I’ve never purchased a synthesizer, though this makes me finally want to change that. Having never done this before, are these going to be relatively continuously available, or is this batch made and once it’s done it’s done? Absolutely gorgeous.
Yes we plan to continue making them as long as there is interest. Just wanted to add that although it looks like a drone machine with not well defined controls, the synthesizer under the hood it is fully controllable by MIDI, so when connected to a DAW or a virtual MIDI controller, all sound engines and their parameters can be accessed. Thank you, it is lovely to hear that this may motivate you to dive into the realm of hardware synths! :)
I am a guitarist originally but synthesizers are absolutely worth it. Those people who say "It is not a real instrument" obviously have never even seen a synthesizer to begin with.
It's 599 quid. I'm genuinely curious what the margins are on synths these days, cause I watch Look Mum No Computer and he creates the same sounds, the same controls and everything using breadboards and some components, heck sometimes he hacks old NES or Genesis systems and makes synthesis out of that. My point is, if he can do it for pennies on the dollar, why on earth is this synth (and others) astronomically expensive? I mean, your volume knobs you can get for like 5 dollars on amazon, they're for guitar pots. I don't get it.
@@whatmusiciwant if you think "the same sounds" can be done with "breadboards and some components", then there really isn't any reason for you to buy this, or any similar music instrument :) Go ahead and do some experiments, it's very rewarding and thanks to the plentiful resources and development platforms, much easier to do these days than ever before. Margins don't only reflect cost of materials, but cost of R&D and time spent building each unit. LMNC is a very talented engineer, but also a youtuber and musician, he does not make living by building synths to sell. If he did, I'd expect his devices (of comparable complexity) to be a lot more expensive than this, because of the time spent. Circuit bent electronics often goes for unbelievable prices, but people who buy it, appreciate having one of a kind thing. Also, first time I hear that cost of knobs should somehow determine the price of the synth. This one isn't any dearer than any other in the same category. You should rather ask, why the iPhone or whichever other mass produced thing costs as much as it does, that company has billions in the bank, we don't.
@@gechologic I understand that all makes sense, however I will say it's the main reason I abhor Mac actually because they do jack their prices in an unfair manner. There was a movie that had the line "why charge 25 dollar for something people will pay 2500 for". Yeah, I run a business, I get it but the PolyBrute 12 is a little under $5k...Why? Every time I see something from Teenage Engineering I look up the price I can't believe it. I didn't mean to sound condescending on your hard work or your product, it's just every time I see something cool like this I think "hmmmm, I bet it's too expensive"...Yep, sure is. So, maybe it's just me feeling left out lol. Can't a company make a beautiful looking synth, that us poor people can afford? Is a $200 dollar synth just beyond a possibility? I would be curious how much LMNC would charge for a synth actually. It's a beautiful machine, sounds great, wish it was $200 bucks, lol.
This brings memories! I used to play with this all the time on my way to earth, on the backseat of my dad spaceship. Best way to kill 4.37 light years!
@@LeChevalierLelion good to hear from you! How's things on Proxima b? Hope the Tolimanian worshipers of Nyog' Sothep don't bother you too much. Gotta visit again sometimes, love the local market, I'm almost out of the R'chfnthaghic spiceworms and Kentaurian liquor.
@@gechologic Good to hear from you too! You know same old, in a thousand days it’s rebirth day so we’re preparing for the celebration and I’ve actually got myself some R’chfnthaghic today but the black ones they were out of reds as usual. The Tolimanian worshipers have been real quiet since you dropped this banger on your channel! I’m making my own Kentaurian liquor now so I’ll make sure to send you some on the next PrismaLight transfer. Take care and may peace be upon Centauri. 🖖🏻
@@LeChevalierLelion Ah yes, exciting time of the trisolar year! Well, black are better than nothing. Funny how the Scoville-equivalent scale had to be expanded significantly to accommodate the heat that the red spiceworm delivers. Races who are newer to the Centaurian cuisine, or universe in general, often fall ill even from a very dilute, nearly homeopathic concentrations. Food for the gods, indeed. Peace!
@@gechologic what?! That’s amazing. I’m m a professional artist as well as a synth nerd. Tell her that it couldn’t be better. I was like, “oh wow, they hired a pro designer for this one” in a way that I don’t often see. Its form following function in the best ways. The touch plate patterns in particular are so beautiful. It really just makes the whole thing so much more inviting than if it had been a plain utilitarian design.
@@michaelkonomos She says thank you for complimenting her work! Actually she used to work as a graphic designer but mostly in web and print media, this is something different so I am happy that these skills apply here too. Funny enough beautiful design often makes engineer's life a bit harder, for example now there are two calibration profiles required for polyphonic aftertouch, as dark vs. light leaves have a different amount of copper exposed in their surface area. But all the extra effort is well worth it :)
That makes so much sense that she was a graphic designer - it’s all about arranging elements in a way that feels balanced and pleasing to the eye. The repeating patterns chosen here somehow evoke both nature and something man-made - like leaves that have been found and carefully folded. If only every synth had this level of design.
I am not gonna lie, most of these so called drone synths suck unless you pit tons of external effect on their output. This is the first drone synth i heard so far, that really makes drone/ambient music without any further equipment. Plus the design and workflow is absolutely amazing.
Thank you! :) In this demo only 4 of the built in effects are shown, but a few more are ready that I did not yet have chance to integrate to the user interface. The magic lies in combining them in unexpected ways, and also in sonically rich material that is processed by them, generated or captured from the FM radio.
to get the most out of life you have to take the time and dedication to make things align with your interests like its the same with the rich they just make things align not through just money alone but mostly from my knowledge and experience time is their greatest asset. time + dedication = best result, passion and effect
@@callofzon6544 What the hell are you talking about? Most people are not rich because they have time and dedication. they are rich because they are born to a rich family or because they were lucky.
