The positions of these points, as well as the distribution of the orbits and rate of movement can all be adjusted under manual or voltage control.
The voltages at each of the module’s outputs can be thought to describe the orbit of a particle through 3D space around two equilibrium points.
Since it contains some (bi)stable regions in addition to chaotic ones, this type is known as a ‘strange’ attractor. Orbit 3 incorporates a modified electronic analogue of the classic double-scroll attractor. In chaos theory, the combination of all possible oscillations at a specific set of parameters is known as the ‘attractor’. Chaos theory deals with systems exhibiting highly irregular behaviour, seemingly random yet completely deterministic.Īpplying this to the world of modular synths opens up a whole new world of modulation opportunities, introducing a natural irregularity to otherwise purely ‘mechanical’ music, yet with much more control and repeatability than just simple randomness. In mathematics however, chaos has a very specific meaning. In everyday usage, 'chaos' means 'disorder, 'randomness'.