To me this is probably one of the best and most useful demos of the Lyra-8.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! If you make some drones, be sure to share them! ;)

@elToreodore

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! This demo sold a unit to me. I’ve tried to do things with subhurmonicon and this unit does it so much better!

@leemills4109

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Amazing demo and really beautiful sounds 👍

@electricdawn2258

Жыл бұрын

@@elToreodore They're different beasts. The Subharmonicon can do some wild stuff and drones, but that's just one part of it. The Lyra is really specialised for crazya$$ drones and excels at it. Love them both (not a Lyra-8 owner... yet). I hope I can afford one some time in the future.

@fg594

8 ай бұрын

ugh so damn beautiful. i need one now. NOWWWW

“It’s alive… it’s gone completely non-linear” Perfect! I think your take is the entire point of the Lyra.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

There are more than one opinion, but I thin mine seems reasonable.

Absolutely brilliant video on the Lyra8. Its like owning a zoo in synth form. Its deffo another planet. Thanks again

@synthseeker

2 күн бұрын

Enjoy! It’s a simple idea and I’m glad it worked for you!

Awesome. The Lyra-8 is such an amazing device. Very mediative IMO. Play it for an hour a day for meditation therapy. It truly is organismic. Like aliens trying to communicate 👽through it. You just have to let the Lyra-8 reveal its many secrets to you. You’re so right. The mod delay is the money in this bad boy too. I love it. Try running your synths through it. So alive sounding.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I pull it out on Halloween and sit on my porch making shrieking noises at the trick-or-treaters! ;)

@Djpuzzle

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker hahaha perfect

best lyra demo period

@synthseeker

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! High praise indeed!

@anyme3046

4 ай бұрын

True

Keep asking myself if the Lyra 8 is for me and spent a long time looking at various reviews and tutorials....but this approach to using it makes total sense to me. Thank you for sharing!

@synthseeker

2 ай бұрын

Any time. There are other ways to play the Lyra..good ways, but this is my favorite. :)

This video helped me so much. When I first got my Lyra I didn't know how to treat it and she just screamed at me! Who knew, with a bit of gentle treatment she will respond so much more subtly ❤

@synthseeker

11 ай бұрын

Baby your synths and they will reward you. ;)

Yes! Thank you for the inspiration. The subtle movements in the delay lines were epic.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thank you for the different perspective, Love it.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Love it in that first example when you start bringing in the second higher pitched oscillator, things get deep, sounds fantastic

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a hugely fun synth to explore.

Yes yes this is fantastic. I think your approach is spot on with this. I too have a Lyra-8 and I have trouble connecting with it sometimes. I think you are embracing it for its strengths and I love your patience with it. Those micro adjustments really sing in these examples. Thank you so much for this!!

Awesome tutorial. Gotta be patient with this beast, part of the experience. Thx so much!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed 100%! Thanks for the kind words!

Incredible!!! This gave me new inspiration with my LYRA. Thank you!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

No problem! Thanks for saying you liked it. :)

I had to subscribe after watching this. I see how your patience with this synth has brought you to finding a way to getting great sounds from it. Well done.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the subscribe! I have spent a lot of of my life NOT being patient with my synths, and it's only been in the last few years that I forced myself to slow down and learn to use the tools I have before jumping to new ones. ;) Have fun!

Amazing! Thank you. I’m about to get one. So excited.

@synthseeker

9 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

Definitely the best Lyra 8 tutorial on KZread, absolutely perfect!!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Let us know what you make!

loved this!! thanks bunches, synthseeker!!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Share any noses you make!

Great! Can’t wait to get home and try your approach to my Lyra😊

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Please do! Share anything you record!

What a fantastic soundscape you create with this instrument. I'm looking to get a Lyra 8 and have been going through quite a lot of videos. Your video is one of the reasons why I should get one. Epic stuff.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

There are also some really amazing sounds coming from the Lyra-8 over at "ambient moods" channel - be sure to check out his tutorials for the Lyra as well! kzread.info/dron/OAH2OYJF7Bi7HcjoyGPDHQ.html

YESS. when I had my lyra the feedback was the main thing I played around with! made a few tracks having a jam very similar to this vid, playing the feedback then built around them on a daw. excellent demo

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun with that!

Great video. I love my Lyra8, and this has given me some more ideas on how to use it. Always good to see other peoples methods. Thank you for this

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Let me know if you publish any videos of your own explorations. :)

8 minutes in and I’m literally getting shivers ❤

@synthseeker

7 ай бұрын

Rawr? ;)

Wonderful instrument. Very good Luke, always. 👍👍👏👏

@synthseeker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent video! I never understood Lyra until seeing how you use it... now I get it. Now I want it.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Well I'm pleased you enjoyed it and sad that I facilitated your addiction. :P

The only tutorial Lyra owners need! Thx for share...:)

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Awesome demo/jam/tutorial. What a beast !! 👏👍

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Have fun!