Yay! :) Thanks a lot for your kind comment! Happy to hear that the aesthetic gives such impression, we were aiming for something ancient looking indeed.
Actually there are LEDs in the rings at base of leaves, but they're quite subtle, and thre is a small OLED display in the side panel, to help with tuning & configuration, but there's no need to look at it too much :)
Yeah they're great, easy to swap and can be turned using one finger, by touching the top. So you can easily manipulate multiple parameters at once. These aren't the best looking ones but it's just my dev unit, there will be more kinds and colours to choose from, they don't need to have the numbers either.
It's a team work, same as with Wingdrum and Loopsynth's front panel - they were designed by my wife Anna, then I converted the drawings into the digital blueprints :) Thank you for your continuing support!
@gechologic you're very welcome! Ever since I first watched Bladerunner as a kid (back in the late 80's/early 90's) I fell in love with the compositions of Vangelis. That end theme on Bladerunner is just magnificent! Every piece of music in that movie was amazing, but that ending theme really struck a cord. I've been fascinated by electronica, dubstep, techno, and ethereal compositions ever since. Modern 80's retro electronica is downright impressive, especially when the artists incorporate 8bit & 16bit video game sound effects. Cyberpunk retro
If this thing is really as good as it looks and sounds, then I REALLY hope it gets the recognition and wide user base that it deserves. I've been a long-time fan of pioneering synth musicians like Bernie Worrell and Herbie Hancock, but haven't dabbled with any such equipment myself. This Siluria makes me want to try it out more than anything else I've ever seen or heard.
Thank you, and that's just the 1st patch :) There will be a few more (configurable in text files on the SD card, same way as in the Loopstyler), for example one that controls each of the 8 voices individually by a knob. Feel free to check the other video that we just posted, where the same patch is influenced by the signal from the built-in FM radio.
Another one of your wonders I need to add to my collection of inter-dimensional artifacts which help me travel the cosmos from the comfort of wherever I happen to be. Thank you. 🙏 😊
Hi Max, your comment made my day! After Lizards and Whales, we are travelling through the fossil records with this one, not only limited to Earth's tectonic layers :)
@@gechologic damn. it has been a month.. waiting is killing me.. i come like once a week to listen to it :D 2 more months or so, hopefully. edit: 1 month and 12 days ;-;
@@gechologic that's understandable, I'll definitely be hankering for one by 2025! Thanks for creating this wonderful piece of technology it will definitely make many people happy! A pleasure to listen to.
Thanks a lot! :) Glad you enjoyed this little performance. It didn't take much rehearsing, I've recorded it the same evening when the firmware was finished enough to allow for this patch configuration, that's how easy it is to play!
Wow I'm blown away by the design and sounds looks like you found that in some ancient phoarohs tomb .that's some amazing craftsmanship you should make more and sell them I would buy it
Thank you for your kind comment! :) We'll try to keep building them as long as there is interest. Feel free to subscribe for updates via the link in description.
Yes it will be a bit more affordable, on the other hand Lyra is analog so its price is certainly justified too. Siluria is about 30x16cm in footprint, for comparison the Lyra-8 is a 27cm square.
Thank you for your kind comment! It is an absolute rabbit hole indeed. I am often getting lost in the sound for a good while instead of working on the firmware :)
@@gechologic something tells me that you're actually doing that.... keep up🤘 it's worth it! As a guitar player I already know what effects should be following to make it an unrealistic amazing instrument!
@@gechologicsure, thanks for asking 😊. I would suggest a tremolo since you already have an amazing sound generated constantly as synth does. Tremolo will create small chops and with an adjustment of rate you can create miracles. Next, of course a short tape echo Delay that grids after the first repeat would be great and probably would transform the touching notes to rhythm by adjusting time and feedback. Finally I certainly can't miss to mention a gentle phaser that can also shape the constant synth generator in any stage.😊. These are what I would connect after this synth in the following order. Tremolo. Phaser. Delay. 👍🤘🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Thank you for your kind comment, means a lot! Truly an iconic book, I've read it years ago. The movies (old and new take) are very well made too, each in its own way. Glad you enjoyed the demo! :)
Yes! When I heard that particular sound it immediately came to my mind. And it's easy enough to play as the note intervals stay the same, only root note shifts around. Awesome song, one of a kind artist.
It has a very clean attack and the tone just cuts through without being to sharp. It’s really an amazing sound. Does it have control of the decay ? And are there cv patch points on midi ?
Thank you! It took me a while to figure this out and tune up the algorithms so everything plays nicely together, so I am happy to hear that the result is pleasant not only to my ears :) There are more internal parameters than the 8 knobs indeed, envelope control for lead voice is among them (also as it is a wavetable synth, there is wavefolding, wavemorphing and perlin noise, alternatively for supersaw/supersquare there is number of saws or drawbars, etc...) all this will be accessible via MIDI CC messages. At the moment and for demo purposes it only browses through the waveforms using one of the buttons. But there is a small OLED screen at the side next to the connectors, where some of these things will be configurable as well.
That was our intention and we're happy to hear that you see it that way too! It's rather for hunting sounds than directly making music indeed, although hopefully it will find use there as well.
Those symbols are part of user interface, in combination with button press (acting as a "shift" key) they access certain settings, like tuning the FM radio, setting volume levels etc..
@@anton-ke4qz yes, for example the round one symbolizes radiolaria (a group of microscopic organisms that have mineral skeletons of various shapes), here it will be used to control the built-in radio. The "snail" one, representing ammonites, will control tempo of the LFO. The "claw" (bottom right corner) will be used to set up recording to the SD Card, easy to remember if you think of it as "grab". The triangular shaped fin in the top right corner will enable I/O volume and envelope settings. The remaining two icons represent patterns, they are inspired by surface texture of prehistoric giant ferns and clubmosses. These will allow (depending on context) to control modulation patterns, or parameters for wavetables generator, such as perlin noise or additive harmonics.
