LYRA-8 improvisation by Vlad Kreimer (ART-AURA 2017)

Free improvisation on LYRA-8 by Vlad Kreimer (LYRA creator)
www.somasynths.com

[@joannawhite1841]

Thank You Vlad Kreimer for such an important and amazing instrument that the Lyra-8 is. I am a 74 year young woman and appreciate what a blessed gift you have provided me with, in the lyra-8. Your work is providing a clearing of space for expressions of hope, peace, sadness, and grief in such a troubled world... I think that you are a prophet in the nonlinear, changing with your instrument's voices, our existence in this world for the better. I remain always amazed and grateful for your time and work for us in this most important matter. Thank You.

[@DarthScrotum]

I just bought a lyra 8 as my birthday present and am absolutely blown away by its bizarre sonic landscapes. I own a lot of synths and other instruments which i love but the way its sounds are touching me is hard to describe in words. With the turning of one knob from sheer harmonic beauty to twisted desolate industrial sonicscapes. Its some sort of deeper interaction going on when i play it for a while, maybe something like synchronizing with the flow of the machine and vice versa. You, Mr.Kreimer are a genius. Thank you.

[@LesterH25]

I’ve bought one. When I’m 98 and I’m a care home It will be my life support system. Even if I have arthritis Lyra will be making me laugh, cry and get trippy!!

[@Taka_Takata]

Great video, performance, setting, people leaving... I love it. I prefer this to 99% of the electro beat "live jamming" videos on KZbin.

[@gnarlysoundscapes7210]

Yeah, most synth people just leave one monotonous sequence running for 5 minutes while they twiddle the filter knob a little. Drives me nuts.

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

Gnarly Soundscapes , I guess Tangerine Dream is not your band :/ their sequences were running even longer :)

[@gnarlysoundscapes7210]

@@MarkoDeLaVoota I'm not that familiar with them, but the few of their tracks I've heard, they had a lot more going on than the average KZbin jammer. Repetitive sequence but with lots of trippy/dreamy sounds on top of it... or no sequence at all and just trippy/dreamy sounds. I dig that. It's just jammers who make a rocking techno sequence but don't know what to do with it that annoy me. They just tentatively poke at one knob and I'm thinking "argh, that synth has a keyboard and 20 other knobs on it, and you haven't touched any of them!" xD

[@Ian-gw2vx]

@@MarkoDeLaVoota Then you haven't heard their very early albums. Exactly that. Gnarly soundscapes.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

People leaving means you've touched a soft spot. It's a very good sign, but not a $ sign.

[@impurfekt]

So it's a Silent Hill machine. Sweet...

[@DECIMA1]

Or a blade runner machine? ;)

[@vaspers]

Fantastic performance, working that Lyra-8 as a mighty roaring noise machine. So many user demos are so sedate, almost like they're afraid to get wild on it, just simple drones, playing like an organ, but you show that Lyra-8 is so much more.

[@mellotrongurl8275]

Very well said Steven Streight, I couldn't agree more!!!

[@AudioPervert1]

Amazing and truly strange synth. We used it at a seminar and residency in 2017 and people were just blown at the ambience, subtlety and sonic dimensions of the Lyra.

[@rishindoshi4383]

I can't believe my ears. I can't believe this sound came out of an analog synth.

[@danielraiche9462]

what a performance!! thank you for your dedication and efforts for inventing this amazing instrument Vlad & Soma Lab!

[@christianlewislyon]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!Great job VLAD !

[@michaelkonomos]

Thank you for inventing this beautiful instrument. Now that I have one I understand just how special and unique it is.

[@ethermod307]

Amazing performance! This is the true nature of real instruments. Wild.

[@IvanovSergeyMusic]

Beautiful. I love the lyre 8 !

[@LondonSoundDimension]

In my own youtube channel I'm trying hard to make it sound that good, nowhere near you Sir! What an amazing and inspiring machine, I will always include it in my own sets and productions as a testament to what you've done.

[@indiefilmandmusic]

Awesome. Love it!!

[@gustavorosas4302]

The perfect surreal synthesizer, that's why the random sounds..

[@joanofworms]

from one box came the voices & sounds - brilliant :) Thank you - Peace to you & yours :)

[@gnarlysoundscapes7210]

4:46 Someone's phone rings. -Lyra begins making demonic horror noises.

[@jonaseggen2230]

Lyra 8 can be as sweet and mellow as a slow spring, a troubled and angry horror film, or mad and funny as a manic pixie dream girl.

[@shellosis2012]

Wow!!!! this is so awesome

[@yobkiss]

Master at work

[@noizeguerilla9136]

I have this at home, lovely peace of art! It really got a life and will of it's own, but the journeys it takes you on are beyond good or evil...

[@haxanlord]

Sick. Very soothing.

[@brianhernandez3749]

I cant wait to have this in my studio! 2 weeks until it arrives

[@immersiveworlds]

Wow, outstanding!

[@powermix24]

Amazing instrument! just got one. Thanks for this amazing device, nothing like it.

[@grindedfranz]

drive max :D lovely dude! Thank you so much for sharing this machine with us!

[@christinewebster3136]

Brilliant !

[@tb-303devilfish8]

I love that the Lyra 8 gives itself a slow clap at the end.

[@gnarlysoundscapes7210]

Amazing sounds.

[@brianreilly6545]

The creator🙌🏻 so cool to see, thx!

[@mixerinc]

Sensational

[@CymaluX]

Bravo!

[@amarjitmalhi7259]

I'm not too sure what happened then. At very few times i'm speechless, this is one of those.

[@BrawnyBeats]

My PCBs have arrived today, and I'm loking forward to building and using this unique beast of a synth.

[@denniboger6581]

Brilliant.