That sounds incredible!!

@synthseeker

Ай бұрын

I'm glad you like it sir. :)

So impressive! Thank you for the organismic examples, which is really what the Lyra-8 was designed for. And, as you said, it is not forbidden to use it more melodically, but let's not forget the roar inside. Waiting for my Lyra in the next few months, and incorporating it into an existing traditional synth setup. Will be lots of challenge, fun and inspiration.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind agreement! Be sure to come back and share what you make with yours!

I just don't want to watch any other demos made by people of this synth after yours! You completely have sold it to me! This is exactly the kind of aproach that I was always chasing! Absolutely amazing job you did! Just BRAVO! That was this rare moment when I was smiling and laughing while watching the synth demo! Thanks ever so much!

@synthseeker

3 ай бұрын

I’m glad you’re pleased! Enjoy! 😉

Fantastic. One of the best demos on KZread. It makes me want to get mine fired up and get going again (been distracted of late as just got a Pulsar)

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Be sure to record what you make and let us know how it goes!

Just got a Lyra-8 and this is the first video that gets me that excited! Thand you!!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! Share what you make!

@sunlinkable

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker I'll record one of my jam then ;)

@sunlinkable

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker Watching your video again reproducing everything with my lyra to get ready for ma jam session tomorrow, it's really great. Thank you.

Great demo! I've had a Lyra-8 2.5 years and I still today find new combinations and soundscapes. There's the way to play it like an organ, playing the knobs in tunes, and there's a way to let it play you, like in your examples, but in my experience the most interesting ... audible things I heard out of the Lyra is when you do both in symbiosis, and seek a new world together. Last year I heard voices coming out of my Lyra. Recorded as I always do, took the sample, created a new sample from it using Granulator II and set it is background of my next composition. Provoked me to sing my best song ever, Tears of the Exorcist. Then I used my photography of the Assyrian artefacts collection from London on tour in St-Petersburg and the video clip that came out left me breathless just from mixing in the pictures. The Lyra-8 can create blackholes just by itself, and wormholes if you judge by my experience.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I love reading such enthusiastic replies! Your channel is excellent as well! Subscribed!

@ogasi1798

2 жыл бұрын

yes, mine too decided to speak to me @ random yesterday -0 i find the delay allows this 'chatter' - i treat this like the octatrack, i do not fight it - we go where we go :-) - a great thing about the lyra is the owners and discussions

Sounds very Lustmord in space. Pure awesomeness. I have an orange one and you're right - each one sounds just a little different.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I like those “alert” orange ones. :)

this is awesome, i have a lyra8 for almost a year now but couldnt get it to be organic, best tutorial

@synthseeker

6 ай бұрын

I’m glad you found a method you enjoy! Have fun!

Hi you are the one demonstrating what we have to understand from this stuff. Completely found in love with Soma while watching your video. It is not a synthetiser to my own, it is a creative tool for making sounds and ambience from, probably like in the way of modular but with a compact and affordable machine. No surprise that the community liking Lyra also likes Pulsar and Cosmos. It is a revelation to me and a completely different way to feel my brain with new sounds which is more that fun ... vital to me. Coming from a strong keyboard and guitar playing culture it is hard to approach the modular world, and Soma is appearing as an evidence for my journey. Thanks

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the trip into Lyra/Soma lands!

Hey Man! I really appreciate this PSA! It revolutionized how I approach this amazing synth! Thanks!

@synthseeker

3 ай бұрын

You are welcome. ;)

Lot of thanks for your amazing teach . Great tips!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Hav a great weekend!

I just love this thing

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty mutual. :)

Wow! Amazing!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's nice to get good feedback! (Literally! Delay feedback! LOL)

That sounds amazing. Been wanting to get one for a while and this is exactly what I want to do with. Big evolving drones. Thanks!

@synthseeker

7 ай бұрын

Get yer growl on. :)

great demo, thank you so much.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun with the Lyra!

marvellous!!

@synthseeker

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Man, this in incredible. I am so grateful that you made this and taught everyone how to REALLY use the Lyra. Going to be hard to let go of the wheel and let it steer though. I'm such an order muppet and this thing is Gonzo.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

You can certainly make music with the Lyra in more than one way, but the way I showed was meant to give something for people to try outside the normal pattern. Glad you liked it!

@michaelkonomos

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker Yeah man. I am watching this again tonight. You really do something special with this that I feel like few others have really understood - it feels like you are really using it the way it was intended. Every video I keep watching has people trying to fight with it for control instead of flow with it.

Very inspiring. Thank you!

@synthseeker

20 күн бұрын

Have fun!