We are still summing up the costs of material and time required to build it (this one is more complex than our other devices), but it will be somewhere around the middle 3 digits $$$. The preorders for the first few units should open later this week (as soon as the website is ready).
She did a great job! Someone else mentioned the knobs from a guitar and I agree is a great aesthetic. And being a guitar player myself I enjoy the turn of a these style guitar knobs over synth knobs.
@@IndigoBassNotes it's normal to advertise a few weeks prior to release, and we will have it ready to order in a week or two. I've seen preorders collected with shipping time planned a year+ in future. It still might be the only way to go for a small manufacturer, you usually need to pay up front for the PCB assembly and all material, and order everything in large enough quantities to make it economically viable.
@cuttlefishpie3731 The preorder page will be soon ready at our website (added link to the description). You'll find all info there. Thank you for your interest! :)
@@supercompooperyeah well from my experience customers from Alpha Regula 5 are usually the most vocal tyrekickers, they also demand to pay in obscure currencies, which then collapse into highly entropic disordered non quantum states. Remember earthling: patience is virtue, reading descriptions is key, trust in a purchase transaction goes both ways.
Thank you! It took some experimenting with these effects and their controls to get it right, I'm happy to hear that it was worth it, and that it appeals visually too.
i wish i knew how to play instruments/compose music 😭😭this is fantastic! i fell in love with synthesizers when i first heard Jean Michel Jarre. i've been falling more and more with these type of music/soundscapes ever since
Thank you! :) I'd say you can start with one and eventually arrive to the other (or not, like me :) Playing an instrument can be a lot of fun, even if it isn't "music", often a sound itself is interesting enough to listen to for hours. I'm not even talking about our device here but for example Roland SH-201 (which is an analog modeling synthesizer too, it uses the same principles to create sound) is something that you might enjoy greatly just by going through the patches and adjusting the parameters, the combinations are endless. By the way, Jean-Michel Jarre created a custom patch collection for it, free to download.
I would imagine for those in the field this revolutionizes the cost of production through the practicality of it. I can see it becoming a widely used tool among creator circles for example as something like this is cool and fun to play with and then the better you get with it, not only the more fun you are at whatever the hell kind of parties you're going to, but it could also be directly applied to ones own content depending of course on time and mood. This video gave a great demonstration on the sort of range and depth that it can get to, but I'd love to see another that was more along the lines of dancing queen or some other 80's electronic disco bop
It would be lovely indeed to see it used not only for immediate entertainment but also for creative work, that's why the SD card recording function is there. For me, as a non musician, it's hard to imagine how exactly it could be used. I'm sure that someone who has experience with this kind of instruments, will find their way. I love 80s music a lot, but the goal of this instrument is not to make sounds that various other synths already do better, but to create interesting drones with minimal effort, based on saw/square/sine waves plus wavetable sounds and maybe a little physical modelling.
@@grahamnunn8998 you made my day! A fellow fan here :) this kind of sound, and even more so the other video where radio is involved, remind me of FSOL, Orb and Orbital here and there.
@@gechologic so you designed this? i've got an idea i'll never use to combine sacred geometry and music. based on the circle of 5ths diagram from john coltrane and the harmonagon project. i'd like it to be at least a software plugin. it would make it so creating music is easier and more visual based than theory based for users.
@@JasonPruett I'm not sure about hardware devices but I've seen a few apps that looked like they used such interface or at least visualisation, try to look it up I'm sure you'll find something. It's an elegant tool, someone certainly used it in an app or plugin already. Personally I don't have an opinion on how helpful it is, we weren't taught it at school, and I learned to play piano by ear.
Beautifully something practically imagined to reality.. I was just watching the solar 42 and saw this.. I am interested in seeing future designs from this..
Thank you for your kind comment! :) That's a serious synth indeed, and a great inspiration (although it's analog so not really the direction where we go with our development). We'll see where the feedback from Siluria owners gets us with the next one :)
@@gechologic these ambient synthesis are really nice to have.. if I could get some collaboration the compressed channel opening to a extremely large room like a warehouse with reverb panning through an oscillator then re compressing would be an amazing effect. Making it sound like it came from behind the stage then sounding like it was on the sides. It is possible to create that separation of depth. Though not seen yet.
@@jamesjackson502 I cannot imagine this in terms of the effects and their settings but there must be virtual environments or software platforms where you can chain effects this way, perhaps SuperCollider or Sporth could do that?
Thank you for your kind comment, we're happy to hear that you enjoyed this demo visually and sonically too! It was designed by my wife so I will pass the compliment to her :)
This device will fits perfectly into my setup! I'm also super happy thet i found hole company Phonic Bloom! Mindblowing stuff! I can't wait for the release from Siluria. ❤😮
That's correct, unfortunately the particular setting in question had to be disabled. Nyarlathotep got back to us with complaint from Great Old Ones about portals opening randomly on their planets, disturbing the local megafauna, of which a few specimens escaped to our world. However we managed to negotiate an agreement, that once in a Neptunian year's quarter, the setting will be temporarily re-enabled and a guided trip will be organized.
I’ve never purchased a synthesizer, though this makes me finally want to change that. Having never done this before, are these going to be relatively continuously available, or is this batch made and once it’s done it’s done? Absolutely gorgeous.
Yes we plan to continue making them as long as there is interest. Just wanted to add that although it looks like a drone machine with not well defined controls, the synthesizer under the hood it is fully controllable by MIDI, so when connected to a DAW or a virtual MIDI controller, all sound engines and their parameters can be accessed. Thank you, it is lovely to hear that this may motivate you to dive into the realm of hardware synths! :)
I am a guitarist originally but synthesizers are absolutely worth it. Those people who say "It is not a real instrument" obviously have never even seen a synthesizer to begin with.
