Lovely and inspiring, glad you're doing this series! The Lyra is my favorite single piece of gear I own. Sat down to play it last night for the first time in a while and sorta bounced off a wall with it. I think in some way I was pushing it in directions it didn't want to go, this vid serves as a good reminder that a light touch (literally) can take you much further.
Awesome. One has to show such restraint with this beast. So easy to get carried away into oblivion. You seem to have to the hang of it though ! Love it. 👏👏🎶👍🙏
Amazing stuff! What's actually happening at the end when that LFO slows down a bit? Is that the LFO, or some sort of effect from the feedback on the effects? I wasn't sure. Anyway, I really need to practise more on mine... :)
Thanks! Right at the end? That's just turning up the delay feedback. The delay is being modulated by the lfo and set long so it's introducing a lot of noise of its own. You end up with 3 concurrent "Rhythms" occurring - one from each lfo and then the repeating delay
That could be a soundtrack of a scene in an insane asylum with the mad doctor getting ready do an experiment. I have the green Lyra-8 too. Some of the cross modulation twists my brain trying to really understand what's going on.
I am tuning by ear as I go, so I'm not approaching it from the point of view of defining scales, but you can likely guarantee that it will be erring towards some kind of pentatonic scale with an emphasis on roots/fifths which always sound consonant. The other thing I'll naturally be doing is of I want dissonance, I'll be putting it several octaves away from the busier parts of the scale ususlly. The other thing I've been learning to do is retune as soon as I introduce modulation of any kind, and treat the modulation depth as part of the tuning regeim - this includes modulation on the delay (which is a lot of what's going on here). Tuning this thing is a constant feedback loop between the different parameters (which I suspect is in line with Vlad's intentions).
@@OscillatorSink by the way, since you mention the way of controlling the envelope. I find that if I keep the switches at fast and use the low drone hold level you're using here, touching the top sensor and grounding on the casing itself instead of the lower sensor gives me a pretty fine control over it
@@Lcrymlgy I've literally just been sat experimenting with grounding myself on the case and tips of switches to see how I can affect the sensitivity - the switches almost feel like they can end up being faster than the pads, but that might be more because they force a change in playing position?
