My Favourite Synth Of ALL TIME???

[@signal-sounds]

The delay section is also available as a stand-alone Euro module!

[@NothingNowhereNoOne]

Yes. But when you try and utilize the gain on it, it sounds like shit.

[@sodothehivesonhisleg]

Also there's really not enough CV on it for the size it is sadly

[@ZenMountain]

It sounds absolutely fantastic, you crazy, dull persons.

[@sonickitchen]

There comes a point in a Lyra session where it feels like the synth is playing you. It's quite a feeling but then, there is that rare mystic spot where there is no player, no synth, just mysterious sonic magic.

[@KevinPrice]

In Soviet Russia synthesizer device plays YOU!

[@breadwarandcircus]

God I love Lyra. She is the best puzzle ever.

[@JP_Idols_of_Torment]

The reason I come to the internet is to watch Christian totally get excited and start punching the air when 48 oscillators give him a big synthy hug. As we say in Canada: “yer a freakin beauty”. Love this channel, you, and Spitfire. Cheers.

[@christopherpederson1021]

I just dropped my potatoes and split my pants picking them

[@MusicFillsTheQuiet]

Lyra has been on my wish list for a while now. One day I'll have one!

[@patrykscelina]

Hi Christian. Is there any chance you put that back somewhere, since it's gone from Pianobook ? Perhaps there are more people like me, a bit late to the party :)

[@reddenstudio]

I couldn't help but smile when these things engaged. Awesome!

[@keiththeodosiou]

I must admit that I would be at a loss trying to make music with these BUT they do look and sound bloody awesome!!

[@DavidMorley]

I had one for a while. Drove me nuts. Fantastic and unique but chaotic

[@composerjohn]

Amazing synth. Bought one in January and use it all the time!

[@macronencer]

"Forty-eight oscillators? That's madness." "Madness? THIS IS SOMA!"

[@brianobush]

The Lyra 8 and Pulsar 23 are my favorite synths. I have had both for a while, but they are still not tamed in my mind.

[@gregbradshaw7220]

It helps having the ornament and Lyra adapter

[@unisonosc1617]

I love this, 6 of them is pretty nuts. I had two at once before. I think just multitracking one is more practical. LOL

[@philh27]

The stuff of twisted, fevered nightmares. In a good way, obviously!

[@VincentSteenstraToussaint]

Hi Christian, I'd love to hear about your archival process. How do you go about storing old projects once you finish them? Do you save stems only or keep copies of running projects? How many versions do you save? Do your archives vary across film, tv, and game projects? I'm very interested in hearing your take on this. Cheers!

[@unisonosc1617]

"6 of them is out of all of our reach" - has analog solutions colossus in the back.

[@elowine]

A while ago I build a 50 oscillator synth in Reaktor after seeing the Solar 50. It purposely doesn't use keyboard tracking, you instead have to manually tune the oscillators just like the Lyra-8. Great way to create chords you wouldn't normally play on a piano. It also sounds massive :P

[@dorsia6938]

Are you Elowinz or is it just a similar name?

[@elowine]

@@dorsia6938 That isn't me :P

[@skipstream2]

Love this weird little synth. I have no fuc*ing clue why it does what it does sometimes though, but that's part of its charm. You can make it sound beautiful though. It doesn't have to sound bowel splitting all the time

[@citizennobody5518]

Piano Book set! You're a complete legend man thanks for all you do. Love this channel one of my favorites on youtube.

[@petercane6376]

Surely six freakin Lyra8's full on must be the most powerful synth in the Galaxy! I need 15" sub woofer head phones to take it.

[@jarls5890]

Christian - if a voice is set to "slow" the "hold" will activate those voices earlier than the "fast" voices. I.e. you do not always need to use coins. Simply set the voices you want to "drone with the hold" to slow and turn the hold up just until they start to go (about at 11 o'clock). The fast voices will only start going at 1 or 2 o'clock on the hold dial.

[@TomWinspear]

I've been wanting 2 or 3 of these for a good while. You certainly went all in!

[@TheNimasan]

look at my other comments, the lyra8 is my fav synth of all times!!! great video!!

[@marleenvos4126]

I have 1, but 6 droning away is just glorious...thank you so much for sharing the samples!

[@parboilrice]

Better than the exs library, can we sample this video? There are so many gold nuggets in it! Buildup....... (5:16) "We've got vibrato" ~ Drop!

[@DamienWise]

This is a good review. Sometimes it's difficult to control so it's better to just go with the flow. And nothing else sounds like it. Absolutely adore my Lyra-8.

[@studio48nl]

Not complete without a green and blue one 😆

[@7187]

Thank you Christian! I hope you'll do a Kontakt version

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

The ultimate Reese bass.

