Soma Lyra-8 Sounds: Dark Ambient Texture Pad FX No Talk Demo

video upload by Anton Anru

"Oblivion Glow is a collection of 50 patches for the analog synthesizer Soma Lyra-8, dedicated to dark, deep, and atmospheric sound.
🎆 Lyra-8 is one of the most unique synthesizers of our time, both in terms of functionality and sonic character. It offers a radically different approach to sound design and performance.
Its true power lies in its dynamics and expressiveness—the instrument, its parameters, and controllers are highly sensitive to settings and playing technique, making its sound incredibly alive and constantly evolving.
💎 This quality has made Lyra-8 a beloved and almost essential tool for genres like ambient, techno, cinematic, IDM, industrial, and beyond—anywhere a blend of liveliness and innovation is required.

📦 Get these presets: https://antonanru.sellfy.store/p/lyra...

🎛 Exploring this instrument was a truly inspiring experience, and in this soundset, I share the results of that journey. My goal was to extract the broadest possible palette of timbres: warm and cold, soft and harsh, harmonic and distorted, modern and vintage, clean and noisy, smooth and rhythmic.
🕹 I also explored different performance techniques, aiming to strike a balance between the experimental and the musical.

📦 This pack includes drones, pads, textures, leads, FXs, strings, rhythmic patterns, and soundscapes.
🎙 Some patches are designed to take the lead in a track or jam session, while others serve perfectly as supporting layers. While each sound is ready to use as-is, I highly recommend interacting with the controls during performance—modulating parameters in real-time reveals new sonic depths and greatly enhances expressiveness.

📔 The soundset is presented as a PDF document. Each page contains detailed notes explaining how the patch works, which parameters are key for real-time manipulation, and how to evolve the timbre while playing. Following these suggestions will not only expand your sound palette but also deepen your understanding of the instrument.

📀 Each patch comes with an audio example to guide you in understanding how it is intended to sound.

💾 The collection also includes 24/41000 WAV samples. These can be used directly in your projects, or freely resampled, edited, and processed—offering a versatile library of material for further experimentation."

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Soma Lyra 8 ~ Doepfer Frequency Shifter ~ MI Clouds ~ Strymon Big Sky MX

video upload by Ebotronix

Soma Lyra 8,
Doepfer A 126-2 Frequency Shifter with Expander,
and, A 110-4 QZVCO, frequency controlled by,
A 177-2, foot control , Boss EV 30,
4ms Dual Looping Delay,
Mutable Instruments Clouds,
Strymon Big Sky MX, controlled by,
ATO Faderbank 16 n , with Midi CC,
13.03.2025
vid # 2490

Soma Lyra 8 ~ Mutable Instruments Beads

video upload by Ebotronix

Soma Lyra 8 ,
Mutable Instruments Beads,
Doepfer R2m , Ribbon Controller,
2x ,A 177-2, Boss EV 30,
Make Noise Optomix,
Strymon Big Sky MX, controlled by,
ATO Faderbank 16 n , with Midi CC,
27.02.2025
vid # 2482

Soma Lyra 8 with Moog Freqbox² and Maestro Ringmodulator

video uploads by Ebotronix

Note there are two videos in the playlist, part one and part two. You can use the controls to skip around.

Soma Lyra 8 ,
Maestro Ringmodulator,
Moog, Moogerfooger, 2x, Freqbox,
Boss PN2, SL20,2x, EV 30,
Strymon Big Sky MX, controlled by,
ATO Faderbank 16 n , with Midi CC,
25.02.2025
vid # 2478 & 2479

Seagulls ~ Soma Lyra 8 ~ Red Federation BPM Pro ~ Strymon Big Sky MX

video upload by Ebotronix

Soma Lyra 8 ,
Red Federation BPM Pro,
Strymon Big Sky MX, controlled by,
ATO Faderbank 16 n , with Midi CC,
24.02.2025
vid # 2477

'Modulation' - Ambient Drones with Lyra-8, Digitakt, Big Sky | 59 Perlen

video upload by 59 Perlen

"This is the latest track of my current ambient drone series, created with Soma Lyra-8, Elektron Digitakt and Strymon Big Sky. I wanted to create a mood that sounds different than the usual Lyra stuff and not like a typical drone. I felt like I need something else in my liveset and here we go - Digitakt adds a simple pad sound to the rhythmic pattern of the Lyra. 'Modulation' is also the title track of my upcoming performance."

