#82

I reknobbed mine as well:

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The tuning knobs are the style that was on the mod/sharp/pitch/hold pots – very similar to Mutable/Make Noise Rogan PT knobs. I didn’t care for the chicken head style knobs in the upper section either, so I replaced those all with Re’an P670 (Bugbrand style, I think) from Modular Addict.

(I was just out of town for a week, and despite having a cloth over it and a nearby air purifier with HEPA filter, I see it’s collected some dust. That isn’t too pleasing.)

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#83

there is plastic cover and nylon dust bag available if dust becomes too much of an issue

#84

I have the nylon bag. It’s designed as a slip case rather than a handy studio cover. I’ve just been lying it across the top, but I might “hack” it into the sort of cover I wanted.

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#85

Any demos on this yet? looks amazing!

#86

Just got my Lyra a week ago and am really digging it. Such a deep and elusive instrument.

Question about the voice modulation: When I have the mod switch in the “LFO FB CV” position and have the MOD knob turned all the way down, I hear the LFO modulating the voice. When I turn up the MOD knob, I hear more, but I would expect to hear no modulation until I turn the knob up from zero. It’s the same with the Total FB on - the voice changes pitch even when MOD is at zero.

Is that normal or is mine an oddball?

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#87

That’s normal. There’s so much feedback built in that the Lyra is rarely stable. If you want more subtle modulation, dial it into the delay, not the voices.

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#88

Playing the Lyra-8, I’m usually alternating between thoughts of—this is transcendent!, and—is this broken?

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#89

Yep I can also confirm this is how mine works (and confused me at first).

I’ve found it makes a nice performance feature though (switch in the modulation set at minimum every now and then and throw a little chaos into the mix).

The Lyra is as beguiling to me as it is bewildering. And I love it all the more because of it :smile:

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#90

Yeah, that is normal. The attenuators purposefully don’t close completely.

#91

Hello friends, I have a few questions for people who have a hardware Lyra-8. I have made in implementation in Reaktor and am working on the final tuning. It will never be identical to a real Lyra, but it was a fun exercise over the past several days and is a blast to play.

  • When fully clockwise, does the Sharp knob ever reach a true square wave? In one of the demo videos I saw, it seems to reach more of a shark tooth wave. Right now I am mixing between a triangle wave and a filtered sawtooth.
  • Does the Total Feedback send the final audio-rate output signal as the modulation signal, or does it first get passed through an envelope follower? I have tried both, and suspect it is the former.
  • The Vibrato has different rates for each voice pair, any guesses as to the approximate frequencies? Right now I have them set to 2, 2.5, 3, and 3.5 Hz.
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#92
  • The sharp knob: the actual shape changes as you increase the Tune knob, and is slightly different for each oscillator.

It gets square-like at the low end of the Tune knob, except for oscillators 7-8.

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At about halfway up the Tune knob:

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At about 3 o’clock it’s more like:

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It loses a lot of stability past that point and flattens back toward triangle-hood (as if the sharp knob had been turned down).

On mine, oscs 7-8 at full CCW start off at about where 1-6 are at noon.

I never even realized this until now. Typically the tune knobs are somewhere between 9 and 3 – the range for each knob is different for each pair of oscillators, so they don’t necessarily increase from left to right.

  • Total Feedback: is really hard to figure out, so I can’t even answer the question. It doesn’t sound like it’s self-FMing though.

  • Vibrato depth also varies. 1-2 has a very minimal amount of vibrato – like you don’t even perceive it as vibrato – and it’s probably closer to 1Hz. Oscs 3-4 don’t have much more depth, and are maybe 1.8 Hz? 5-6 are probably 3Hz, and 7-8 have too much vibrato for my tastes and it’s probably about 4Hz.

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#93

Interesting, thanks. The screenshots are helpful.

Regarding the Vibrato, one thing I did was change it from a switch to an attenuator. That way the amount of vibrato is variable, rather than fixed.

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#94

lyra 8 based album. Thanks to jbowman for his inspiration !

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#95

twenty characters of chapeau

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#96

If anyone wants to give it a go, here’s my Reaktor Lyra:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/13457/

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#97

Oh my, oh my. Just when I have been bit by GAS for Lyra 8 hard, but still pondering about some other options, and the best option that would be to just not buy more stuff. Thought about making lyra-esque patch with Blocks so this is just what I needed.

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#98

this is great thanks!

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#99

This just arrived from Perfect Circuit. I was enamored with the mint green, but once I saw the pink I was all over it. It’s beautiful… should have sent a poet.

I’m already in love with it. Now I can really dial in the Reaktor model too, which I had done without having gotten to play a Lyra. Also, you know, make music with it.

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#100

Yeah - I went pink too! Definitely finding uses that are beyond droney stuff. Can get some really good rhythms to loop out of it!

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#101

I don’t use Reaktor otherwise I’d totally give this a go. Envious you have a virtual military green there! I have a white hardware Lyra. Often wonder about asking them to sell different colors of the top plate. These are like military drones in the iMac era of color themes.

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