Lyra-8 Drone Techniques - Three examples.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- 🎹 It's Lyra-8 Drone time! Today I cover my personal techniques for making this "Organismic" synthesizer scream and roar. Strap in and bring a subwoofer!
00:00 - Intro
01:45 - First Example
08:26 - Crazy Elephant Roars
10:39 - Second Example
17:00 - Conclusion
18:18 - Bonus Third Example
Here’s a fantastic playlist of Lyra-8 tutorials and explorations from “ambient moods”:
👉 • Soma Lyra-8 - The magn...
Link to a deep review of the Lyra-8 by Loopop.
👉 • Review: LYRA-8 explain...
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To me this is probably one of the best and most useful demos of the Lyra-8.
Thanks man! If you make some drones, be sure to share them! ;)
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!
Totally agree. Amazing demo and really beautiful sounds 👍
@@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.
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.
There are more than one opinion, but I thin mine seems reasonable.
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.
Agreed. I pull it out on Halloween and sit on my porch making shrieking noises at the trick-or-treaters! ;)
@@synthseeker hahaha perfect
Absolutely brilliant video on the Lyra8.
Its like owning a zoo in synth form.
Its deffo another planet.
Thanks again
Enjoy! It’s a simple idea and I’m glad it worked for you!
best lyra demo period
Thanks! High praise indeed!
True
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 ❤
Baby your synths and they will reward you. ;)
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!
Any time. There are other ways to play the Lyra..good ways, but this is my favorite. :)
Yes! Thank you for the inspiration. The subtle movements in the delay lines were epic.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for the different perspective,
Love it.
My pleasure!
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.
I love reading such enthusiastic replies! Your channel is excellent as well! Subscribed!
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
Awesome tutorial. Gotta be patient with this beast, part of the experience. Thx so much!
Indeed 100%! Thanks for the kind words!
Love it in that first example when you start bringing in the second higher pitched oscillator, things get deep, sounds fantastic
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!!
Definitely the best Lyra 8 tutorial on TH-cam, absolutely perfect!!
Thank you so much! Let us know what you make!
loved this!! thanks bunches, synthseeker!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Share any noses you make!
That sounds incredible!!
I'm glad you like it sir. :)
Great! Can’t wait to get home and try your approach to my Lyra😊
Please do! Share anything you record!
Wow! Amazing!
Thank you! It's nice to get good feedback! (Literally! Delay feedback! LOL)
I run mine through a Zen Delay so I can add additional filtering and warmth. Sounds amazing.
I’ll have to give that a try…
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.
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.
Enjoy!
Incredible!!! This gave me new inspiration with my LYRA. Thank you!
No problem! Thanks for saying you liked it. :)
Fantastic!
Glad you liked it!
I just love this thing
It's pretty mutual. :)
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
Thanks! Let me know if you publish any videos of your own explorations. :)
great demo, thank you so much.
Have fun with the Lyra!
marvellous!!
Thanks!
Great insights and some lovely moments in there
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!
That sounds so good!
Thank you!
Awesome demo/jam/tutorial. What a beast !! 👏👍
Thank you! Have fun!
8 minutes in and I’m literally getting shivers ❤
Rawr? ;)
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
Have fun with that!
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!
I’m glad you’re pleased! Enjoy! 😉
Excellent video! I never understood Lyra until seeing how you use it... now I get it. Now I want it.
Well I'm pleased you enjoyed it and sad that I facilitated your addiction. :P
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.
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! th-cam.com/channels/OAH2OYJF7Bi7HcjoyGPDHQ.html
The only tutorial Lyra owners need! Thx for share...:)
You're welcome!
Very inspiring. Thank you!
Have fun!
Great demo, fantastic insights
Thanks I hope you make something awesome from it. :)
great demo!!
Thanks!
Fantastic. One of the best demos on TH-cam. It makes me want to get mine fired up and get going again (been distracted of late as just got a Pulsar)
Thank you so much! Be sure to record what you make and let us know how it goes!
Lot of thanks for your amazing teach . Great tips!
My pleasure! Hav a great weekend!
Supr helpful. Thanks!!
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful instrument.
Very good Luke, always.
👍👍👏👏
Thank you!
Really cool take on it
Thanks. Many ways to skin the cat…that one is mine.
Just got a Lyra-8 and this is the first video that gets me that excited! Thand you!!
Glad I could help! Share what you make!
@@synthseeker I'll record one of my jam then ;)
@@synthseeker Watching your video again reproducing everything with my lyra to get ready for ma jam session tomorrow, it's really great. Thank you.
Superb sounds.
Thank you kindly!
Awesome thanks!
Thanks!
Very inspiring, thank you so much!
Hope it helps!
this is awesome, i have a lyra8 for almost a year now but couldnt get it to be organic, best tutorial
I’m glad you found a method you enjoy! Have fun!