Monome Norns o-o-o script w/ Soma Lyra-8

video upload by Andre Bregegere

"In this video, I explore the sonic possibilities of the o-o-o ("odashodasho") script, a fun generative sequencer (also boasting its own FM synthesis engine!) for the Monome Norns. I am pairing it with the Lyra-4, a touch-sensitive synthesizer known for its organic, often unpredictable textures and its ability to create complex, evolving drones and tones.

This session was fully improvised, letting the interaction between the two instruments guiding the performance. it was recorded live and lightly mastered in Pro Tools.
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Monome Norns: https://monome.org/docs/norns/
o-o-o script: https://norns.community/o-o-o
Lyra-4: https://somasynths.com/lyra-4/ @somasynths"

Soma Labs Lyra-8 & friends, etc.

video upload by SynthAddict

the Power of 2 x LYRA-4 (SOMA labs demo)

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

"Reissue of the legendary synth!"

"We present to your attention the revived version of LYRA-4, organismic synthesizer, the younger sister of the famous LYRA-8. “Organismic” means that LYRA uses some principles that lie in the base of living organisms. The way how LYRA’s modules interacting between each other and the behaviour of the instrument resembles a live conversation. It’s smaller and weighs less but is equally rugged in design, and still packs a lot of punch. This makes it easy to fit in a backpack and perfect for taking the LYRA sound on the road. And playing two LYRA-4s can actually sound very different than just one LYRA-8.

LYRA-4 is based on four generators, which will be referred to as voices. Their design is not like a traditional subtractive synthesis VCO. Instead of having a linear or logarithmic dependency on control voltage, they resemble the tone generators in old electric organs. Hence the use of the term “voices” instead of “VCOs”. Lyra uses non-linearity a lot, and the voices are constructed in such a way that allows for non-linearity to express itself.

The voices are divided into two pairs (12, 34), creating tree-like structure.

The voices can function either in an electric organ mode or in an FM synthesis mode with each of the voices and its envelope acting as a separate FM operator. The voice’s impact on FM synthesis will decrease along with the decay of its envelope.

LYRA-4 also has the next blocks:

The HYPER LFO is a complex low-frequency generator, whose waveform is synthesized from two simple LFOs by summation or multiplication of their frequencies. It also has a sync mode. The LFO can modulate the selected pairs of voices and the MOD DELAY.

The MOD DELAY consists of delay with feedback. The delay has a unique possibility of self-modulation where the output signal modulates the delay sample rate, creating cool effects.

The DISTORTION is last in the chain, after the delay. It enables the delay to also influence the distortion.

For all its experimental character, LYRA is a professional instrument. Its output dynamics and frequency response are balanced and ready for a live performance or studio recording without any additional processing.

Colors: Black and White. Yin and Yang 🙂"

Oversynth.com overlay for Lyra-8 -- Installation Instructions

video upload by Human Oversynth

"How to install oversynth.com overlays on Soma Laboratory Lyra-8

Overlays available now from https://www.oversynth.com"

SimplexFM. Organismic sound exploration (SOMA lab)

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

"For details of synth engine and operation, please, read manual.
Product Page: https://somasynths.com/metaconformer_..."

"SimplexFM is the new groundbreaking firmware which turns METACONFORMER module into 4 track digital organismic synth. This is a free firmware for METACONFORMER.

SimplexFM is the pocket-sized successor of LYRA-8 ideas. Complex and surprising sound behavior comes from the interaction of timbres, not dozens of modulators and LFOs.

For launching SimplexFM you need to buy METACONFORMER. If you have METCAONFORMER you just need to download simplex firmware here."

You can find additional demos of METACONFORMER here.

