Improvisation with Lyra 8 & Enner: a SOMA session

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"Just some touch plate improvisation on the Soma Laboratory synhthesizers Lyra 8 and Enner. Backdrop drone from Make Noise Strega. Fx: Steinberg Dual Filter & Arturia Delay Tape-201."

Soma Laboratory - Lyra-8

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NAMM 2023 - SOMA Laboratory - Terra

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"Cari Flynn gave us a demonstration of the SOMA Terra, the highly expressive and lovely instrument that aims to cross the boundary between nature and technology. Behind the extremely simple interface is a complex polyphonic, microtonal synthesizer with a broad and flexible sound palette capable of beautiful tones, complex atonal noise, and everything in between.

Cari took us through some of the different banks and presets available, starting with the gentle and expressive preset in bank one sound one, and finishing by demonstrating the arpeggiator sounds in bank 4.

Available soon. Price: TBC"

Mutable Edges | Let's walk a thin line

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"A quick jam for today with Mutable Edges, Soma Lyra-8 FX, Ripples and Desmodus Versio. Four days to go and still having a good time!"

Interactive manual for the Pulsar-23

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"Mastering the interface of a complex semi-modular synth with hundreds of controls and functions onboard is not an easy task even for the most seasoned producer. It’s too much to memorize, and continuously checking the user manual gets annoying and interferes with the creative process. Even with using the search function you still end up scrolling up and down dozens of pages and going back and forth to understand how related features interact, a process that is more fiddly than convenient.

Why does it have to be like that? Instrument manuals - even for complex machines - are still just plain linear text with a structure that doesn't reflect the actual interface or workflow of the product it describes. Despite all the technological advances of our digital age, user manuals are still based on the same principles of how information was organized and accessed in manuscripts from over 2,000 years ago.

It's high time someone changed this! SOMA Labs designed a new and more user-friendly approach to synthesizer manuals that we believe should become the new industry standard, offering unparalleled efficiency and immediate access to relevant information through a visual (touch) interface.

What really is a synth's interface? You can compare it to a territory, like a town or a forest, where we have various objects placed in space. If each control has just one function we can compare it with 2D space, if we have multifunctional controls or menus we can speak about a 3D space. How do you best describe a space to someone else? Of course, with a map! What should a 21st century map be like? Interactive!

SOMA is therefore proud to present its new interactive manual for the PULSAR-23 drum machine, SOMA's most complex synth to date. It consists of a map of the synth’s interface where each element is clickable.

Just click on any button, connector or knob and get its description along with highlighting elements that are connected to or depend on it with the immediate possibility to check what they do.

As PULSAR-23 is a semi-modular instrument, all patching points have suggestions about which other patch points you could connect them to (about 1,000 patching tips!).

So it's also a kind of light patching tutorial.

The concept of interactive manuals can be developed much deeper and better, and we therefore invite our industry colleagues to further develop and refine this approach to user manuals for musical instruments. Let’s make synth manuals more user-friendly, easy to learn and more efficient, lowering the learning curve for new musicians and freeing up users' minds for pure creativity!

Welcome to the world of PULSAR-23!"

Soma Laboratory - Enner Night Frog SN 0429 w/ Original Box

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SOMA Laboratory Lyra-8 Organismic Drone Synth (White)

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"This is not your ordinary synth. Chances are if you're looking at this you already know that, but Lyra is a 8 voice synthesizer with dual delay and distortion on the final output. Each of the voices reacts and can be modulated by another in various ways. The way the instrument is played is by using the touch sensitive pads at the bottom. Lyra 8 is ideal for drone, ambient, soundscape, nightmare sound making machine."

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15 minutes with Stimming

video uploads by Sense Music & Media

Playlist:
Stimming: 15 minutes with Moog Grandmother
Stimming: 15 Minutes with Dreadbox Typhon
Stimming - 15 Minutes with Elektron Syntakt
Stimming: 15 Minutes with Teenage Engineering TX-6
Stimming: 15 Minutes with 1010music Nano Lemondrop
Stimming: 15 Minutes with SOMA LABORATORY Rumble Of Ancient Times

New SOMA TERRA Synth

TERRA announcement (SOMA labs) video upload by Vlad Kreimer

"All sound in this video is TERRA without additional FX.
Just a slight master limiter was added."

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TERRA is a new SOMA Labs synth that is currently in development.
TERRA is a highly conceptual device. The core idea is unity of nature and technology, and a perfect balance between simplicity and versatility. Behind the extremely simple interface hides a complex polyphonic, microtonal synthesizer with a broad and flexible sound palette that ranges from classical beautiful tones to complex atonal noise, and offers smooth and fast transitions between these extremes.

