#1100

It’s certainly interesting but doesn’t appear to be the most flexible? Hard to do that in an analog standalone box though.

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#1101

Seems like the delay alone is going to make an interesting 30 years underwater dub machine…

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#1102

Definitely niche, but it sounds nice doing the thing it does.

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#1103

I haven’t explored the DOD Rubberneck feedback I/Os and Strega has reminded me of that :smiley:

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#1104

Strega is some sort of witch in Italian, right? That explains the leprechaun/witch emojis they were using earlier :slight_smile:

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#1105

With external input, noisy tuned pt2399 delay(s), touchplates gives some lyra-8 vibes, but with CV for everything and complex mono-voice.

I think it is manufacturing cost, but utilizing the same delay again in a new machine is not that inspiring, there is a ton of pedals and modules that are based on it, and it has its character. Giving there are original unusual effects from Make Noise it is somewhat dissapointing.

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#1106

It’s a little hard to glean all the details from that video, usually I like to read the manual but strangely its not listed on the Make Noise site

#1107

I guess I see it as an entry in the lineage of standalone glitchy drone machines (blippoo box, lots of ciat-lonbarde, Lyra-8, etc.) To me flexibility is not really the game for that lineage. It’s more along the lines of selecting a handful of components that have interesting non-linear interactions with each other, and coming up with a compelling way to help users play those non-linear interactions. For my taste, what’s especially intriguing about Strega is the balance they seem to have found between intuitiveness (and simplicity) and depth.

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#1108

yes it means “witch” literally

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#1109

Does it have one oscillator or two? It looks interesting, but the demo wasn’t too impressive. For the same price ballpark, the Lyra-8 seems nicer. I’m looking forward to the MN demo tomorrow and reading the manual. I have a a 0-Ctrl and 0-Coast, and love both, but I’m not sure this does anything unique from what I already own. Keeping my mind open though–I love the form factor.

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#1110

Great way to put it. The accessibility and ability to integrate it into an already present euro system will make it a great point of entry into those other worlds. The touch plates don’t seem super expressive or exploratory enough to me, more of a test a connection before just patching it. Holding out for something like the ENNER for personal sonic alchemy :slight_smile:

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#1111

Make Noise Strega.

0-Coast sized desktop unit. Complex oscillator + delay (with filter on the feedback path with it’s own looping envelope). Capacitive patching. External input with overdrive.

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#1112

I’m not sure if Lyra is nicer. The focus of the instrument seems different, on the effect section rather than on the massive drones of the 8 oscillators.
The CV control also opens its delay more than Lyra’s delay.
The price 8s daunting I must say.

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#1113

Lyra’s in a completely different league imo

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#1114

Sure, different instruments, but the Lyra 8 has the 8 oscs plus a dual PT2399 delay + overdrive and a dual logic lfo. It covers similar territory–playable drones through lo-fi delay. I’d just consider the Lyra-8 if someone is thinking about drone machines in that price range. It’s a great instrument, and Strega may be as well.

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#1115

When I saw the video I also had to think of the Lyra also the sound has a bit of the same character probably due to the same delay chip.
It’s a kind of 1 voice sequenceable Lyra.
Definitely going to finally try to make use of the CV input on my Lyra

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#1116

I like the concept of it, and I loved much of the results. And I like the name :wink: and the form factor. I feel like it is an instrument aimed at my heart (and wallet), but I have a lot of conflicting thoughts.

For guidance through the conflict, I am going to rely on my 2021 pledge not to buy any desktop synths or FX. With that, I can step back and see that I can (and do) get a similar range of sounds from my existing gear and I don’t really lack for inspiration there either. Time will tell though, if I find myself trying to make room for a Strega in 2022 or so :slight_smile:

Re: PT2399: it’s possible there is more going on than just the raw chip and the character’s a bit different than we’ve seen in other instruments. (It’s also possible that’s not even the chip, though it seems like the most likely candidate when he said “karaoke delay.”) To me, it seems like a lot of noise and sometimes that’s very welcome, but I can easily see myself wishing I could cut it back by 2/3 while keeping the same overall character? And maybe that’s doable (especially with the filter that was mentioned) but we didn’t see it much in the demo, or notice.

(Come to think of it, in the Instagram livestream there were some lovely drone textures that weren’t very noisy at all; it could just be the oscillators were being modulated just so but maybe the delay can be calmed somewhat as well.)

Re: Lyra-8: it’s a lovely instrument and I found it inspiring, but also it has a very dominant personality. You either have to work to file the edges off and make it fit with other instruments, or just let it have its way. It is definitely an instrument, but not quite a synthesizer really. I made an album that featured it, but I also grew a bit weary of it and traded it for a Polyend+Dreadbox Medusa and don’t regret the decision. I will credit the Lyra-8 for making me fall in love with touchplate controls though, and that love continues in different form with the 0-Ctrl and Microfreak.

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#1117

I’m really interested to see more demos / @walker & pete explorations of the touch plate patching (as well as adding 0 ctrl into the mix). The way the touch plates are laid out on the Strega is definitely a unique way to interface with the instrument and something i’d love to see more of in eurorack

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#1118

The Monotron Delay (though obviously a much more limited / inexpensive instrument) also has a similar architecture: Analog oscillator & external input into an analog filter and PT2399 delay, with the feedback of the delay routed through the filter.

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#1119

Just to get the delay specs we heard from the video on the table vs Lyra 8. Strega has 3 delay lines, and a VCF in the feedback path. Lyra 8 2 delay lines with cross modulation capabilities — and no VCF. With this kind of experimental implementations of lofi delay chips, paper specs always matter a lot less than how the circuit is fine tuned. But even with the few specs we have from the video there are on paper differences worth having in mind.

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