It's 599 quid. I'm genuinely curious what the margins are on synths these days, cause I watch Look Mum No Computer and he creates the same sounds, the same controls and everything using breadboards and some components, heck sometimes he hacks old NES or Genesis systems and makes synthesis out of that. My point is, if he can do it for pennies on the dollar, why on earth is this synth (and others) astronomically expensive?
I mean, your volume knobs you can get for like 5 dollars on amazon, they're for guitar pots. I don't get it.
@@whatmusiciwant if you think "the same sounds" can be done with "breadboards and some components", then there really isn't any reason for you to buy this, or any similar music instrument :) Go ahead and do some experiments, it's very rewarding and thanks to the plentiful resources and development platforms, much easier to do these days than ever before.
Margins don't only reflect cost of materials, but cost of R&D and time spent building each unit.
LMNC is a very talented engineer, but also a youtuber and musician, he does not make living by building synths to sell. If he did, I'd expect his devices (of comparable complexity) to be a lot more expensive than this, because of the time spent.
Circuit bent electronics often goes for unbelievable prices, but people who buy it, appreciate having one of a kind thing.
Also, first time I hear that cost of knobs should somehow determine the price of the synth. This one isn't any dearer than any other in the same category. You should rather ask, why the iPhone or whichever other mass produced thing costs as much as it does, that company has billions in the bank, we don't.
@@gechologic I understand that all makes sense, however I will say it's the main reason I abhor Mac actually because they do jack their prices in an unfair manner. There was a movie that had the line "why charge 25 dollar for something people will pay 2500 for". Yeah, I run a business, I get it but the PolyBrute 12 is a little under $5k...Why? Every time I see something from Teenage Engineering I look up the price I can't believe it.
I didn't mean to sound condescending on your hard work or your product, it's just every time I see something cool like this I think "hmmmm, I bet it's too expensive"...Yep, sure is. So, maybe it's just me feeling left out lol. Can't a company make a beautiful looking synth, that us poor people can afford? Is a $200 dollar synth just beyond a possibility?
I would be curious how much LMNC would charge for a synth actually.
It's a beautiful machine, sounds great, wish it was $200 bucks, lol.
This brings memories! I used to play with this all the time on my way to earth, on the backseat of my dad spaceship. Best way to kill 4.37 light years!
@@LeChevalierLelion good to hear from you! How's things on Proxima b? Hope the Tolimanian worshipers of Nyog' Sothep don't bother you too much. Gotta visit again sometimes, love the local market, I'm almost out of the R'chfnthaghic spiceworms and Kentaurian liquor.
@@gechologic Good to hear from you too!
You know same old, in a thousand days it’s rebirth day so we’re preparing for the celebration and I’ve actually got myself some R’chfnthaghic today but the black ones they were out of reds as usual. The Tolimanian worshipers have been real quiet since you dropped this banger on your channel! I’m making my own Kentaurian liquor now so I’ll make sure to send you some on the next PrismaLight transfer. Take care and may peace be upon Centauri. 🖖🏻
@@LeChevalierLelion Ah yes, exciting time of the trisolar year! Well, black are better than nothing. Funny how the Scoville-equivalent scale had to be expanded significantly to accommodate the heat that the red spiceworm delivers. Races who are newer to the Centaurian cuisine, or universe in general, often fall ill even from a very dilute, nearly homeopathic concentrations. Food for the gods, indeed. Peace!
In plain sight?
Hold up space is real?
Really beautiful design. I think it’s so important for a physical instrument to make that human connection by being well-designed and beautiful.
Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated! I'll pass the compliment to my wife who designed the front panel.
@@gechologic what?! That’s amazing. I’m m a professional artist as well as a synth nerd. Tell her that it couldn’t be better. I was like, “oh wow, they hired a pro designer for this one” in a way that I don’t often see. Its form following function in the best ways. The touch plate patterns in particular are so beautiful. It really just makes the whole thing so much more inviting than if it had been a plain utilitarian design.
@@michaelkonomos She says thank you for complimenting her work! Actually she used to work as a graphic designer but mostly in web and print media, this is something different so I am happy that these skills apply here too. Funny enough beautiful design often makes engineer's life a bit harder, for example now there are two calibration profiles required for polyphonic aftertouch, as dark vs. light leaves have a different amount of copper exposed in their surface area. But all the extra effort is well worth it :)
That makes so much sense that she was a graphic designer - it’s all about arranging elements in a way that feels balanced and pleasing to the eye. The repeating patterns chosen here somehow evoke both nature and something man-made - like leaves that have been found and carefully folded. If only every synth had this level of design.
could not agree more, everything they make is stunning.
That looks like a futuristic ancient artifact.
Screams DUNE to me! Like this is what the Spacing Guild does while they unloading from Orbit!
I was thinking steam punk right before the indestural revolution based on looks.
Spock would dig it. 🔷
Synth looks like ancient artifact from main quest :)
Also very relaxing drone. Great job!
haha I can imagine that! :) Glad you like it, thank you!
Yeah, it’s straight out of the TV series Warehouse 13. Love it! 😍
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Wow! This not only sounds beautiful but LOOKS beautiful! That’s rare for electronic instruments, I’m so glad you’re bringing it back!
Thank you for your kind words! It's a family project, what you see was designed by my wife, what you hear was added by me :)
@@gechologic That’s really cool :)
Can’t wait to get mine.
Thank you for supporting the project!
Probably found under a sumerian zigurrat or in the lost Chambers of Thot. So beautiful an futuristically ancient.
