The WILDEST Eurorack Delay: SOMA LYRA8-FX Demo

Being a demo of the totally bananas Eurorack Delay module that is the SOMA LYRA8-FX, descended from the almighty LYRA to bring liquid flange and self-modulated hellfire crunch to our modulars. LINKS IN DESCRIPTION ↴
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[@thedrumunkey8582]

What I really like about your vids is that even in the midst of crazy freakouts, there’s still always some sense of musicality behind it. It’s more “art” than most straight up demo type videos. But what I don’t like is how much your videos always end up costing me! 😜

[@andrewhuang]

oh yeah love these wild tones

[@mylarmelodies]

love your wild tones

[@jgrant12344321]

dads@@mylarmelodies

[@SorchaSublime]

I know this is an old comment, but if you're looking for a new module to do an episode of weird gear on, this is probably it. Either that or the new Pulsar 23 drum machine

[@thehugi44]

Great video mate! Its nice to see how they evolve. Love the time lapse and amazing demo obviously! =)

[@aikighost]

I was already thinking about adding one of these to my rack, youve kind of pushed me over the edge.

[@alcomatt]

Great demo! What a superb module

[@DivKid]

ooooft you lovely beast.

[@veith]

Great video! Bought the lyra.fx 8 some time ago and sold it again, because it sounded to dirty to m ears. Like you said while shapeshifting "sounds like sampled".. But now I kinda miss it because of that. Thanks for your lovely videos!

[@IvanovSergeyMusic]

Beautiful. I love the lyre 8 fx !

[@RedMeansRecording]

"ass-tonnes of vibe" - mylar melodies, 2019

[@CO5MA]

Excellent delay & demo! Thanks!

[@matthewy393]

this may be one of my favourite modular videos so far. this fuckin kills.

[@jbowmanmusic]

Awesome - Looking forward to watching this - Lyra 8 is my favorite instrument!

[@jbowmanmusic]

Having watched this, it is a great video. There are three delay modes on the Lyra 8 - "straight" (no modulation), hyper LFO modulation and self modulation - I spend 95% of my time experimenting with the first two, but you make the self modulation sound really cool here!

[@aidanvinum]

Thank you so much for this. I like how the Iteritas is out there hiding next to the Heat, trembling in fear no doubt.

[@midierror]

some great noises in this video... the LYRA8-FX made some great ones too

[@user-ry5zn3np8j]

That is wild. Something you might like is the Red Panda Tensor. I waited a long time for it to be in stock and it was well worth the wait. Kind of takes me back to the time when everything was new and novel to me - like the day many years ago when I got my first delay. The tensor is kind of similar to some of the sampling devices in eurorack - but also sort of delightfully simple/constrained. Best effect I've purchased in ages.

[@my4trackmachine]

That distortion sounds really good

[@markmccarthy3304]

Wow, great demo thank you.

[@EleniEliades_]

I've just gotten into Modular and NEED THIS SOMA MODULE ! Also will have to get the Planar Module so I can use it like a stick-shift Race Car driver and make it sound TwISTed-EEvIL ! You made this sound system perrrrfect . Great drones + Exciting Soundscapes,love this ~🔥🔥🔥🎹🐾💡👀🌟

[@DivKid]

"arse tonnes" the new unit of measurement we'll have to adhere to and stop messing with imperial and metric.

[@KVBaronetto]

Ace is the place!

[@churchofaggressiveaudio6498]

Good demo! 👍👍

[@caidurkan2916]

Hey man, loving the videos! It'd be cool to see you doing more building bits, in fact a video I'd enjoy is you going through all your modules and choosing 3-4 for a minimal but versatile rig (or whatever you'd use a 3 or 4 modules for given you have so many options) and then a larger more focused one like this video (But it is your channel so do as you please!). Keep up the good shit

[@stephengreco5115]

Nice rif from close encounters of the third kind on the pressure points! Lol. Great vid mate

[@robertsyrett1992]

I like the set up by the windows, it's much more open vibe.

[@Oboskop]

Haha the sounds of joy at min 12!! :D Cool demo

[@wadehathawaymusic]

No matter what I'm jamming I always seem to end up having something patched through the Soma and then just having that signal gloriously devoured for like 10 minutes....so much fun.

[@octaverecorder]

This is absolutely crazy this Lyra 8 FX! Your demo is so cool and I love when you say oh ooh ouh! it's communicative! Thanks!!! :)

[@RicHardTek]

00:05:53 => "Et voilà !" Good French ;) Thanks for this demo of the Lyra8-FX, this is an excellent product like all the products of this company, with those very particular unstructured/disorganized/distorted/deep sounds

[@miRrorimAge528]

THX for the Video, its very interesting 👌

[@LucasMarchal]

Nice one ! This is like the bigger, badass-er cousin to the humble WMD/SSF DPLR which also sounds awesome on drums. I gotta run more stuff through my Lyra 8 ! Having it in Euro is tempting though, just for the flexibility and immediacy (and CV!)

