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What is Chaos for real?
Chaos is the hidden force that moves everything
around us. It’s a random stream of events, whose
correlation is impossible to understand.
Even if its presence is a living paradox in our life, we
are used to inuence chaos in a very deterministic
way by setting the limits of its dynamic behavior:
in this way we can predict events and make them
possible.
We can set steady points, enclose them into
cycling loops and then make them work for us as
laws.
That’s exactly what our Chaos does.
A continuous stream of gates and voltages is
produced by a sophisticated random engine
controlled by a series of parameters that can be
set to dene its acting behavior.
Chaos is a six-channel aleatoric brain where a
random generator helps you quickly nalize your
idea. You can start from an extremely random and
uncontrolled mood but easily shift towards a more
deterministic and manageable atmosphere with
just one-click.
It’s like shaping a block of stone.
2.1. Main features. Chaos was conceived to be
the fulcrum of your system providing:
• An extremely wide range (10ms/10s) and
stable master clock
• 6 gate outputs with independent probability,
width and time control (synced or completely
independent from the master clock)
• 6 voltage outputs with independent
quantization, slew, random voltage window
selection and ground transpose
• For each channel there’s the option of using
the internal random generator or sampling an
external incoming voltage
• Individual channel looping capability
• 60 save and recall slots with no lag (also
under CV control)
• The ability to randomize all the parameters of
any channel on its own or in group with the
entropy control setting
• 3 External gate inputs for external clock/start
and stop, looping and Chaos function,
• 1 CV input for external voltage mirroring,
scale transposing, saved slots recall.
With all these functions combined together, Chaos
is pretty exible and can be easily used as a really
powerful multi-channel Turing machine, drum
sequencer, modulation generator, clock source,
voltage recorder and can perform many other
tasks.
Even if we’re in a pure digital domain, the random
generation feeling, and the design are pretty
analog. Chaos has been designed with playability
in mind: all parameters are always readable and
immediately available with no menus or hidden
elements to be remembered.
2.2. New Firmware (v1.1) additions. If you have
correctly installed rmware v1.1, when the Chaos
module is powered up, the initial LED ash should
be red, whereas rmware v1 will ash white.
This are the main additions:
• Channel settings Clear
• Channels Copy&Paste
• Channels Run/stop
• Time Swing function
• Tap tempo
• Time Racheting
• Adjustable slew limiting
• CV IN transpose
• Two new sets of quantized scales
• Root note selection
• Loop direction
• Loop counter reset
• Inbeetween 1-32 loop steps selectable
• Indipendent entropy amount for each modier
• Last saved slot recall at startup