Great insights and some lovely moments in there

@synthseeker

29 күн бұрын

It’s not the only way to use that Synth, but it’s my way and I enjoy it. If that’s great for you fantastic! :) welcome!

Great advice/ideas. I’m going to dust mine off tonight! Thanks for posting. 😊

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Have fun with it! Pedals help! That new Boss pedal that feels like a trance gate (Slicer?) is a good pairing with the Lyra potentially.

it really helps to put huge knobs on the ones you use the most for really fine adjustments

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea!

Very inspiring, thank you so much!

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Hope it helps!

That sounds so good!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great demo, fantastic insights

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I hope you make something awesome from it. :)

Fantastic!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Beste Lyra8 Demo ! Sehr gut !

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Danke Herr Betrachter!

Cool video, love the Lyra, definitely on my wishlist.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

It's an odd duck, but a lot of fun!

God, this is amazing! I have one of these - and you gave me a completely different perspective on the Lyra - fantastic, mate!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! Have fun!

Superb sounds.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Great demo of what this thing can do! I like it!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! ;)

Awesome thanks!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Really nice demo of the feedback feature on the Lyra 8. Best advice here being… take it slow and use small movements… and use your ears to detect subtle changes. Thanks, this video was helpful.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! :)

I just got one this week & wow definitely going to use these tips

@synthseeker

11 ай бұрын

Have fun!

Supr helpful. Thanks!!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Really cool take on it

@synthseeker

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Many ways to skin the cat…that one is mine.

Wow, really excellent!! I love my Lyra, but honestly haven’t turned it on in a while as I’d get stuck in patterns of trying to tune it. I think you’re right in that it shines more when you just approach it as a sound generator. Recordings can be pitched later on. Can’t wait to get home and try these techniques with mine!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Be sure to share what you create with us!

great demo!!

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

So agree with u. Good vid💚✌️

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly! Have a great week!

WOW !!! Amazing !!!🤯

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

This is how I use mine. I like catching the feedback after turning all the tones generators down, squeezing the sound between decay and then feedback overdrive. It's interesting what you said about each Lyra-8 being different. I'm going to try and follow your steps as closely as possible and see if I get a similar result.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Be sure to hit record and share your creation! Love to hear it!

Oh yeah 😊 I’ve taken mine through space and back. Fun video 👍🏼

@synthseeker

5 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for the kudos. Have fun!

Great sound. Thank you for sharihg.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

That you for saying so!

Amazing textures for movies soundtrack.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Good idea!

I run mine through a Zen Delay so I can add additional filtering and warmth. Sounds amazing.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll have to give that a try…

Great!

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Balls of fire! Thanks!

Great video!! So helpful.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

How’s the Lyra?

@bobfamiliarmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker so much fun. I followed your approach. It’s a monster. It’s the most dreamy synth I’ve ever experienced.

Very appreciated!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

This Lyra scores 1 out of 10 on my G.A.S. scale which is great, I do not need a longer wishlist. But man was this video fun to watch and listen to, extremely cool sounds if you have the patience. Thanks!

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

I use it mainly at Halloween.

Absolutely brilliant, one of the most musical and interesting Lyra-8 demo out there 👏

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I think it's a little slow at times, but it gets the job done. :)

@mundelator

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker No it’s perfect. I’ll now stop trying tuning it everytime, the pitches will move with all the modulations involved anyway 😂 I love this instrument so much I recently bought the Pulsar-23.

@mundelator

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker I’m curious, which reveb type and settings did you set on the Collider in the first example ? I’m really struggling to get that kind of defined pad sound here and I love it (I tried with Blackhole, the whole Valhalla family and the Ableton ones)

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

@@mundelator I'll try to do another Lyra video where I dig into the reverb settings more and use a couple different reverbs...but it's definitely the Shimmer engine. I'm using a setting on the Collider very much like the one shown here at this timestamp: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqKMxLRumNbdnZs.html

@mundelator

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker Cool thx ! Is there pitch shifting involved then (+12 ??)

This is great

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Rawr!

What a great Video…gave me the perspective I needed to approach the instrument properly. Thanks kindly

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I mean....this isn't the ONLY way to use it, but it's the way that I enjoy the most.

@glenlabuc8508

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker the wisdom of your presentation is it follows the logical chain as well as the manual but you stressed “going slow”…going from bad, missing sweet to more bad. Thats great advise for all electronic music however especially this type. You never see the Hurdy Gurdy player making any fast moves. I actually did tune the beast early one but that was a waste. Its easy to start at then Pads however thats really now the icing. Currently running the Lyra straight through an Electro Faustus Drone King and they both hit a Strymon Night Sky. Cheers

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

@@glenlabuc8508 Thanks!

