Somachord

Somachord

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

Somachord fragment in-game.

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

Main article: Somachord/Tones (edit)

Location	Song	Required Somachord Fragments Scans
Ceres	This Is What You Are	4
Duviri	Below The Thunder	1
Duviri	Drifter's Respite	1
Duviri	Duviri Paradox	1
Duviri	Eyes That Burn	1
Duviri	He Who Waits	1
Duviri	Into Madness	1
Duviri	Paragrimm Ascending	1
Duviri	Perdition's Coils	1
Duviri	Shadows And Summoning	1
Duviri	Unbound	1
Earth	Gene Molds	4
Eris	Our Disease	4
Europa	Origin System	4
Jupiter	The Profit	4
Kuva Fortress	Red Broth	4
Kuva Fortress	The Witches Lair	4 (requires Red Broth completed)
Lua	Rapid Adaptation	4
Lua	The Second Dream	4 (requires Rapid Adaptation completed)
Mars	Consume Us	4
Mercury	Vor's Prize	4
Neptune	Archwing	4
Orokin Derelict	Derelicts	4
Phobos	Wings Of War	4
Pluto	March Of The Moa	4
Saturn	Wretched Things	4
Sedna	Grineer Onslaught	4
Uranus	Hunhow	4
Uranus	Sentient Tombs	4 (requires Hunhow completed)
Uranus	Grakata	4 (requires Sentient Tombs completed)
Venus	Corpus Greed	4
Void	Corrupted	4
Void	Ghosts Of Void	4 (requires Corrupted completed)
Void	The Creeping Dark	4 (requires Ghosts Of Void completed)
Zariman Ten Zero	On Corroded Wings	4
Zariman Ten Zero	The Offering	4
Zariman Ten Zero	Canticle	4 (requires The Offering completed)
Albrecht's Laboratories	Murun Vull	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	No God Above Knowledge	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	Platform 7	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	Sanctum Anatomica	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	See It In The Flesh	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	The Fragmented	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	The Master Returns	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	Vashtav	1
Albrecht's Laboratories	Yara Jeliira	1
Corpus Ship "Phobos Tones"	Entwined Forever	1 (Corpus Temple Relief room, on top of the giant coin above)
Granum Void "Phobos Tones"	Granum Void	1 (Granum Void, ridge in the northmost part of the room)
The Sacrifice	Your Creator	2
The Sacrifice	To Take Its Pain Away	3
Orb Vallis	Cold Tundra	4
Orb Vallis	Coldwave	4
Orb Vallis	Fluid Mechanics	4
Orb Vallis	Klokkit	4
Orb Vallis	Null Unit	4
Orb Vallis	Vapor Trails	4
Orb Vallis	We All Lift Together	4
Call of the Tempestarii	Sleeping In The Cold Below	2
Post-New War Plains of Eidolon and Orb Vallis	For Narmer	1
Post-New War Plains of Eidolon and Orb Vallis	Hybrid Abominations	1
Post-New War Plains of Eidolon and Orb Vallis	Sunkiller	1
Break Narmer's Sneaky Sabotage	Final Stand	1
Break Narmer's Junk Run	Hold the Line	1
Break Narmer's Prison Break	Skybreak	1
Break Narmer's Prison Break	Steel Horizon	1
Sevagoth Glaukus Skin	Sevagoth's Lullaby	N/A
Varzia	Gauss Prime Theme "Redline"	5  Aya
Varzia	Grendel Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Gara Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Hildryn Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Hydroid Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Khora Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Nekros Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Nidus Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Oberon Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Octavia Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Revenant Prime Theme	5  Aya
Varzia	Vauban Prime Theme	5  Aya

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

Warframe What are Somachord Tones & How to Spot Them

Somachord fragment spawn locations on the Orb Vallis

Granum Void Somachord location

Patch History

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