[@bigmanlizard7326]

sounds insane, as someone on a budget who wants to get as much sound possibilities out of a purchase im not sure id ever own one though.. but at doing what it does ive never heard anything like that

[@Antara755]

I think you can get this sound by putting a mic in a beehive 😁

[@MartinHeidenreichMusic]

Not sure what I like most: that badass drone or that view with the lake in the background

[@laidbackmedia]

Don't let him hear you saying lake

[@-l5905]

Thank you, great vid. Please give us more videos on ways to use the LYRA-8. Keep doing what you're doin', Love Ya.

[@awpMusic1]

amazing big sound - had never heard of this synth.

[@jonaseggen2230]

Check out Soma Synths other instruments to : ) somasynths.com/

[@jimsanger]

These days you can get pretty close to most synths with plugins, but the sound of this is something else

[@earanwe]

I played one for some days and for sure it is...

[@pdm67]

I love mine and have gigged with it a few times - quite tricky improvising by ear on it with a bunch of jazzers playing complicated changes but sometimes it worked :-) When I bought mine you had to be on a waiting list for months and I also bought a "kit" (PCBs and a couple of ICs) for a Lyra 8 and two for Lyra 4s but needless to say that the built unit arrived before I did anything with them. Your video gives me an idea to twin the Lyra 4s as a stereo instrument and maybe modify the modulation a bit.

[@MrTomDangerous]

I had a dental appointment yesterday and a tooth drilled and filled, and this video hurts more than that did. My new filling was starting to vibrate in sympathy with the Lyra's output.

[@justcellin]

What a filthy synth (s)!! Goodness me I think my core just got a workout. Not felt anything so earth quaking since a rocket car at a drag race.

[@lotleoregler6836]

I have the Lyra 8 and I love it. It's relatively easy to start as a beginner. Second it has a psyche and speaks with and about you. I use it with hologram microcosm and a orange guitar combo speaker. Just play the Lyra and Listen, no need to imitate another device, melody or whatever you like too. Cheers from Germany

[@robthefriend8725]

Having several of those in a line is my dream set up

[@alexandrelevy3916]

LOVE YOU!!!!

[@richardsomerville5725]

Reminds me when i saw Sunn o))) live .Drones to move ones bowels.Great work Christian.

[@areusmartinez8343]

Tú sintétizador favorito y el de cualquier ser humano que le guste hacer música electrónica.... Inalcanzable para mi bolsillo

[@camofilms]

I own a LYRA8, I SUBBED... YOU 117K, NOW GO NUTS!!!!

[@cornerliston]

“Six of them is out of all of our reach,” says the owner of a Synthi 100 clone : )

[@13opacus]

Beautiful!!!

[@SOULDIY]

A beautyful Drone. 🤪

[@joecantdance494]

Oh oh oh can we have a DecentSampler version, pretty please with knobs on

[@samferrell229]

Awesome. Very interesting sounds.

[@OoraMusic]

Loved this video A LOT

[@AdiGoldsteinComposer]

Absolutely amazing! Lyra 8 is one of my favorite instrument ever!

[@borislavvonberlichingen5394]

At 12:48 it sounds a bit like Ligeti music in A space oddyssey 2001.

[@raialice5118]

this is what i call a Artist !

[@danielbirchmusic]

I believe Clint Mansell used the Lyra on his latest score for Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth.

[@niallgregory]

That's really interesting.can you identify it clearly?

[@AndreaGiordaniComposer]

"NERDISM" at its best! And they are so beautiful. Makes you never take away your hands from them when they look and sound like that! And they are sampleeeed now! You legend, Christian. Thank you, as always! So exciting!

[@Missing_Lynx]

Is there a way to download this? It's not on pianobook anymore

[@sagereynolds]

Huge sounds!!!

[@BF-up5xw]

Thank you very much for the samples, and for providing a sterling example of boundless enthusiasm for us all to look at and say 'Nah, that's going too far!' (Or, more likely - 'He's livin' the dream!') I downloaded the EXS24 version for the samples and am playing them in Kontakt right now, with a different sample on each key just to make things less melodic and a bit of fun. I'll be trying these in Pigments 3 later, and then maybe Falcon 2. Marvellous! Thank you!

[@RyanHarris77]

Sounds better than a Solar 50!

[@BF-up5xw]

For an unofficial VST emulation, check out Mike Moreno's donationware LIRA-8. It's a lot of fun!

[@jonaseggen2230]

Fun to see that you got this jevel. Vlad is such a great mad scientist and more people should get to know about this synth in particular and Soma Lab in general. For anyone reading this. It is not to hard to make music and sweet sounds with it, and not only drones or sci-fi horror sounds. You must become a child again and forget loads of stuff you know about synths in general, but there are many videos on different ways to tame and use it, and with some experimenting with tuning you can play beautiful chords and probably psalms to.