[@TAGWANDRACH]

Love mine Lyra FX in Black 😀

[@KrisBarton432]

You Sir are going to cost me a lot of money hahaha. Awesome Video!! You already inspired me to get the Moog trifecta (DFAM, M32, and Harmonicon), I have a Lyra. But now I feel I am about to fall into the Modular Abyss. This was an awesome video, Thank you \m/

[@techlab7]

so good!

[@fattyboombatty7736]

What's happened to our favourite eurorack influencer! Come back mylarmelodoes we miss you....

[@minefan722]

Music Easel + Gerald Donald, damn mate I love you

[@s-tonelab6323]

Some nice Karplus-Strong Synthesis Goin on over here!

[@teroniemi8133]

Oh how the following comment sounds weird 😀 but it’s so nice to see your hands. Why we bleep is great don’t get me wrong but videos like these really sparked the interest into eurorack when looking into the early videos of yours.

[@TomMadisonSoundsLewis]

Dooooooooooooooooooof. Sounds banging that.

[@brnsndwch]

3 years later : the lyra8-fx has fused into my rack, impossible to get it out

[@midnightsocean2689]

It's so rad, it blew all the color out of the first 2 and a half minutes of your vid. damn son, sounds like cosmic construction crew digging up the road at 4am. XD

[@verbenamusic]

It is becoming increasingly difficult to sus wheather it's you making a noise or a module. Lovely demo as per fella, nowt better than a Mylar vid in my subscription box

[@therealajahn]

Check out Tr-909+monotron delay elbows out. That video needs more love.

[@andrewgreaves56]

This video is everything I love about you. Why did you have to mix it with the Shapeshifter, I already bought that because of you?! Now my wallet is calling me again... naughty.

[@WW-ek6tm]

Hi mate! huuuhhh LoL Love this video! Totally vibin.

[@chedhead3278]

Heavens, that's some roaring twisted wierdness. Reminded me of : Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee. In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. While making sounds rather like you did here. Cheers Alex, awesome. :)

[@Calverhall]

Not sure Im dying for one myself, but a its another great video and demonstration as to be expected from you.

[@vapili]

OOH.. I'm so gonna eat pasta and ketchup for the rest of yet another month - because of you sir. GREAT review!

[@mrtessellate]

11 month and a rising credit debt later, as I was looking for a disto/delay module to complement my DFAM, I rewatched this. You should not be allowed to have so much fun on camera (with your clothes on). Brilliant

[@markmccarthy3304]

Sold.

[@andersborum9267]

10:35 is just sick sound .. would absolutely destroy the crowd if played live!

[@vibratemutate]

omg why does this sound so awesome? i have already enough delays ;)

[@dandykaufman2]

Wait that setting at 12:59 was perfect! 😢

[@dagoblinn2350]

Cool didnt know it came in eurorack

[@motormenace666]

Ace!

[@Digiphex]

It is probably more about what you did with the LYRA and that I like.

[@musictribetv9095]

Super nice... sonic youth goes modular at some points.

[@bengineer_the]

(As a modular noob) I am a little surprised at the lack of CV control on so many of the Lyra-FX controls.

[@BURG]

Fambient, haha, Ace! :D

[@rumblin_cynth_rampo374]

Oh dear watch out bank account. Crazy monster synth express train from hell at 26:40 I love it.!!!!

[@vovan5409]

Привет ! 😄

[@WiredBrain]

Blade Runner 2 OST at 15:38 ! Well it seems like it is a beast of a module !

[@CO5MA]

Wired Brain You’re right! 😀

[@SpiderofPnyx]

the Sunn O))) part killed me dead

[@distorson]

This is - wait for it - ace! Just wondering if do something wrong? But this seams to be the first module which can't find on modulargrid.

[@znolive]

Niiiice!

[@conceptdevices]

Just watched this after getting a Lyra 8FX, some great creative uses for me to follow, im puzzled as to what the LED jack plug is that appears in the delay output at 24:30, does it serve a purpose or is it just a visual thing?

[@KVBaronetto]

Not sure what's more impressive... the module, or the iPhone camera monitoring.

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

would be an instant buy in stereo. But again, you can get two)))

[@phosfiend]

bloody glorious thing - I think I'll take two for my two shapeshifters....

[@mylarmelodies]

oof, premium lofi!

[@madamelagent8520]

I'm having a really hard time choosing between this and a 4ms dual delay (+ an Optodist at some point)... Lyra8 is pretty wild but the lack of clock sync feels like it would be less tweakable in a live drum fest situation? HELP! 🙏

[@sergiosensation6]

This is my second video looking into eurorack systems and man, I think I’m making the transition to modular. Sounds are awesome! I was wondering if I can use the lyra8 fx module like a guitar pedal and use any external sound source like synth/ drum machine into it? Or do modules only work in a eurorack ? New to the modular world!

