#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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#136

Hi Lyra 8 users. I am in the process of slowly and intermittently building a DIY Lyra 8.
In the DIY build docs there are some suggestions for mods, affecting:

  • Attack Time
  • Fast Release Time
  • Slow Release Time
  • Delay LPF
  • Distortion LPF
  • Range of voices (“The less the capacitor the higher the voice and the more strong and crazy FM mod possible”)
  • Voice vibrato frequency

I don’t want to add 1000 extra controls, but I am considering adding a two or three way switch for setting different voice ranges, as I’ve heard some people say they would like to be able to ‘tame’ the Lyra more.

I wondered which, if any, of the listed modifications above would be appealing to you, based on your experience of playing the Lyra?

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#137

Either LPF would really help tame it but which you’d want depends on which you expect to use more heavily. I tend to use some overdrive but leave delays for outside of the lyra-8.

Of course, you could get a LPF with a pedal or VST but the envelope control can only come from a mod.

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#138

Cool project! For me it would be the vibrato frequency. Add some control to that would really change the character in most patches.

The attack / release times have always been fine to me, I think the filter would be fun but have never said “Man I wish I had a filter right about now”.

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#139

The delay does interesting things when you feed it really high frequencies, like from the two rightmost voices at max. A fine-tune would perhaps be interesting if it was possible?

Edit: Also bypassing the noise filter on the delay would reveal the true crunch of the pt-chip. I sort of wished that was a possibility when I had mine.

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#140

I’d say any additional envelope controls would be nice. If I was limited to one additional discreet mode–it would be fast attack/fast release envelopes.

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#141

Agree, faster attacks specifically.

Anyone else planning on building the monster version that incorporates the suggested mods?

The mods that swap resistors can of course include pots instead for more control.

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#142

im into the new age occult vibes with this

#143

Thanks everyone - useful food for thought. I will do some tests with different options when I get to that stage.

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#144

I picked up Trackspacer on black friday sale and it is an absolute godsend for the Lyra. Being able to just route the important tracks to Trackspacer’s sidechain allows me to pretty much jam on the Lyra without it blasting the entire mix. Looks like it’s still on sale actually: https://www.wavesfactory.com/audio-plugins/trackspacer/ . I only wish it didn’t own my GPU so much, thankful for ableton’s “configure” mode. Or macros

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