As posted in community- had some network issues and had to cancel todays stream. Sorry gang.

@24:20 yes...not into tribalism either...limits my creativity which is linked to consciousness...love this talk!

@10:20 I've been waiting for a music KZfaqr to explain this important point...indeed, there's this odd expectation in electronic music culture that everything has to be created by the musician...taken to its extreme, we'd have to build all the electronic gear (including the computer) or perhaps even our own electricity to be "original." What we do with the technology is as or more important than the technology itself. Examples abound with persons of limited means using what they had to create masterpieces.

Now I can hear you

Sounds like Xmas music!

Absolutely brilliant video on the Lyra8. Its like owning a zoo in synth form. Its deffo another planet. Thanks again

Great video and thank you Luke.

I tune my Lyra8 a different way but in all honesty I don't think it takes kindly to being tuned in the way we know. Its a beast with its own brain so you have to go along with it. To tune the first two pads on the left ti a specific note I have all the knobs at the top zeroed except the volume. The Hold knob zero. The four switches in a row for LFO in the up position ( lfo off) Place finger on pads no 1 and use the tune knobs to get the frequency you want. But the Lyra8 does not want to be tuned. It is the CAT of synths. It was not designed to play the ( music) we are acustomed to. It was designed to take us into space and blow our minds. I will never part with my Lyra8. We always have a party together. Its like having a Lion as a pet. If you are sensible you do what the Lion wants!

You are extremely talented and clever. Thank you for demonstrating what can be done and how to piece a tune together. My jaw dropped when I saw what that square tablet thing can do. Phew that is some piece of kit. Meanwhile I will see what I can do on my humble Behringer 2600s.

Thank you. I really appreciate your video here. I few weeks ago I did not know what Berlin School was. Now I do I just love it. I was a serious classical musician so I have missed a lot and kicking myself. I have two ARP 2600s and I am learning all about patching. It is so exciting. I love this genre of music so please can I ask you to do more Berlin school stuff. You will be much appreciated by many. Now its time for me to get that El Capistan tape echo!!!!! Thanks again.

🎉Congratulations ❤ Well deserved

So mesmerising,,,,,,

❤ I learned a metric shit ton from this video on my drive home, very excited to get into the Synth cave. Thank you Synth Seeker 😊

so much effort really !

Wow! Looks like I slept through a fun nerd-fest with many of the names I see on Andy's stream! Never knew how many of us were programmers of old... I started in 1970 on an HP-2000, played on many Trash-80's and Apples (plus several other computer-wannabees), moved into the IBM realm in College, before becoming a teenage hacker for a defense contractor on DEC machines (then a healthcare utilization review firm and Verizon Wireless). As many have heard in the Coffee House forums, I helped Greg H. bug test an issue with Turtle Beach's MIDI implementation on Cakewalk v1.0 back in 1987! LOL. I also ran the second-most popular game servers on the West Coast back in the 1990's (had T1 lines even! Quake I, Half-Life and Counter Strike) - all Linux. No wonder I love this stuff! 😊 Can't believe I missed this and it wasn't even starting at 2am like Andy's! 🤣 Is that grid thing Ableton only or something that can be used with anything that has MIDI? Also, how long did it take you to learn how to play music with it?

Was wondering why there's such a lack of Nord synth content compared to the rest of YT's synth content. Been looking for comparisons of Nord's capabilities versus traditional analog / digital synths. Need way more of this for the Nord users.

My #1 Discord!

Lol - the camera mic was doubling and picking up me hammering on the push. I figured it out and fixed it around 8:00.

Hey Luke and fellow synth nerds. I've been a bit AWOL lately, but a huge thanks to you and this amazing Discord group. The creativity, support, and the pure synth geekery is amazing. Keep the awesome prog/berlin school/synthwave/drone vibes going! 🎹🎛

It's an interesting instrument, with very usable sounds. I can definitely see the value of having a straightforward dedicated box like this. It takes a few extra steps to accomplish the same results in jack of all trades synths. eg. Decay time controlled by velocity takes up two mod slots out of the 6 available on my Virus Ti2 ( i.e. having the the decay modulate itself in one slot (positive values shorten decay time) , then using velocity to control the depth of that modulation in another slot) .. This recursive modulation technique is very useful to get dynamic drum sounds..

Camera audio had gotten me a few times as well 😂

With work these days, haven’t recorded or jammed often these days. I need to work on more Live templates that would allow me to just sit down and jam right away without thinking to get the juices going. Happy mixolydian day! Lifting me up thanks Luke.

You've fostered a great environment for all of us to share our passion with a bunch of like minded synthnerds. I'm grateful for this discord community. Thank you Luke for being awesome!

In the next year most of the income for raffles will come from selling "DARK PLOC!" t-shirts. And underwear to raise the chance of chics coming in too ;-) Lovely update, Luke, I was one of the first to join your Discord community and if I have learned one thing it is "BUY MOAR SYNTHS". My wife will forever hate you for it, but still loves us all too.

Thanks for the great video Luke!! Sounds sooo nice!! 🙂

Thank you luke for making this all posable and thank you to all of the discord community for being Amazing!!! 🙂💜

Thanks for this update and for keeping this community alive and well!

55 here... Joined!

that discord page!!! 🤣

Angry fruit salad emoji

Deliberate nonsense 😂

Sounds up my alley! I think I can spare a buck...

Explaining rises understanding

Nice one, Luke - very succinct and useful - Nice little piece, too usefil 👍

btw the discord invite link says expired

dig it!

Was fun to watch, enjoyed it

And... just heard you say you do a "live stream Sunday at 2" - what time-zone are you in? I might tune in as long as there's no bare feet shots... LOL! 🤣

So THIS is what you do when you're not moderating Andy's livestream! Niiice... Do you have a list of what software/hardware you use Luke? I lost my studio back in 2009, but I'm seeing that there's a lot that can be done "in the box" now-a-days so I might go that path until I'm wealthy enough for hardware again. 🙂

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Thanks as always Luke. So informative and inspiring.

👍i LoVe ! 💙⚪❤

Famous last words: "...and I got a little bass...". Entertaining lesson, Luke.

Thanks Luke. Very inspiring.

Lovely low bass 🙂

strongly entertaining. thank you for the tips.

❤ Ducka-Ducka ❤