[@luciferforpresident]

yeah its possible. Score a input module and route anything into your modular

[@GNeuman]

You and Ashens should duke it out on who has the most expressive hands on youtube

[@TomGurion]

Great video of what seems like a brilliant module! One question though: what VCAs the shapeshifter? Is it the filter or the shapeshifter is always in percussion mode?

[@mylarmelodies]

It’s in percussion mode, except at the end, if I recall (filter to close the sound down)

[@TomGurion]

@@mylarmelodies thanks! Love how you review modules in a musical context and the system you prepared for this one sounds ace! ;-)

[@VCVRackIdeas]

Привет you too)

[@oscillosaurus]

Love the Mylar hoots, hollas and squarks of excitement. Not so much the the Doepfer bitchin'.... YEAH M8

[@mylarmelodies]

If you truly love someone, you can tell em when they done fucked up x

[@paulmorris1834]

are you going to do a video on the system 880?

[@DJfreddyfresh]

nice

[@AFinalForm]

Meant to ask this on one of your earlier videos, but are you running everything through the AH and RNLA as a matter of course? Is that for flavour or just to keep a handle on the levels? Or both? I do basically the same thing (Heat on the master and into an RNC) and it's pretty sweet, just wondering if that's a thing you do on all your videos now.

[@mylarmelodies]

Not as a rule at all, but I wanted to try it on the live rig (see next upcoming vid especially) - it’s ideal to take as little as possible to gigs as you’ll know but then it’s also really nice to have a bit of a ‘mastering’ polish - Noticing that on the Digitakt, when you make your pattern it sounds great, but when you add the built in compressor, it’s like, oh, yes that definitely is better.

[@AFinalForm]

mylarmelodies the Machinedrum is like that as well. Sounds really different & much more finished when you add the internal compressor

[@eduardszilagyi1926]

Thanks for great video! Could you please let me know which drummachine are you using in your eurorack?

[@mylarmelodies]

System 80 880!

[@stonedapesociety5628]

Subscribed at 17:40

[@sebastianrichter9008]

Great! :/ Now I have to consult my therapist again for upcoming GAS... :D

[@sebastianrichter9008]

That's such an awesome demo...!

[@256k_]

those chords.... omg...

[@emilyschmanks]

0:56 tripod from war of the worlds

[@moket808]

ace

[@sashetasev505]

Would love to hear your thoughts on the Analog Heat 2. Somehow seems too clean and neat for the Mylar sound :))

[@mylarmelodies]

No it’s a dirty bastard, if you want it to be! Lovely filter as well, obvs

[@digitalvamp]

What was the black module bottom right second from last

[@digitalvamp]

Oops sorry watched it from the middle…irs pressure points

[@nugravityzm]

Здоров!))))))

[@jpaton9340]

"someone get me a hood, some dry ice and a case of red wine"

[@wingoshack]

Goddamn those are some beautifully disrespectful sounds.

[@RichardLacyMusic]

Now that's rather tasty. Let's have one directly.

[@mylarmelodies]

Come and have a play

[@TheRealPodgy]

Judging by your non-verbals, perhaps a splash-guard might be your next module? ;)

[@snakeheadseth1932]

uwgh, I need 7

[@fabiancortes6255]

C'est beau ca.

[@MrPeyghman]

did you change the knobs on the LYRA8 ? Those ones look ACE !

[@mylarmelodies]

It’s how it came!! Not sure how it’s all shaking out in one shipping now?

[@MrPeyghman]

@@mylarmelodies well I wanted to order one after seeing your vid, but those white plastic knobs kinda turned me off www.gear4music.fr/fr/Enregistrement-and-ordinateurs/SOMA-Laboratory-LYRA8-FX-Module/2HFK?origin=product-ads&gclid=Cj0KCQiAheXiBRD-ARIsAODSpWOulMqRXGDW1vh9OwKk821yEnsdB8DrC7XFMMVfzZ638vAbFFuFzLIaAtZ1EALw_wcB

[@mikeyvranek9710]

I don’t know if it would turn into a giant mess but did you try hooking it up to the BIA??

[@mylarmelodies]

Not yet! Would be a thing.

[@degoyen]

16:56 very Rony Size

[@TheMightycoco]

So when did you stop making reviews on modules? I'm really missing this :) There is so much stuff, I've bought because of you.

[@AFinalForm]

SO MUCH RACK ENVY

[@exitritual]

I love wonky noise. The usability of this thing is through the roof.

[@0b11000100]

Hi. 😁

[@kidkique]

Watching this gives me arthritis