Amazing

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it so! :)

I'm working on some sound design and revisiting this video has been very helpful! :D

I'm seriously considering buying a Moog Grandmother and was searching the internet for it, and then I came across this video of the Lyra you made. I know they're two entirely different devices , but this is so brilliant I don't know which one to buy now. Thanks a lot :)

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Lol! If you want to combine your music with other synths or people and need it to be in tune, go with the Moog. If tuning can be damned and you want to explore the fringes of synth-dom, go Lyra! Both are excellent!

Nice! thx!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

I recently told myself I don’t need any more synths, but your tutorial really made me rethink that opinion. This instrument is a perfect zone-out/drone-out machine, without having to add any external controllers and/or effects. Although I do reckon it could play nicely with a WestPest in random mode for some plucky and metallic percussive sounds. With the WestPest you also have to slowly adjust the [fold] and [fold mod] knobs in search of those sweet spots, not just crank them. Thank you for this video.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

My motto is “buy more synths”. ;)

Fantastic stuff!!! Thanks! I own two Lyra-8: "White Angel" and the limited "The Pacifist". Yesterday i tried to mimic the sound from one to the other Lyra … - and it sounded really different. OK, i was the same style but really not close. And that is what i really love about Lyra-8 - this synthesizer is so alive. There are days when this thing doesn't seem to want to sound, or Lyra 1 sounds exciting, and Lyra 2 sounds bored, so to speak ... just delightful and fascinating.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Two! You got the first and decided it needed a friend?! ;)

@haraldkarla9915

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker I saw this limited version and decided to get a friend for the Lyra-8 WA … and now after months of using both together i see that it absolutely has its justification.

Already used your primer in my live jams. Indispencinle!

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Excellent and thank you!

This video convinced me.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry. :P

Thanks for this, a bit of a master-class! Resonates with what I’m finding in my relationship with the Lyra-8 (please forgive the terrible pun!)… patience and delicacy yield such tremendous results. 🙏🏻🔊👽

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

Rolls eyes at the pun. Lol!

Awesome, playing the knobs, love it. Recently purchased The Pipe from Soma, similar deal, so much sonic exploration to enjoy :)

@synthseeker

3 ай бұрын

Nice! I'm glad you're having fun in general. :)

Great vid! I think it's safe to say that when experimenting with the Lyra-8, always record it.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I approve that message!

Great! l was feeling this was good for deep and ambient techno but l didnt find any demo about that! l really like how you use this baby! and l am pretty sure now this is perfect for ambinet and deep techno. thanks for the description

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

No problem! Enjoy!

I was hovering around with buying a lyra. I wasn't sure it could do what I wanted. You just sealed the deal, this is precisely what I want to do.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

I hope you have a great time making it roar! ;)

@TheYannickOne

Жыл бұрын

well, don’t expect it to do what you want. rather let it do you instead ;)

I have bought two of these at different times and sold both, now I think I will buy one again and perhaps keep it this time :)

@synthseeker

10 ай бұрын

I’m sorry for your repetition. Good luck!

I keep listening to this because the drones just relax me. So cool.

Thoroughly enjoyed this, as always! I use my Lyra-8 in the complete opposite way lol. I think the only area of overlap is how we use the delay.

@synthseeker

3 жыл бұрын

Have you done a video showing your methods? Love to see it!

@benasaro1043

3 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker Nah, not yet. Honestly, I feel like I'm a newborn still dealing w the L8!

mate that was sick, subbed

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you citizen!

@zeroalpha_nz6674

2 жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker my Lyra just landed, thanks for putting this up. Absolutely unholy sounds. Much respect mate

I was always like, "yeah I love that synth." Now I'm like "I'm off to buy this monster!" Amazing work!

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I take no responsibility for people over-spending on synths. :P

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Well...maybe a little. (Guilt.)

What a fantastic video! My favourite about the Lyra 8! I own one of these and I learned after a while that very small knob movements go a long way. I tried to make “chordy drones” at the beginning and was a bit frustrated.

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you found it useful! Thanks for the feedback!

lol I hope your narts are ok after that rumble! Such a badass unapologetic synth. Definitely its own creature. Nice drones too, subbed!

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

It’s a wee beasty but it has a lot of power under the hood.

This. Is. So. Cool. Just the sounds I wanted to hear from the Lyra. I need to get a speaker for mine…

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

It makes a huge difference when you can *feel* it.

This thing sounds incredible. Excellent video. Finding these roaring resonant peaks is my favourite thing to coax out of every synth I try, and this looks to be an entire machine based on that principle. Beautiful

@synthseeker

Жыл бұрын

It's super fun on halloween! Scare the kids!

@Sypher474

Жыл бұрын

@@synthseeker Mine should hopefully arrive by then. Time to audio-haunt my neighbors!

Haha, "but wait, there's more" at 3:27 - you weren't lying :) I made a few happy faces throughout the video.

@synthseeker

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the annotations have a mind of their own at times. :)