Might be either, some of those symbols resemble Sumerian or Egyptian glyphs indeed! Question is, where did they find it ;)
@@gechologicor who/what showed them.
It was first found on a planet called Arrakis
Wow. Nice words
@@brooxeyyyThe vibes must flow.
That is MESMERISING. Such dark tone. I want one.
Thank you, glad you like the sound! :)
Indeed i want it too❤
I want it three
me want Four! :D it is perfect
I'm five please 🙏 I would adore playing with this
I am not gonna lie, most of these so called drone synths suck unless you pit tons of external effect on their output. This is the first drone synth i heard so far, that really makes drone/ambient music without any further equipment. Plus the design and workflow is absolutely amazing.
Thank you! :) In this demo only 4 of the built in effects are shown, but a few more are ready that I did not yet have chance to integrate to the user interface. The magic lies in combining them in unexpected ways, and also in sonically rich material that is processed by them, generated or captured from the FM radio.
Thanks for not lying.
to get the most out of life you have to take the time and dedication to make things align with your interests like its the same with the rich they just make things align not through just money alone but mostly from my knowledge and experience time is their greatest asset. time + dedication = best result, passion and effect
@@callofzon6544 What the hell are you talking about? Most people are not rich because they have time and dedication. they are rich because they are born to a rich family or because they were lucky.
@@callofzon6544 this is like way out of context and completely off topic
_Excellent sound and workflow._ The ancient/futuristic aesthetic is really cool too. Kinda reminds me of the Ancient's technology in Stargate.
Yay! :) Thanks a lot for your kind comment! Happy to hear that the aesthetic gives such impression, we were aiming for something ancient looking indeed.
Really like the knobs with marks and numbers. No LEDs or funny screens. Pure & Direct access to Tuning. ❤
Actually there are LEDs in the rings at base of leaves, but they're quite subtle, and thre is a small OLED display in the side panel, to help with tuning & configuration, but there's no need to look at it too much :)
Dude this is the future of the genre, bautiful
Thank you, you're too kind! Glad that you enjoyed this demo :)
Love the guitar knobs on a synth! Can't believe I haven't seen that before--perfect!
Yeah they're great, easy to swap and can be turned using one finger, by touching the top. So you can easily manipulate multiple parameters at once. These aren't the best looking ones but it's just my dev unit, there will be more kinds and colours to choose from, they don't need to have the numbers either.
@@gechologic As a guitar player, I approve. and there are tons of cool guitar knobs out there for easy customization.
It hasn't? I was making a little gadget and needed a knob.. first place I went was to a nice guitar knob. Seems like the obvious choice.
I went from 'da fuck is this?!' to 'Damn, that thing sounds very very good' in no time.
Same, bro
I love how your build aestetics match the ambient feel of the synth. will go well with my Loopsynth and the Wingdrum
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It's a team work, same as with Wingdrum and Loopsynth's front panel - they were designed by my wife Anna, then I converted the drawings into the digital blueprints :) Thank you for your continuing support!
absolutely stunning piece of gear, the aesthetics, sound, controls, I think this really could be massive...Hoping to purchase as soon as possible.
Thank you for your kind words! You made my day :) Preorders should open next week.
@@gechologic any news on the preorder opening? I might have to order a couple of spare GAS cannisters for me garden to hold the build up
@@enochroot9438 :D just in case you missed it, they're open now!
0:30 that tone change was pure candy for my soul-
Yay! Glad you enjoyed the demo!
That sound is phenomenal! So much sweet spot.
Indeed, there are many very interesting combinations that appear after a while, one can get lost in digging through it easily for hours.
Stunning synth, and it gives off great Vangelis vibes!
Thank you, means a lot! One of my favourite composers.
@gechologic you're very welcome! Ever since I first watched Bladerunner as a kid (back in the late 80's/early 90's) I fell in love with the compositions of Vangelis. That end theme on Bladerunner is just magnificent! Every piece of music in that movie was amazing, but that ending theme really struck a cord. I've been fascinated by electronica, dubstep, techno, and ethereal compositions ever since. Modern 80's retro electronica is downright impressive, especially when the artists incorporate 8bit & 16bit video game sound effects. Cyberpunk retro
WE MAKIN' IT OUT OF THE OUTER RIM WITH THIS ONE! 😮😮😮
This is the sexiest piece of synth kit I have *ever* lain eyes on. Lovely track too!
Awww thank you, that's very kind! Glad you enjoyed the demo :)
An amazing device. A real work of art.
Thank you for your kind comment, glad you like it:)
This was 80's sci fi magic. Thanks loved it. Almost entered the DMT world.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your kind comment. Next time I'll try to play Terminator or Blade Runner theme 😎
@@gechologic blade runner please ;)
...best world to enter...🙏😉
If this thing is really as good as it looks and sounds, then I REALLY hope it gets the recognition and wide user base that it deserves.
I've been a long-time fan of pioneering synth musicians like Bernie Worrell and Herbie Hancock, but haven't dabbled with any such equipment myself.
This Siluria makes me want to try it out more than anything else I've ever seen or heard.
Thank you for your kind and encouraging comment, you made my day!
Just ordered mine! The pre-order is open at last... Very exciting!!!!!
Thank you for your support, it means a lot! :)
absolutely gorgeous design and sound, a perfect blend!
thank you! :)
Круто!!! Как фанат творчества Жана Мишеля Жерара ставлю королевский лайк!
Спасибо огромное! Я тоже очень люблю его творчество, это были одни из первых кассет, которые я слушал!
Hypnotic. If I could sum up the famous stairwell/case painting into sound, this would be it
Oh you mean one of the M. C. Escher's works? That might be a very fitting analogy, even more so once we'll have it generate Shepard tone.
