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
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.
Haha yeah my Lyra has definitely come between me and my keyboard practice routine before too! Never thought of using a looper with it, what do you use it for? Two Lyras would be crazy, if you had two people playing them you could probably have a pretty sick guitar-battle kind of thing, or you could go completely binaural with em
Yeah, i too have falling down the Lyra rabbit hole.... i was going pretty strong with my newfound electro music making, and then came the Lyra.... Now, IT's been a solid three months straight of nothing but deep dives with Hologram Microcosm rounding out the field 🤦♂️.... At some point, i really need to get back to the "real" music creation world; but all i can think about right now is running the whole rig off power bank with battery-powered speaker so i can take the whole shebang out into nature and completely freak out 🤯🤯 The Lyra, i just found out, can be run from a power bank off a 12V Ripcord.... So watch out, world! 🥳😍🌌
@@darkuniversesound Sometimes you've just gotta enjoy the moment! Playing it out in nature sounds awesome, I feel like it would work well in the desert or like a misty forest
I love my Lyra and I love how the comment section on Lyra 8 videos always seem to be more philosophy/psychology/theology and less technical/gearhead than the usual comments on synths. It's really beautiful, as is the Lyra-8!
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.
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!
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 .
I haven’t explored the FM that much in terms of more deterministic playing. My workflow is generally kind of backwards for it because I always tune my oscillators with the FM off. Then as soon as I turn on the FM modulation everything moves to playing outside… This has me wanting to try to tune the oscillators with the FM on, very interesting comment, thank you for the inspiration!
If these sounds were implemented into a DAW with the use of feedback loop & sidechain compression via buses this could have a Ben Frost feel all over it.
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
Excellent information! I have a Tascam DP-008EX Portastudio that I record with. (I am DAWLESS) Would you know if the Lyra-8 would be compatible with a Portastudio? Thank you.
hell yeah, I'd recommend a bass amp though because the bass register is awesome. Make sure to turn down the Lyra's output so it doesn't overload the amp input too much though.
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.
Yes! I consider the tuning process part of the fun of it, and it is more difficult than the actual playing of it. You can use your voice and harmonize with the existing notes, or use a different instrument, or even use a song, just tune the oscillators to fit in with the song, then turn off the music! Maybe I’ll make a video showing a bunch of different methods of tuning a Lyra, that would be really fun
I find it works pretty well with other synths, even if the tuning is on the loose side. More than anything it just sounds thick. But once you get a piano or guitar involved you’ll probably want to use a tuner. Something about them seems to require tighter tuning, maybe because they stretch tuning in their own way
@@robertsyrett1992idk, the attack time of the discs is a little slow for finger drumming, I could see someone doing a steel drum kind of thing with it though
This is going to be my christmas gift to myself i cant wait! Love your videos with it :^) ** your videos in general are great
Hahahaha same, this and a reverb pedal
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
Finally music!!! Folk instrument indeed
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.
Haha yeah my Lyra has definitely come between me and my keyboard practice routine before too! Never thought of using a looper with it, what do you use it for? Two Lyras would be crazy, if you had two people playing them you could probably have a pretty sick guitar-battle kind of thing, or you could go completely binaural with em
Yeah, i too have falling down the Lyra rabbit hole.... i was going pretty strong with my newfound electro music making, and then came the Lyra.... Now, IT's been a solid three months straight of nothing but deep dives with Hologram Microcosm rounding out the field 🤦♂️.... At some point, i really need to get back to the "real" music creation world; but all i can think about right now is running the whole rig off power bank with battery-powered speaker so i can take the whole shebang out into nature and completely freak out 🤯🤯
The Lyra, i just found out, can be run from a power bank off a 12V Ripcord.... So watch out, world! 🥳😍🌌
@@darkuniversesound Sometimes you've just gotta enjoy the moment! Playing it out in nature sounds awesome, I feel like it would work well in the desert or like a misty forest
hahaaa mine arrived yesterday - i feel this post already
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.
I love my Lyra and I love how the comment section on Lyra 8 videos always seem to be more philosophy/psychology/theology and less technical/gearhead than the usual comments on synths. It's really beautiful, as is the Lyra-8!
I've been thinking about getting one for ages. Your superb jam has just about convinced me!
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.
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!
Beautiful. I love the lyre 8 !
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.
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!
Awesome, enjoy!!
Oh man… at 11:00 when that interval just kept spreading I turned it up loud and then that bass HIT ME
best color green
Just ordered one in green!
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.
Thank you! It really is special, and it has enough touch sensors to imply a chord change or two if you’re slick 😉
@@Sound_ology I am definitely not slick.
@@StephenMcLeod hahaha
Very nice - thx ! Greetings from Lyra in Thailand 🎼
Enjoyed this a lot, thanks. Your listed reasons all appeal, and your piece for the second half is wonderful.
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 .
I haven’t explored the FM that much in terms of more deterministic playing. My workflow is generally kind of backwards for it because I always tune my oscillators with the FM off. Then as soon as I turn on the FM modulation everything moves to playing outside… This has me wanting to try to tune the oscillators with the FM on, very interesting comment, thank you for the inspiration!
If these sounds were implemented into a DAW with the use of feedback loop & sidechain compression via buses this could have a Ben Frost feel all over it.
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
I haven’t seen that movie! I’ll have to check it out
awwww crap now I want.....I mean....NEED one ☠️😂🔥
Excellent information! I have a Tascam DP-008EX Portastudio that I record with. (I am DAWLESS) Would you know if the Lyra-8 would be compatible with a Portastudio? Thank you.
Oh yeah 100%
just about to get one (still no fkn idea what to do with it)
Can you just plug this into an amp, to play live?
hell yeah, I'd recommend a bass amp though because the bass register is awesome. Make sure to turn down the Lyra's output so it doesn't overload the amp input too much though.
That was fun!
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.
Yes! I consider the tuning process part of the fun of it, and it is more difficult than the actual playing of it. You can use your voice and harmonize with the existing notes, or use a different instrument, or even use a song, just tune the oscillators to fit in with the song, then turn off the music! Maybe I’ll make a video showing a bunch of different methods of tuning a Lyra, that would be really fun
@@Sound_ology That would definitely be helpful.
Hey! Just out of curiosity, does the 859 in your channel name signify that you’re in Central Kentucky?
No, it’s from a sci-fi book! I lived in East Tennessee for a while though, love it there
Great video thanks 👍
Awesome video 🖤
One more super solid in the beginning and I’d fu** my brain.
Don’t take me wrong…love the review. Thanks mate! 🤍
I like your wall of scoring sheets, is that stuff you're studying? or just for funky display!
Thanks! It’s mostly just inspiration-turned wallpaper for me haha
Does this quickly get pitchy when playing with other synths?
I find it works pretty well with other synths, even if the tuning is on the loose side. More than anything it just sounds thick. But once you get a piano or guitar involved you’ll probably want to use a tuner. Something about them seems to require tighter tuning, maybe because they stretch tuning in their own way
@@Sound_ology thanks. Even if you think e it up good with tuner does it get wonky with modulation?
Subscribed thanks
Is there a capacity to express technical virtuosity on the device?
Hm I suppose you could practice some crazy arpeggios on it or something…but I think the instrument is more meant for experimentation than mastery
@@Sound_ology I wonder how a finger drummer would play a Lyra-8.
@@robertsyrett1992idk, the attack time of the discs is a little slow for finger drumming, I could see someone doing a steel drum kind of thing with it though
there is a good video tutorial (series) on percussion with the lyra on youtube
Fuck. Yes.
super
Its as if the thing was breathing!!!!
Nice teeth. You must take good care of them.😊