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this is a great way to annoy your friend who always brags about having perfect pitch

I love the Lyra-8. Never used it in any actual music, I just get baked, twiddle the knobs, and let it take me to a different dimension 😉

Lol, "being familiar with the underlying synthesis principals doesn’t help much"… I’m definitely going to use this line sometime!

I call my Lyra 8 the "time waster". Every time I turn it on I end up spending a couple of very enjoyable hours making weird soundscapes I'll never be able to reproduce. I couple it with a Boss DR-55 drum machine running through a spring reverb, and it's lo-fi heaven.

"Hi, I'm Hainbach and welcome to Bad Gear. Good to have you back!" 🙃

*Calls it bad gear* *Proceeds to drop the best version of the BG intro tune ever*

I have own one for years now and I love it. You truly have to be recording at all times because it can start making something you have never heard of. It is VERY hard to understand and play but it is worth it. You will be looking for a sound and then look at the clock to see 2 hours went by and you were just lost messing around with it. Im glad it has no quantize or cv, midi etc. EVERYTHING has those. This doesn't and it never pretended to be. Its also built like a tank quite literally.

This is by far one of the coolest pieces of gear you have had on the channel. An absolute powerhouse for generating atmospheric sounds. Thank you for showcasing this amazing synth! :)

Thanks for the shoutout on my software emulation, Florian! 🤠

You just know that when the opening tune isn't even close to the traditional tune, it's gonna be a good one.

Stalker is such a classic - great video!

God I love the Lyra 8. I think this is the best intro tune and jam in any of the videos yet!!

That last jam deserves a extended version. What a sound design tool!

I love Soma's stuff. I mean, I hate how it sounds, and don't have a desire to own any of it. But I love that it exists. Get after it, you mad lads!

One of my cats was staring at the TV for at least half a minute in a WTF state of mind. They usually ignore most of the audio that I force upon them. 😂 Happy weekend!

that was the best jam ever....way ta go friend.

As someone who uses this synth as the centerpiece for nearly every one of my tracks, "letting go" is possibly the best advice you can give to tackle this beast. Crazy amounts of long-decay modulated reverb and delay help too ;)

Saw the Lyra-8 in the thumbnail and thought "how the hell is he going to reproduce the opening track on this thing?" You absolutely smashed it out of the park mate, good effort!

The magnetic charm of the Lyra-8 is undeniable. I’ve pegged it as my secret weapon for hunting down those rare, elusive samples - the kind that elevate a track from good to unforgettable. But, without fail, I’m seduced into the spontaneous symphony of a jam session. The Lyra-8 isn’t merely a piece of gear; it’s a gateway to uncharted sonic territories, beckoning me to explore further than I ever planned.

The Lyra-8 isn't bad gear, it's weird gear. No lie, I have used this device extensively whether it's Rhizome in DC or the High Zero festival. With Jazz musicians, or absolute weirdos doing noise music. I love the thing to death. It's super well built, and there is nothing else like it. Unless you are talking about ciat lonbarde instruments (hint hint). It was also the only synth I used alongside other more conventional instruments (Guitars, Bass, Cello) for my Under Night album. In short...it is surprisingly useful.

I love that I live in a world where the Lyra-8 exists. It's like a totem for insane creativity.

"Ritualistic Synth Channel" is probably the best description for Bad Gear. Yeah, every friday I close my work laptop at 17:59, to just open my Studio laptop at 18:00 and watch you eviscerate noise making stuff.

That finale was beautiful! Please notify me when the musique concrete IDM noise album drops!

I mean. Stalker..... So beautiful. Also great choice. There's great artemyev vibes in the intro

Imo a true instrument of its own kind, beautiful architecture

I know Soma's stuff isn't for everyone, but I love the Lyra and how it sounds and what people do with it. I picked up their Enner and the ability to just be expressive while playing is a joy unto itself. Yeah I can only use it in my more experimental compositions, but those are fun!!

This was almost my intro to the synth world. I decided to stay with my pedal addiction for my bass thank you.

I love the Lyra and it's the only instrument I can actually somewhat play.

I became a Patreon based solely on your genre name generation skills alone. 🤣 This week's was a banger my man.

We are not a cult. We are not a cult. *Altogether now* We are not a cult...

"You have to surrender yourself to the weird structure and philosophy" - my favorite thing about this machine. I love love love mine and it's really fun with the Cosmos. Surprised and glad you covered this machine. Loved that intro.

You've clearly outdone yourself. Wonderful show and the final jam is a banger.

Man, that sounds like the whole BBC Radiophonic Workshop in one box. Amazing.