The innovative keyboard design invites new playing techniques and covers the full range of a grand piano with the possibility to tune each note with an accuracy of 125 steps per semitone. To achieve this range with such a simple keyboard we designed a unique system of pitch shifting using four additional sensors. Pressing different combinations of them will result in 16 variations of keyboard transposing, including up to 3 octaves up and down, fifth, fourth, third, tone etc.
Not only do you get the full range of a grand piano in a very compact design, TERRA also offers an entirely new and different approach to playing melodies and chords.

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Catharina | Modular World 25 Live performance

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I made this performance for Modular World ep. 25 which premiered on March 13th. There's a strong ghost story in my home town of The Hague. Catharina le Chasseur (the hunter) was sentenced to death by drowning in 1541 because of counterfeit crimes. After her death, reports came in of ghost sightings on her home grounds. This video is performed and filmed on location. It's a seance and a tribute. And it turned out to be a really cool patch using Soma Enner, Mimeophon, Desmodus, Melotus, Toolbox, Bitbox and Nebulae. Nebulae is running Realms 0.2, a custom instrument coded by Ian Hoogeboom (studio48nl). Also special thanks to Marieke McKenna who helped me produce this video and lending me her hands for some video inserts (shot a few days later)."

ENNER - by Soma Laboratories

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"Enner is an experimental body patching analog synthesizer. Need I say more? This is a walkthrough video. If you want to see a live performance premiere, tune in to Modular World on Sunday 13th, 1 PST. There's a link in the video. Thanks to Marieke McKenna for helping me produce the live performance into something truly special. And she did the first part of this demo!"

Where The Sea Meets The Land | The Creation of The Sun

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"Recorded in two takes. Unfortunately video no. 2 had technical difficulties and was not used and therefore video might look offset or images may not fully match though they look beautiful. Only 2 SOMA Lyra-8 were used and Lexicon reverb."



"Primeval in all its glory and washed in red through a new reverb effect unit by Lexicon. Synthesizers used: SOMA Laboratory Lyra-8 x2, MOOG Mother 32 x2."

#Jamuary2022 | Day 22 | From Russia With Love | Soma Pulsar-23

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"Jamuary is a great opportunity to take the Soma Pulsar-23 for a jam. Amazing machine."

Soma Laboratory Enner RED

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Orange Model Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer

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Loop singing and drumming: Soma Enner live west coast avant-garde synthesizer electronic music

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"Here is another performance video using the Soma Laboratory Enner instrument, designed by Sistor. My goal for this was to make kind of a tribal ambient sound using my voice into the piezo pickup and by layering non metered finger drumming with a looper pedal, and then morphing into a meditative bass and synth sound. This synth is very geared towards both drones and rhythms, as well as using the piezo pickup with the case, spring, and rubber bands to make added percussive sounds. I'm very excited to continue exploring and find even more sounds. I'm making use of the resonance of the case to layer in my voice and finger drums. Later I fade to a drone layer with rhythm from the click part of the synthesizer. This synth is patched using touch, and I love the idea of having an instrument that I can use my hands on to create sound and have a direct connection to the music. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through an Eventide H9 pedal with some reverb and a Boss RC-5 looper pedal. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!"

SOMA Laboratory Lyra-8 Organismic Drone Synth (Green)

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"This is not your ordinary synth. Chances are if you're looking at this you already know that, but Lyra is a 8 voice synthesizer with dual delay and distortion on the final output. Each of the voices reacts and can be modulated by another in various ways. The way the instrument is played is by using the touch sensitive pads at the bottom. Lyra 8 is ideal for drone, ambient, soundscape, nightmare sound making machine."

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Soma Laboratory Enner 2021 Craft Black

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"This is the “limited edition” dark craft, not available anymore. In absolutely pristine-mint as new condition. Turned on only once to test. Beautifully hand crafted. All original packing and accessories included. Will double box for shipping."

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Soma Laboratory Pulsar-23 Orange Synthesizer Drum

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Sci-fi rhythms and ambient: Soma Enner live west coast avant-garde synthesizer electronic music

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"This is my second run through using the Soma Laboratory Enner instrument, designed by Sistor. The goal was to make something film music appropriate that would work as an ambience outer space soundtrack while also adding the utility of a Boss RC-5 looper pedal to build up more complex rhythms. This synth is very geared towards both drones and rhythms, as well as using the piezo pickup with the case, spring, and rubber bands to make added percussive sounds. I'm very excited to continue exploring and find even more sounds. I'm making a lot of use of the ring modulation inputs for the drones. This synth is patched using touch, and I love the idea of having an instrument that I can use my hands on to create sound and have a direct connection to the music. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through an Eventide H9 pedal with some reverb and an a Boss RC-5 looper pedal. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!"

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