driving the filter into self oscillation! ! then connect the X outof the Chaos brother into the input of the filter and the smooth output into the cutoff CV input.! ! start with smooth at zero! ! this provides a unique way to hear the chaos brothers movements in a very simple patch.
then take the gate output of the chaos brother and patch it into either the CV input of your sequencer or the CV in of a clock divider! ! using the threshold control and CV knob you can set the chaos brother to create rhythmic offsets ...! ! or when using with a few dividers and sequencers, you could set up some very elaborate.
you can expand on this further by multing the rumble chaos signal into an envelope follower (The snazzyfx wow and flutter module has a built in envelope follower....
! LAST PATCH ( maybe most important!!)! ! The one final patch that is recommended with every chaos module is ! ! if you have two chaos brothers use those.... if you have one dreamboat and one chaos brother use those...
! 3. take any output from one of the modules and plug it into an audio mixer / speaker or take that output and plug it into the CV in of a third module such as a VCO and plug that into a mixer. or take CV out and audio! out! ! The point is you need to somehow hear your creation! ! 4.
more patches can be found on the snazzyfx subforum! at the muffwiggler forum further information on using chaos in your modular system please refer to the extensive dreamboat manual.! ! ! the dreamboat manual has some information on Chaos Theory in general (links too!!) and “Modular Chaos Use” specifically.! ! ! please stay tuned to snazzyfx.
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! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! SNAZZY FX has a one year parts and six months labor warranty. This warranty covers defects and does not cover mis-use. If there is a problem with your SNAZZY FX device, please contact the dealer you purchased it from to first determine if the problem is related to control settings. Your SNAZZY FX dealer will then give you information on how to return the product so that you can get back to making weird sounds.