This is probably your best intro tune ever, love sound of Soma Lyra 8, beautiful work there

Mr. Florian, the intro with Lyra 8 in Tarkovsy’s Stalker is PURE GENIUS😆😆😆😆 As a Russian, I’ve always been fascinated of how you westerners love Tarkovsky and to be honest, I don’t know why😄 Well, as a cultural masterpiece, his officially praised movie in Russia is Andrey Rublev and I kinda agree. Don’t take me wrong, Stalker and Solaris are great films, but we don’t find them as fascinating as the western public do. But I surely like Stalker’s rundown industrial apocalyptic atmosphere with the “soviet touch”. Considering today’s “guest” in the form of Lyra8, it’s not “BAD”, it’s just a device without any purpose, a true “hipster toy” like all their products (just check the wooden “thing” and their latest “Rumble of the Ancient Times” device).

I have orange, the most disturbing of colors... love this thing, but haven't touched it in a couple years, but I need to build some sounds for my space craft and hover craft I am drawing. Imagine Lost In Space meets Jonny Quest and the Jetsons, and we can't forget those amazing Star Trek computer sounds.

Took exactly 2 min to fall in love with this. I need one now, thanks AudioPilz, you have given me GAS.

The Lyra is the ultimate Ambient machine. Taking you to places you didn't even know they exist.

So between my phone being close to unusable, and also having just been in the hospital for 5+ days, I can't believe I missed this episode about a synth (the only one, besides a Moog-made Radio Shack MG-1 that doesn't make a sound) that I actually own! Personally, I love my Lyra-8 (white, jealous of orange), but I also don't really make songs and am basically a classically trained flute player with a love of electronic noises. I knew you'd get around to this eventually, thanks! Now talk about the deep rabbit hole I'm often in thanks to VCV Rack (or discuss the fact that I actually paid a bunch of $ to NI in the very early 2000s for a Reaktor 3? 4? dongle even though a.b.s.u. was still a thing), this channel will have become more me than me. ❤❤❤

That movie (and book) reference suits the instrument on so many levels. Nice!

Took one to a drone group night with a big sound system. The most important accessory was a volume pedal after the reverb pedal so I could dial it back when the floor started shaking.

Florian you are an absolute legend. I left a comment suggesting this synth for your videos which may or may not have influenced this to happen! Did not disappoint!! Loved every second second of this and even showed it to my wife (who finds its lack of sonority… challenging) Thank you for making this video.

I probably speak for quite a few people in saying that it would be great to have some songs like that last jam for purchase. Remarkable stuff!

It's like binaural beats for creating anxiety and insomnia

I was hoovering my keyboards when that synth tuning bit came on. Thought for a moment maybe I should have switched them off first. 😂

A review of my favorite synth in my collection filled with Stalker references; how could I not subscribe?

Amazing tones!! I love seeing your take on such a CHAOTIC machine - Now do the Pulsar-23!!

You've nailed this synth, Florian! The last track is awesome! Reminds me the track: The Delta - Pop but more mystic and probably even darker!

It's worth mentioning that the delay and distortion part of the Lyra-8 can be had as a eurorack module. I have one that I run my guitar through and it's gnarly af!

this is the FORBIDDEN PLANET synth!! can I also add one of the most interesting and different (in a wildly good way) demo track.... I liked immensely how you acknowledged it took you to new places and the Final track was certainly original.... Great Job....

Wow. You managed to make it work in two somewhat normal songs. You are the chosen one. 😮

I feel like even florian was like "no, I'm not learning the nunomo qun mk2 just for a video" and i totally understand 😂

I don’t make noise or industrial, I make dub, but this synth actually sounds like it would be great for the classic dub sirens and fx

Shots fired!!! I love my Lyra-8!!!

Finally!!! You have no idea how long i waited for this episode 🔥🖤🔥 😘

A truly unique and amazing instrument so much so that I own two, once you get to know this instrument it's hard to let go of it. There is literally a world beyond a world within that instrument and you need to smoke a cigarette after every time you use it. That being said it's an absolute joy to get lost with it. Thank you for sharing this amazing instrument. I am still throwing money at the screen to get my hands on your album but to no avail. When will this ever happen? I will patiently wait and keep throwing money at the screen until it will happen.

This is the first episode I couldn't make it to the end of. I'm on the spectrum and this instrument is the equivalent of an infinite number of babies screaming while scratching an infinite number of chalkboards to me.

you make it sing in that last jam ❤ beautiful work

Lyra jam in the end was so good

One day I'll have saved enough pocket money to buy one of these. This thing is unhinged and I love the wild and unpredictable sounds it produces. Much more than my humble but cheap ROAT, lol.