@@gechologic Yeah, exactly those! Specifically "Relativity". Great work all around.
@@thatdoggo5254 Thank you! :)
I really like it, both aesthetically and the way it sounds, the sounds on this first demo are really very interesting and full.
Molto interessante Pinuccio!
Thank you, and that's just the 1st patch :) There will be a few more (configurable in text files on the SD card, same way as in the Loopstyler), for example one that controls each of the 8 voices individually by a knob. Feel free to check the other video that we just posted, where the same patch is influenced by the signal from the built-in FM radio.
Another one of your wonders I need to add to my collection of inter-dimensional artifacts which help me travel the cosmos from the comfort of wherever I happen to be. Thank you. 🙏 😊
Hi Max, your comment made my day! After Lizards and Whales, we are travelling through the fossil records with this one, not only limited to Earth's tectonic layers :)
@@gechologic You’re telling me I can now travel through space AND time?! Sign me up! 😁🤘
preorder done. Excitment is real. Stunning piece of art!
Thank you for kind words and for supporting the project, it means a lot to us! :)
@@My_Fair_Lady second batch
@@gechologic damn. it has been a month.. waiting is killing me.. i come like once a week to listen to it :D 2 more months or so, hopefully.
edit: 1 month and 12 days ;-;
@@Nazemi96 we're already building the 1st batch, all material is here, also working on the printed manual - will start shipping soon!
Whoa. Did we all dream this up? it feels quasi-real
Thank you, glad that you enjoyed the demo!
Amazing technology and the design is pure art! I know what I want for Christmas this year!
@@MuonRay thank you for your kind comment! I'm afraid it's a bit too late for this year but we'll keep making them throughout the next one.
@@gechologic that's understandable, I'll definitely be hankering for one by 2025! Thanks for creating this wonderful piece of technology it will definitely make many people happy! A pleasure to listen to.
Speed knobs on a Klingon control panel nice.
That's a gorgeous instrument. I have no working knowledge of synthesizers but I've never seen one as elegant as this.
Thank you for your kind words, you made my day! :)
The ingenuity of this is Amazing. Spectacular demo, sounds flawless and expansive. You worked it for sure! 😎
Thanks a lot! :) Glad you enjoyed this little performance. It didn't take much rehearsing, I've recorded it the same evening when the firmware was finished enough to allow for this patch configuration, that's how easy it is to play!
Wow I'm blown away by the design and sounds looks like you found that in some ancient phoarohs tomb .that's some amazing craftsmanship you should make more and sell them I would buy it
Thank you for your kind comment! :) We'll try to keep building them as long as there is interest. Feel free to subscribe for updates via the link in description.
This is my cup of tea. Subscribed. I have a few other drone synths, but this is very elegant.
Awesome, thank you! Glad you like it in the context of what else exists, that's very encouraging.
A perfect drone device, I'm guessing more affordable than a Lyra, and obviously less complicated, less footprint. I'm sold
Looks to be a bit easier to get "nice" sounds out of too. Any idea on price?
Yes it will be a bit more affordable, on the other hand Lyra is analog so its price is certainly justified too. Siluria is about 30x16cm in footprint, for comparison the Lyra-8 is a 27cm square.
@@shugieshugied2269 so far it looks like it will be around 600
That's a truly unique and good looking synth! Probably a rabbit hole to dig in to that abyss of sounds! Loved it!
Thank you for your kind comment! It is an absolute rabbit hole indeed. I am often getting lost in the sound for a good while instead of working on the firmware :)
@@gechologic something tells me that you're actually doing that.... keep up🤘 it's worth it!
As a guitar player I already know what effects should be following to make it an unrealistic amazing instrument!
@@makisGibs hey if you have an idea of which effect to add, I'd love to hear it! :)
@@gechologicsure, thanks for asking 😊.
I would suggest a tremolo since you already have an amazing sound generated constantly as synth does. Tremolo will create small chops and with an adjustment of rate you can create miracles.
Next, of course a short tape echo Delay that grids after the first repeat would be great and probably would transform the touching notes to rhythm by adjusting time and feedback.
Finally I certainly can't miss to mention a gentle phaser that can also shape the constant synth generator in any stage.😊.
These are what I would connect after this synth in the following order.
Tremolo. Phaser. Delay.
👍🤘🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
This insrunent looks straight out of a novel like Dune and certainly sounds like a SF soundtrack. Amazing.
Thank you for your kind comment, means a lot! Truly an iconic book, I've read it years ago. The movies (old and new take) are very well made too, each in its own way. Glad you enjoyed the demo! :)
Glorious sounds from the artifact. Kudos, Mr Gechologic
Thank you very much, my pleasure, glad that you enjoyed the demo! :)
I was humming "Hallo Spaceboy" during that. 😁
Yes! When I heard that particular sound it immediately came to my mind. And it's easy enough to play as the note intervals stay the same, only root note shifts around. Awesome song, one of a kind artist.
Incredible for the ears and eyes!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the demo!
It has a very clean attack and the tone just cuts through without being to sharp. It’s really an amazing sound. Does it have control of the decay ? And are there cv patch points on midi ?
Thank you! It took me a while to figure this out and tune up the algorithms so everything plays nicely together, so I am happy to hear that the result is pleasant not only to my ears :) There are more internal parameters than the 8 knobs indeed, envelope control for lead voice is among them (also as it is a wavetable synth, there is wavefolding, wavemorphing and perlin noise, alternatively for supersaw/supersquare there is number of saws or drawbars, etc...) all this will be accessible via MIDI CC messages. At the moment and for demo purposes it only browses through the waveforms using one of the buttons. But there is a small OLED screen at the side next to the connectors, where some of these things will be configurable as well.
