| Vst's on Ableton Live Suite vs Hardware Synth (Minologue XD) |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - Yesterday, 07:31 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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Vst's on Ableton Live Suite vs Hardware Synth (Minologue XD)
So I have a predicament here. From what I am aware the only different between Ableton Live Suite and Standard is the fact that Suite has extra Vst's. If so, would you reccomend that I go through with using Ableton's vst's or is a hardware synth more of the move. I'm debating on whether I should get a Minologue XD with Standard or get a Novation Circuit with Suite. Im wondering if the vst's will allow me to do what you could do with a minologue XD. If I stick with a groovebox and Ableton vst's, am I missing out on that XD? I've wanted a minologue for a very long time, however I like to Jam with buddies and would find a sequencer/groovebox to be very useful especially for drums and portability.
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| Erica Synths Black Sequencer: 16 knobs, 4 channels and lots of magic |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - Yesterday, 07:31 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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Erica Synths Black Sequencer: 16 knobs, 4 channels and lots of magic
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| Lyra-8 |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - Yesterday, 07:31 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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Lyra-8
Lyra-8
Specifications
Waveforms -
Square, Triangle
Effects -
Delay, Distortion
erson" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Naomi Bolton
Wed, 11/11/2020 - 08:57
The Lyra-8 is a 2016 synthesizer designed by Vlad Kreimer and released by SOMA Laboratory. The company is no stranger to releasing unique and experimental hardware with the Lyra-8 being no exception. They describe it as a unique "organismic" analog synthesizer due to the fact that it uses some of the same principles that lie in the base of living organisms. In simpler terms, it is an eight-voice analog synth that also features built-in distortion and delay. What is unique about the voices of this synth is the fact that they are not VCOs or even DCOs. Instead, they are essentially eight generators that have more in common with the tone generators in old electric organs than something you would expect to find in a modern synthesizer.
The voices of the Lyra-8 functions in electric organ mode or FM synthesis mode. In the latter, each voice and its envelope acts as a separate FM operator. This means that there is a bit of a learning curve involved with figuring out the Lyra-8, but that's just one of the reasons why it is so exciting to use.
As one would expect from a synthesizer made in Russia, the Lyra-80 is a heavy, sturdy bit of gear. It features an all-metal case and the knobs, dials, and switches all have a quality look and feel to them. It might not be the prettiest synthesizer on the market, but it is very solid and features a practical layout.
The Lyra-80 features what SOMA calls a "Hyper LFO" which is two LFOs that cannot be accessed individually. Instead, the waveform from the HYPER LFO is synthesized by the summation or multiplication of the two frequencies. Modulation of the selected pairs of voices and the MOD DELAY is also possible with the LFO. Speaking of the MOD DELAY, it consists of two lines of delay with cross-feedback. There's also resonance between the two lines and the delay time of each line can be modulated individually from different sources, including external ones. Self-modulation is also possible making it possible for the output signal to modulate the delay sample rate, which in turn creates unique effects. Finally, the Lyra-80 features distortion, which is last in the chain so that the delay can also influence its sound.
Overall, the Lyra-8 is a very unique and experimental synth that will probably not appeal to everyone. However, for those who are not afraid to try out something different it offers a world of opportunities.
Files
Title
Lyra-8 English Manual
Description
Lyra-8 English Manual V2.1
YouTube
Soma Laboratory LYRA-8 Synthesizer Sonic Exploration // Demo
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Polyphonic instruments
http://www.vintagesynth.com/SOMA_Laboratory/Lyra-8
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| interesting or creative Rectifiers? |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - Yesterday, 07:31 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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interesting or creative Rectifiers?
Other than Kinks, Maths and Cold Mac do you guys have any suggestions for utility modules which do rectification and/or wavefolding of CV but are also uniqe and offer other functions or interesting ways to do the rectification? Im on the fence about getting a Cold Mac bc I know it can do a ton of other cool things, might also get kinks anyway because it has an analog Snh which I need but.... Also wondering if anyone uses Pura ruina? this one also looks great but it is described as being for audio rate and I think it would be an amazing tool for DC voltage/CV because I love the idea of having multiple rectified/wave folded outputs generated frome one input (like Cold Mac etc...) (which my goal is also to use switches to rythmically chose between to send to cv destinations...)
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| Trying to understand the ARP 2600 (and Voltage Modular) |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - 11-19-2020, 12:55 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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Trying to understand the ARP 2600 (and Voltage Modular)
 | Hi. I own the Arturia ARP 2600 V3 and I ran the demo for the Cherry Audio CA2600. But while playing around with these I noticed I wanted to know more about how the ARP worked inside, and so I tried to replicate part of its functionality in Voltage Modular. In order to understand the pre-cabling of the ARP better, I used both Arturia's manual and this diagram I found online: ARP 2600 Normals So I basically tried to cable my modules in a way similar to this diagram. But as I tried to replicate this in Voltage Modular, I ran into quite a few questions: Each VCO has several "FM Control" jacks and for example the Arturia Manual describes them for VCO1 as follows: FM Inputs: Frequency modulation input connection jacks: • Key follow: pre-cabled for the manual setting of the (KYBD CV) • Sample and hold: pre-cabled for the manual setting of the modulation by sample and hold (S/H out) • ADSR Env: pre-cabled for the manual setting of the modulation by ADSR envelope • Oscillator 2 Sin: pre-cabled for the manual setting of the modulation by sine waveform of oscillator 2 (VCO2 Sin) How do these combine? From looking at the ARP service manual it seems like each of these inputs have differently dimensioned resistors behind them, and remembering nothing from my high school electronics class I can only wonder if this means these inputs are differently weighted before combined? Right now I try to emulate the potentiometer sliders of each VCO by using an attenuverter for each (which is meant to give me something like the slider), but if I have to attenuate them differently I wouldn't know how much and is an attenuverter even the right part here? Like 2 attenuverters in a row - one for the setting by the user and one for adjusting the signal to its weight? I was wondering in general what goes into the VCO in terms of CV when all sliders are up... I know this might be a fool's errand but the ARP seems rather obscure to me with its pre-cabling and patching outputs from one VCO into another. If you could help me understand the idea behind modulating VCO3 from VCO2, VCO2 from VCO1, and VCO1 from VCO2, maybe I could wrap my head around this thing... Thanks for reading.
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| Im having trouble downloading a plug-in synth |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - 11-19-2020, 12:55 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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Im having trouble downloading a plug-in synth
I'm fairly new to plug-ins, I've downloaded one before but their website was pretty user-friendly with a ton of instructions on how to download it. background info: I use logic pro X, on a mac (MacBook air catalina, version 10.15.3) This is the synth that i'm talking about, and if anyone has downloaded this one (someone else recommended it to me so you probably have seen this one lol) i would appreciate a walk-through on how to download it, or link a video that shows me how. I've seen different videos that tell me i need to download different things, so if anyone could be specific that would be great too!  Thank you!
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| Anyone using presonus sphere? |
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Posted by: SynthWizard - 11-19-2020, 12:55 AM - Forum: World Wide Gear News
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Anyone using presonus sphere?
So I signed up for sphere to check it out, and I'm surprised it doesn't have more tightly integrated features. You can upload right to SoundCloud from presonus but to collaborate and share songs / projects you basically have to upload through their portal files individually or zip the whole thing, how is this better than drop box. You'd think some saavy programmer would be able to set up the collaboration to almost work as a git or other SCM repository to trade merge and diff changes / allow rollback as A project proceeded. Any other sphere users, comments welcome
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