[@mmoore4456]

Tragic that non-Apple users can't make the ESX24 file work, at least as far as I know. Will you eventually sample it for Kontakt, Christian?

[@TheCrowHillCo]

I’ll try and do a Kontakt version tomorrow.

[@mmoore4456]

@@TheCrowHillCo Thanks much, Christian. Getting a bit of Snakes of Russia vibe out of this sample. Sweet!

[@SomeoneCalledRob]

Software emulation available here: mikemorenodsp.gumroad.com/l/lira-8

[@jedgould5531]

8:09 I detest external power supplies. There’s a reason they are called wall warts. I finally broke mine down into clear food bins: 12V. More manageable when I pick through them. The entire electronics industry wants to save a buck instead of making their own power supplies, which were internal. The olden days, when you could simply plug a synth into the wall. Even the Moog One has a big ol’ wall wart. It’s enough to make me want to invent a time machine to go back to 2000, when wall warts were much less common. But doing so would take infinite…power.

[@devilliersn]

Amazing as always! Any chance of a Kontakt or DS version of the Pianobook EXS24 pack to be added soon (I know many have already been converted but not sure how to myself)? Much love from South Africa and keep on rocking Christian!

[@stuart_rose]

Bonkers! Brilliant! 🤓

[@tymaraist9729]

is the sample pack still available? the link is broken

[@morksugga9435]

I am saving for my first Lyra, and you got SIX ???? 😄

[@chi9396]

Looks Good for neuro reece basses .. or super saws

[@jorgefpramos]

Judging by the title I though you were finally going to make a video about the Deckard's Dream :D

[@tanksmoonchild]

OMG 😮 A 6 Lyra 8 mega drone!!!

[@kenb7540]

Love it 👏👍

[@humanerror3139]

I love the Lyra, not many people get it...... Sounds like its made. Wonderful like floating in the offshoots of Neptune.

[@TonyThomas10000]

Kind of reminds me of Mononoke by Bram Bos for the iPad.

[@MODERNDAYROCKERS]

DOPE

[@adamwieczorek7701]

Crazy, but aware od CERN effect 😮

[@duncanthompson957]

Check out Rossum Electro-Music’s Trident Eurorack module (and a few other complex/cascading oscillator modules all stacked together for a slightly slightly slightly more affordable and ‘playable’ (sort of) pandemonium device (= screaming of demons)…? For other mad scientist stuff have you checked out Australia’s Non Linear Circuits modules? Whack a few of those into the mix… Add a couple of AtoV Projects16n faderbanks, instead of keyboards and some ADDAC latching and non-latching gate button modules and you could make quite a nice little chainsaw slash angelic hellraiser standalone case! 🤫🧐🥸🤐

[@marcoshorus]

WOW

[@pedrobarrionovo]

Huge! ☕❤️

[@pjdahmen]

great

[@cubanheelsbeerbelly]

Sounds like a bunch of angry bees 🐝

[@StephenTallamyMusic]

Mummy!

[@Tom-kn3mg]

Reese bass to end all Reese basses

[@yuggothproductions]

Careful you don’t crack the Earth’s mantle with this!!!

[@Johnnybazakatone]

The King of freaks.. 6 lyra s

[@dialnfornick]

"bloody expensive and impossible to use" 🤣

[@valiumdupeuple]

Haha, a plant, 2 hands and a synth on a wooden table, how original that is Christian 😅 You forgot the overlayed oscilloscope.

[@Indianabones007]

Oh to have the money to at least buy the Jupiter! Dreaming is good for the soul though

[@thehowlingterror]

Is the OP-1 better?

[@jorgefpramos]

It is a totally different thing..

[@vinnieRice]

Jesus, they sound incredible... I need new trousers... Uh, interesting choice on the old shutter angle there mate :)

[@dafingaz]

Nice! Can't wait to dive in on these sounds! LOL. @dafingaz

[@PeteKowalsky]

Wow ... There need to be an epilepsy warning on this video ... This thing is giving me fits! 😎👍

[@PSILOCYBINISTHEWAY]

most english thing ever at 11:18

[@swwarms]

Someone call?

[@henrikfisch]

I already know Christian is a mad scientist ... but here's the proof of it. 😉

[@francescocorso3133]

Please make a kontakt version of this, it sounds so good!

[@Veptis]

Not really convinced from the result here. Maybe I didn't listen to them correctly

[@Herfinnur]

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to pilfer the sounds you've made here, and also try to make a perfect loop of frolicking Henson