The Mandachord is 
Octavia and 
Octavia Prime's signature instrument that allows her to interact with her abilities. To use it, click the Mandachord tab when Octavia is equipped.
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Acquisition[]
It is acquired automatically upon purchasing Octavia with 
Platinum or building Octavia after acquiring her blueprint from Octavia's Anthem quest.
After the completion of Octavia's Anthem quest, additional Mandachords can be purchased from Cephalon Simaris for 
25,000.
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Time: 30 min |
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 Market Price: N/A
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Interface[]
Mandchord's interface
The Mandachord is comprised of 4 bars (or measures) which are represented by the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 (as seen outside the circle above each of the solid grey vertical lines). Placing one note at the start of each bar is a whole note. Each bar is divided into quarters which are represented by the vertical lines. The tempo is set to 120 beats per minute, meaning each bar is 2 seconds long, and each slot is the 16th note. In other words, each song loop is 8 seconds long.
A Mandachord song is comprised of three tracks: Percussion, Bass, and Melody. The Bass and Melody tracks can be comprised of five notes of the D minor pentatonic scale: D, F, G, A, and C. From top to bottom on the Mandachord, the Percussion track can be comprised of a bass drum, snare drum, or hi-hat equivalent.
- Each ability is affected by a section of the Mandachord: Percussion (
Mallet), Bass ( Resonator), and Melody ( Metronome). - Instruments enable selection of different sound packs for each section. The Adau sound pack is available by default.
- Volume Mixer allows volume adjustments for each section. Volume settings will apply during Mandachord customization and to the appropriate abilities during gameplay.
- Track Isolation enables toggling on or off each section for better audio clarity while composing a song.
- Loop allows selection of bars 1 through 4 to continuously loop for note changes comparison while composing a song. Additionally, a bar's notes can be copied to another bar, or completely cleared from the selected bar.
- Composition enables saving new songs, reloading the current song, and loading custom and instrument songs from your playlist.
- The Mandachord may be paused at any time by clicking the Pause button at the bottom-right corner. Click again to resume.
Instruments[]
Each Instrument is in the same key (D minor Pentatonic). These can be bought separately for 50 each from the Mandachord interface. The Bombast Instrument is only acquired upon acquisition of Octavia Prime.
- Adau (default) - Ceremonial
- Alpha - Synthesizers
- Beta - Synthesizers
- Bombast (Prime) - Hip-Hop Synthesizers
- Delta - Heavy Synthesizers
- Druk - Heavy Metal
- Epsilon - Synthesizers
- Gamma - Synthesizers
- Horos - EDM Synthesizers
- Plogg - Pop-rock
Tenno[]
| Adau | Bombast |
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Corpus[]
| Alpha | Beta | Delta |
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| Gamma | Epsilon | Horos |
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Grineer[]
| Druk | Plogg |
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Sharing Music[]
Type [Song] in Chat to open up a menu of all your Mandachord songs. Select the song you want to share and other players with Octavia will be able to copy that Mandachord song for their own use.
Trivia[]
- For linking songs to Chat to work, the game uses similar text encoding in the back-end as the Shawzin.[1]
Patch History[]
Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)
- Fixed delay in first note of the melody instrument of the Bombast Mandachord pack.
Update 29.9 (2021-02-23)
- OCTAVIA PRIME
Strike up a symphony of destruction with the mistress of music, Octavia, in her grandest and most spectacular form. Featuring altered Mod Polarities for greater customization. Octavia Prime also comes with the brand new hip-hop inspired Bombast Instruments Pack!
Hotfix 29.8.1 (2021-02-18)
- (Undocumented) Removed Bombast Instruments from the Market.
Update 29.8 (2021-02-11)
- (Undocumented bug) Added Bombast Instruments in the Market.
Hotfix 28.0.6 (2020-06-24)
- Fixed saving the default Mandachord song to your customization causing it to reset back to what it was previously the next time you return to the Orbiter.
Update 22.4 (2017-11-23)
- HOROS INSTRUMENT PACK
A themed instrument pack for Octavia's Mandachord. The score to war, with a danceable beat.
*This pack can be found by accessing the Mandachord in Octavia’s Appearance screen.
Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)
- Mandachord Packs!
2 new Mandachord instrument packs are here:
- Epsilon Instruments - Electronic!
- Plogg Instruments - Pop-rock!
*Find them in your Arsenal for purchase!
Update 20.0 (2017-03-24)
- Introduced.
References[]
External Links[]
- Mandascore by Buff00n
- How to Mandachord: Lesson 1: The best case scenario by Buff00n
See Also[]
- Shawzin, another playable instrument.