@@gechologic Niiicccceeee. I'm loving that thing more. accessing the CC will be legend.
this is perfect for sound exploration. it makes music a journey into the depths and beyond :)
That was our intention and we're happy to hear that you see it that way too! It's rather for hunting sounds than directly making music indeed, although hopefully it will find use there as well.
Take my money!
A beautiful piece of art to make art in the form of Music - which also is beautiful.
Thank you for your kind comment, you made my day! :)
I'll take 3.
looks and sounds beautiful, amazing aesthetics 🔥
Thank you for your kind comment, glad you enjoyed the demo!
Good! 👋😎
Thank you! 😃
Looks fantastic
Thank you very much, glad you like it! :)
Что за такие знаки там
Those symbols are part of user interface, in combination with button press (acting as a "shift" key) they access certain settings, like tuning the FM radio, setting volume levels etc..
@@gechologic thx. They have by themselves some symbolic meaning?
@@anton-ke4qz yes, for example the round one symbolizes radiolaria (a group of microscopic organisms that have mineral skeletons of various shapes), here it will be used to control the built-in radio. The "snail" one, representing ammonites, will control tempo of the LFO. The "claw" (bottom right corner) will be used to set up recording to the SD Card, easy to remember if you think of it as "grab". The triangular shaped fin in the top right corner will enable I/O volume and envelope settings. The remaining two icons represent patterns, they are inspired by surface texture of prehistoric giant ferns and clubmosses. These will allow (depending on context) to control modulation patterns, or parameters for wavetables generator, such as perlin noise or additive harmonics.
@@gechologic interesting meaning symbolism
@@gechologic my Dear i guessing you invented such system in Dream like Mendiliev?
What a great synth, sounds really good and looks fun
Where/when can I purchase this and how much would it be?
We are still summing up the costs of material and time required to build it (this one is more complex than our other devices), but it will be somewhere around the middle 3 digits $$$. The preorders for the first few units should open later this week (as soon as the website is ready).
This is beautiful, brilliant and sounds amazing. Can’t wait to see how successful this gets!
Thank you! I'll pass your kind comments to the rest of the team, i.e. my wife who designed it visually 😀
She did a great job! Someone else mentioned the knobs from a guitar and I agree is a great aesthetic. And being a guitar player myself I enjoy the turn of a these style guitar knobs over synth knobs.
How to order one?
The preorder page will be soon ready at our website (added link to the description). Thank you for your interest! :)
That was unbelievably cool
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the demo! :) There will be more soon.
Where can you buy it and how much is it?
Not avalible yet.
This style of showing a product that you cant yet buy is popular and annoying.
@@IndigoBassNotes it's normal to advertise a few weeks prior to release, and we will have it ready to order in a week or two. I've seen preorders collected with shipping time planned a year+ in future. It still might be the only way to go for a small manufacturer, you usually need to pay up front for the PCB assembly and all material, and order everything in large enough quantities to make it economically viable.
@cuttlefishpie3731 The preorder page will be soon ready at our website (added link to the description). You'll find all info there. Thank you for your interest! :)
It's obvious that you can buy this on planet Alpha Regula 5. It's also double obvious that it costs only three purple towers.
@@supercompooperyeah well from my experience customers from Alpha Regula 5 are usually the most vocal tyrekickers, they also demand to pay in obscure currencies, which then collapse into highly entropic disordered non quantum states. Remember earthling: patience is virtue, reading descriptions is key, trust in a purchase transaction goes both ways.
Stunning design!
Take my money! Synth fanatic here. Great fades and transitions. So versatile and compact. Also aesthetically beautiful.
Thank you for your kind comment, glad to hear that you enjoyed the demo! :) We'll most likely reopen the orders next month.
beautiful
Thank you! :)
Wonderful and beautiful machine and sound !!!
Thank you very much! Glad you like our new synth, it took a while to get it finished! :)
It sounds as good as it looks. Very nice.
Thank you very much! :)
Number one on my wishlist ! Beautiful design and fantastic sound 🎶
Thanks a lot for your comment and continuing support, we could only get here thanks to people like you! :)
Love it. The filter sounds absolutely amazing and the overall look of the device reminds me of something I might see in the latest Dune movies.
Thank you! It took some experimenting with these effects and their controls to get it right, I'm happy to hear that it was worth it, and that it appeals visually too.
i wish i knew how to play instruments/compose music 😭😭this is fantastic!
i fell in love with synthesizers when i first heard Jean Michel Jarre. i've been falling more and more with these type of music/soundscapes ever since
Thank you! :) I'd say you can start with one and eventually arrive to the other (or not, like me :) Playing an instrument can be a lot of fun, even if it isn't "music", often a sound itself is interesting enough to listen to for hours. I'm not even talking about our device here but for example Roland SH-201 (which is an analog modeling synthesizer too, it uses the same principles to create sound) is something that you might enjoy greatly just by going through the patches and adjusting the parameters, the combinations are endless. By the way, Jean-Michel Jarre created a custom patch collection for it, free to download.
@@gechologic thank you! I will look into it 😃
a synth that looks very antique, mythical and mysterious, I love it!!
Thank you for your kind words! It was what we were aiming for, so glad to hear it worked :)
Beautiful design and great sounds
Thank you! :) Glad that you enjoyed the demo!
That's really cool!
I would imagine for those in the field this revolutionizes the cost of production through the practicality of it.
I can see it becoming a widely used tool among creator circles for example as something like this is cool and fun to play with and then the better you get with it, not only the more fun you are at whatever the hell kind of parties you're going to, but it could also be directly applied to ones own content depending of course on time and mood.