Elektron Digitakt II and SOMA Lyra-8 explorations

video upload by Bobo Meijer

"Some exploration with the Lyra-8 pairs with the Digitakt II for all kinds of weird sounds. It is very easy to get lost in the Lyra and it really takes some time to understand what it is doing. I really like it so far but it’s also very hard to make something with it on the fly.. needs time ☺️"

One-of-a-kind Soma Lyra-8 RED FORSE, crafted by VG Line Artist

video upload by VG-Line

"Discover the one-of-a-kind Soma Lyra 8, crafted by VG Line Artist. Visit our Reverb page for more information and add a touch of sophistication to your collection."

SOMA Pulsar-23 and Make Noise Strega with Meris Mercury X reverb jam

video upload by Bobo Meijer

"Jamming away with the SOMA Pulsar-23 and Make Noise Strega. This could have been way shorter because it’s not happening much here but I got carried away 😌 adding the Meris Mercury X to the Strega can definitely bring some very nice results… i just have some difficulty taming the Strega itself and think i want an 0-ctrl for it but not sure to keep this or go for a Lyra-8 perhaps."

Soma Laboratory Lyra 8 Pink & Green

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via Three Wave Music Reverb

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SOMA LYRA-8 | Ambient Drone

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"[New] LYRA-8 Sample Pack ver.1.2: https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com..."

Bad Gear is MASSIVE

video upload by AudioPilz

"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools.

There aren’t many software companies whose influence on electronic music is comparable to iconic hardware brands like Roland and Korg - Native Instruments is certainly one of them.

They defined the industry standard for sampling, established in-the-box modular synthesis and made using FM much too easy but today we are going to talk about Massive.

Putting this 2006 wavetable softsynth and primary ghost writer of the first three Skrillex EPs on the show is - quite literally - long overdue as, after the usual venture capitalist fustercluck and discontinuation of Absynth, it can only be a matter of months until this classic plugin stops working properly on contemporary computers.

Bad Gear is MASSIVE
Plugin, VST, Software Instrument

Chapters:
00:00 Intro Tune
01:05 Overview Native Instruments Massive
01:48 Oscillators/Wavetables/Noise/Mod OSC
02:28 Feedback
02:39 Filter Section
03:04 Modulators ( Brostep Edition ), Wubs, Wobbles
03:37 Modulation Routings, Sidechain
03:54 Patch Settings, Unison,...
04:15 FX Section
04:29 Macros
04:48 What else??? (Pricing,...)
05:13 Hate
05:39 Jam 1 ( Moog Style Techno )
06:32 Jam 2 ( Dubstep for Boomers )
07:24 Finale ( Meme Psytrance )
07:51 Verdict
08:59 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout ( Soma Lyra-8 )"

“The Camp” | Soma Lyra 8 FX

video upload by Nostalgic Ruckus

"In the moment of imperfection with the Lyra 8 FX."

Bad Gear - Synthesizer Plays You

video upload by AudioPilz

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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about SOMA Lyra-8 . Is this organismic synthesizer , ritualistic instrument and icon of industrial civilization a modern synth classic or is the King naked? Here on Bad Gear - Synthesizer Plays You !!! Synth plays you in this synth ritual .

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune (Theater Music Version)
00:46 Overview Soma Lyra 8
01:15 Tone Generators, Sharp, Tuning
01:40 Envelope, Heavy FM
01:55 Modulations, Feedback
02:20 Ext CV, Master Tuning
02:35 Hold
02:49 External Hold, Paid Upgrade
03:02 Alternate FM Mode
03:12 Vibrato
03:23 LFO
03:35 Modulation Delay
04:18 Self-Oscillation
04:32 Distortion
04:40 Connectivity, Integration, Philosophy
05:13 Pricing, Software Emulation
05:29 Hate
05:55 Jam 1 (Album Interlude)
06:51 Jam 2 (Techno)
07:54 Finale (Danceable Musique Concrete)
08:25 Verdict"

Teenage Engineering EP–133 K.O. II, Op-1 Field and TX-6 Field

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"People Are Oblivious To Reality. They Only See What They Want To See
(Henry Simpleton, 1899)

Landscape FM Stereo Field sampled on EP–133 K.O. II track A;
Modern Audio Pluto sampled on EP–133 K.O. II tracks B and D;
Soma Lyra-8 sampled on Op-1 Field."