Happy Sunday evening! I’m down to the wire getting a new jam kicked out today. I didn’t have time until late this evening and I decided to try and record something with a new synth. I traded off some modules I wasn’t using any longer for a Soma Lyra-8. What a weird little beast! Probably wasn’t the best idea to perform and record on something as odd as this thing, with no previous experience or much of an idea of what I was even doing.

The Lyra-8 is a retro looking device with 8 oscillators that have to be tuned individually. I decided to tune by ear - basically twist the knobs until I liked what I heard. Trying to get perfect notes is kind of futile, since the tuning and timbre can change drastically depending on what other controls you tweak. It’s kind of maddening at first. I learned to let go and just see where the instrument took me. It became almost meditative after a while.

Digitakt is doing the percussion. Everything else is the Lyra, running through an Eventide Space reverb.

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