Animal Factory Amplification Coma Reactor User manual

UNDERSTANDING AND CARING FOR YOUR ANIMAL
COMA REACTOR EURORACK MODULE
USER MANUAL
DRY WET
RETURN
LEVEL
RETURN
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK
TIMECOMA
FILTER
FREQUENCY
FREQUENCY
CV RESONANCE
TIME
CV
FREQUENCY
CV INPUT
TIME
CV INPUT
DRY
IN
DRY
OUT SEND RETURN MIX OUT
DEPTH TIME
Congratulations!
You are now a proud human to a Coma Reactor Eurorack
Module.
This delay module looks deceptively simple on the outside - a
seemingly no-frills approach based on the venerable PT2399
delay chip. The routing and sound design possibilities will
however leverage your imagination to create nightmarish
textures, generated by broken synaptic connections of an
analog neocortex terminally damaged by digital drugs.
CONTROLS
DRY: Control the level of the
dry signal in the mix out.
RETURN FEEDBACK: Sends
effected signal back into delay
circuit and back into the FX send.
Can self-oscillate very quickly!
COMA: Attenuates the input
signal into the delay circuit.
Turning this up will overdrive the
delay signal somewhat.
FEEDBACK: Control the amount of
repeats. Will self-oscillate at high
settings!
TIME: Set the delay time interval
for repeats. The longer the delay,
the more noise is introduced into
the signal.
FREQUENCY CV: Attenuverter
to control filter frequency.
White light indicates a +ve
signal, a blue indicates -ve
signal.
TIME CV: Attenuverter to
control repeat times of the
delay circuit. White light
indicates a +ve signal, a blue
indicates -ve signal.
WET: Control the level of the
processed signal in the mix out.
RETURN LEVEL: Control the
level of the return FX signal.
FILTER FREQUENCY: Control
the frequency of the Twin-T BPF
in the return path.
DEPTH: Switch between a
shallow or deep modulation
effect on the time CV input.
TIME: Switch between a long or
short time range. Sets the time
knob between 32ms - 330ms
(switch down) or 32ms - about
2000ms (switch up).
INPUTS/OUTPUTS
SWITCHES
DRY IN: Dry signal to be
processed.
DRY OUT: Buffered copy of dry
signal output (unattenuated).
SEND: Unattenuated delayed
signal output.
MIX OUT: Delayed signal mixed
with dry signal out.
FREQUENCY CV INPUT:
Control Voltage for frequency
cutoff point.
TIME CV INPUT: Control
Voltage to control the repeat
times of the delay circuit.
RETURN: Processed signal
input.

SIGNAL ROUTING
RETURN
LEVEL
DRY
IN
DRY
WET
COMA
DEL AY
CIRCUIT
(REACTOR)
OUTPUT
MIX
MIX
OUT
DRY
OUT
TIME
LENGTH
SHORT
LONG
TIME
CV
DEPTH
TIME
CV INPUT
SHALLOW
DEEP
RETURN
FEEDBACK
SEND
RETURN
EXTERNAL
EFFECT
FILTER
FREQUENCY RESONANCE
BAND PASS
FILTER
FEEDBACK

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
EXPANSION HEADER
Power Draw:
+12V --- 39mA
-- 12V --- 21mA
Size: 12HP
Depth: 22mm
ENVIRONMENT
TIPS & TRICKS SAFETY
Do not dispose of any part of this module in household
waste.
Electronics must be disposed of safely according to the
electronics disposal norms in your country.
This module was constructed using lead-free solder and
observes compliance with the RoHS directive.
All parts of our packaging are designed to use minimal or no
plastic.
Use the box and the velvet bag to keep other things safe.
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1. The send/return FX loop can have very
dramatic effects - keep in mind that turning the
RTN FEEDBACK knob up will send the signal back
into the FX loop. This can result in wild feedback
even instantly, particularly when used with
overdrive and filter modules. Particularly with
filters, you may want to keep the resonance (Q)
turned down all the way and tweak the feedback
level to taste.
2. You can modulate the CV input with audio
signals too! The effects are very unpredictable
and dramatic.
3. You can also input a completely different
signal to the RETURN jack and use this as a
mixer of sorts, with or without delay on that
signal. Get creative!
4. With no input attached, the Coma Reactor is
capable of generating noises that can generate
self-oscillation by turning up the FEEDBACK knob.
Modulating the delay time can make this an
interesting noise oscillator (not V/Oct tunable!),
particularly with resonating filters in the FX loop.
5. The in-built band-pass filter will self-oscillate
with RESONANCE turned up beyond 12 o’clock.
Modulate/sequence it to use as a regular oscilla-
tor. Does not track V/Oct out of the box, you will
need to experiment with this.
1. Do not eat the Coma Reactor.
2. DO NOT JUMPER THE FREE HEADERS ON
THE PCB OR SWAP JUMPER POSITIONS.
Headers are for future expansion. Jumpering
them may lead to malfunction and/or
damage to the module, your power supply as
well as other modules!!! We take no responsi-
bility for this!
3. Your cat may take offence to the sounds
made by Coma Reactor. This is normal. If you
do not have a cat, please adopt a cat.