I'm not going to cover all the parts of the instruments, this guide is intended to be a "getting started manual", and frankly some parts still puzzle me, I'm going to put some links of interesting readings and insight at the bottom of the page.
Let's go:
Look at this infographic, credits goes to the uber wigglers spacelooper and chorus7, hope it's fine for you to repost it here.
The Cocoquantus is made by 4 parts as you can see, in the center you have an array of oscillators and circuits we are going to call QUANTUSSY, the QUANTUSSY is perfect for modulating your recorded material, then you have a left COCO and a right COCO which let's say are our "loopers" and then on the very left of the unit you have an input section including XLR mic IN and a 1/8" IN for piezo mics equipped with an ENVELOPE FOLLOWER OUT (orange).
The toggle switches on the QUANTUSSY are three ways switches, center position is audio speed, pointing inwards the VCOs go LFOs, pointing outwards VCO behave somewhere between audio/LFO range (for lack of better technical term).
Front inputs:
the two jacks in the center of the front of the unit are both stereo jacks, left channel of your stereo instrument will be sent to the left Coco, right channel to the right Coco.
If you use a mono jack both inputs will send your audio only to the left Coco.
Tip: want to send two mono instruments at the same time one to the left and one to the right?
Input one instrument into one of the two stereo inputs, you will hear it on the left COCO, input the other one into the PIEZO IN (which is mono) and with a banana cable send it from the white banana jack to the green banana input of the right COCO.
Stereo output:
If your use your classic "red and white Y stereo cable", left COCO goes to the right channel of your mixer/whatever, right COCO goes to the left channel, I usually invert the jacks on my mixer to have it "right". Also, I always put a stereo compressor between my Cocoquantus and my mixer as it's sometimes an untamable beast, beware the FEEDBACK volume if you pass 12 o'clock.
Cleaning buffers (when you turn it on noise normaly circulates in the buffers):
- set INPUT GAIN and FEEDBACK volume fully CCW;
- set SPEED fully CW;
- press LOOP ON/OFF to make it record (remember: Cocoquantus is recording when the leds are off), leave it record for few seconds then press again LOOP ON/OFF,
your buffer is now clean.
On the Dolby switches:
in up position they behave as suitable Dolby filters (but I'm still trying to understand the upper positon, sorry, I will update when figuring out), the left one for the IN, the right one for the FEEDBACK.
In down position:
- if you switch down the left one you basically mute your input source;
- if you switch down the right one you have your material over-writing the feedback loop creating a sort of punch-in/side-chain effect as long as your input sound lasts;
- if you switch both down you are inputting "silence" basically "gating" your feedback loop with your audio source, try this with a tight drum machine to get the idea.
Sync the loop with external gear:
Yes you can!
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Patch notes to get the job done:
OP-1 to "Piezo" Audio In
White Audio Out to SKIP
(Orange Env Follower to Flip is useless for the purpose of syncing the loop)
The "click" is audible on purpose so you can get an idea: it must be "loud and tight", I used a rim-shot amplified at +24, pitched +33 to shorten it, I've also succesfuly used a similar sample from my RYTM, a fellow wiggler make it works with a TR606.
If you put your clock from the PIEZO IN and your instrument into the front STEREO IN you should be able to loop real time on the beat, never tried this out tho.
Power supply:
12v DC center positive, like > https://www.patch-point.com/power/patch-point-psu
Interesting readings on the Cocoquantus:
Richard Brewster aka Pugix on the Quantussy:
http://pugix.com/synth/explaining-the-q ... schematic/
Quantussy caos knob WTF?
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COCOQUANTUS HAND MANUAL by Peter:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... lide=id.i0
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That's all I know for now folks, hope it's helpful, have fun with your COCO!
Thanks to all the amazing wigglers sharing their knowledge in this forum, and please let me know if updates are needed or mistake were made and I'll update the OP.
Fabio
great job 
