Soma Lyra-4: The most brutal synth ever made
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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When Soma announced they'll be releasing the Lyra-4 I immediately subscribed to buy two of them for a stereo set up. The experience has been brutal. These are not synths for the soft crowd. These are beasts of expression. Every touch sensor hides a Titan and they are all fighting in a claustrophobic dark place for domination. What a brutal synth.
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With the 8 I like to set some of the voices to brutal things and others to something smooth, fragile and haunted. It gives a dynamic space to both parts, I love it. Then sometimes I turn it up and just play the delay for 30 mn hahaha. Those drones, DAMN, and with the modulation they sing ! I love the treble noise coming out of the BBDs in the delay, it is beautiful !!!
Been very tempted to get one of these, almost bought one for Lucia for Christmas. Nice to hear this here.
did you get the 4 or the 8?
It sounds like a trainwreck slowed down to it’s grains then chopped and screwed minus the lean , guy a large sound system would cause heads to vaporize.
A very normal mayhem synth😊
Great work!
I've been deliberating between the 8 or the 4 to accompany my Pulsar-23, ever since Sona announced this.
Your demo shows what an incredibly powerful synth the 4 is.
Particularly if you use 2!
Many thanks for sharing.
Subscribed!!
That sounded insane. Really cool, I honestly didn't expect it to sound so heavy. Now I really want one. Or two.
How about three?
This has definitely enough power to shake the core of the Earth. Love it!
La meilleure façon de faire vibrer la lyra-4
Yes it's amazing. I have the 8 and it's like both a volcanic system and a celestial. Why did you go for two 4s instead of an 8? I love the dual modulation loops in the 8 (1/2+3/4 and 5/6+7/8) and also you can activate a switch to connect both loops (4 to 5 and 8 to 1). This gives amazing intermodulating. (Ah now I remember you use each to different channel. I guess different approaches. Do ride the waves!)
Well, like you said, with 2x Lyra-4s it's like having a stereo Lyra-8.
@ethermod307 I guess it's choosing between the richness of two intermodulating loops as in Lyra-8 or 4 voice loops for each channel. BTW when you play do you usually plan anything in the configuration before? I really prefer to be surprised by whatever is configured today and record the arising.
@@Chaostar316 To be honest I knew one day that I would get a Lyra-8, it was a matter of time. But I work often with 2 instruments in a stereo system so when they announced the Lyra-4 (with a special price for two) it was a no-brainer. About planning before I play. No I don't plan anything. I just jam and try to experience the instrument. When I have something interesting I will press record. I have 20+ years experience in improvisation though which makes the whole process smoother.
I have a Lyra-8 and have thought about having two of them, or two Lyra-4s, or the same reason you cite: the ability to spread sound from the instruments to dual mono or an approximation of a true stereo field. I have been fond of the Lyra-8 and have used it with Eurorack (using the pin-adapter and a V-trig to S-trig converter) for a couple of different finished tracks. My fondness for the Lyra-8 over time has diminished somewhat, not because of its sound, but because: (1) inadequate external CV inputs, and (2) no line outputs per channel or per group (1&2, 3&4, etc.). I really would love to dial in the exact amount of attack and decay of each voice independently (i.e. some plucked sounds, some very slow attack, etc.), and not be restricted to carefully controlling the amount of figure pressure for each sensor plate. That said, every time I think about selling my Lyra-8, I imagine its absence would bother me, especially given that it's actually an instrument with a low price for the amount of voices it gives you. Even just using one or two channels of a Lyra-8 or Lyra-4, with as much external modulation as it will allow, has the potential to add a substantial contribution to a mix.
Interesting what you said about compositions which are different for each stereo channel. Can you recommend something? Thanks
How is the Lyra 4 more brutal than the Lyra 8?
good point, it's the same synth isn't it?
@ no, it’s not the same synth
I wanted to hear Jump. What a useless box.
terrible song, I prefer bon jovi ;)
@@ethermod307 Yes. Maybe Runaway. Is this box conductive of human metal particles inside the bloodstream?