6 Reasons I Love The Lyra-8 [w/ jam]

These are my top 6 reasons why the SOMA Laboratory Lyra-8 is so much fun! SOMA Labs is really a company worth supporting as well. I accidentally broke a switch on my Lyra by dropping a mostly full 1.5L Nalgene water bottle on it and they sent me a new switch all the way from Russia for free! I was able to fix it myself, it's really beautifully designed on the inside too.

[Thegingerwolff]

You're doing things with this that I've not seen done before. The 11:00 mark totally made me go on Google and buy one. Well done and thankyou for being different

[pamdemonia]

I love my Lyra and I love how the comment section on Lyra 8 videos always seem to be more and less technical/gearhead than the usual comments on synths. It's really beautiful, as is the Lyra-8!

[bienbienbienbienbien]

I have seen many videos about lyra 8. This is definitely the best one. Beautiful jam dude. Now I absolutely want and need this instrument.

[hundovir]

I've been thinking about getting one for ages. Your superb jam has just about convinced me!

[dmitresser]

Finally music!!! Folk instrument indeed

[Sypher]

Great video. Can't wait for mine to arrive. Keeping my impatience in check watching a million videos is both helping and making it worse!

[jacobclayton]

The Lyra 8 really is a thing of wonder! I have had to literally put it aside and not touch it for three months because it became the one instrument I’d always play, forsaking even my eurorack setup in favor of it. I’ve even considered getting another one in either orange or green like yours. I run my Subsequent 25, MS-20 mini, and various eurorack systems and combos through mine due to it’s incredible delay, distortion, and Lfo. Effects pedal wise, a simple looper, the Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water and a Strymon Blue Sky somehow makes this incredible synth sound near-perfect in my opinion.

[PiotrstrashcanŚmietnikPiotra]

Wow, you're doing some wicked things with that! I only just got mine (same colour!) and loved it immediately! Now I will just need to learn how to use it!

[djformalin]

Very nice - thx ! Greetings from Lyra in Thailand 🎼

[Ian-byks]

Oh man… at 11:00 when that interval just kept spreading I turned it up loud and then that bass HIT ME

[brunodadivore]

HI thanks for your enthousiasm! And Soma, not only Lyra but also Cosmos and Pulsar merits it. You made the point: when you have since a long time a solid keyboard and guitar culture it is difficult to create out of the rails and Lyra brings freedom, easyness and surprise that it is so hard to come back to an usual synth hardware.
And much easier and cheaper than a modular wall!
The trick is not to try to play Lyra with notes but let the sounds evolve and penetrate your brain to open unexpected doors.
The fact to not record patches is key, because one new day is one new disposition to hear new sounds.

[midnightsocean]

Good review. It's nice to see someone show off both the pretty and dark/distorted sides of this synth. Most I see just make straight up ear torture.

[StephenMcLeod]

I like your style! I am curious to try the Lyra 8 out. I'm not a huge drone person, but it looks like a thing of wonder.

[errorkit]

awwww crap now I mean....NEED one ☠️😂🔥

[geogeo]

Enjoyed this a lot, thanks. Your listed reasons all appeal, and your piece for the second half is wonderful.

[supercompooper]

This device is perfect for playing the theme song for the Emperor who has no clothes

[StatsGod]

Hi thanks for the video -- agree with all your points. A question I've been posing to various people posting videos about the synth -- what do you make of all the FM circuits, other than for chaos-making purposes? Meaning, do you have an approach for using the FM for "musical" (subjetive, I know) purposes? It seems useful to creating percussive patterns -- as you show in the video. But I haven't yet found a way to use cross-modulation to gently color the sound .

[peterxxpopq]

Searched for days and I´ve found some videos abt the L-8, and always someone tried to play it like an organ or like a piano. But I think, its inner spirit develops, when common trails are left and disorder is allowed. The same is in human brain, it isn´t organized like a modern digital piano, fully controlled, but rather as a Lyra, and always the disorder isn´t far away :) so this is spiritedness. For me, L-8 may be a prozess of self analysis and at this point I remind, that the constructor is a philosopher. Like in "Elektro Moskva", one of its protagonist, Richardas Norvila aka Benzo, is a philosopher too and a psychotherapist, open minded and his thoughts of music find a counterpart in your very differentiated and inspiring video! Many tnx!! d(*_*)b Peter

[Thegingerwolff]

How would you go about connecting this to another device? Does it have gate in/out?

[floozyspeak]

Thanks for making this- its intimidating to me still. But i have to try tuning first and i dont know crap about that process really but i get your point. Like I dont know jack in terms of how to play but i love devices like the lyra because of that pure sense of expression- but at some point a user needs to feel a sense of mastery in the chaos, when ya get there, product lock loyalty just boom heh.