Awesome video as always, but dude, where did you get that last clip from??? WILD

"uneasy listening" is my new favorite genre! that final jam was excellent!

I love this!! Now you need to dig into the Pulsar 23, or better yet, the Folktek Mescaline!

absolutely banger episode, wobbly nightmare synth with coin-operated functionality? this is already a classic bad gear episode.

I love my Lyra 8 but a good reverb is almost mandatory to make it shine.

The First thing, that came top my mind was "Thx to Lyra, now we can communicate with Aliens...sadly we don't know, what we are saying!" And the second was: "If IT happens, I hope it's friday and they will let you talk for us!" Once again, you Made my day ❤

Really liked the change at 7:15...

it's got the sound of a perpetually tripped over theremin that someone left on... I'll stick to my current set up.. (arturia microfreak) suggestion: orba 2. got one... and it's a noodlers paradise 😁

My boxes just got ticked son!!!!

I’ve wanted one for awhile now - as someone who enjoys making ambient industrial noise it fits my needs pretty well.

So killer Audiopilz. Entertaining video and a truly killer track. I hope you’ll release a longer version.

That's how I normally wake up. In a puddle.

woah im early! hi florian! love ur show

I love my lyra I just played it live at my local synths group open mic. It is awesome ❤❤❤

Perfect synth for making Industrial/Dark Ambient and Post Punk!

Does it come with some LSD or do we need to supply our own?

Love my Lyra. Have it as a centrepiece of my modest setup. I have run it through a TC Electronics Plethora X3 with harmonic, chours and reverb with a smidgen of shimmer to taste. Lovely stuff.

this piece of gear changed my life. It will never leave my hands. It's my therapy. BTW what is the video for the last jam?! incredible

I love my Lyra, it's a synth that I will never sale. I use it paired with an Enner, it opens up other ways of taming the beast.

Oh shit! Just clicked play, really interested to see how this goes. Love my Lyra

This has been on my wishlist for some time. I have (and use) the Reaktor emulation and the Pure Data one, but your vid has again reminded me how hardware can unlock creativity in ways not possible on a plugin. Soweit die beste Lyra-8 vorführung... Vielen Dank!

Outro jam was was sooo fresh! Insane sample fodder machine!

The Lyra-8 sounds awesome. If I didn’t have to take a small loan to get one, I would have had one a long time ago. Definitely enjoyed the trick where you used the coins to hold the notes 😁

My friend made these badassz oscillators that reminded me of this but this is like an interactive bank of em, quite impressive

Wieder einmal klasse und kurzweilig und mega interessant, da ich auch mit dem Lyra8 liebäugel...

that is some of the best dark minimal I have ever heard. Pure genius!

Great work! I've never gotten the CV input to work, so I was impressed with that 2nd jam.

Ahah, I bought a Lyra two weeks ago! (the black model). I enjoy it a lot and it's the only instrument I ever had that I like to play when I come back home drunk from the pub

Thoroughly enjoy the abstract.

Okay. So, that was fantastic... And, now I'm really interested in seeing you tackle any of the new Stylophone stuff (the theremin, or the drone machine). Also, the Elta Solar 42.

thank you Professor.. I felt a little warmth in my heart everytime I see a synth on Bad Gear I did adequate research on then passed on.. 🤘😁

The dreaded day when your gear shows up here, then he makes the most epic jams yet. You master everything you touch! It’s a weird ‘synth’ but nothing like it and it really does play you.

This reminds me of trying to tune in my grandmas 👵 valve radio from the 50's, I don't really understand how this would enhance my synth playing 😶, I don't even like the colour, I did enjoy your attempt ❤. Thanks audiopilz for the episode ❤

Nice episode! 3rd jam is very strong (and fresh in aspect of traditions of BG)!

Wow ! I just opened youtube to look for informations on this exact synth, and what do I see ? The man himself just released a video on it ! Awesome ! Superb jams as always !

That last jam really tempts to get the extended version. Good stuff. Way to loop back to old rhythmic-noise days.⛓️⚒️🚬🪬🔩

My man, you just made me cry laughing on a day when it was very much needed. Also, I gotta say this thing actually sounds kinda dope in its own way. Thank you for all you do. amigo.

Love it - I have 2 use together as kinda stereo- nothing you do can make them sound the same as each other - ultimate fun synth

I once had a chance to acquire this on a trade in, after Jam 1 I'm glad I didnt. you of course redeemed yourself with the following great tracks. keep em coming!