[@Snudedude]

Vlad Kreimer playing the LYRA-8 is actually the man who designed it!

[@christoroppolo8742]

I love this thing ! It’s a sound designers dream. It’s on my list . 👽👽🕺🕺✌🏻✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻🛸🛸🐕🐕🎶🎶👏🏻👏🏻🙏🙏🔦

[@noiseentropy]

Incredible machine. I'm into wild noise and unconventional sound. I need Lyra 8 !

[@pieissodelicious]

lovely

[@pantalalabs]

oh my !!!

[@gnarlysoundscapes7210]

Nothing else in the world sounds like the Lyra-8. I really need to buy or build one.

[@synthanatomy]

Beautiful drones :)

[@alessandropaglia2812]

looove it|

[@nicolas39562]

Гениально

[@RyanHarris77]

I love the drone tones this thing is capable of creating. Does the effects processor glitch at 10:28?

[@Wagoo]

The crapping at the end is great hehe

[@quinxx12]

So he actually managed to trap Cthulu inside there?

[@MarianoAlesandro]

Vlad, how would you go about syncing the Lyra-8 and a Korg Volca Drums?

[@Symmetry77]

When do I get mine ;p

[@daneguitarist1]

fuckin fresh! come to kansas! i got your first whiskey

[@Lea_Der_777]

Весьма любопытный дрон, как впрочем и остальные Ваши разработки, Влад - хорошее дело несёте в мир) Но только одного по Лирам не совсем понял на сайте, а именно по аргументам отсутствия функций миди.. Т.е. с увеличением цены понятно конечно, но вот про звук - дословно не помню, но суть примерно такова: "Для добавления функций миди, придётся полностью пересмотреть схематику, что повлияет на звук аппарата.." но через пару строк озвучен вариант использования Лиры по средствам внешних миди-сиви конвертеров.. Т.е. я к чему - а нельзя встроить миди-сиви конвертер внутрь Лиры, не переводя всю схему на DCO и т.д.? Создание конвертирующего узла с прошивкой, это конечно, дополнительные производственные затраты, а соответственно и итоговая цена будет выше, но зато, при полной сохранности аналоговой производной, функционал аппарата позволит пользователям не ломать голову в поисках дополнительных внешних устройств, с которыми, например, на рынке СНГ не очень-то и роскошно обстоят дела по ассортименту.

[@akissparaskevopoulos]

Did you use any reverb? Or just the on board delay ?

[@somasynths]

Just the on board delay

[@FinnBaygan]

top. are we going to see you at frankfurt musikmesse this year?

[@somasynths]

may be, but not promise now i spend all my time to production, so have no to the rest at the moment.

[@FinnBaygan]

of course!

[@planet3333]

hello I am on the waiting list for a Lyra 8, but I have 1 beginner question, as I want to play music in specific tunes such as 432 hz and all the solfeggio notes such as 528 hz etc. Is the Lyra 8 able and easy to tune into one of those tunings? Do I need any scaling controllers to plugin in order to be clear about the tuning notes?

[@alanbg2278]

i'm waiting too and have some of the same interests but why bother ? the philosophy is "listen to yourself". Maybe this instrument will enable us both to discover new cadences, new sonic relationships ? Just intonate ! Hope it works for you

[@planet3333]

Alan BG yes thanks, I agree :)

[@DayflightTrok]

Amazing

[@DayflightTrok]

PlanET 333 I think no

[@UnderSeaShadow]

check out the review by sonicstate... it's pretty comprehensive.

[@laurencevanhelsuwe3052]

Impressive machine... can't think of any conventional synth that comes close

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

start of a rocket ?

[@KeruxLand]

When the titanic sank, it made all these sounds..................................................

[@albertopicciau9934]

This is how it should be played, still the best performance on Lyra 💣

[@wlacsilbalazs]

The best is Depth protocol, but this comes after that.

[@dlynch8668]

7:00 str8 up metalshop

[@tomlovelight2376]

How does this work with a drum machine, can you use forexample the Gates out from drum machine to gate in to LYRA 8?

[@SONICrider]

That machine, thing, being called Lyra 8 changed me a bit, a lot, a....... The Lyra 8 story continuous..... with "kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5zRnJ6snt2Mn5I (thanks Vlad for creating tools that inspire and sound beyond the horizon)

[@valerianorlov1888]

Целая лаборатория в коробочке)

[@Snudedude]

At 5:28 someone couldn't take the horror anymore.

[@adamantiuscloudcat1799]

Merzbow

[@SGLP93]

I need new ears.

[@ozowizo37]

so whats the improvisation here? This box just does that. Poor poor poor

[@mgscheue]

It does not “just do that”.

[@ozowizo37]

@@mgscheue it does.

[@mgscheue]

@@ozowizo37 Mine doesn’t do that by itself. Maybe I should return it.

[@ozowizo37]

@@mgscheue try the power on switch, fiddle some knobs and you should be fine. Else try to return it and get a DX7.

[@mgscheue]

@@ozowizo37 Inevitably, when someone is critical of someone else’s content, they have nothing of their own.

[@ferdinando977]

Sperimentazioni fatte da Stockhausen negli anni 50\60.......... sono passati 50 anni . Ripetere è solo Nostalgia.

[@olegsugako7787]

Апокалиптическая вонь ! Проглотив радиомикрофон , или смыв его унитаз возможно результат был бы много убедительнее ! Все этих творческих гениев тянет в какой то грязно липкий кошмар ! А потом хвалят это , анализируют , и хорошо хоть не нюхают (нос точно не обманеш ! .....а вот уши обманывать научились ! ) грустно это всё , а ещё более позорно, всякое ,,Г,, на публике демонстрировать ! АФФТАР ВЫПЕЙ ЙАДУ !!! 😆