The Somachord is a circular counter inside the Personal Quarters which can be used to play music inside the Orbiter, functioning as a jukebox.
Somachord Tones[]
To unlock sounds for the Somachord, players must find Somachord Tones which are fragments of soundtracks scattered throughout the Origin System, scannable with Codex Scanners or Synthesis Scanners. Tones are placed randomly in the tileset in each mission and can only be scanned once per mission. They are identified as purple bars arranged in an arc, reminiscent of the Mandachord's note table, and have a unique pink icon on the mini-map if equipped with a Loot Radar mod. Each soundtrack requires scanning 4 tones to unlock, and the player must complete the mission for the scan to be saved.
Quest soundtracks (The Sacrifice and Call of the Tempestarii) instead spawn tones throughout their mission and require fewer tones to scan. However, they must be scanned in order of appearance or subsequent tones will not appear; these quests are repeatable in the event the player misses a tone.
List of Somachord Tones[]
Notes[]
- Loot Radar mods such as Loot Detector, Thief's Wit, and Animal Instinct ( Primed) will cause Somachord Tones to appear on the minimap.
- Somachord Tones do not count for Cephalon Fragment scans needed to unlock Junctions.
- Somachord Tones can appear simultaneously with Cephalon and Frame Fighter Fragments in the same mission.
- Right-clicking on songs in the Somachord menu will stop that song from being auto-played.
- The Somachord can play custom music made using Octavia's Mandachord.
- We All Lift Together, Sleeping In The Cold Below, and For Narmer are the full versions of the songs, not instrumentals.
- Orb Vallis Somachords can receive progress from scanning Post-The New War Tones. However, the Post-The New War tones only contribute mid-progress, and only counts one scan regardless of source requiring the player to leave and re-enter the Orb Vallis after a single scan.
- For Break Narmer and Duviri, because Kahl-175 and Drifter respectively have no access to the Gear wheel, they instead manually interact with the Somachord fragment to collect them.
Media[]
Patch History[]
Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)
- Added two new Somachord tracks featured in the Jade Shadows update. The following Jade Shadows Tones can be found in the Ascension mission tileset:
- Angels Requiem
- Final Ascent
- Previously-scanned Somachord Tones will now appear desaturated to indicate such (similar to Codex and Frame Fighter Fragments).
Hotfix 36.0.3 (2024-06-20)
- Added Wisp Prime’s Theme to Varzia’s Prime Resurgence Offerings for Aya.
Update 35.6 (2024-05-15)
- Protea Prime’s signature theme featured in her trailer is now available to own as a Somachord song! Acquire “Protea Prime Theme” from Varzia’s Prime Resurgence Offerings for Aya.
Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)
- New Somachord Tones
New Somachord Tones have been added to Albrecht’s Laboratories! Scanning them will unlock the following Whispers in the Walls tracks for your Orbiter’s Somachord:
- Murum Vull
- No God Above Knowledge
- Platform 7
- Sanctum Anatomica
- See It In The Flesh
- The Fragmented
- Vashtav
- Yara Jeliira
- The Master Returns
- GENERAL ADDITIONS
- New Somachord Tones have been added to [REDACTED]. Scanning them will unlock the following tracks for your Orbiter’s Somachord:
- Entwined Forever
- Granum Void
- GENERAL FIXES
- Fixed the Shelves and the Somachord in Personal Quarters appearing through the Vignette VFX.
Update 35.1 (2024-02-20)
- New Somachord songs are now available at Varzia’s Prime Resurgence Offerings for Aya! Enjoy the signature themes of these Prime Warframe that were featured in their respective trailers.
- Gauss Prime Theme (also known as “Redline”)
- Grendel Prime Theme
- Gara Prime Theme
- Hildryn Prime Theme
- Hydroid Prime Theme
- Khora Prime Theme
- Nekros Prime Theme
- Nidus Prime Theme
- Oberon Prime Theme
- Octavia Prime Theme
- Revenant Prime Theme
- Vauban Prime Theme
- Note: The Somachord songs may take a moment to appear in Varzia’s Offerings - rest assured that they will be there momentarily after the update has launched!
Update 32.3 (2023-02-15)
- Changed the Somachord autoplay button to look identical on all platforms.
- This also fixes the issue where the autoplay was not functioning for users on Console when using mouse and keyboard.
Update 32.2 (2022-11-30)
- The Somachord’s UI in the Personal Quarters has a new look for all your music listening needs!
- Also added helpful tips about the Somachord and Tones.
Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)
- Fixed outdated name for the Derelict Somachord; it is now Deimos Somachord.
Hotfix 25.6.1 (2019-08-08)
- Fixed an issue with Somachord tracks not properly skipping: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1076110-somachord-doesnt-properly-skip-non-mandachord-song/
Hotfix 23.1.1 (2018-07-19)
- Somachord & Mandachord Changes
- All Mandachord songs (other than the default song) will now appear in the Somachord, between the unlocked tracks and the locked tracks.
- Each song will play for 10 loops (80 seconds).
- Added per-song autoplay toggle to the Somachord.
- Right clicking a song will toggle eligibility for autoplay (or right trigger for controllers).
- Songs with autoplay disabled can still be played manually, and through the historical prev/next song toggles (going backwards always plays the previously played songs, and going forward after doing that will do the same until a new song is selected).
- Mandachord tunes now duck out other music in the Market and Star Chart.
Update 23.1 (2018-07-18)
- 2 new original quest songs have been added to the Somachord from the Sacrifice soundtrack. You can find and scan the Fragments by re-playing The Sacrifice!
- These Somachord Fragments must be scanned in mission order from beginning to end in order to collect them all. If you miss one in mission 3 (for example) you can replay the quest and begin your search at mission 3 instead of back at mission 1.
Hotfix 22.20.3 (2018-05-18)
- Removed the controller D-Pad function from the Somachord as it does not function there.
Hotfix 22.12.3 (2018-02-12)
- Somachord volume setting is now saved across all sessions.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
Somachord Changes:
- Volume slider changed to a horizontal slider.
- Added loop toggle:
- None: Stop playing songs once the current one ends
- Loop: Existing behavior
- Loop 1: Repeat the current song after it ends
- Inverted the Shuffle state to be bright when it's enabled, and dark when disabled.
Update 22.8 (2017-12-21)
- Introduced