#116

What about the Lyra-8?

Electrical safety & grounding: synths, touch synths, guitar, etc
#117

How do touchplates work? I asked Make Noise and they told me their are working woth capacitative sensing. What about a Lyra-8? Are touchplates safe?

#118

Lyra-8 is powered by 12V DC from a wall wart adapter.

The manual says “the current is very low, several orders below sensitivity threshold, and is absolutely safe.”

#119

i “cross the streams” of several touchplate noiz weapons and controllers simultaneously without issue as of yet.
:stuck_out_tongue:
i have used a noiz circuit consisting of a Lyra-8 with some Tocante devices as well as a Landscape Stereo Field.

#120

Yes I read that and was looking for more info on how the touchplates work and why they are safe

#121

I am here, ready to be jumped in to the Pepto Lyra gang. Let’s do this, @hermbot.

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#122

“Pepto”, love it. I’m going to start calling it that from now on. :grin:

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#123

Pink looks great! When the market settles with Pulsar 23, I’m hoping I can ask for a machine green front panel that can be purchased for the Pulsar and Lyra together. I’d love Soma to provide front panels as a purchase to swap out.

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#124

Beautiful track, gratitude

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#125

Visiting parents (after significant health safety protocol) means I can finally do an important exchange with my music friend from childhood:

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#126

Has anyone here paired the Lyra-8 with a landscape stereo field? Either as a CV source, or an audio processor? Or BOTH?!?

#127

yes.
actually simultaneously with two Stereo Fields.
also a Mocante & Mr. Grassi, Landscape All Flesh on a modular noiz weapon, Din Datin Death, Zenert, Karper and a second Lyra-8.

i have asked around about “crossing the streams” like that but no one has ever given me a definite answer…including Peter Blasser who never responded anyhow.
(not sure if my emails are reaching him)
:stuck_out_tongue:

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#128

way cool idea on the color mix!!!

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#129

found this via excellent SpectralplexHQ twitter feed

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#130

That’s awesome! They even picked the best chassis color!

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#131

Got my Lyra last week and had a super-fun 2 hours playing with it… then it exploded in blue smoke and wouldn’t turn back on. Pretty dramatic!!

Glad to say that the innards are simple to diagnose, so I found the collapsed NAND IC’s and ordered replacements. Still scary stuff. Make sure you’re using conditioned power, folks.

No word from SOMA about this, unfortunately.

#132

Just a quick note, if it’s one of the voice NAND chips (the SMD ones) it needs to be a particular brand (NXP maybe?) to work as intended.

I’d suggest you wait for a response from Soma labs though. I’d expect them to be fairly responsive.

Curious what you power situation is that you think that’s the cause vs. a bad unit? Even bespoke electronics can fall victim to faulty components…

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#133

The unit was one that I owned for almost exactly a year with no issues before trading it to them, and there was a previous owner before me who didn’t mention any problems.

(When I had it, it was plugged into a rackmount PDU that is itself plugged into a big shop power strip.)

#134

(Thanks @Starthief for chiming in! I’m not a he fwiw)

Yep, one of the SMD NAND chips. I got what I’m pretty sure are the original chips but I haven’t installed them.

Just heard back from SOMA last night, so we’re in touch now. We’ll see what happens with this. I’ll be sure to keep lines posted!

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#135

Pronoun corrected… you’d think I would check these things given I’m not a he either

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