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.
Thank you for the kind agreement! Be sure to come back and share what you make with yours!
This is great
Rawr!
Great!
Balls of fire! Thanks!
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!
Get yer growl on. :)
Amazing
Glad you found it so! :)
Cool video, love the Lyra, definitely on my wishlist.
It's an odd duck, but a lot of fun!
WOW !!! Amazing !!!🤯
Thank you!!
Great demo of what this thing can do! I like it!
Excellent! ;)
So agree with u. Good vid💚✌️
Thank you kindly! Have a great week!
Nice! thx!
Welcome!
Great advice/ideas. I’m going to dust mine off tonight! Thanks for posting. 😊
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.
Sounds very Lustmord in space. Pure awesomeness.
I have an orange one and you're right - each one sounds just a little different.
I like those “alert” orange ones. :)
Great sound. Thank you for sharihg.
That you for saying so!
Very appreciated!
Glad to help!
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
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!
You are welcome. ;)
Great video!! So helpful.
How’s the Lyra?
@@synthseeker so much fun. I followed your approach. It’s a monster. It’s the most dreamy synth I’ve ever experienced.
it really helps to put huge knobs on the ones you use the most for really fine adjustments
That's a great idea!
I just got one this week & wow definitely going to use these tips
Have fun!
God, this is amazing! I have one of these - and you gave me a completely different perspective on the Lyra - fantastic, mate!
Glad it helped! Have fun!
Beste Lyra8 Demo ! Sehr gut !
Danke Herr Betrachter!
This video convinced me.
I'm so sorry. :P
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.
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!
@@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.
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!
Thanks! Be sure to share what you create with us!
Oh yeah 😊
I’ve taken mine through space and back. Fun video 👍🏼
Hey thanks for the kudos. Have fun!
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.
Be sure to hit record and share your creation! Love to hear it!
What a great Video…gave me the perspective I needed to approach the instrument properly. Thanks kindly
Well, I mean....this isn't the ONLY way to use it, but it's the way that I enjoy the most.
@@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
@@glenlabuc8508 Thanks!
Amazing textures for movies soundtrack.
Good idea!
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.
Glad it helped! :)
I'm working on some sound design and revisiting this video has been very helpful! :D
Already used your primer in my live jams. Indispencinle!
Excellent and thank you!
mate that was sick, subbed
Thank you citizen!
@@synthseeker my Lyra just landed, thanks for putting this up. Absolutely unholy sounds. Much respect mate
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!
I use it mainly at Halloween.
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
No problem! Enjoy!
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 :)
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!
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.
Two! You got the first and decided it needed a friend?! ;)
@@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.
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. 🙏🏻🔊👽
Rolls eyes at the pun. Lol!
Absolutely brilliant, one of the most musical and interesting Lyra-8 demo out there 👏
Thanks! I think it's a little slow at times, but it gets the job done. :)
@@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.
@@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)
@@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: th-cam.com/video/TnXbR5hswm8/w-d-xo.html
@@synthseeker Cool thx ! Is there pitch shifting involved then (+12 ??)
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.
My motto is “buy more synths”. ;)
Awesome, playing the knobs, love it. Recently purchased The Pipe from Soma, similar deal, so much sonic exploration to enjoy :)
Nice! I'm glad you're having fun in general. :)
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 :)
I’m sorry for your repetition. Good luck!
Great vid! I think it's safe to say that when experimenting with the Lyra-8, always record it.
I approve that message!
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.
I hope you have a great time making it roar! ;)
well, don’t expect it to do what you want. rather let it do you instead ;)
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.
I’m glad you found it useful! Thanks for the feedback!
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.
Have you done a video showing your methods? Love to see it!
@@synthseeker Nah, not yet. Honestly, I feel like I'm a newborn still dealing w the L8!
Nice brother!
Thanks a lot!
@@synthseeker my pleasure!
I was always like, "yeah I love that synth." Now I'm like "I'm off to buy this monster!" Amazing work!
I take no responsibility for people over-spending on synths. :P
Well...maybe a little. (Guilt.)
lol I hope your narts are ok after that rumble! Such a badass unapologetic synth. Definitely its own creature. Nice drones too, subbed!
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…
It makes a huge difference when you can *feel* it.
Lovely demo , once sold my Lyra , after seeing u play it I wanna buy one again 😄
Tragic! Good luck!
I bought one for a friend but kept if at my place for a few months. When it was gone I missed it so much I had to buy another one for myself.
In the mean time my new black Lyra 8 is here since a couple of months and feels right at home again 🏁🙌
This is a pattern I see.
Congrats.
Haha, "but wait, there's more" at 3:27 - you weren't lying :) I made a few happy faces throughout the video.
Yeah, the annotations have a mind of their own at times. :)