This video gave a great demonstration on the sort of range and depth that it can get to, but I'd love to see another that was more along the lines of dancing queen or some other 80's electronic disco bop
It would be lovely indeed to see it used not only for immediate entertainment but also for creative work, that's why the SD card recording function is there. For me, as a non musician, it's hard to imagine how exactly it could be used. I'm sure that someone who has experience with this kind of instruments, will find their way. I love 80s music a lot, but the goal of this instrument is not to make sounds that various other synths already do better, but to create interesting drones with minimal effort, based on saw/square/sine waves plus wavetable sounds and maybe a little physical modelling.
Stunning! As someone who grew up with prog and groups like Tangerine Dream, this could give you pretty much side 1 of classic electronic album.
@@grahamnunn8998 you made my day! A fellow fan here :) this kind of sound, and even more so the other video where radio is involved, remind me of FSOL, Orb and Orbital here and there.
@@gechologicFSOL ! Love them. Will check out your other band and hope to hear your Siluria drone synth in the near future. It sounds fascinating!
good job! this is a very beautiful and cool instrument.
Thank you for your kind comment, glad you like it! :)
Looks and sounds amazing!
Thank you! :)
most impressive hardware i've ever seen
Thank you! We're doing our best! :)
@@gechologic so you designed this? i've got an idea i'll never use to combine sacred geometry and music. based on the circle of 5ths diagram from john coltrane and the harmonagon project. i'd like it to be at least a software plugin. it would make it so creating music is easier and more visual based than theory based for users.
@@JasonPruett I'm not sure about hardware devices but I've seen a few apps that looked like they used such interface or at least visualisation, try to look it up I'm sure you'll find something. It's an elegant tool, someone certainly used it in an app or plugin already. Personally I don't have an opinion on how helpful it is, we weren't taught it at school, and I learned to play piano by ear.
best design ever done to a synthesizer
Thank you for your kind words! I'll pass your compliment to my wife who designed the front panel.
Wow! How come I never hear music this good on Spotify? Awesome design, superb sounds.
Thank you, glad you like it! :) I guess that's because that company only steals from artists, which I am not. :D
This look and sound like the future I wish for
Thank you, glad you like it!
What a beauty
Way Cool and Very Dark!! Great Job Bro!!!!!!
Thank you, glad to hear that you enjoyed the demo!
Wow its beautiful!
Wow. I want one. What a lovely sound.
Thank you for your kind comment!
Sounds and looks wicked❤
Thank you for your kind comment, glad you enjoyed the demo! :)
It is beautiful! I love it! ❤
Thank you! Cheers!
This is terrific!
Thank you! :)
Nice. Another beautiful synth from you!
Thank you for your kind words! 😀
Wow what a great little device❤️🔥 cool work, it’s on my wishlist;-) best greeetz 🖖👽
Hey glad to see you here! Thank you for your kind comment and support over the years! :)
Curiosity and the shinny shinny brought me here. Beautiful looking instrument, love synthwave. Must of been fun playing.
Yay! It was indeed :) Thank you for your kind words!
Hallo Spaceboy sounds amazing on this.
Thank you, I'm glad you think so! :) When I first heard this sound, the song came to my mind instantly.
@@gechologic I am glad Someone else recognized Spaceboy
@@gechologic lol wasn't sure if it was intentional. Nicely done!
Of course I like this, Gechologic made another beautiful, intuitive device
Very happy to see you here! :) This is what your support over the years allowed us to create, THANK YOU!
Beautifully made instrument!
Thank you very much! :)
It’s beautiful
Thank you! :)
Beautifully something practically imagined to reality.. I was just watching the solar 42 and saw this.. I am interested in seeing future designs from this..
Thank you for your kind comment! :) That's a serious synth indeed, and a great inspiration (although it's analog so not really the direction where we go with our development). We'll see where the feedback from Siluria owners gets us with the next one :)
@@gechologic these ambient synthesis are really nice to have.. if I could get some collaboration the compressed channel opening to a extremely large room like a warehouse with reverb panning through an oscillator then re compressing would be an amazing effect. Making it sound like it came from behind the stage then sounding like it was on the sides. It is possible to create that separation of depth. Though not seen yet.
@@jamesjackson502 I cannot imagine this in terms of the effects and their settings but there must be virtual environments or software platforms where you can chain effects this way, perhaps SuperCollider or Sporth could do that?
I don't know much about synths, but I absolutely adore the Art Deco style, it makes it look as futuristic as it sounds
Thank you for your kind comment, we're happy to hear that you enjoyed this demo visually and sonically too! It was designed by my wife so I will pass the compliment to her :)
This is quite lovely, nice video, subbed. Not heard of this little beastie. One to research I think..
Thank you, glad you like it! :) Yes it's new, this is the only prototype which was built last month.
That thing is really cool!
This device will fits perfectly into my setup!
I'm also super happy thet i found hole company Phonic Bloom!
Mindblowing stuff! I can't wait for the release from Siluria. ❤😮
Thank you for your kind words! :) we hope that you will choose something from what's in offer, and that it will be useful in your setup.
Gorgeous synth yall
Thank you for your kind words, glad you like it! 🙏
It sounds like with the right settings one can open an intertdimmentional portal :D COOL
That's correct, unfortunately the particular setting in question had to be disabled. Nyarlathotep got back to us with complaint from Great Old Ones about portals opening randomly on their planets, disturbing the local megafauna, of which a few specimens escaped to our world. However we managed to negotiate an agreement, that once in a Neptunian year's quarter, the setting will be temporarily re-enabled and a guided trip will be organized.
@@gechologic I make similar sounds with my mouth while chanting OM and its 100 procent analog ;) This toy is amazng and portals do open....
@@borsteldraaier If you can chant polyphonically, you just saved yourself some $£€ :) but is it really analog - are you sure you're not a Cylon?
@@gechologic just human body with 12 yrs of practice in chakra breathing and chanting the sylabs This instrument is amazing for real
Aheaaaaa ah, i come from the land of the ice and snow!